ULMACEAE. 



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1. Celt is mississippiensis 

 Bose. SOUTHERN HACKBERRY. 

 (Fig. 114.) A tree, reaching 

 a height of 50 with a trunk 

 up to 20' in diameter, the bark 

 gray, roiigh and warty. Leaves 

 ovate to lanceolate, firm, entire 

 or with a few low sharp teeth, 

 or those of shoots strongly ser- 

 rate, 3-nerved and prominently 

 pinnately veined, glabrous, long- 

 acuminate at the apex, inequi- 

 lateral, 4' long or less; drupe 

 purple-black, about 3" long. 

 [C. occidentalis of Jones, Reade, 

 Hemsley, Verrill and Moore.] 



Rocky woods. Paynter's Vale, 

 Walsingham and Abbot's Cliff. 

 Recorded by Lefroy as growing 

 also, prior to 1877, about the 

 parsonage. Southampton. Native. 

 Southeastern United States. Flow- 

 ers in spring, the fruit ripe in 

 autumn. Its seeds were probably 

 brought to Bermuda by a bird. 



Celtis Smallii Beadle, SMALL'S HACKBERRY, of the southeastern United 

 States, occasionally planted, has thinner strongly serrate leaves. 



2. TREMA Lour. 



Tall shrubs or trees, unarmed, usually pubescent. Leaves alternate, 

 toothed, 3-nerved at the base, equilateral or only slightly inequilateral, short- 

 petiolcd, the stipules lateral. Flowers small, greenish, in axillary cymes. 

 Sepals of pistillate flowers induplicate-valvate, those of the perfect flowers im- 

 bricated. Stamens 4 or 5. Stigmas 2, entire. Drupe ovoid to globose. [Name un- 

 explained.] Some 30 tropical species. Type species: T. cannabina Lour. 



1. Trema Lamarckiana (R. & S.) 

 Blume. LAMARCK'S TREMA. (Fig. 115.) 

 A tree, up to 25 high, the trunk some- 

 times 13' in diameter, or more often a 

 shrub 5-10 high, the twigs slender, 

 rough-pubescent. Leaves ovate to lan- 

 ceolate, short-petioled, 2' long or less, 

 very rough on the upper side, 3-nerved 

 at the base, reticulate-veined and finely 

 tomentose beneath; flowers only about 

 1" wide, the staminate clusters sessile, 

 the pistillate short-stalked; fruit about 

 \\" long, smooth. [Celtis Lamarckiana 

 B. & S.; Sponia Lamarcldana Decne.] 



Rocky woodlands, Tucker's Town to 

 the Causeway and Abbot's Cliff. Native. 

 Florida ; West Indies. Its seeds were prob- 

 ably transported to Bermuda by a bird. 



