ULMACE^. 1^1 



style branches free to base elongate stigmatose-plumose. Fruit 

 drupaceous minute, clothed at base with persistent calyx, generally 

 crowned with plumose emarcid style ; putamen rugose or pitted. 

 Seed nearly of Celtis ] albumen slightly fleshy ; cotyledons of curved 

 embryo scarcely or not at all corrugate. — Unarmed trees; leaves 

 alternate (evergreen), 3-plinerved, often tomentose; stipules free; 

 flowers^ in axillary cymes, 1- or 2-sexual. [All warm regions}) 



8 ? Parasponia Miq.^ — Flowers polygamo-dicecious (nearly of 

 Trema or Celtis) ; sepals 5, imbricate, persistent around fruit. 

 Stamens gynaecium and other characters of Trema, Fruit, dru- 

 paceous, crowned with plumose stigmata ; cotyledons of curved 

 embryo linear accumbent.^ — Trees or shrubs;^ leaves 2-stichous, 

 8-plinerved ; stipules intra-axillary, united in one 2-carinate, 2 -fid ; 

 flowers axillary cymose.^ [Indian Archipelago^ Pacific Islands J) 



9. Aphananthe Pl.^ — Flowers (nearly of Celtis) monoecious ; 

 sepals 4-6, imbricate, more or less persistent under fruit indurate, 

 not accrescent. Stamens 4-6, inserted under rudiment of gynaecium 

 (in female flower rudimentary or 0) ; filaments straight or scarcely 

 incurved in the bud ; anthers introrse oscillating, 2-rimose. Germen 

 and ovulum of Trema (or Celtis) ; style afterwards 2-fid ; branches 

 subulate, longer than the germen,^ velutinous within. Fruit dru- 

 paceous, sparsely fleshy; putamen crustaceous, somewhat rugose 

 without; seed amphitropous ; cotyledons of exalbumiuous embryo 

 spirally convolute; radicle superior somewhat incurved. — Unarmed 

 (evergreen) trees ; leaves 2-stichous, unequal at base, entire or 



^ Minute, greenish cr yellowish. Vit. 235 {Spmia.)—^o-LiAS, Schweinf. ^thiop 



2 Spec, about 25. Burm. Amer. Icon. 206, 192 (Sponia). 



fig. 2 [Muntingia). — Sloane, Jam. ii. 80 [Loti ^ In Plant, Junghun. 68; Anal. JBot.Ind, 31, 



arbor...).— ViAJ^. Gen. 41 {Muntingia). — L. — Pl. Pro^r. xvii. 194. 



Spec, 280 ; Amosn. v. 395 {Hhamnus) ; Fl. * " Not conduplicate." 



z^.v^. '176 {Celtis).— S^. Prodr. 33 ; Fl. Ind.-Occ. ^ Inconspicuous minute. 



157 {Celtis).— l*om. Diet Suppl. iii, 689 {Celtis). ^ A genus very near to Trema, but sufficiently 



— W. Spec. iv. 996 {Celtis). — H. B. K. Nov. distinct by the plane imbricate estivation of 



Gen. et Spec. ii. {Celtis) — Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. the male flower and intra-axillary concrescent 



66 {Celtis). — Ad. Br. Buperr. Voij. Bot. 212, t. stipules Pl. 



47, 215 {Celtis).—^!.. Bijdr. 486 {Celtis).— ^ Spec. 2. Pl. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, x. 336 



ScHUM. et Thonn. Beskr. 160 {Sponia). — {Sponia anom.) — Bl. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. ii. 65, t. 



Blanco, Fl. de Filip. ed. 2. 139 {Celtis).— 36.— Seem. Bonplandia (1861), 259 {Sponia).— 



HocHST. Flora (1845), 87 {Sponia).— 'Wight, Miq. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 218, t. 16. 



Icon. t. 1971 {Sponia). — Benth. Fl. HongJc. ^ Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, x. 205 ; Prodr. xvii. 



324 {Sponia.) MiQ. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 265. — Homoiceltis Bl. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. ii. 64. — 



215 {Sponia). — Thw. Enum. Pl. Zeifl. 267 Galumpita Bl. loc. cit. 73. 



{Sponia). — Seem. Vog. Herald, Bot. i. 413; Fl. • Shorter than in G=tro««tem. 



