Celtis.] cxxiii. ULMACE.E (Rcndle). 5 



nodes of small branchlets (which end in an opening leaf-bud) and 

 forming inflorescences of J in. or less in length ; pedicels about 1 lin. 

 long, puberulous; fertile (9 or ^) flowers 2 to 3 together in the 

 axils of young branchlets, stalks at first about 1 lin. long, increasing 

 to 3 or 4 lin. Sepals elliptic, about 1 lin. long. Stigmas long, 

 linear, undivided ; drupe ovoid, bright yellow, 3-3| lin. long, con- 

 taining a black trigonous stone. — Engl, in Mildbraed, Wiss. Ergebn. 

 Deutsch. Zentr.-Afr. Exped. 1907-8, ii. 179. C. dioica, S. Moore in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. xl. 204. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Bipinde, Zenker, 4586 ! 



Lower Guinea. Congo : near Bingila, Dupuis ! Angola : Cazengo ; Granja 

 de S. Luiz, Gossweiler, 4536 ! 5174 ! 5235 ! 5370 ! 5395 ! 



South Central. Irumu : Kifuku, Mildbraed, 2887 ! Lumengo, Mildbraed^ 

 2468 ! 2468a ! 



Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa : Usagara, Trotha, 171 ! Amani, to 

 3000 ft., Warnecke, 235 ! 240 ! 350 ! Braun, 1083 ! Zimmermann, 851 ! foot of 

 Nguru Mountain, Holtz, 1763 ! Gazaland : Chirinda, 3700-4000 ft., Swynnerton, 

 108 ! Lower Buzi River at 100 ft., Swynnerton, 1105 ! 



Var. ugandensis, Rendle. Leaves narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, margin 

 entire, 2-4J in. long, ^-1^ in. wide. — C. ugandensis, Rendle in Journ. Bot. 

 1906, 341. 



Nile Land. Uganda: Entebbe, Bagshawe, 669! Toro ; Mpanga forest, 

 Bagshmve, 1001 ! Mabira forest, Ussher, 65 ! Semliki Valley, 2600 ft.. Dam, 

 639 ! Kipayo, forest at 4000 ft., Dummer, 584 ! 



The Rhodesian specimens are stated by Swynnerton to be dioecious ; the 

 female flowers contain no trace of stamens. The single specimen from Angola 

 bears fertile hermaphrodite flowers but no trace of male flowers. Of the other 

 specimens only fruit is known. 



The dead wood has a peculiar fetid smell. 



3. C. Soyauxii, Engl. Notizbl. konigl. Bot. Gart. Berliy\, iii. 23, 

 j/artly. An evergreen tree 50 to 100 ft. high ; branchlets ferru- 

 ginously pubescent when young. Leaves shortly petioled, dark 

 green, stiff and thinly coriaceous, elliptic, oblong-elliptic or elliptic- 

 obovate, acuminate, mucronulate, narrowing at the unequal base, 

 margin weakly serrate in the upper portion, 2J-5J in. long, li-2J in. 

 wide, 1-nerved, lateral nerves 3-5 on each side, the lowest pair 

 springing from the base ascending and prominent for about half the 

 length of the leaf, the others patent-ascending, nerves prominent 

 below ; with adpressed ferruginous hairs when young, ultimately 

 glabrous ; petiole 3-4 lin. long, puberulous. Stipules lanceolate, 2 

 lin. long. Inflorescences axillary on young leafy shoots, densely 

 ferruginously hairy. Male flowers almost sessile, crowded in a few 

 many-flowered clusters below ; fertile ( ^ ) one or two above, stalked ; 

 flowers pentamerous. Sepals elliptic-oblong, about 1 lin. long. 

 Ovary densely ferruginously hairy. Stigmas long, linear, 2-fid, 

 In-anches bilobed at the apex ; drupe ovoid attenuated towards 

 the apex, glabrous, green, with 4 narrow keels when immature, 

 scarlet and succulent when ripe, with a 4-ribbed stone {Welwitsch), 

 nearly J in. long.— Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw i. 1028. C. 



