1. HoLOPTELEA.] 122. ULMACEJE. 



a. leiocarpa, Planch. Branchlets with raised round lenticels, puberulous. L. 

 under 3'5", quickly glabrous (May), base oblique or rounded or a few subcordate. 

 Petiole slender. Samara glabrous, deeply notched. Common. 



^. hebecarpa, Planch. ? 



Branchlets with few scarcely raised lenticels, glabrous or puberulous. L. mostly 

 up to 5" or 6", rather membranous, glabrous or pubescent beneath (at least up to 

 July), base subcordate or unequal. Petiole •25-"3", 



The type of var, hebecarpa is Wallich's 3547 (a), in which the samaras are 

 pubescent but the leaves are glabrous. Hooker's specimen from the banks of the 

 Soane has glabrous serrate leaves and pubescent samaras, others have pubescent 

 leaves. 



y. tomentosa. 



Twigs very pubescent or tomentose, hairs concealing the lenticels. L. coria- 

 ceous 3-4", cordate, beneath tomentose with raised nerves, tip rounded or with 

 very short obtuse cusp. Petiole '5-'lo", stout. Samara probably pubescent (not 

 noted). 



S. fruticosa. A shrubby form with very white bark, very tomentose. Probably 

 a form dependent entirely on environment. Palamau hills ! 



The wood of H. integrifolia is not much used. " Wt. 40 lbs." Gamble. 



2. CELTIS, L. 



Trees or shrubs with alternate 2-farious entire or serrate palmately 

 3-nerved leaves. Flowers small cymose polygamous, male and 2- 

 sexual cymes usually at the base of the shoots ; female in the upper 

 axils. Tepals 4-5 imbricate. Stamens isomerous surrounding a woolly 

 torus. Ovary sessile, style with stout plumose simple or lobed arms. 

 Fruit a small drupe with smooth or rugose endocarp. Albumen 

 or scanty. Embryo curved, cotyledons broad flat or bent inward or 

 outward, surrounding the upcurved radicle. 



Sec. n. 1-2 as strong as the basal. Drupes solitary or 2-nate . 1. tetrandra. 

 Sec. n. much weaker than the basal. Drupes 2-several on the 

 peduncle 2. cinnamomea. 



1. C. tetrandra, Roxb. Chitimiti, Kharw. 



A large tree with obliquely ovate or ovate -lanceolate, caudate, 

 subentire crenate or serrate rather stiff leaves 1-5-3", glabrous except 

 for tuft of hair in the axils of the sec. nerves, sec. n. 2-3 fine but strong, 

 one each side nearly reaching the apex. Petiole slender •l-'2". 

 Fruiting peduncles simple, nearly always solitary, -3- -4", drupe 

 broadly ellipsoid or ovoid, orange when ripe, •25--3" long, glabrous 

 with ovoid ridged otherwise smooth putamen. 



Bettiah ! Purneah ! Along river at Adaye, Palamau, elev. 1500 ft. ! Mayurbhanj, 

 3500 ft. ! Fl. Feb. Fr. Oct.-Nov. 



Attains 6 ft. girth and more with white or pale bai'k ringed by the accrescent 

 faint stipular scars, bark on young twigs brown. Blaze hard, white with brown 

 dots and lines ; a chlorophyll layer is present in young bark. Twigs very slender. 

 L. usually serrate above the middle. 



2. C. cinnamomea, Lindl, 



A tree with larger more membranous leaves than the last 2 -5-4 -7* 

 long, glabrous, shallowly serrate above the middle, basal nerves 

 nearly reaching the apex, sec. n. on midrib short spreading much 

 weaker than the lateral basal, 6-8 mostly joining the midrib and lateral 

 basal. Petiole •2--4" long. Stipules -3". Peduncles •?" with 2 or 

 more ellipsoid drupes '3* long contracted at the apex, pedicels -IS", 

 fulvous hairy in flower. 



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