192 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



widely serrate, penninerved or 3-plinerved at base ; stipules rarely- 

 subfree, oftener growing into one, intra -axillary not enfolding, 

 caducous ; male flowers cymose in lower part of the branches ; 1 or 

 a few female sometimes intermixed; females solitary in axils of 

 upper leaves. {Trop. Asia, Indian Archipelago, Australia}) 



10. Chsetacme Pl.^ — Flowers monoecious (nearly of Celtis) ; 

 sepals 5, induplicate-valvate, marcescent under fruit. Stamens 5, 

 inserted under thin pilose disk ; filaments erect subulate in bud ; 

 anthers at sestivation 2-rimose introrse, not inverted ; cells at base 

 shortly 2 -saccate, longitudinally dehiscent. Germen (in male flower 

 rudimentary) girt at base with pilose disk, 1-ovulate ; style branches 

 2, filiform elongate densely papillose-stigmatose. Fruit drupaceous 

 (juiceless ?) ; seed... ? — An evergreen tree,^ unarmed or armed with 

 axillary spines (abortive branches); leaves distichous elongate, at 

 apex often setiform mucronulate, entire or spinously dentate, coria- 

 ceous penninerved, finally glabrous ; petiole short ; stipules connate 

 in one wide intra -axillary enfolding the convolute leaf-bud, cadu- 

 cous ; male flowers cymose springing either from naked base of new 

 branches, or from perulate leaf-buds ; female flowers solitary in 

 axils of upper leaves ; pedicels 1-2-bracteolate.* {South Africa,^) 



11. Ampelocera Kl.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamo- 

 moncecious; calyx gamophyllous cup-shaped, unequally 5-fid, 

 imbricate. Stamens 10-15 ; filaments connate at base with perianth 

 filiform, long exserted (sometimes short in female flower) ; anthers 

 ovately oblong apiculate, introrse, 2-rimose. Germen (in male 

 flower rudimentary or 0) free, unequally ovate, 1-locular; style 

 erect, afterwards 2-partite ; lacinise elongately subulate divaricate, 

 papillose within. Ovule 1, inserted under apex of cell peritropous 

 descending; micropyle superior, protected by small obturator. 

 Fruit baccate compressed-ovate ; embryo of descending seed . . . ? 



1 Spec. 4. K^MPF. Amcen. Exot. 799 {Muk- ^ "A genus very near Aphananthe, diflFering 

 no-ti). — Thunb. Fl.Jap. 201 {Prunus). — Sieb. chiefly in its induplicate valvate calyx at sesti- 

 et Zxjcc. in Ahhandl. Miinch. AJcad. iii. 223 vation " (Pl.), otherwise in habit, leaves and 

 {Sponia). — Sieb. Synops. 28 {Celtis). — Bl. Bijdr. spines resembling the Celastrincce, and also some 

 699 {Ct/clostemon), — Miq. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. Bixacece and Crataegus. 



224 {Galumpita). 5 Spec. 1. C. aristata Pl. loe. ct^.— Harv. 



2 Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 3, x. 340 ; Prodr. xvii. Thes. Cap. 16, t. 25.— Celtis aristata E. Mey.— 

 209. C. appendiculata E. Mey.— G. subdentata E . Mey. 



* " With habit of Bwnclia or Madura " Herb, 

 closely connecting the Ulmecs with this and ^ Linnaa^sx. 5il, 



other MorecB.) 



