Celtis. PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 65 



2. C. orientalis. Willd. 4. 995. 



Arboreous. Leaves bifarious, obliquely cordate, serrate, 

 five-pointed, villous underneath. 



Papyrus spuria. Kcemph. amom. 474, t. 472. 



Beng. Chicon. 



It is common over most parts of India, particularly in 

 Bengal, where it grows to be a small, erect tree, covered 

 with smooth, dark-coloured bark. It is in blossom th>3 

 greater part of the year. 



Leaves alternate, bifarious, short-petioled, ovate-cor- 

 date, fine-pointed, minutely serrate; above a little scab- 

 rous, villous and whitish underneath. Flowers ax'llary, 

 collected on short, common, two-cleft, diverging pedun- 

 cles. 



Male. Calyx five-leaved, or to the base five-parted. 

 Coro/ none. Stamens five, elastic, longer than the calyx. 

 Pistil an oval, abortive body, in the centre of the sta- 

 mens. 



Female flowers generally on a separate tree, though 

 sometimes androgynous. Calyx as in the male. Germ 

 oval. Styles two, hairy. Drupe small, succulent, when 

 ripe black. Nut rugose, with one cell, and one seed. 



This tree is neither useful, nor ornamental, nor is it of 

 Ions: duration. 



3. C. trinervia. 



Arboreous, ieaves obliquely ovate-cordate, acuminate, 

 serrulate, three-nerved, smootli. Flowers pentandrous. 



A middling sized tree, a native of Chittagong where 

 it blossoms in February and March, about the time the 

 young foliage appears, and that of the former year begins 

 to fall. 



Young shoots a little villous, the bark of the old woo- 

 dy parts ash-coloured, with still lighter coloured specks. 

 Leaves alternate, short-petioled, obliquely ovate-cordiite. 



