VLMACE^. 189 



2-stichous, sometimes spinescent; leaves i alternate, 2-Btichous, 

 crenato-serrate and other characters of Planera ; buds perulate ; 

 flowers ' coetaneoTis ; the male in crowded cymes ; the female few 

 or solitary axillary.^ {Crete, Caucasian region, temp, east Asia, 

 north. China.'^) 



5. Celtis T.® — Flowers polygamo-moncecious, 2-morphous. Se- 

 pals 5, or rarely 4, much imbricated, in female or hermaphrodite 

 flower deciduous. Stamens same in number opposite ; filaments 

 free (longer in male flower), incurved in aestivation and more or less 

 clearly elastically dissilient and at anthesis rigidly divergent; 

 anthers introrse, before anthesis connivent in centre of flower ; 

 ceils sometimes swollen at base, longitudinally rimose. Germen 

 (in male flower rudimentary or 0) girt at base with pilose annular 

 disk, 1-locular; style branches 2, thickly subulate wide recurved, 

 entire or at apex emarginate or dilately 2-lobed {Solenostigma ®) ; lobes 

 linear (Momisia'') or sometimes {Momisiopsis^) 2-fid, densely stig- 

 matose within ; ovule inserted under apex of cell descending 

 amphitropous ; micropyle extrorsely superior. Fruit drupaceous 

 naked, oftener globose; flesh generally scanty; putamen more or 

 less rugose, 1-spermous. Seed descending amphitropous ; coat thin ; 

 cotyledons of much incurved embryo foliaceous wide unequally 

 conduplicate cucuUately replicate and corrugate; one enfolding 

 the other, enclosing the incumbent and ascending radicle ; albu- 

 men slight between the folds of the cotyledons mucous or 0. — 

 Trees or shrubs, unarmed or spinous; leaves alternate, 2-stichous, 

 persistent or caducous in winter, oftener unequal-sided at base, 

 entire or dentate, 3-plinerved; stipules free; flowers^ axillary 



1 Nearly of Carpinm, caducous or deciduous. — SofecKUHE. Mandb. t. 354. — Lamk. Diet. iv. 136 



' Small, inconspicuouB. (part.) ; Suppl. iii. 688 ; III. t. 844. — ^Nees, Gen. 



' Agenus hence between Ulmiis ani. Flanera, ii. 35. — Spach, Suit. & Suffon, xi. 122. — Endl. 



thence between Celtis. Gen. n. 1851. — Payer, Fmn. Nat. 168. — Pl. 



■• Spec. 4. Bauk. Pinax. 373 ^Pseudo-San- Ann. Sc. Nat. eer. 3, x. 262 ; Frodr. xvii, 168 



talrnn. — ^Lamk. Diet. i. 726, {fiuercus). — Smith, (inol. : Mertenaia K. Momisia Dumoxt. Solcno- 



Tram, Linn. Soc. (1808), 126. — ^R(em. et Son. stigma Endl.) 



Syat. Ti. 304 {Planera).— Sistk. et Sm. Frodr. 6 Endl. Frodr. Fl. Norfolk. 41.— Bi. Mus. 



Fl. Graic. i. 172 {Cflmua). — Michx. p. Mem. sur Lttgd.Sat. ii. 67. — Pl. Frodr. 182. 



le Zelkova (1831). — Lindl. Gardn. Chron. ' Dxjmokt. Anal. Fam. 17. — Mertensia H. B. 



(1861), 428 {Flanera). — Mia. Ann. Mus. Lugd.- K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. ii. 3, t. 103. — Endl. Gen. 



Bat. iii. 66 {Planera). — Hance, Seem. Journ. n. 1853. — Pl. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, x. 264 ; 



vi. 333 {Planera). Frodr. 186. 



5 Inst. 612, t. 383.— L. Gen. n. 1143 (part.)— * Bl. Mus. Imgd.-Bat. ii, 69. 



J. Gen.'iOS (part.) — Gjkktn. Fruct, i. 374, t. 77. ' Greenish or yellowish. 



