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dull orange-red; stone smooth or more or less irregularly pitted and 

 ribbed; peduncle rather stout, as long as or slightly longer than the 

 petioles. 



China, Korea, and Japan. 



(Kwangtung, Hongkong, Formosa, Kiangsu). 



A common species. 



Celtis biondii Pampinini. 



Tree to 13 m. tall. Leaves ovate-oblong, 2-2^ times longer than 

 broad, margin entire or somewhat dentate with acute teeth, brownish 

 beneath, veins impressed, not prominent. Fruit orange, small. 



Hupeh, Szechuan, Kiangsi and Kiangsu. 



This tree has been recorded from the Spirit Valley in Nanking. 



Celtis julianae Schneider. 



Tree up to 25 ra. tall with smooth, light gray bark. Young 

 branchlets angled, densely yellowish tomentose, later glabrous and 

 blackish, marked with numerous lenticels. Flower-buds reddish-brown, 

 obtuse, with hairy scales. Leaves very much thickened, oblique, 

 broadly ovate, obovate or obovate-elliptic, apex acuminate, base unequal, 

 bright green and minutely hairy along the veins above, gray-green, 

 prominently reticulated and pubescent beneath, crenate dentate, some- 

 times nearly entire, 6-14 cm. long, about 6 cm. wide. Petiole thick, 

 furrowed above, tomentose. Staminate flowers cymose at the base of the 

 current year's shoots, 5-merous, calyx-lobes free, ovate-lanceolate; 

 stamens 5, inserted on a hairy disk; pedicel short, hairy; pistillate 

 flowers solitary, axillary, on the apex of the flowering branch, usually 

 4-merous; ovary glabrous; stigmas 2, elongated, hairy. Fruits orange, 

 ovate-globose, glabrous, about 12 mm. long; peduncle stout, pubescent. 



W. Hupeh. 



Said to be common within its range. 



PTEROCELTIS 



Deciduous tree in foliage and habit resembling Celtis. Branchlets 

 glabrous. Buds small with reddish-brown ciliate scales. Leaves al- 

 ternate, petioled, 3-nerved, simply, sharply and irregularly serrate 



