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numerous reticulated fibres, forms a kind of natural cloth, used by the Garos 
for covering their nakedness. 
4. CELTIS ORIENTALIS, ò. 
Habitat ad Cosale pagos. 
Of this I saw only male trees. It resembles much the second variety, only 
the leaves are rougher; and perhaps it is merely the male plant of the same 
species. 
Cymc gemine, axillares, folio multo breviores, multiflorze, squamulosz. Flores 
parvi, virides. 
Calyx quinquepartitus. Stamina quinque laciniis calycis opposita. 
5. CELTIS ORIENTALIS, £. 
Celtis orientalis. Hort. Beng. 21. 
Habitat ad Indiz Gangetice et Nepale pagos. 
Folia subtus pallida, sed nuda. 
In the woods of Magadha I found another tree called Tilayi i in the Hindwi 
dialect ; but it is, perhaps, the Celtis Amboinensis of Willdenow (Sp. Pl. iv. 997.), 
although this is by no means certain, for the sides of the leaves are seldom 
equal to the base, and it may be merely a rougher variety of the C. orientalis. 
It is, however, so rough, that the leaves are used by the natives for polishing 
horn. Specimens of this also will be found in the library at the India House. 
Arbor parva. Ramiuli flexuosi, pilis erectis hirti. Folia alterna, rigida, ovato- 
oblonga, basi emarginata sepius subobliqua, acuminata, subquinque- 
nervia, serrata, venis minute reticulata, utrinque scaberrima, et pilis raris 
rigidis subhispida. Petiolus brevissimus, hirtus. Stipule geminz, basi 
petioli insidentes, lineares, caduce. 
Cume fructiferee axillares, geminze, longitudine fere petioli patentes, multi- 
flore. ; - 
Drupa nigra, seminis Cannabini magnitudine, ovata, obtusa, stylis geminis 
coronata, calyce parvo quinquefido pubescenti cincta. Nux unica, dura, 
compressa, minuta. 
In the woods of the northern parts of Bengal and Behar I have found a very 
