Uimus.} URTICACER. 473 
ULMUS, Tournef. 
Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous, cymose. Perianth bell- 
shaped, 3-8-parted, marcescent or deciduous. Stamens as many 
or nearly twice as many as perianth-segments; filaments erect ; 
anthers small. Fruit a winged samara, 1- or occasionally 2-celled, 
with the second cell smaller and empty. Seed ovate, compressed, 
anatrop or nearly so. Embryo straight. Albumen none.—Trees 
or shrubs, with entire or serrate leaves. Flowers minute, in small 
cymes along the leafless branchlets. 
Leaves entire ; perianth-segments deciduous : : e . U. integrifolia. 
Leayes serrulate ; perianth bell-shaped, marcescent-persistent . U. lancifolia. 
Has.—Not unfrequent along choungs in the dry forests of Prome, rather 
rare in the upper mixed forests of the eastern slopes of the Pegu Yomah and 
a Martaban, east of Tounghoo.—Fl. March; Fr. Apr.—l—SS.=CaS., Metam., 
Remarxs.—Wood white or pale-coloured, turning pale brown, rather heavy, 
Coarse-fibrous, but rather close-grained, strong, takes fine polish, the sap-wood 
Soon attacked by xylophages. Good for carts, etc. 
2. U. lancifolia, Roxb.—TZha-lai.—A tree (70—80+40—50 
+6—8), usually shedding leaves at the beginning of H.S., the 
long, bluntish acuminate, elegantly serrulate, while young thin- 
: us, with thin nervature, adult rigidly chartaceous, with 
the nerves and net-veination prominent beneath ; flowers hermaphro- 
dite, on puberulous pedicels up to 4 in. long, forming a shortened 
