368 URTICACE.E. 



Ccltis cinnamomea Liiidl. ; F.B.L v 482, III 3. A tree, 

 with smooth grey bark : branches round with brown 

 bark and very many lenticels : leafy-shoots green, finely 

 pubescent. Leaf-stalks J^ inch, glabrous, blades up to 4 

 or 6 inches by 2 to 3 inches elliptic or oblong, acute at both 

 ends, quite entire, glabrous, shiny, green on the upper 

 side, with three strong nerves at the base, the lateral 

 reaching the tip though there faint, crossed by numerous 

 nearly straight veins '% inch or more apart. Flowers in 

 small pubescent panicles on the leafy shoots below the 

 young leaves : male and female flowers mixed. Bracts 

 and bracteoles soon falling. Sepals 1/16 inch, pubescent, 

 pink-tipped. Stamens slightly longer ; filaments open- 

 ing out widely and pressing open the sepals; anthers 

 nearly round. Ovary egg-shaped, % inch, with two 

 large stout pubescent styles, which diverge from each of 

 two sides. 



Nilgiris : on the downs about Pykara. Fyson 2459. 



Gen. Dist, Sikkim, Burma, Western Ghats, Ceylon, Malaya. 



The tree is deciduous, and the young leaves come out with 

 the flowers just before the monsoon rains, at Pykara towards 

 the end of June ; they are terracotta or brownish towards the 

 tips, not the yellow and red of C. tetrandra. 



TREMA. F.B.I. 136 IV. 



Charcoal-tree. 



Shrubs or trees with alternate, serrate, three or five- 

 nerved leaves and long deciduous stipules. Flowers 

 in axillary cymes, with the characters of the tribe 

 CELTIDEM iq.v.) and differing from CELTIS in the male 

 sepals being folded and valvate in bud, and the coty- 

 ledons of the seed narrow. 



Species about 20 in the warmer regions of the New and 

 Old Worlds. 



