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A small tree ; leaves obliquely ovate-cordate acuminate, glabrous, 

 3-nerved ; flowers pentandrous ; male ones from the base of 

 the young shoots, or solitary under the bisexual ones ; bisexual 

 flowers on slender, villous, axillary racemes; germ 1 -celled, con- 

 taining one ovule, pendulous from the apex of the cell. On the 

 Ghauts, common. Celtis trinervia, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, p 65. 



2. SPONIA, Commerson. 



1. S WIGHTII, Planch, loc. cit. p 264. A small tree of quick 

 growth ; leaves ovate-oblong cuspidate, cordate and unequal at the 

 base; younger ones with a white pubescence beneath ; cymes very 

 shortly-ped uncled, as long as or a little longer than the petiole ; 

 male flowers dense ; female more lax ; stigmas 2, equal, covered 

 with long threads ; berry small. Common in the hilly parts of the 

 Concan. Native name " Gol." Syn. Celtis oriental's, Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. ii, p65; Wight Ic. *. 1971. 



3. HOLOPTELZEA, Planch. 



1. H INTEGRIFOLIA, Planch, loc. cit. p 259. A large tree; 

 leaves alternate short-petioled, ovate, sometimes cordate-entire, 

 smooth, shining; stipules lanceolate; flowers polygamous; male 

 and bisexual mixed in cymes along the naked branches ; capsule 

 orbicular, leafy, compressed, emarginate, 1 to 2-celled, indehiscent. 

 The wood of this tree is of good quality and much used. Syn. 

 Ulmus integrifolia, Roxb. in Willd sp. PL i, 1326; Wight Ic t. 

 1968. Concans, common. Maratha name " Wawulee." 



CXX1V. URTICACEyE. 

 1. FLEURYA, Gaudichand. 



1. F INTERRUPTA, Wight Ic. 1975. Herbaceous, erect, bristly 

 all over ; young branches and under-surface of the leaves pubescent ; 

 leaves long-petioled, cordato-ovate, acute or acuminate, coarsely 

 serrated, triple-nerved; peduncles axillary, solitary, as long or 

 longer than the leaves, bearing small lateral panicles at unequal 

 distances ; male calyx 4-parted ; stamens 4, achenium ovate com- 

 pressed, winged round the margin, tubercled on the disks. Syn. 

 Urtica interrupta, Linn. A common weed in gardens. 



2. GIRARDINA, Gaudichand. 



1. G HETEROPHYLLA. Leaves broad-cordate, 7-lobed ; lobes 

 oblong, acute, coarsely serrated, clothed on both sides with fine 

 whitish down, armed above with thin, scattered prickles, thickly 



