Order 107. Urticacew. 303 



oblique, flowers very minute, crowded on fleshy involucrate re- 

 ceptacles, bracteoles densely crowded. 



10. BOEHMERIA. Shrubs or small trees, leaves opposite or 

 alternate, flowers in clusters, spiked racemed or panicled with- 

 out involucres, male perianth 3 to 5-lobed, female tubular 

 toothed. 



11. POUZOLZIA. Like the last, but some are herbs, flowers 

 in axillary clusters, never in naked spikes, the slender styles 

 deciduous. 



12. DEBREGEASIA. Shrubs or trees, flowers in clusters sessile 

 or spiked, female perianth ovoid or obovoid, succulent in 

 fruit. 



1. HOLOPTELEA. 



H. integrifolia. A large tree with ovate subcordate leaves, 

 smooth and hard, bifarious, flowers very small, dark purple, in 

 dense sessile clusters on the branches ; sepals minute, ovary 

 large and flat with two white stigmas, capsule nearly round, 

 very thin, notched at the top, with one seed in the centre. 

 Waola, Jcewal, ainsddera. 



Konkan and Ghauts. Abundant at Ghorabunder. 



&. calls it the Indian elm, and gives the stamens as 5 ; I noted 10, 

 but they probably vary a good deal. if. has 3 varieties, in one of 

 which the fruit is not notched. It is eatable and called pdpari. 



2. CELTIS. 



* C. tetrandra (O. Roxburgliii, D.). A small tree, leaves 

 ovate oblique cordate, flowers in slender axillary softly hairy 

 racemes, drupes solitary or twin. 



On and below the Ghauts, common (D. and 6?.). The value of the 

 specific name is reduced by H. saying flowers usually tetrandrous, 

 and by his including in it a species which E. describes as pentan- 

 drous, as D. and G. call this. 



H. has 4 species, one or other of which seems to be found in most 

 parts of India, and he says " the species appear to me inextricable." 



3. TREMA. 



T. orientalis (Sponia Wiglitii, D.). A small twiggy tree 

 with pretty, lanceolate leaves, heart-shaped and oblique at the 

 base, finely serrated, rough above, white and prominently veined 

 beneath, stigmas 2, large, covered with white hairs, capsule very 

 small and black, top- shaped. Gol, Kargol. 



