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1. HOLOPTELEA, Plauch. 



Deciduous trees. Leaves altei'nate, distichous, penuinervecl, entire; 

 stipules lateral, scarious. Elowers polygamous or hermaphrodite, the 

 males without a rudimeutary ovary, in fascicles at scars of previous 

 year's shoots which are scaly but leafless. Perianth simple, calycine, 

 4-8-partite ; lobes imbricate, often unequal. Stamens 4-8 (usually 7 or 

 8) ; filaments erect, ultimately exserted ; anthers hairy. Ovary stipitate, 

 compressed ; ovule solitary, pendulous ; style short, 2-fid, the arms 

 stigmatic within throughout their whole length. Fruit dry, indeliiscent, 

 samaroid and flat, the luicleus expanded as an obliquely ovate reticulate 

 wing. Seed flat ; albumen ; cotyledons longitudinally complicate ; 

 radicle small, superior. — Distkib. Throughout the greater part of India 

 except in the higher hills ; Ceylon, Cochinchina. 



1. Holoptelea integrifolia. Planch, in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, v. 10 

 (1848) p. 2tJ6. A large spreading glabrous deciduous tree 50-60 ft. 

 high ; bark grey, pustular. Leaves 3-5 by l^-SI in,, elliptic, acuminate, 

 glabrous, entire (those of the seedlings and shoots often serrate), base 

 rounded or cordate ; main nerves 5-7 pairs ; petioles |-| in. long. 

 Flowers usually male and hermaphrodite mixed, in short ract-mes or 

 fascicles at the scars of fallen leaves. Sepals often 4, pubescent, 

 -jL-Jq in. long. Stamens 4-8 (often 6 or 7) ; filaments glabrous ; 

 anthers pubescent. Ovary compressed, pubescent, 1-celled, stalked, the 

 stalk lengthening as the seed ripens ; styles yV~¥ ^^' -^^''to' stigmatose 

 on the inside throughout their whole length. Samara nearly orbicular, 

 1 in. in diam., with reticulately veined wings. Fl. B. I. v. 5, p. 481 ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. p. 238 ; Wight, Icon. t. 1968 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 4, p. 80 ; 

 Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 321 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 V, 12 (1899) p. 515; Praiu, Beng. PL p. 958 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod, 

 v. 4, p. 261. Ulmus integrifolia, Eoxb. Cor. PI. v. 1 (1795) p. 56, t. 78, 

 & in Willd. Sp. Pi. v. 1 (1797) p. 1326 ; Grab. Cat. p. 188; Bedd. Flor. 

 Syhat. t. 310.— Flowers : Feb.-Mar. Verk. Vdvli. 



Throughout the Presidency in deciduous forests, Talhot. Xonkan : Balzell \ ; 

 Nagotna, comuion, Graham ; Bombay, Laiv ! Deccan : Poona, Cooke !, Woodrow ! ; 

 Khaudala, Graham. S. M. Country : Graham \ Belgaum, Ritchie, 1002! — Distrib. 

 India (Subhimalayas, jijmere, Bandelkand, Behar, Birma, W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon, 

 Cochinchina. 



2. CELTIS, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs, evergreen or deciduous. Leaves alternate, ovate, 

 entire or serrate, bifarious, base 3-nerved ; stipules lateral, free. 

 Flowers small, polygamous, solitary or cymose, the males and androgynous 

 cvmes usually at the base of the shoots, the females in the upper axils. 

 Perianth simple. Sepals 4 or 5, imbricate. Petals 0. Stamens 4 or 5, 

 short, erect in bud, inserted round a woolly torus. Ovary sessile ; ovule 

 pendulous ; style-arms simple or lobed. Fruit a small ovoid or globose 

 drupe ; endocarp bard, smooth or rugose. Seed with membranous testa ; 

 albumen scanty or ; embryo curved ; cotyledons broad, inflexed, flat or 

 replicate, surrounding the up-curved radicle. — Distuib. Species about 60, 

 temperate and tropical, especially in the N. hemisphere. 



Leaves unequal-sided at the base ; sepals not ciliato 1. C. ci)ina7iinmra. 



Leaves equal-sided at the base ; sepals ciliate 2. C. Wiyhfii. 



