ULMACEAE. — CELTIS 283 



subglabris 1-1.5 cm. longis suffulti; putamina globosa, hilo valde obtuso vix foveo- 

 lata, ceterum in facie subregulariter exigue foveolata, tenuiter costata, 4-5 mm. 

 longa et 3-4 mm. crassa. 



CHINA. Fokien: without precise locality, Dumi's Exped. April- June 1905, 

 (Hongkong Herb. No. 3433, as C. australis; with very young hairy fruits). 



NORTHEASTERN ASIA. Southern Korea: Mokhpo, May 1909, Taquet 

 (No. 2542; with old flowers); Quelpaert, "in pago Tschangmani "? (" Tupyan- 

 genapi" ex Leveill6), August 1909, Taquet (No. 3213, tyi)e-number, fruits 

 almost ripe); "in sylvis Sampangsan," October 1908, Taqud (No. 1375; with ripe 

 fruits and sterile). 



This variety is well characterized by the peculiar shape of its leaves, which 

 mostly are broadest at the upper end below the caudate apex. The specimen from 

 Fokien agrees well with those from Korea. Nakai, in his Flora Korcana, apparently 

 confused it with C. sinensis Persoon, which is easily distinguished by the shape of 

 its leaves, their different pubescence and serration, and also by its glabrous ovaries 

 and the more irregularly and more deeply pitted stones. Our plant has no close 

 relation to C. australis Linnaeus from southern Europe and western Asia, but it is 

 most nearly related to the typical C. Biondii Pampanini, see p. 272, which has the 

 same nervation and pubescence of the leaves and the same fruits and stones. Wil- 

 son's specimens from Kuling, mentioned under the t>T)e, look somewhat intermedi- 

 ate between it and this variety, but the shape of the leaves is more oblong as it is in 

 the type and not obovate. 



Sect. 2. SPONIOCELTIS Planchon in Ann. Sci. Nat. s6r. 3, X. 263 (1848) ; 

 in De CandoUe, Prodr. XVII. 180 (1873). 



The main difference of this section from sect. Euceltis is the elongated-cjTnose 

 female inflorescence. But, as far as I can judge by the material before me, the 

 species of sect. Sponioceltis are so closely coimected with those of Euceltis that it 

 would be a more natural taxonomic arrangement to unite both these sections and 

 to arrange the species in certain series according to their aflanity. But as long as I 

 cannot study all these species I think it best not to make any attempt to distin- 

 guish different series. According to Planchon's disposition the following new species 

 belongs to sect. Sponioceltis. 



15. Celtis Salvatiana Schneider, n. sp. 



Arbor ad 5 m. alta; ramuh novelli laxe flavescenti-villosi, hornotini glabres- 

 centes, olivacei, subangulati, annotini glabri, rubescentes, lenticellis sparsis elon- 

 gatis discoloribus, vetustiores cinereo-rubiginosi, tenuissime rimosuh. Folia 

 juvenilia ramulorum floriferorum membranacea, ovato- v. rhomboideo-lanceolata, 

 basi inaequah subrotunda v. acuta, apice acuminata, supra tantum in costa ner- 

 visque sparse pilosa, subtus valde initio plus minusve villosula sed mox glabra et 

 tantum barbata, a medio ad acumen utrinsecus plus minusve serr at o-dent at a, 4-6.5 

 cm. longa, 1.5-3 cm. lata, petiolis 2-5 mm. longis flavo-pilosis suffulta, ramulorum 

 fructiferorum sed nondum matura circiter duplo majora, late ovato-oblonga, rarius 

 paulo obovata, basi paulo inaequali plus minusve rotunda, apice subsensim late 

 acuminata, textura pubescentiaque ut in juveniUbus, nervatione norm ali, subtus 

 paulo discoloria, levia, margine paulo infra medium ad basim acuminis satis 

 regulariter subcrenato-serrata, 7-10.5 cm. longa, 3.S-5 cm. lata v. tantum 10 cm. 

 longa et 5.5 cm. lata; petioli 3-6 mm. longi, flavo-pilosi. Inflorescentiae cT ad basim 

 ramulorum floriferorum breviter elongato-cymosae, pluriflorae, pleraeque delapsae, 

 9 in axillis foliorum superiorum elongatae, pleraeque triflorac; flores cT normales, 

 4-meri; perigonii lobi ovato-oblongi, ad marginem ciliati, ceterum glabri, cxtua ru- 

 bescentes; stamina juvenilia incurvata, post anthesin lobis pauUo longiora, antheris 

 flavis in sicco basi thecarum albidis; discus villosus; flores 9 a (f' vix diversi, lobis 



