Trema.] cxxiii. ulmace^e (Rendle). 11 



into a pair of spreading, fleshy, linear, stigmatose branches. Torus 

 generally hairy in all the flowers. Drupe more or less fleshy, ovoid 

 or subglobose, often crowned by the inrolled branches of the style ; 

 endocarp hard ; albumen sparse, fleshy ; embryo curved ; cotyle- 

 dons narrow, applied face to face. — Trees or high shrubs, unarmed. 

 Leaves alternate, short-stalked, minutely toothed, penninerved. 

 Stipules lateral, free, caducous. Inflorescences in subsessile axillary 

 cymes, male and fertile generally distinct. — Sponia, Decne, Herb. 

 Timor. Descr. 170. 



Species 30 or fewer, widely dispersed in tropical and subtropical regions. 



1. T. guineensis, Ficalho, PI. Uteis, 261. A shrub or tree ; 

 branchlets densely and shortly hairy, sometimes silky or strigillose. 

 Leaves shortly petioled, membranous., ovate-oblong, acute to acumi- 

 nate or cuspidate, base generally unequally cordate, sometimes 

 retuse or rounded, margin denticulate or sometimes subcrenulate 

 or serrulate, generally from 2J to 4 in. long, and 1-2 in. wide, some- 

 times larger to 6 in. long, or smaller^with a median nerve and generally 

 4 (sometimes 5 or 6) pairs of ascending lateral nerves, the lowest 

 pair springing from the base of the median nerve, prominent on the 

 lower face, somewhat depressed above, scabridulous and sparsely 

 hairy on the upper face, more or less densely and softly hairy below, 

 especially on the nerves and veins, sometimes the older ones glabres- 

 cent ; petiole 2-4 lin. long, hairy like the branchlet. Stipules 

 caducous, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. Inflorescences 

 numerous, short, axillary, dense-flowered, sometimes glomerate ; 

 flowers 5-merous. Sepals greenish or reddish, persistent, broadly 

 elliptic, concave, sometimes bluntly keeled, pilosulose on the back 

 and margin, flatter and sometimes ovate-elliptic or ovate in female 

 flowers, 1 lin. or less in length. Filaments equal in length to 

 the sepals. Ovary ovoid, 1 lin. long, with a pair of horizontally 

 spreading linear stigmas. Drupe globose-ovoid, about 1-1 J lin. 

 long ; pedicel short, rarely exceeding the drupe in length. — Biittn. in 

 Mitth. Afr. Gesellsch. v. 257, inch forma strigosa, Biittn. ; Durand & 

 Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, 247; De Wild, ife Durand in Bull. Herb. 

 Boiss. 2me ser. i. 49, Contrib. Fl. Cong. ii. 58, Reliq. Dewe\T. 213 

 and PI. Thonner. Congol. i. 10, ii. 298 ; De Wild. Miss E. Laurent. 

 68 and Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, iii. 62 ; Th. & Hel. Durand, 

 Syll. Fl. Congol. 501 ; S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. xl. 205 ; Engl. 

 Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 160 and in Schlechter, Westafr. Kautsch.-Ex|.ed. 

 286. T. affinis, Bl. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. ii. 58; Hiern in Cat. 

 Afr. PL Welw. i. 1029 ; Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 214. 

 T, africana, Bl. I.e. T. hracteolata, Bl. I.e. ; Sim, For. Fl. Port. E. 

 Afr. 96. T. gloynerata, Bl. I.e. T. strigosa, Bl. I.e. T. nitens, Bl. I.e. 

 Celtis guineensis, Schumach. in Schumach. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. PI. 

 160, incl. vdiT. parvifolia; Planch, in DC. Prodr. xvii. 197. S. affinis, 

 Planch, in Ann. Sci. Nat. 3me ser. x. 329, and in DC. Prodr. xvii. 198 ; 



