596 XCIX. ULMACEiE [Celtis 



A middle-sized deciduous tree, bark smooth, bluish-grey, often with, hori- 

 zontal wrinkles, branchlets, petioles and young 1. glabrous or hairy. L. ovate 

 to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, base very oblique, sharply serrate, sometimes 

 entire, blade 3-5, pet. h in. long, the lateral basal n. extending beyond the 

 middle but not to the tip of the leaf. Fl. with or before the 1. Drupe {-\ in. 

 long. Two distinct varieties, a. fr. large purplish-black nearly h in. long (Ku r 

 Xachar), /3. fr. yellow or red ^-| in. long (Tikzi, pjdHu, Nachar). 



Baluchistan. Suleiman range. Salt range. North- West Himalaya, from the foot 

 to 8,500 ft. Often planted, also in the plains of the Punjab. Fl. March-May. 

 Pollarded for cattle fodder. — Western Asia. Mediterranean region. C. eriocarpa, Dene, 

 has pubescent drupes. 2. C. tetrandra, Poxb. — Syn. C: serotina, Planch. ; " Wight 

 Ic. 1. 1970; C. trinervia, Roxb. ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 312 ; 0. Hamiltonii, Planch. Oudh. 

 Nepal. Sikkim from foot of hills to 5,000 ft. Behar. Central Prov. (Majni). Orissa. 

 Northern Circars and hills of the Eastern Deccan. Western Ghats. Garo and Khasi 

 hills. Chittagong. Manipiir. Burma, Upper ( Tli itpok) and Lower. Nearly allied to 

 1, 1. often entire in the lower half, sepals usually 4. C. mollis, Wall., a softly pubescent 

 form in Upper Burma. 



(b) Fertile fl. in axillary dichotomous panicles. 



3. C. cinnamomea, Lindl. Sikkim, lower hills to 3,0C0 ft. Chittagong. Pegu. 

 Martaban, Konkan. Ceylon, moist region, common, the wood when fresh cut smells 

 badly. Branchlets usually tawny-pubescent, ]. long-acuminate, remotely and often 

 indistinctly crenate, tert. n. and veins obscure, sepals usually 5. 



B. Leaves almost entire, base equal-sided. $ and fertile fl. in axillary 

 dichotomous panicles. 



4. C. Wightii, Planch. ; Wight Ic. t. 1969. — Syn. Solenostigma Wightii, Miq. Hills 

 of the Northern Circars, the Deccan and Mysore. Nilgiris. Tinnevelli. Andamans 

 (Kurz). — Ceylon. Thella-Kaka-Mushti, Tel. : Hadawa, Nilg. A small or middle-sized 

 evergreen tree, 1. rigidly coriaceous, entire or very sparsely crenate-serrate, blade 2-6 T 

 pet. i-§ in. long, young foliage pink, panicles usually twice the length of petiole, fr. 

 scarlet, J-J in. long. 



4. GIRONNIERA, Gaud. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 485. 



Evergreen trees or shrubs, 1. coriaceous, penninerved, entire or serrulate at 

 the tip, sec. n. impressed on the upper and very prominent on the underside. 

 Fl. dioecious. $ : Sepals 5, broad,, obtuse, imbricate, stamens 5, erect 

 in bud, pistillode woolly. 5 : Sepals narrow, acute, ovary sessile, style 

 central, amis 2, filiform, ovule pendulous. Drupe usually 2-keeled, endocarp 

 hard, embryo contorted. Species 8-10, Indo-Malayan region, China. 



1. G. subsequalis, Planch. — Syn. (?. nervosa, Planch., var. svbmqualis, Kurz F. Fl. ii. 470. 

 Andamans, Tenasserim. — Ceylon. Malay Penins. and Archip. China. A middle- 

 sized tree, branchlets, stipules, petioles, underside of 1. and cymes strigose with long 

 hairs, 1. elliptic, acuminate, rough beneath, blade 5-8, pet. J-J in., tert. n. often promi- 

 nent, veins strongly reticulate. { cymes 1-3 in. long. 9 fl. solitary or a few together. 

 Drupe ellipsoid, §-i in. long, compressed, minutely hispid. 2. G. reticulata, Thw. ; Bedd. 

 Fl. Sylv. t. 313.— Syn. G. cuspidata, Kurz F. Fl. ii. 470, Sikkim, outer hills to 4,000 ft. 

 Khasi and Naga hills. Upper Burma. Eastern slopes of the Pegu Yoma (Kurz). 

 Evergreen forests of the Western Ghats from North Kanara southwards. Kans of 

 Sorub, Mysore (D.B. 1868). — Ceylon. Java. A tall tree, steins buttressed. Youngest 

 shoots minutely strigose, otherwise glabrous. L. elliptic- or ovate-lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, veins minutely and elegantly reticulate. Drupes glabrous, }-J in. long. 3. G. 

 lucida, Kurz. Andamans. A middle-sized tree, quite glabrous. L. shining on both 

 surfaces, rigidly coiiaccous, entire, sec. n. arching, tert. n. and veins obscure. 



5. TREMA, Lour. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 483. 



Shrubs or trees, 1. serrate, basal nerves 3-7, stipules lateral, free, deciduous. 

 Fl. unisexual and bisexual, in small axillary cymes, sepals 4-5 induplicate- 

 valvate. <$ : Stamens 4-5, erect in bud, pistillode small glabrous. Drupe 

 supported by the persistent sepals, endocarp hard. Albumen fleshy, embryo 

 curved cotyledons narrow. Species 20-30 tropical and subtropical. 



