64 PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. CeUlS, 



A native of Nepal, from whence the seeds were sent 

 by Dr. Buchanan to this Garden in 1802 ; in March 

 1809 the trees began to blossom, and ripened their seed 

 in September ; they were then fifteen or twenty feet high, 

 with stout, short, rather crooked trunks, and smooth 

 ash-coloured fecrr^. J5rawc/^e6• spreading much, and end- 

 ing in long, drooping, or horizontal twigs. Young shoots 

 bifarious, and slightly villous. Leaves alternate, bifa- 

 rious, short- petioled, obliquely ovate, lanceolate, the base 

 being unequally cordate, and entire ; anterior margins 

 obtusely serrulate ; points taper, acute and entire^ rather 

 smooth on both sides ; while young, colored, length about 

 three inches, by one and a quarter broad. Stipules li- 

 near-lanceolate, caducous. Peduncles axillary, tern, 

 longer than the petioles, one-flowered, generally one 

 hermaphrodite, and two male. 



Hermaphrodite. Cor /i/.t, four-leaved. Stamina four, 

 longer than the calyx, and expanding with an elastic jerk, 

 as in urtica, &c. Germ, oblong, one-celled, with one seed 

 attached to the top of the cell. Styles two, recurvate, 

 thick. Drupe round, size of a pea, smooth, olive colour. 

 Nut obovate, apex obtuse ; base, acute, ribbed, ohe- 

 celled. Seed solitary. Integument single, thin, membrana- 

 ceous. Perisperm no other than a fleshy partial Integu- 

 ment, entering into the plaits of the cotyledons. Embryo, 

 the size of the seed. Cotyledons variously folded. Radicle 

 sub-superior, that is ascending toward the umbilicus or 

 apex of the cell of the nut, &c. as in Celtis occidentalis. 

 Gert. sem. 1. 374. t. 77. 



Male. Calyx smA stamina as in the hermaphrodite. 

 No pistillum. 



Note. C. occidentalis has flowered in this Garden, but 

 the filaments are short, and not endowed with that re- 

 markable elasticity of the Urtica, as in our Nepal spe- 

 cies. 



