64 PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. Celtis. 
A native of Nepal, from whence the seeds were sent 
by Dr. Buchanan to this Garden in 1802; in March 
1809 the trees began to blossom, and ripened their seed 
in September ; they were then fifteen or twenty feet high, 
with stout, short, rather crooked trunks, and smooth 
ash-coloured bark. ‘Branches spreading much, and end- 
ing in long, drooping, or horizontal twigs. Young shoots 
bifarious, and slightly villous. Leaves alternate, bifa- 
rious, short- petioled, obliquely ovate, lanceolate, the base 
being unequally cordate, and entire; anterior margins 
obtusely serrulate ; points taper, acute and entire, rather 
smooth on both sides ; while young, colored, length about 
three inches, by one and a quarter broad. Stipules li- 
near-lanceolate, caducous. Peduncles axillary, tern, 
longer than the petioles, one-flowered, —— one 
hermaphrodite, and two male. 
HERMAPHRODITE, Calyx, four-leaved. Stamina four, 
longer than the calyx, and expanding with an elastic jerk, 
asin urtica, &c. Germ, oblong, one-celled, with one seed 
attached to the top of the cell. Styles two, recurvate, 
thick. Drupe round, size of a pea, smooth, olive colour. 
Nut obovate, apex obtuse ; base, acute, ribbed, one- 
celled, Seed solitary. Integument single, thin, membrana- 
ceous. Perisperm no other than a fleshy partial Integu- 
ment, entering into the plaits of the cotyledons. Embryo, — 
the size of the seed. Cotyledons variously folded. Radicle 
sub-superior, that is ascending toward the umbilicus or 
apex of the cell of the nut, &c. asin Laos occidentalis. 
Gert. sem. 1. 374. t. 77. 
_ Maue. Calyx and stamina as in the hermaphrodite. 
No pistillum. 
Note, C. occidentalis has flowered in this Garden, but 
the filaments are short, and not endowed with that re- 
markable elasticity of Gis Urtica, as in our Nepal pe 
= eles. . 
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