66 PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. UlmitS. 



remotely serrulate, acuminate, smooth on both sides ; 

 length from four to six inches, and the breadth two and 

 a half. Stipules ensiform. 



Male. Flowers on small, open racemes from the base 

 of the young shoots, or solitary under the hermaphrodite 

 ones, small and not very conspicuous. Ca/t/x five-leaved. 

 Corol none. Filaments, five, short, opposite to the leaflets 

 of the calyx. Anthers oval. 



Hermaphrodite flowers on slender, villous, axil- 

 lary racemes, they are remote, and rather larger than 

 the male. Calyx and stamina as in the male. Germ su- 

 perior, ovate-oblong, one-celled, containing one ovula, 

 attached to one side of the top of the cell. Style scarcely 

 any. Stigmas two, spreading, large, and villous. 



4. C. tomentosa. R. 



Shrubby. Leaves long-cordate, acuminate, serrulate, 

 three-nerved, scabrous above, very downy underneath. 

 Thyrses axillary short, and dense. 



Native of Chittagong where it flowers in April. 



ULMUS. Schreb. gen. n. 443. 

 Calyx five-cleft. Corol none. Germ superior, one-celled, 

 one-seeded, superior. CopsM/es pedicelled, compressed, 

 membrane-winged, one-seeded. Embryo inverse without 

 perisperm. 



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1. U. lancifolia. R. 



Leaves obliquely-lanceolate, equally and obtusely ser- 

 rulate, obtusely acuminate, hard and lucid. Flowers 

 pedicelled, hexandrous. Capsules unequally obcordate, 

 pedicelled. 



A large timber tree, a native of the hilly parts of the 

 province of Chittagong, where it flowers in March. Trunk 

 erect. Branches many, extending far on every side. 



