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eastern Oklahoma and Kansas, northern Missouri, southern Illinois, and south- 

 western Indiana; also in Bermuda. Trees occasionally occur with leaves more 

 or less sharply serrate nearly to the base, and this variety may be distin- 

 guished as 



Celtis laevigata var. Smallii, n. var.— C. Smallii Beadle, Small 

 Fl. S. United States, 365. 1329. 1903.— Differing from the type 

 only in its constantly serrate leaves. 



Celtis laevigata var. texana, n. var.— C. texana Scheele, 

 Linnaea 22:146. 1847.— C. Berlandierii Planchon, DeCandolle 

 Prodr. 17:178 (in part, not Klotzsch). 1873.— Differing from 

 the t>T3e in the shorter ovate to lanceolate thicker leaves often 

 pubescent on the midribs and veins below, in the often more 

 prominent veinlets and pubescent petioles, and in its often pubes- 

 cent branchlets. Leaves ovate to lanceolate, acuminate, unsym- 

 metrically rounded or cordate at base, entire or sparingly and 

 irregularly serrate, often subcoriaceous, dark green, smooth 

 and granulate or rarely scabrate above, green below, with 

 slender midribs and primary veins glabrous or sparingly villose- 

 pubescent and furnished with small axillary tufts of pale hairs, and 

 thin, only slightly raised, reticulate veinlets, 3.5-7 cm. long and 

 2-3.5 cm. wide; petioles slender, pale pubescent, 5-7 mm. in 

 length. Flowers not seen. Fruit subglobose but rather longer 

 than broad, dark orange-red, 6-7 mm. in length; pedicels glabrous 

 or puberulous, slightly longer than the petioles. 



An arborescent shrub or small tree rarely more than S m. high, often grow- 

 ing in groups, with pale or grayish rough bark rarely covered with wartlike 

 excrescences, and slender, reddish, glabrous or gray-brown, pubescent branch- 

 lets. 



I have taken up Scheele's name for the common Celtis of the Edwards 

 Plateau and western Texas with some hesitation, for I have not seen his type 

 specimen. His description perfectly applies, however, to a specimen collected 

 by Lindheimer at New Braunfels in the herbarium of the Arboretum (no. 4 

 ex herb. Engelmann as C. texana). On other specimens collected by Lind- 

 heimer at New Braunfels the lower side of the midribs and veins of the leaves 

 are sparingly villose-pubescent, and such pubescence is found on the leaves of 

 most of the specimens which I have referred to this variety. 



Texas. — New Braunfels, Comal County, F. Lindheimer, 1850 (nos. 1158, 

 1 1 59 in Herb. Gray, distributed by the Mo. Bot. Card, as C. Berlandierii); 

 no. 4 (in Herb. Arnold Arboretum ex Herb. Engelmann, type) ; Comanche 



