Ulmus] 



XCIX. ULMACE.E 



595 



the perianth-tube lengthening out 

 after flowering into a short glabrous 

 pedicel, lobes 5 obtuse not ciliate, 

 ovary and styles densely woolly 

 with long hairs. Samara (unripe) 

 densely villous, lanceolate, h in. 

 long. 



North-West Himalaya 4-7,000 ft. PI. 

 Febr., March. Ripe seed ;not seen. 

 Colonel Barrett reports that in Hazara 

 the seed falls before ripening. 4. U. 

 campestris, Spach. Baluchistan. Kuram 

 valley, 7-9,000 ft. Indigenous in Central 

 and South Europe and Western Asia 

 (planted and naturalized, not indi- 

 genous in England). A large tree, bark 

 often corky, 1. rough, 2-3 in. long, seed 

 above the middle of the samara. 



5. U". parvifolia, Jacquin. — Svn. U. 

 virgala, Koxb. : Wall. PI. As. Bar" t. 290. 



[in r<»lu I frmii China into the Bot. 



Garden Calcutta, possibly wild in Nubra 

 (North Kashmir). An evergreen shrub, 

 I. glabrous rigid, 1-2 in. long, i and 

 fertile tl. mixed, perianth 4-lobed. Samara with prominently reticulate veins. 



Fio. 185. — Ulmus villosa, Brandis 



2. HOLOPTELEA, Planch.; Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 481. 



H. integnfolia, Planch, i the onlv species): Wight Ic. t. 1968. — Svn. 

 Vlmus integrtfolia, Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 78; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 310. Vera. 

 I'li/iri. Kanju, Hind.: Eunj, Bisenda, Oudh; Karanji, Karinga, (.'. P.; 

 WavuU, P<zoara, .Mar.: Tapassi, Tel. Kan.; Arali. Tam. ; Myaukseik, 

 Pyaukseik, Burm. 



A large deciduous tree, young shoots and inflorescence pubescent, otherwise 

 mostly glabrous. L. elliptic, entire, those of seedlings and coppice shoots 

 usually serrate, blade 3-5, pet. ^-i in. long, sec. n. 5-7 pair. Fl. in short 

 lateral often compound corymbs, <$ and $ fl. mixed, perianth cleft nearly to 

 the base, segments 5, hairy. <j : Stamens 8, anthers hairy, no rudiment of 

 ovary. "," : Stamens "i, ovary compressed, 1 -celled, stalked, the stalk lengthening 

 as the seed ripens, s >metimes with the remains of calyx at its base. Samara 

 nearly orbicular, 1 in. diam. on a long slender stalk. 



Subhimalayan tract, Kashmir to Nepal, ascending to •>. > ft. Ajm.-re, Bundel- 



khand and Behar. Central Provinces, Berar and the Peninsula. Upper and bower 

 Burma, Ceaves shed bel ween Sept. and January, fresh I. soon after the fl., which come 

 out Febr., March. — Ceylon, Cocbinchiua. 



3. CELTIS, I. inn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. v. -181. 



Trees or shrubs, 1. triple-nerved. Fl. small, polygamous, solitary or cymi se. 

 Sepals !-.">, imbricate, stamens l .">, short, erect in bud. Ovary on a hairy 

 disk, stigmas '_', sessile, deciduous. Drupe ovoid or globose, endodarp hard. 

 Albumen ' I or scanty, cotyledons oily, broad, surrounding the upcurved radicle. 



Species "it I IK I, temperate and tropical. 



\ Leaves serrate or crenate, base unepual-sided, £ r!. fascicled in compact 

 dichotomous panicles. 



a) Fertile fl. on long axillary peduncles, solitary or in pairs. 



I. C. australis, Linn.: Brandis F. Fl. tab. 50. Syn. C. caucasica, Willd. 

 \'ern. Taghar, Pushtu: Batkar, Ilaz. : Kharik, Kharak, Khirk, X.-W. 

 Hiinal. ; AYi, Kun. 



