Ulmus. PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 67 



Young shoots slender, smooth and drooping consider- 

 ably. Leaves bifarious, short-petioled, unequally lanceo- 

 late, very equally obtuse-serrate, of a very hard texture, 

 with a lucid surface ; length from two to three inches ; 

 about one broad. Stipules ensiform, caducous. Flowers 

 numerous, small, lon^-pedicelled, collected in little so- 

 litary fascicles in the lower axills, or in those of the 

 former year's leaves. Pedkells slender, villous, one- 

 flowered. Bractes many, round the insertion of the pedi- 

 cells, oval, ciliate. Calyx campanulate, five-toothed, 

 smooth. Filaments, six, longer than the calyx, broad, 

 smooth. Anthers oval, two-lobed. Germ superior, while 

 in the calyx subsessile, but after it opens it becomes 

 pedicelled, oblong, one-celled, containing one ovula, at- 

 tached to the top of the cell. Styles two, short, broad, and 

 villous on the inner edge. Stigmas simple. Capsule pedi- 

 celled, unequally-obcordate, very thin, scariose, wing- 

 ed, nearly an inch each way, one-celled. Seed solitary, 

 oval, compressed. Jn^e^i^menf single, thin, brown. Peris- 

 perm none. Embryo conform to the seed, inverse. 



2. U. virgata. R. 



Branchlets pendulous. Leaves lucid, obliquely-oblong, 

 equally serrate, base unequal. Flowers crowded, short 

 peduncled, tetrandrous. Fruit obliquely oval, sessile. 



From China this beautiful, small slow growing tree, 

 was introduced into the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, by 

 Sir John Royds ; where in about ten years, from the time 

 ofits arrival, it began to blossom in November", and ripen- 

 ed its seed in February. 



Trunk in trees of ten or twelve years growth, nearly 

 erect, short, and not thicker than a man's leg. Branches 

 few, spreading much; many of the extreme branchlets run 

 out into very long, slender, pendulous twigs. Bark of 

 the young parts lighter coloured, and a little scabrous. 

 Height of the whole tree about ten feet. Leaves alter- 



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