156 CIX. URTICEJE. [ Celtis. 
The genus is dispersed over the temperate and x ed nao regions of both the 7 
and the Old World, with a pe tropical species, chi oy 
e Australian species extend to the Indian Archipela 
Leaves broad, stron xe 3-nerved, pei Tum 2 : 
ons flat or nearly 1. C. philippinensis. 
Leaves ‘ovate-lanceolate, ; the lateral nerves scarcely prominent. 
2. C. paniculata. 
a minute pubescence on the young shoots. Leaves on petioles of 1 to 
and sometimes rather obli ique e saps varying from 14 to 3 in. in 
the more rigid broader leaved specimen o 3 to 5 in. in mds ones, 
coriaceous, green on both s ver: beds and strongly 
nerved, with very fine M MUR ymes loose, 4 to 2 in. diameter, 
those with all male flowers more crowded than the polygamous ones. 
Perianths pedi , the segme ,1 arly 1 line long. 
Stigmatic branches of the style (or styles) broadly cuneate truncate or 
2-lobed, s s broader than , some r than 
br n poma of the. same flower dissimilar. ne a ovoid, 
de. Plan 
lia. eua Vansittart, and | Carvening bays, N.W. Coast, A. Cunni 
Austra. ning — 
Victoria river, F. Mueller ; o» d han; defi. of the Gulf of 
psa Sat 
am; 
aire and opposite mainland others; Port Essington, A. 
AN 
Sharasland. Sunday island, A. Cunningham; Port Denison, F'itzalan, Dallachy. 
leaved specimens upen which the C. oides was founded appear to have grown m 
dry situations. C gham’s larger-leaved specimens are stated by him to have 
been from moist shady situations ing’s Philippine island specimens have st d 
larger T, san coriaceous leaves. "reped plant I h ien red T 
2. C. paniculata, Planch. im Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 8, x. 305. A large 
tree, pis glabrous. Leaves from ovate-laneeolate to ‘elliptical-oblong, 
— more or less —— atthe base and often oblique or light? 
falcate, entire, coriaceous, smooth, penniveined and 3-nerved at 
base et. the midrib alone cg the lateral veins or Mc hort 
and fine or almost evanescent. Cymes sometimes dense and few- 
miha igma — Endl. Prod. Fl. Norf. 42 ; S. brevi v, Blume 
Mus. Bot. ii. 67; C. sp. nova, n. 92, Planch. in Ann. Sc. 30. Nat Fue 3 
3, x. 900; C. ingens, F. "Muell. Fragm. iv . 88. 
. N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpenta 
Queensland. Broa 
a, R. Brown, Hen - 
d Sound, R. Brown; Endeavour river, A. Donuk More- 
