Solenostigma. | URTICACER. 47) 
SOLENOSTIGMA, Endl. 
Flowers polygamous. Males: perianth 5-parted. Stamens 5, 
opposite the perianth-segments. Ovary rudimentary. Females: 
perianth as in the males but imbricate in the bud, deciduous. 
Stigmas dilated-notched or 2-lobed at the apex, persistent. Fruit 
adrupe. Albumen scanty ; cotyledons folded.—Evergreen trees, 
with 3-nerved entire leaves. Flowers in panicles or cymes. 
1. S. Wichtii, Bl., (Ce/tis Wightii, Planch. ; Bedd. Sylv. Madr., 
218).—An evergreen tree (30—40 + 10—20 + 23—3), all parts glab- 
rous or the young shoots puberulous; leaves oblong to elliptically 
lanceolate, on a glabrous petiole 3-4 lin. long, rounded or acute at 
the base, bluntish acuminate, entire (or while young occasionally re- 
motely serrate), chartaceous, 4-6 in. long, quite glabrous and green, 
8-nerved, the 2 lateral nerves excurrent to the very point or con- 
fluent with the upper lateral nerves, with a thin but prominent 
net-veination between ; flowers yellowish, almost sessile or shortly 
edicelled, forming peduncled, often 2-cleft, slightly and minutely 
. 
_ pubescent cymes m the axils of the leaves of the young shoots ; 
drupes ovate, glabrous, the size of a pea, terminated by the dilated 
short styles. 
Has.—Tropical forests of the Andamans.—Fr. Apr.-May.—s.—S8.= 
Metam. 
CELTIS, Tournef. 
ypogynous ; 
filaments usually spreading elastically, Ovary rudimentary, sur- 
nate. Drupe fleshy, ovate to ovoid.—Trees or shrubs, with 3-nerved 
leaves. Flowers in cymes or racemes, arising from the axils of the 
* Fruiting peduncles solitary or by 2-3 from the leaf-axils, 
. C. mollis. 
. . , . C. Hamiltonii, 
As Heeding, but crenatures more rounded, the leaves brownish 
. C. tetrandra. 
¢ branched. A 
Leaves glabrous, remote serrulate; fruiting peduncles forming ; 
a tomentose, loose poor cyme in the axils of the leaves . C. cinnamomea, ~ 
