8 cxxiii. ULMACEiE (Rendle). [Celtis. 



152 ! Giirara River, Dalziel, 173 ! Katagum District, Dalziel, 213 ! Chari River 

 Chevalier, 8275 ! 8469 ! 



Nile Land. Eritrea : Bogos, Beccari, 112 ! Sudan : Blue Nile, near Bunzuga, 

 Muriel, 71 ! Kordofan ; near Singukai, Muriel, 143 ! Duemme, Pfund, 770 ! 

 Dinka : Dinka River, near Marial, Schweinfurth, 101 ! Mittu : near Mvolo, 

 Schweinjurth, 2817 ! 2837 ! Uganda : Madi, Speke d; Grant, 753 ! 



Also in Arabia. 



7. C. ilicifolia, Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 160. A tall tree of willow- 

 like habit with pendulous branches ; branchlets slender, glabrous 

 when young. Leaves distant, oblong or elongate-oblong, acute or 

 long-acuminate, base cuneate, margin grossly sinuate-dentate with 

 4-5 very sharp teeth on each side, lateral nerves 4-5 on each side 

 ascending, prominent as are the oblique cross-veins. Racemes 

 terminal in fruit, pubescent. Pedicels equal in length to or shorter 

 than the oblong-ovcid acute fruit. Stigmas 4-fid, equal in length 

 to the fruit. 



Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro ; Tsaydo River, Hilde- 

 brandt, 2608. 



8. C. Prantlii, Priemer ex Encjl. Notizbl. h'hugl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, 

 iii. 23. A large or small evergreen {Gosswcilcr) tree, sometimes 

 shrubby ; young branchlets with a sparse whitish pubescence, 

 ultimately glabrous. Leaves shortly petioled, elliptic-oblong to 

 elliptic-ovate, apex acuminate, mucronulate, base obtuse, generally 

 equal, margin entire or more or less irregularly toothed above, 

 rarely to near the base, 2J-5 (sometimes 8) in. long, IJ— 3 in. wide, 

 coriaceous, glabrous, upper face minutely punctulate with cystoliths, 

 3-nerved to the apex, nerves generally depressed above, prominent 

 beneath, connecting cross-veins prominulous ; petiole 2|-5 lin. 

 long, glabrescent. Stipules ovate-triangular, acuminate, produced 

 below the ])oint of attachment, 2-2 J lin. long, pubescent. Inflores- 

 cences axillary or the lower at scale-bearing nodes ; the lower 

 paniculate with male flowers clustered on the branchlets and a few 

 longer-stalked fertile flowers above, the upper with fewer or no 

 males and 3-5 fertile ( s^ ) flowers. Sepals concave, broadly elliptic- 

 oblong, 1-lJ lin. long, puberulous on the back. Ovary surrounded 

 at the base by a dense ring of whitish hairs, otherwise glabrate. 

 Stigmas fleshy, densely papillose, broadly dilated and 2-lobed. Drupe 

 green, roundish-ovoid, glabrous, dark brown when dry, about 4 lin. 

 long, on a shortish pedicel, 3-4| lin. long. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. 

 Welw. i. 1028 ; Engl, in I\lildbraed, Wiss. Ergebn. Deutsch. Zentr.- 

 Afr. Exped. 1907-8, ii. 179 ; De Wild, k Durand, Reliq. Dewevr. 

 213; Th. & Hel. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 501. 



Upper Guinea. Togo : Busse, 3318 ! 3321 ! Sokode Basari, Kersting, 734 ! 

 Southern Nigeria : Lagos, Roivland ! Foster, 79 ! Yoruba forests. Barter, 3413 ! 

 C'ameroons : Molundu, Mildbraed, 4418 ! 4090 ! Fernando Po, Mann, 276 ! 



Lower Guinea. Annobon Island, Mildbraed, 6516 ! 6772 ! Angola : Libongo ; 

 River Lifune, Welwitsch, 6302 ! Cazengo ; Cacula, Welwitsch, 6287 ! Granja de 



