on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part IV. 211 
distinct species of Celtis, which may be the same that I sent to Dr. Roxburgh 
from Nepal in 1802, and that he called C. tetrandra (Hort. Beng. 21.) ; but of 
this I am not certain, because I have preserved no account of the plant 
which I sent. On this account, in the catalogue of specimens presented to 
the library at the India House, I have called this species Celtis Acata; for 
in the Hindwi dialect the tree is called kata or Kataya, and in the Ben- 
galese, Sukati. On account of there being only one female flower in the axil 
of each leaf, this may be the ** Salvifolia arbor orientalis foliis tenuissime cre- 
natis" of Plukenet (Alm. 329.; Phyt. t. 221. f. 4), which may represent the 
Akata after the male flowers have fallen, and before the germen has greatly 
enlarged. As this plant has been confounded with the Mallam Toddali, I shall 
here describe it. 
Arbor mediocris ligno, ut perhibent, duro. Ramuli bifarii, teretes, pubescentes. 
Folia alterna, acuminata, venosa, supra glabra, subtus nuda, nunc semi- 
ovata trinervia, tunc subcordata trinervata, laterum altero ad basin multo 
angustiore obliqua, lateris angustioris margine integerrimo, latioris piloso 
serrato. Petiolus brevissimus, canaliculatus, pubescens. Stipule gemine, 
laterales, lineares, caducissimze. 
Pedunculi uniflori, setacei, fasciculati, fasciculis in ramuli parte inferiore denu- 
datis omnino masculinis ; in superiore axillaribus, androgynis, flore unico 
hermaphrodito, pluribus masculinis. Flores parvi, virides. 
Herm. Calyx tetraphyllus, foliolis concavis obtusis. Filamenta quatuor, ma- 
turitate elastice desilientia. —4ntherc utrinque emarginate. Germen su- 
perum, oblongum. Stigmata duo pilosa, sessilia. 
Masc. Calyx et stamina ut in hermaphrodito. Pistillum nullum. 
Pedunculus fructiferus axillaris, solitarius, rigidus, subulatus, pubescens, petiolo 
duplo longior, ebracteatus. 
Drupa pisiformis, succulenta, flava. Testa crassa, dura, forma drupe. Semen 
unicum sulco hinc exaratum. Albumen nullum. — Cotyledones foliacez, 
incurvee, radiculam crassam teretem convolventes. 
PERIN seu Perm Toppart, p. 85. tab. 41. 
This plant, although classed by both the vulgar and the learned of Malabar 
in the same genus with the preceding, in the eyes of systematic botanists, as 
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