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little narrowed at the base, and almost equal there ; above, deep green ; beneath, pale, yellowish ; 

 and the veins, when scon under a lens, a little hairy. Indigenous to Caucasus, on the statement 

 of Adams. (Willd. Sp. PI.} VVilldenow had seen a dried specimen with fruit. In Rwm.et Schult. 

 Syst., it is quoted from Poiret Enci/cl. Supj)/., that the teeth of the leaves are usually large, and are 

 unequal; and that the fruit is solitary, axillary, globose, and i eddish, and borne upon a peduncle 

 of the length of the petiole. It is noted that it is very remarkable that the author of the Flora 

 Taitricn-Caitcasica (Bieberstein) has not mentioned this species in that work. (See under (7. sinlnsis 

 Pers., No. 4.) 



a 3. C. TOURNEFO'RT// Lam. Tournefort's Celtis, or Nettle Tree. 



Identification. Lam. Encycl., 4. p. 132. ; Willd. Sp. PL, 4 p. 994. ; Bieb. Fl. Taur. Cauc., 2. p. 449. 



Rcem. et Schult Syst. Veg., 6. p. 306. ; N. Du Ham. Arb., 2 p. 38. 



Synonymes. C. orientalis minor, foliis minoribus et crassioribus, fructu flavo, Tovrn. Cor., 42., 

 ' ///., 2. p. 425. t 41. ; C. orientalis Mill. Diet., No. 3., but, according to the Notivcau Du Hamcl, not 



of Lin., which is considered a half-hardy plant in Britain; Micocoulier du Levant, Micocoulier 



d'Orient, FT. ; Morgenlandischer Ziingelbaum, Ger. 

 Engravings. Tourn. Itin., t. 41. ; and the plate of this tree in our last Volume. 



Spec. Char., Sec. Leaves, when adult, ovate, acute, unequal at the base, 



crenately serrate, roughish on the upper surface ; when young, subcordate 



at the base. Fruit yellow, becoming brown. (Willd. Sp. PL, and Rcem. et 



Schult. Syst. Veg.} A native of Armenia. (Tournefort.} Leaves bluntish, 



rough on both surfaces, glossy. (Spreng. Syst. Veg.) Introduced in 1739, 



and flowering and fruiting at the same time as C. australis. 



Description, $c. A shrub, or low tree, rarely exceeding 25 ft. in height, but 



generally forming a bush of only 10ft. or 12ft. high, with round glabrous 



branches, covered with a brownish bark. The petiole of the leaf is very short ; 



the disk is unequally dentated, somewhat heart-shaped, and glabrous ; it is of a 



deep green above, and paler beneath, and is of a thicker texture than that of 



Celtis australis. The fruit, which is solitary, and borne on a long peduncle, is 



oval, greenish at first, then becoming yellowish, and afterwards nearly black. 



From the specimens in the London Horticultural Society's Garden, the fruit 



does not appear to ripen so soon as that of C. occidentalis ; as, in October, 1836, 



the fruit of C. Tournefortw was quite firm and green, while that of C. occi- 



dentalis was shriveled, blackish, and extremely sweet. C. Tournefortiz is a 



native of the Levant ; from which country Tournefort brought the seeds to 



the Jardin des Plantes, in Paris, about 1717, whence plants have been dis- 



tributed all over Europe. It was introduced into England in 1739. It is 



rather more tender than C. australis and C. occidentalis. The seeds should 



be sown in autumn, as soon as they are ripe ; as, if not sown till spring, they 



generally remain a year or more in the ground. They prefer a moist soil, and a 



sheltered situation. This species is readily known from all others, in winter, 



by its forming a compact upright-branched bush, or low tree ; and, in summer, 



by the deep green and dense mass of its rigid-looking foliage. There are 



plants of it from 6 ft. to 8 ft. high, in the London Horticultural Society's 



Garden, and at Messrs. Loddiges's. 



4. C. (T.) SINE'NSIS Pers. The China Celtis, or Nettle Tree. 



Identification. Pers. Syn., 1. p. 292. ; Roam, et Schult. Syst. Veg., 6. p. 306. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves broad-ovate, obtuse, crenate, largish, glabrous ; 

 veins prominent. Native in China. Cultivated in Cels's garden. (Per.?. 

 Syn.) A low tree, growing to the height of from 1 2 ft. to 15 ft. The plant 

 of this kind in the Horticultural Society's Garden seems to differ very little, 

 if at all, from C. Tournefortw. 



5. C. WILLDENOV/^V^ Schultes. Willdenow's Celtis, or Nettle Tree. 



Identification. Rcem. et Schult. Syst. Veg., 6. p. 306. 



Synonyme. C. sincnsis Willd. Enum. Suppl., p. 68., Willd. Baumz., p. 81. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves ovate, oblong, acuminate, narrowed to the base, serrate from the middle 

 to the tip; above, glabrous; beneath, roughish. Schultes has quoted Willd. Baumz., p. 81., for 

 this specific character ; and has added, that a young tree in the Berlin Royal Garden has the 

 disk of its leaf 1 J in. long, and the upper surface, as inspected through a lens, dotted ; and that the 

 kind is a native of China. In a supplement (published in 1813) to Willdenow's Enumeration nfthc 

 Plants of the Berlin Royal Garden, is the following short description of C. sinensis Willd., which, 

 though not essentially different from the above, is not quite the same : Leaves obovate oblong, ser- 

 rated at the tip ; glossy on the upper surface, slightly hairy on the under one. Schultes has noted 

 that the specific character of C. sinensis Pers. clearly shows that kind to be distinct from the C. 

 sinensis Willd. ; and that, as C. sinensis Pers. was first published, it is necessary to apply some 



