ULMAGEJE. 



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2-stichous, sometimes spinescent; leaves » alternate, 2-sticlious, 

 crenato-serrate and other characters of Planera ; buds perulate ; 

 flowers* coetaneous; the male in crowded cymes; the female few 

 or solitary axillary.^ {Crete^ Caucasian region^ temp, east Asia, 

 north. China^) 



5. Celtis T.^ — Flowers polygamo-moncecious, 2-morphous. Se- 

 pals 5, or rarely 4, much imbricated, in female or hermaphrodite 

 flower deciduous. Stamens same in number opposite ; filaments 

 free (longer in male flower), incurved in aestivation and more or less 

 clearly elastically dissilient and at anthesis rigidly divergent; 

 anthers introrse, before anthesis connivent in centre of flower; 

 cells sometimes swollen at base, longitudinally rimose. Germen 

 (in male flower rudimentary or 0) girt at base with pilose annular 

 disk, 1-locular; style branches 2, thickly subulate wide recurved, 

 entire or at apex emarginateordilately 2-lobed(<So/^/zo5%mt^^); lobes 

 linear {Momisia^) or sometimes {Momisiopsis^) 2-fid, densely stig- 

 matose within ; ovule inserted under apex of cell descending 

 amphitropous ; micropyle extrorsely superior. Fruit drupaceous 

 naked, oftener globose; flesh generally scanty; putamen more or 

 less rugose, 1-spermous. Seed descending amphitropous ; coat thin ; 

 cotyledons of much incurved embryo foliaceous wide unequally 

 conduplicate cucullately replicate and corrugate; one enfolding 

 the other, enclosing the incumbent and ascending radicle ; albu- 

 men slight between the folds of the cotyledons mucous or 0. — 

 Trees or shrubs, unarmed or spinous ; leaves alternate, 2-stichous, 

 persistent or caducous in winter, oftener unequal-sided at base, 

 entire or dentate, 3-plinerved; stipules free; flowers^ axillary 



^ Nearly of Carpinus^ caducous or deciduous. 



2 Small, inconspicuous. 



' A genus hence between Ulnius and Flanera, 

 thence between Celtis. 



* Spec. 4. Bauk. Finax. 373 {Pseudo-San- 

 talum. — Lamk. Diet. i. 725, {Quercus). —^mitk, 

 Trans. Linn. jSoc. (1808), 126.— Eoem. et Sch. 

 Syst. vi. 304 {Flanera). — Sibth. et Sm. Frodr. 

 Fl. Grcec. i. 172 {(Jlmus). — Michx. p. Mem. sur 

 le Zelkova (1831). — Lindl. Gardn. Chron. 

 (1861), 428 (P/a«em).— Mia. Ann. Mus. Lugd.- 

 Bat. iii. 66 {Flanera). — Hance, Seem. Journ. 

 vi. 333 {Flanera). 



5 Inst. 612, t. 383.— L. Gen. n. 1143 (part.)— 

 J. Gen. 408 (part.)— Gr^iiKTN. Fruct. i. 374, t. 77. 



— ScHKUHR. Sandb. t. 354. — Lamk. Diet. iv. 136 

 (part.) ; Suppl. iii. 688 ; III. t. 844.— Nees, Gen. 

 ii. 35. — Spach, Suit, d Buffon, xi. 122. — Endl. 

 Gen. n. 1851.— Payer, Fam. Nat. 168.— Pl. 

 Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 3, x. 262 ; Frodr. xvii. 168 

 (incl. : Mertensia K. Momisia Dumort. Soleno- 

 stigma Endl.) 



6 Endl. Frodr. Fl. Norfolk. 41.— Bl. Mus. 

 Lugd.-Bat. ii. 67.— Pl. Frodr. 182. 



7 Dumort. Anal. Fam. 17. — Mertensia H. B. 

 K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. ii. 3, t. 103.— Endl. Gen. 

 n. 1853.— Pl. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, x. 264; 

 Frodr. 186. 



8 Bl. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. ii. 69. 



9 Greenish or yellowish. 



