482 cxxxvi. URTIOACEJS. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Celtis. 



ledons broad, inflexed flat or replicate, surrounding the upcurved radicle. 

 Species about 50, temperate and tropical, chiefly in the northern hemi- 

 sphere. 



The species of this genus appear to me inextricable. The Asiatic, except 

 C. Wightii, are founded on very variable characters. 



1. C. australis, Linn. Sp. PI. 1043; leaves deciduous very obliquely 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate acuminate coarsely serrate green when dry, drupes 

 subsolitary subglobose or broadly ovoid, putamen rugose. Brand. For. Fl. 428, 

 t. 50 ; Planch, in DC. Prodr. xvii. 169 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient.iv. 1156 ; Gamble 

 Man. Ind. Timb. 343. C. caucasica, Willd. ; DC. 1. c. 170 ; Boiss. I. c. 

 1156; G-amble 1. c. C. Acata, Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii, 211. 



The SALT RANGE and TEMPERATE ^HIMALAYA, alt. 4-8000 ft., from Marri to 

 Nepal (and ? Sikkim). DISTRIB. Westwards to Spain. 



A tree; branches slender, pendulous, and leaves beneath glabrous pubescent or 

 subtomentose with often fulvous hairs. Leaves 3-5 in., entire towards the 

 base, glabrous above, basal nerves not produced into the tip ; stipules subulate. 

 Male fl. in axillary tufts or racemed on short leafless axillary branchlets, pedicels 

 capillary. Sepals oblong, obtxise, margins woolly. Fern, or bisexual flowers rather 

 larger than the male. Ovary ovoid, woolly at the base or all over. Drupe very 

 variable in size and shape, in. long or less ; peduncle -J 2 in. I follow Brandis 

 in referring the common W. Himalayan Celtis to australis, and uniting with it C. 

 caucasica, which, according to Baissier, differs only in the drupes being yellow (they 

 are black in-European australis') and more rugose. 



VAE. eriocarpa, ; drupe pubescent tomentose or woolly. C. eriocarpa, Dene, in 

 Jacqiiem. Voy. Sot. 150, 1. 152 ; Planch, in DC. Prodr. xvii. 179 ; Brand. For. Fl. 

 429 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 343. Has the same range as C. australis, but is not 

 common. Brandis, who doubts its being a species, refers Hamilton's C. Acata to it, 

 but that has a glabrous ovary. Planchon implies that the pubescent drupe alone 

 distinguishes eriocarpa. I find this to be an inconstant character. 



2. C. tetrandra, Eoxb. Hort. Seng. 21, and Fl. Ind. ii. 63; leaves 

 as in C. australis, but more persistent more entire usually brown when 

 dry, flowers usually tetrandrous in shorter more robust, more often bisexual 

 cymes, drupes solitary or binate globose or ovoid. Planch, in Ann. So. Nat. 

 Ser. 3, x. 300; DC. Prodr. xvii. 179; Kurz For. Fl. 472; Dalz. % Gibs. 

 Bomb. FL 337. C. trinervia, Eoxb. Fl. Ind.il 65 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 

 344; Wall. Cat. 3695. C. serotina, Planck', in Ann. Sc. Nat. I. c.>, Wight 

 Ic. 1. 1570 ; Beddome For. Man. 218, and. Sylv. Madr. t. 218. C. Koxburghii, 

 Planck, in Herb. DC. 1. c. ; Bedd. I. c. t. 312. C. glabra, var. nepalensis, 

 Planch. 1. c. 298. 



LOWER OUTER (HIMALAYA, from Kumaon eastwards, ascending to 3000 ft. in 

 Sikkim ; KHASIA MTS., CHITTAGONG, BURMA, BEHAR, and the DECCAN PENIN- 

 SULA on the Eastern and Western Ghats. DISTRIB. Malay Islands. 



Except by the trifling characters given above, I do not see how this is distin- 

 guished from C. australis. The leaves are often subentire. The drupes vary iti 

 shape, size and length of pedicels. 



VAE. Hamiltoni ; branchlets and leaves tawny pubescent, leaves yellowish green 

 on both surfaces when dry. C. Hamiltoni, Planch. II. c. 301 and 179. Sikkim 

 Himalaya, the Khasia Mts., Chittagong and Burma. 



VAR. mollis ; leaves entire or subentire softly fulvous-tomentose beneath, 

 yellowish when dry, drupes sparingly hairy. C. mollis, Wall. Cat. 7203; Planch. 

 II. c. 297, 179; Kurz I.e. 472. Burma, Wallich. 



3. C. cinnnamomea, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 3696; leaves evergreen 

 coriaceous obliquely ovate acuminate crenate-serrate 3-nerved to below the 



