Celtis.] : cxxxvi. URTICACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 483 



tip, cymes short, flowers stonily shortly pedicelled, drupes racemed nar- 

 rowed to the tip. Planch, in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. x. 303 ; DC. Prodr. xvii. 

 181 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 472 ; Blume Mus. Sot. ii. 72 ; Miq. FL 2nd. Sat. 

 Suppl. 412. C. dysodoxylon, Thwaites Fnum. 267 ; Bedd. For. Man. 219. 

 C. Waitzii, Blume I. c. 71; Planck, in DC. I.e. 180. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; in the lower hills, ASSAM, CHITTAGONG and BTTBMA. 

 CEYLON ; Central Province, ascending to 5000 ft. DISTEIB. Malay Islands. 



I doubt this being distinct from C. tetrandra ; the habit is the same, as is the 

 inflorescence, but the drupes have an almost beaked apex. The .wood in Ceylon smells 

 disgustingly. 



4. C. Wigrhtii, Planch, in Ann. So. Nat. Ser. 4, x. 307 ; DC. Prodr. xvii. 

 184 ; leaves very coriaceous straight oblong or elliptic-oblong acute entire 

 or very sparsely creiiate- serrate 3-nerved to the tip, drupes racemed ellipsoid 

 obtuse or 2-cuspidate scarlet. Wight Ic. t. 1969; Bedd. For. Man. 218; 

 Wall. Cat. 9056. Solenostigma Wightii, Miq. Fl. 2nd. Bat. i. ii. 220 ; 

 Kurz For. Fl. ii. 471. S. consimile, Blume Mus. Bot. ii. 68. Bosia 

 trinervia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 87. 



The Circars, EoxlurgTi. NILGHIBI HILLS, alt. 4-6000 ft., Wight, &c. ANDA- 

 MAN ISLANDS, Kurz. CEYLON, dry parts of the island. DISTEIB. Malay Islands, 

 Australia. 



A large tree (Roxburgh} ; branches stiff, glabrous or tomentose. Leaves 4-6 in., 

 bifarious, acute or cuspidate, yellowish when dry, glabrous or pubescent beneath, 

 nerves very strong, cross-nervules parallel ; stipules peltate, caducous. Cymes stout, 

 short, axillary, male and bisexual fl. together ; sepals acute. Drupe j in. long ; 

 nut reticulate, styles deciduous. The straight leaves with nerves produced to the tip 

 are very different from those of the preceding species. I suspect that C. pJiilippi- 

 nensis is not different from C. Wightii. 



4. TRETCA, Lour. 



Shrubs or trees, unarmed. Leaves alternate, serrate, base 3-7-nerved ; 

 stipules lateral, caducous. Flowers unisexual or polygamous, in small 

 axillary cymes. MALE FL. Sepals 4-5, induplicate-valvate or subimbricate. 

 Stamens 4-5, erect in bud. Pisiillode or small. FEM. FL. Sepals of the 

 male in staminiferous flowers, flat and subimbricate in unisexual. Ovary 

 sessile ; style terminal, arms 2 linear ; ovule pendulous. Drupe small, 

 straight, ovoid or subglobose, usually crowned by the style, endocarp hard. 

 Albumen fleshy ; embryo curved or involute ; cotyledons narrow ; radicle 

 upcurved, incumbent. Species about 20, tropical and subtropical. 



1. T. timorensis, Blume Mus. Bot. ii. 60; nearly glabrous, branches 

 very slender, leaves membranous ovate-oblong or -lanceolate caudate- 

 acuminate serrulate base rounded or subcordate, petiole very slender, cymes 

 glabrous equalling the petiole or shorter, fruiting sepals narrow ciliate, drupe 

 turgidly ovoid, nut rugose. Kurz For. Fl. ii. 469. T. virgata, Blume I. c. 

 Sponia virgata. Planck, in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, x. (1848) 316 ; DC. Prodr. 

 xvii. 195. S. timorensis, Dene. Herb. Timor. 170; Planch. II. c. 318i 196. 

 Celtis virgata, Roxb. in Wall. Cat. 3694. 



TENASSEUIM and the MALAY PENINSULA. DISTEIB. China, Malay Islands ? 

 Australia. 



A small evergreen tree, branchlets almost filiform, pubescent, drooping. Leaves 

 3-5 in., thin, nerves slender ; petiole -5- in. Cymes few-fld., glabrous. Drupe $ in. 

 diain. 



