Celtis.] 



cxxiii. uLMACEiE (Rendle) 



fertile flowers with longer stalks, solitary or few in the higher axils. — 

 Mertensia, H. B. et K., Nov. Gen. et Sp. ii. 30. Momisia, F. G. 

 Dietr. VoUst. Lex. Gaertn. Nachtr. v. 122. Solenostiyma, Endl. 

 Prodr. Fl. Norfolk. 41. 



Species about 60, widely dispersed in temperate and 

 especially in the northern hemisphere. 



Stigmas undivided : 



Leaves with serrate margin 



Leaves with entire margin or with a few weak teeth 

 above 



Stigmas divided : 



Leaves not conspicuously 3-nerved : 

 Leaves oblong-elliptic or elliptic : 



Petiole 2 or more lin. long ; stipules lanceolate : 

 Drupe nearly * in. long 



Drupe 3-4 lin. long 



Petiole 1 lin. or less in length ; stipules subulate 



Leaves obliquely ovate 



Leaves oblong, grossly sinuate-dentate 



Leaves conspicuously 3-nerved : 

 Stigmas broadly dilated : 



Drupe roundish-ovoid, 4 lin. long ; ovary glabrate : 

 Central and West Africa 



East Africa 



ovary glabrate or 



tropical regions, 



L C. kraussiana. 



2. C. Durandii. 



3. C. Soyauxii. 



4. C. Zenkeri. 



5. C. Tessmannii 



6. C. iniegrifolia. 



7. C. ilicifolia. 



Prantlii. 

 mauritiana. 



Drupe ellipsoid, 7 lin. long 



sparsely puberulous 



Drupe large, ovoid-globose, 9 lin. long 

 densely hairy 



Stigmas linear 



ovary 



10. C. instUaris. 



11. C. Adolfi- 



Friderici. 



12. C. Brownii. 



1. C. kraussiana, Bernh. in Flora, 1845, 87. A deciduous shrub 

 or tree to 70 ft. high ; twigs reddish, more or less ferruginouslv 

 pubescent when young. Leaves shortly petioled, ultimately thinly 

 coriaceous, elliptic-ovate, or ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 base unequally rounded, margin serrate but often entire below the 

 apex and in the lower portion, lJ-3 in. long, J-IJ in. wide, 3-nerved, 

 lateral nerves ascending, nerves prominent below ; indumentum 

 varying, ferruginously pubescent especially on the veins when 

 young, generally becoming glabrous except on the veins beneath^- 

 and scabridulous, but sometimes pubescent on both faces ; petiole 

 1-3 lin. long, puberulous. Stipules caducous, linear-lanceolate to 

 broadly-oblanceolate, 1-J— 3 lin. long. Male flowers in subsessile or 

 stalked fascicles of 4-7 flowers at lower leafless nodes (2-4) of 

 branchlets ; fertile ( $ or ^) flowers 2-4 at the upper nodes, 

 generally in the axil of a young leaf, intermediate inflorescences 

 sometimes polygamous ; pedicels densely clothed with short soft 

 spreading hairs, male lJ-2 lin. long, fertile to 4 lin. long. Sepals 

 reddish, oblong-elliptic, subacute, concave, softly hairy on the 



