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little narrowed at the base, and almost equal there ; above, deep green ; beneath, pale, yellowish; 
and the veins, when seen under a lens, a little hairy. Indigenous to Caucasus, on the statement 
of Adams. (Willd. Sp. P/.); Willdenow had seen a dried specimen with fruit. In Ram. et Schult. 
Syst., itis quoted from Poiret Encycl. Suppl., that the teeth of the leaves are usually large, and are 
unequal; and that the fruit is solitary, axillary, globose, and reddish, and borne upon a peduncle 
of the length of the petiole. It is noted that it is very remarkable that the author of the Flora 
Phd = ee (Bieberstein) has not mentioned this species in that work. (Seeunder C. sinénsis 
ers., No. 4 
¥ 2 3. C. Tournero’rtzzZ Lam. Tournefort’s Celtis, or Nettle Tree. 
Identification. Lam. Encycl., 4. p. 132. ; Willd. Sp. Pl., 4. p. 994.; Bieb. Fl. Taur. Cauc., 2. p. 449. 
Reem. et Schult. Syst. Veg., 6. p. 306.; N. Du Ham. Arb., 2. p. 38. 
Synonymes. C. orientalis minor, foliis minoribus et crassioribus, fructu flavo, Tourn. Cor., 42., 
Itin., 2. p. 425. t. 41.; C. orientalis M722. Dict., No. 3., but, according to the Nouveau Du Hamel, not 
of Lin., which is considered a half-hardy plant in Britain; Micocoulier du Levant, Micocoulier 
a@’Orient, Fr.; Morgenlandischer Ziingelbaum, Ger. 
Engravings. ‘Tourn. Itin., t. 41.; and the plate of this tree in our Jast Volume. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves, when adult, ovate, acute, unequal at the base, 
crenately serrate, roughish on the upper surface; when young, subcordate 
at the base. Fruit yellow, becoming brown. (Willd. Sp. Pl.,and Ram. et 
Schult. Syst. Veg.) A native of Armenia. (Tournefort.) Leaves bluntish, 
rough on both surfaces, glossy. (Spreng. Syst. Veg.) Introduced in 1739, 
and flowering and fruiting at the same time as C. australis. 
Description, §c. A shrub, or low tree, rarely exceeding 25 ft. in heighg, but 
generally forming a bush of only 10 ft. or 12 ft. high, with round glabrous 
branches, covered with a brownish bark. The petiole of the leaf is very short ; 
the disk is unequally dentated, somewhat heart-shaped, and glabrous ; it is of a 
deep green above, and paler beneath, and is of a thicker texture than that of 
Céltis australis. The fruit, which is solitary, and borne on a long peduncle, is 
oval, greenish at first, then becoming yellowish, and afterwards nearly black. 
From the specimens in the London Horticultural Society’s Garden, the fruit 
does not appear to ripen so soon as that of C. occidentalis ; as, in October, 1836, 
the fruit of C. Tourneférti was quite firm and green, while that of C. occi- 
dentalis was shriveled, blackish, and extremely sweet. C. Tournefortz is a 
native of the Levant ; from which country Tournefort brought the seeds to 
the Jardin des Plantes, in Paris, about 1717, whence plants have been dis- 
tributed all over Europe. It was introduced into England in 1739. It is 
rather more tender than C. australis and C. occidentalis. The seeds should 
be sown in autumn, as soon as they are ripe; as, if not sown till spring, they 
generally remain a year or more intheground. They prefer a moist soil, and a 
sheltered situation. This species is readily known from all others, in winter, 
by its forming a compact upright-branched bush, or low tree ; and, in summer, 
by the deep green and dense mass of its rigid-looking foliage. There are 
plants of it from 6ft. to 8 ft. high, in the London Horticultural Society’s 
Garden, and at Messrs. Loddiges’s. 
¥ @ 4. C. (T.) stne’nsis Pers. The China Celtis, or Nettle Tree. 
Identification. Pers. Syn., 1. p. 292. ; Reem. et Schult. Syst. Veg., 6. p. 306. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves broad-ovate, obtuse, crenate, largish, glabrous ; 
veins prominent. Native in-China. Cultivated in Cels’s garden. (Pers. 
Syn.) A low tree, growing to the height of from 12 ft. to 15 ft. The plant 
of this kind in the Horticultural Society’s Garden seems to differ very little, 
if at all, from C. Tournefértii. 
¥ 5..C. WiLLDENOVIA‘NA Schultes. Willdenow’s Celtis, or Nettle Tree, 
Identification. Roem. et Schult. Syst. Veg., 6. p. 306. 
Synonyme. C. sinénsis Willd. Enum. Suppl., p. 68., Willd. Baumzx., p. 81. 
Spec. Char., &c. Leaves ovate, oblong, acuminate, narrowed to the base, serrate from the middle. 
to the tip; above, glabrous; beneath, roughish. Schultes has quoted Willd. Baumz., p. 81., for 
this specific character; and has added, that a young tree in the Berlin Royal Garden has the 
disk of its leaf 13 in. long, and the upper surface, as inspected through a lens, dotted ; and that the 
kind is a native of China. In a supplement (published in 1813) to Willdenow’s Enumeration of the 
Plants of the Berlin Royal Garden, is the following short description of C. sinénsis Wildd., which, 
though not essentially different from the above, is not quite the same :—Leaves obovate oblong, ser- 
rated at the tip; glossy on the upper surface, slightly hairy‘on the under one. Schultes has noted 
that the specific character of C. sinénsis Pers. clearly. shows that kind to be distinct from the C. 
sinénsis Willd. ; and that, as C. sinénsis Pers. was first published, it is necessary to apply some 
