ULMACE2E. 191 



style branches free to base, elongate stiginatose-plmnose. 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 1 in axillary cymes, 1- or 2-sexual. [All warm regions.") 



8 ? Parasponia Miq. 3 — Flowers polygamo-dicecious (nearly of 

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

 Stamens gymecium and other characters of Trema. Fruit, dru- 

 paceous, crowned with plumose stigmata ; cotyledons of curved 

 embryo linear accumbent. 4 — Trees or shrubs ; 5 leaves 2-stichous, 

 3-plinerved ; stipules infra-axillary, united in one 2-carinate, 2-fid ; 

 flowers axillary cymosc. 6 {Indian Archipelago, Pacific Islands. 1 ) 



9. Aphananthe Pl. s — 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 gynoecium 

 (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, 9 velutinous within. Fruit dru- 

 paceous, sparsely fleshy ; putamen crustaceous, somewhat rugose 

 without; seed amphitropous ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo 

 spirally convolute ; radicle superior somewhat incurved. — Unarmed 

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



1 Minute, greenish cr yellowish. Vit. 235 (Sponia.) — Solms, Schweiuf. jSthiop 



1 Spec, about 25. Burm. Amer. Icnn. 206, 192 (Sponia). 



fig. 2 (Muntingia). — Sloane, Jam. ii. 80 (Loti 3 In Plant. Jungh un. 68 ; Anal. Bol. Ind. 31. 



arbor...). — Plum. Gen. 41 (Muutingia). — L. — Pl. Prodi: xvii. 194. 



Spec. 280; Amccn. v. 395 (Bliamnus) ; Fl. 4 " Not conduplicate." 



zn/l. 176 (Celtis). — Sw. Prodr. 33 ; Fl. Ind.-Occ. 5 Inconspicuous minute. 



157 (Celtis). — Pom. Diet Suppl. iii, 689 (Celtis). 6 A genus very near to Trema, but sufficiently 



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



Gen. et Spec. ii. (Celtis) — Roxii. Fl. Iml. ii. the male flower and intra-axillary concrescent 



66 (Celtis).— Ad. Bit. Duperr. To;/. Bot. 212, t. stipules Pl. 



47, 215 (Celtis).— Bl. Bijdr. 486 (Celtis).— 7 Spec. 2. Pl. Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 3, x. 336 



Schum. et Thonn. BesJcr. 1G0 (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. Honglc. s Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 3, x. 266 ; Prodr. xvii. 



324 (Sponia.) Mm. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 265. — Bomoiceltis Bl. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. ii. 64. — 



215 (Sponia).— Thw. Emim. PL Zeyl. 267 Galumpita Bl. loc. cit. 73. 



(Sponia). — Seem. Voy. Herald, Bot. i. 413 ; Fl. ' Shorter than in Gironniera. 



