Ulmm.'] cxxxvi. URTICACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 481 



A tree attaining 70ft., with thick bark, wide-spreading branches, and the drooping 

 branchlets pubescent with deciduous hairs. Leaves hard, reticulate, shortly petioled, 

 base acute on one side rounded on the other ; petiole very short, stout, pubescent. 

 Flowers in very short racemes, which are axillary or at the leaf-scars ; pedicels 

 sometimes -| iu., slender, villous ; bracts many, ciliate. Perianth, campanulate, 5-cleft, 

 glabrous. Samctra about 1 in. long, lobes usually incurved. 



3. U. parvifolia, Jacq. Hort. Schoenb. iii. t. 262; a shrub or small 

 tree, branchlets pubescent, leaves 2-3 in. shortly petioled coriaceous oblong- 

 lanceolate finely serrate glabrous, nerves 14-16 pairs with axillary tufts of 

 hairs, flowers appearing with the leaves, clusters androgynous, perianth 

 4-fid, samara shortly stipitate elliptic or obliquely oblong, seed in the middle. 

 Brand. For. FL 434. U. virgata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 67 ; Wall. PL As. Ear. 

 iii. 67, t. 290 ; Cat. 3548 ; Planch, in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, x. (1848) 272. 

 U. pumila, H.f. fy T. Herb. Ind. Or. 



WESTERN TIBET ; Nubra, alt. 10,000 ft., Thomson. DISTRIB. China, Japan. 



Described by Brandis (but not from Indian specimens) as a slow-growing shrub 

 with reddish flowers, the male and fern, mixed in scaly clusters. He gives Kumaon, 

 Sikkim and Bhotan as habitats, but I have seen no other Indian specimens than 

 Thomson's Tibetan, which are not in flower or fruit. Wallich's figure is of a Chinese 

 specimen cultivated in Calcutta, and is a copy of Roxburgh's drawing. The Tibetan 

 plant may be a small-leaved form of U. Wallichiana. 



2. HOLOPTELEA, Planch. 



Habit and characters of Ulmus, but leaves quite entire, perianth cleft to 

 the base, and cotyledons complicated longitudinally. 



K. integrifolia, Planch, in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, x. 269 ; DC. Prodr. 

 xvii. 164 ; Wight Ic. t. 1968 ; Dalz. # Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 238. Ulmus inte- 

 grifolia, Eoxb. in Willd. Sp. PI. i. 1326, and Fl. Ind. ii. 68 ; Cor. PI. 56, 

 t. 78 ; Brand. For. Fl. 431 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 473 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 

 644 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 342 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylvat. t. 310 ; Watt. Cat. 

 3547. 



Outer lower ranges of the HIMALAYA, from Jamu to Oudh, ascending to 2000 f fc. 

 From BANDA and BEHAR to TRAVANCORE, and from PEGU to MARTABAN, CEYLON, 

 in the hot drier regions. DISTRIB. Cochin China. 



A large spreading deciduous tree ; shoots pubescent. Leaves 36 in., coriaceous, 

 elliptic or obovate-oblong, acuminate (in seedlings serrate), glabrous, or pubescent 

 beneath, base unequally rounded or subcordate ; nerves 5-7 pair ; petiole ^-^ in. 

 Flowers in. diam. Sepals pubescent. Anthers hairy. Ovary long-stipitate. 

 jSamara 1 in. long, obliquely elliptic or roundish, glabrous or pubescent; wings 

 membranous or chartaceous, tip 2-fid, lobes incurved. Planchon has three varieties : 

 leiocarpa with glabrous fruit deeply notched, hebecarpa with similar but pubescent 

 fruit, and zeylanica with smaller obsoletely notched fruit. 



3. CELTIS, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs, evergreen or deciduous. Leaves alternate, bifarious, 

 ovate, entire or serrate, triple-nerved. Flowers small, polygamous, cymose ; 

 male and androgynous cymes usually at the base of the shoots ; female in 

 the upper axils. Sepals 4-5, imbricate. Stamens 4-5, short, erect in bud, 

 surrounding a woolly torus. Ovary sessile; style central, arms plumose 

 simple or lobed; ovule pendulous. Drupe small, ovoid or globose, endo- 

 carp hard smooth or rugose. Albumen or scanty ; embryo curved, coty- 



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