192 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



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

 subtree, 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. 1 ) 



10. Chsetacme Pl. 2 — 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 aestivation 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, 3 unarmed or armed with 

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

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

 ceous penninervecl, 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. 4 (South Africa}) 



11. Ampelocera Kl. 6 — Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamo- 

 monœcious; 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 ; laciniaa 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. i. KiEMPF. Amœu. Exot. 799 (Muk- 4 "A genua very near Aphananthe, differing 

 vo .ti). — Thunb. Fl. Jup. 201 (Primus). — Sieh. chiefly in its induplieate valvate calyx at œsti- 

 et Zucc. in Abhandl. Munch. Akad. iii. 223 vation " (Pl.), otherwise in hahit, loaves and 

 (Sponia). — Sieb. Sijnops. 28 (Celtis). — Bh.JSijdr. spines rcsemhling the Celmtrincœ, and also some 

 599 (Cyclnstemon). — Miq. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. Bixacecc and Cratagut. 



224 (Galumpita). 5 Spec. 1. C. aiistata Pl. he. cit. — Harv. 



2 Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 3, x. 340 ; Frodr. xvii. This. Cap. 16, t. 25.— Celtis aristata E. Mey. — 

 209. C. appcndiculata E. Mey. — C. subdentata E, Mey. 



* " With habit of Bumclia or Madura " Herb, 

 closely connecting the Ulmeœ with this and " Zinntea, xx. 541, 



other Morcœ.) 



