82 UrtlCaceCB. \Gironniera. 



or acute ; petiole \-\ in. ; stip. peltate ; cymes short, puberu- 

 lous ; sep. acuminate, ciliate ; drupe shortly pedicelled, oval 

 or ovoid, \-\ in., scarlet, tip obtuse or bifid, endocarp rugose. 



Low country to 3000 ft., chiefly in the intermediate zone ; rather 

 common. Lunugala, Uva ; Galagama ; Hangaranketa ; Kurunegala ; 

 Peradeniya. Fl. Feb. ; yellow. Fr. scarlet. Young foliage pink, like 

 that of cinnamon, to which the venation is also similar. 



S. India, Andaman Is., Malay Is., Australia. 



3. TREMA, Lour. 

 Unarmed evergreen trees or shrubs ; 1. alt., distichous^ 

 serrate, 3-nerved ; stip. lateral, caducous ; fl. in small axillary 

 cymose clusters, monoecious or polygamous, 3-bracteolate ; 

 sep. 4-5, induplicate-valvate, or subimbricate, concave, much 

 smaller and flat in fern. ; stam. 4-5, fil. erect in bud ; ov. sessile; 

 styles short, subulate, incurved, ovule pendulous; drupe ovoid, 

 endocarp hard, endosperm fleshy, embryo curved, cotyledons 

 narrow, radicle slender. — Sp. 20-30 ; 6 in FL B. Ind. 



T. orientalis, Bl. Mus. Bot. ii. 62 (1852). G^dumba, S. 



Herm. Mus. 14. Burm. Thes. 26. Fl. Zeyl. n. 369. Celtis oriejitaliSy 

 L. Sp. PI. 1044; Moon, Cat. 73. Sponia orientalis, Planch. ; Thw. Enum. 

 267 ; Planch, in DC. 1. c. 200. C. P. 2203. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 484. Wight, Ic. t. 1971 {S. Wightit). Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 

 t. 311. 



A fast-growing tree, 25-30 ft.; branchlets pubescent; 

 1- 3-5 i"> obliquely ovate to oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 crenate-serrulate, chartaceous, base cordate or rounded on one 

 side, scabrid above, clothed beneath with silvery appressed 

 hairs, midrib and outer sides of lateral veins penniveined ; 

 petiole \-\ in. ; stip. caducous ; cymes pubescent ; male fl. 

 globose, 3-bracteolate, sep. acuminate, pubescent ; fem. sep. 

 minute ; ov. short, broad ; drupe \ in., black. 



Open places and waste ground up to 5000 ft. ; very common. Fl. 

 Feb. ; greenish. 



India and Malaya. 



This may well be called a weed, though forming a small tree. It is 

 known as the ' Charcoal-tree ' by the English. 



4. GIRONNZERA, Gaud. 

 Unarmed evergreen trees or shrubs ; 1. alt., penniveined ; 

 stip. sheathing the buds, caducous ; fl. dioecious, in short 

 axillary cymes, or the fem. solitary ; male fl. : — minute, 

 globose ; sep. 5, broad, obtuse, imbricate ; stam. 5 ; fil. sub- 

 erect in bud ; pistillode woolly ; fem. fl. : — seps. narrower than 

 in the male fl., acute ; ov. sessile, style central, stigmas 2, 



