520 ULMACE-E (Brown). [Trema. 



cordate at the base, often more or less oblique, three-nerved at 

 the base, finely toothed; glabrous or thinly sprinkled with hairs 

 above, nearly glabrous to finely adpressed-puberulous beneath ; 

 stipules 1-3| lin. long, lanceolate-subulate, silky-pubescent, deci- 

 duous ; flowers in small dense axillary cymes or globose clusters 

 ^— ^ in. in diam., which vary from shorter than to about twice as 

 long as the petioles, unisexual or occasionally with both sexes on 

 the same cyme, pubescent or puberulous ; bracts i- 14 lin. long, 

 ovate, acute or tapering to a long point, pubescent ; pedicels 

 'J-l lin. long, jointed close under the flowers ; flowers 5-partite, 

 green ; segments of the male flower 1 lin. long, deeply boat-shaped, 

 obtuse, those of the female f lin, long, two of them concave, the 

 other three flatter and broader, elliptic, very obtuse, in both sexes 

 with membi'anous fringed margins to the inner three, the others 

 ciliate, glabrous ; stamens 5, with stout filaments^ shortly tapering 

 at the apex, shorter than the perianth-segments, glabrous, absent 

 from the female flowers ; ovary compressed, elliptic, glabrous, 

 1-celled, with 1 pendulous ovule, columnar and abortive in the male 

 flowers, surrounded at the base in both sexes by a ring of hairs ; 

 styles 2, ascending or diverging, h lin. long, hairy ; fruit fleshy 

 ellipsoid or subglobose, li-2 lin. in diam., black when ripe, bearin' 



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the persistent remains of the styles. Wood, Natal PL iv. t. 356 ; 

 Bvrtt-Davy in Transv. Agric. Joiirn, v. 433 ; Sim^ For. FL Cape CoL 

 305, t 158^ Jifj. 2 {very inaccnrate), T. gJomerata, Shnne, An7i.Miis. 

 Bot Lugd,-Bai. ii. 58. T, gumeensh/F'tcalho, PL Uteis. 261, and 

 Priemer in EvgL JaJtrl, xvii. 426. Sponia glomerata, Hochst, and 

 S. hradeolatay HocJtst. in Flora, 1845, 87, and in Krauss, FL Cap^- 

 and- NataL 150-151, and Plaml., in Ann. Sc. Nat Sme sir. x. 321 ; 

 Rendu in Dyer, FI, Trop. Afr, vi. ii, 11. S. giiineensts, Pland^ 

 in DC. Prodr. xvii. 197. S. orientalis, /? angustifolia, E. Meyer ex 

 Planch, Lc, under S. gnineensis, Planch, Celfis gutncensis, SchimacJL 

 d- Thonn. BesJcr. Gttin. PL 160. C orlentalis, /?, E. Meyer in Drcge, 

 Zwei PJI. Documentey 171, 



Coast Region: Koragha Div. : alonp; the Kei Eiver near Kome;ha, Flanagaih 

 1347 ! 



Kalahari Region : Transvaal ; near Earljerton, Galj>in, 848 ! Tkorncroft, 3934 ! 



, Eastern Region : Transkei ; Kentani, Miss Peglcr, 867 ! Natal \ Table 



Mountain, Krauss, 41 ! in woods, Kraass, 3o4 ! between Umzimkulu River and 



Umcomaas River, Drer/el Maritzburg, Rehmann, 7512 ! Innnda, Wood, 625! near 



Durban, Schhchter, 2795! Duraisa, Rudath, 591! 1180! and without precise 



locality, Peddie I Gueinziusl Gerrard, Ut Coojjer, 1254! 



Also in Tropical Africa and Arabia. 



HI. CH^TACME, Planch. 



Flowers unisexual. PerianfJi'Segments 5, induplicate-valvate, 

 deeply concave with inflexecl sides and all equal in the male, flattish 

 and one smaller than the others in the female flower. Stamens 5, 



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