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Male flowers densely packed within an “weeps — in- 
volucre expanding afterwards ; fruit drupace - Antiaris. 
:¢) : ilam ents be mya 
in dente heads $ or spi sth 
Ovary shortly adkel: cwixte simple; the fem Llercapist oe 
with scale-like sterile flowers ; 4 = eal § 3; fruits sap - Broussonetia, 
ss —* 2-celled; styles 2 cale-like aha got 
watery ; perianth in frui aance s . Morus. 
xX X Fem are Raat = soley 0 or in poor racemes. 
Perianth antire, enclosing the fruit, fleshy - Balanostreblus. 
Perianth ed, in fruit aed, fle ai ‘ ‘ * : « Streblus, 
As former, but bsg in fruit leafy . - Taxotrophis. 
* * 
tyle simple or styles 2 ; ovule solitary, suspended; n no 
pos umen — leaves alternate; fruit a drupe or samara 
rubs. 
O hcthes testers: filaments inflexed in bud; fruit a 
Perianth Sepa ; stigmas 2, persistent, linear, bie: ie connate 
-sddoce vergreen trees, with peneipenred, or at base 3-7- 
7d lea ponia. 
Pevianth — st igmas 2, persistent, at apex _Ailated-emargi- 
-lobed ; evergreen trees with 3-nerved lea . Solenostigma. 
Pevanth deciduous paeme simple, filiform, dssidaahd s ; decidu- 
r shrubs with 3-nerved leaves . Celtis. 
thers erecta} fruit a samara ; leaves penni- 
nery 
Filaments straight in bud; perianth marcescent or caducous . Ulmus. 
LAPORTEA, Gaud. 
bt dioecious or cavern ray Sp isan 4- or 5- 
shrubs, sometimes shrubs or trees, with alternate, simple, entire or 
toothed leaves, Stipules deciduous, axillary, Q-cleft or entire. 
Flowers minute, often without bracts, clustered, the clusters panicled. 
1. L. crenulata, Gad; Bedd. Sylv. Madr., t. 306.—Phet-ya- 
Beano evergreen, erect-branched, dioecious shrub or little 
tree 9-12 ft, high, HEE glabrous; bark smooth, ash-coloured, 
armed with stinging hairs; leaves ovate-oblong to o ong, }-1} 
ft. long, sinuate or rounded at the unequal base, on a strong glab- 
Tous petiole 14-4 in. long, apiculate, membranous, obsoletely waved- 
Crenate towards the apex or entirely entire, glabrous or sparingly 
stingin ging-hispid along the midrib beneath, the nerves arcuate, about 
12-16 on each side ; flowers minute, green, shortly pedicelled, form- 
ing lax, stinging-hispid, cymose panicles in the axils of the leaves ; 
