^8 PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. Ulmus. 



Date, bifarious, short-petioled, obliquely oblong, equally, 

 and obtusely serrate, obtuse, of a hard or firm texture, 

 and somewhat scabrous, yet shining on the upper sur- 

 face, length one or two inches, and about half of that 

 in breadth. Stipules ensiform, caducous. Flowers axil- 

 lary, minute, several together, short-peduncled. Bractes 

 several, roundish, hard, dry, dark brown, concave scales 

 embracing the flowers before expansion, caducous. Calyx 

 four, or five-parted ; segments rounded, thin, and perma- 

 nent. Corol none. Filaments four, or five ; four most com- 

 mon, rather longer than the germ. Anthers large, two-lob- 

 ed. Germ obliquely oval, one-celled, with one ovula at- 

 tached to the top of the cell. Styles none. Stigmas the 

 villous margins, of the somewhat lengthened, bifid apex 

 of the germ. Capsule superior, thin, obliquely oval, and 

 sessile in the calyx, with a broad, membranaceous, co- 

 loured margin ; less than half an inch long, one-celled, &c. 



3. U. integrifolia. Willd. 1. 1326. Corom. pi. 1. N. 78. 



Leaves ovdte, entire. Male flowers mixed amongst the 

 hermaphrodite. 



Tarn. Tambachi-marum. 



Teling. Naulee. 



A large timber tree, a native of the Circar mountains. 

 It flowers during the cold season. Leaves deciduous about 

 the close of the wet season ; they come out again in 

 March. 



Trunk tolerably straight, and high. Bark a little sca- 

 brous, of a dirty grey colour. Branc/ies numerous, spread- 

 ing, horizontal, forming a large shady head. Leaves alter- 

 nate, bifarious, short-petioled, ovate, though sometimes 

 cordate, entire, smooth, shining ; from three to five in- 

 ches long, and about two broad. Stipules lanceolate, 

 caducous. Flowers hermaphrodite, and male mixed, 

 and springing from little germs over the leafless branch- 

 lets. 



