TJLMACEM. 191 



style branches free to base elongate stigmatose-plnmose. Fruit 

 drupaceous minute, clothed at base with persistent calyx, generally 

 crowned with plumose emarcid style ; putamen rugose or pitted. 

 Seed nearly of Celtis ; albumen slightly fleshy ; cotyledons of curved 

 embryo scarcely or not at all corrugate. — Unarmed trees ; leaves 

 alternate (evergreen), 3-plinerved, often tomentose; stipules free; 

 flowers^ in axillary cymes, 1- or 2-sexual. {^All warm regions?) 



8 ? Farasponia Miq.^ — Flowers polygamo-dioecious (nearly of 

 Trema or Celtis) ; sepals 5, imbricate, persistent around fruit. 

 Stamens" gynsecium and other characters of Trema. Fruit, dru- 

 paceous, crowned with plumose stigmata ; cotyledons of curved 

 embryo linear acnumbent.* — Trees or shrubs;^ leaves 2-stichous, 

 3-plinerved ; stipules intra-axillary, united in one 2-carinate, 2-fid ; 

 flowers axillary cymose.® {Indian Archipelago, Pacific Islands.'') 



9. Aphananthe Pl.* — Flowers (nearly of Celtis) monoecious ; 

 sepals 4-6, imbricate, more or less persistent under fruit indurate, 

 not accrescent. Stamens 4-6, inserted under rudiment of gyneecium 

 (in female flower rudimentary or 0) ; filaments straight or scarcely 

 incurved in the bud ; anthers introrse oscillating, 2-rimose. Germen 

 and ovulum of Trema (or Celtis) ; style afterwards 2-fld ; branches 

 subulate, longer than the germen,^ velutinous within. Fruit dru- 

 paceous, sparsely fleshy; putamen crustacepus, somewhat rugose 

 without ; seed amphitropous ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo 

 spirally convolute; radicle superior somewhat incurved. — Unarmed 

 (evergreen) trees; leaves 2-stichous, unequal at base, entire or 



1 Minute, greenish cr yellowish. Vit. 235 (JSponia.) — Solms, Schteeiiif. ^thiop 



' Spec, about 25. Burm. Jmer. Icon. 206, 192 (Sponia). 

 fig. 2 {Mmitini/ia).- — Sloane, Jam. ii. 80 {Loti ^ In. Plant. Jimphun. 68 ; Anal. Bot. Ind. 31. 



arbor...). — Plum. Gen. 41 (JUuntingia). — L. — Pl. P/-o<Zr. xvii. 194. 

 Spec. 280 ; Amcen. v. 395 {fihamnua) ; Fl. * " Not condupUcate." 



zeiil. n% {Celtis). — Sw. Prarfr. 33; M.Ind.-Occ. * Inconspicuous minute. 



157 (Celtis).— Voi^. Diet Suppl. iii, 689 {Celtis). ^ A genus very near to Trema, but sufficiently 



W. Spec. iv. 996 {Celtis). — H. B. K. Nov. distinct by the plane imbricate aestivation of 



Gen. et Spec. ii. {Celtis) — RoxB. Fl. Ind. ii. the male flower and intra-axillary concrescent 



66 {Celtis).— Ad. Bk. Superr. Voy. Bot. 212, t. stipules Pl. 



47, 216 {Celtis). — Bl. Bijdr. 486 (^Celtis).— ' Spec. 2. Pl. Ann. So. Nat. ser. 3, x. 336 



SoHTJM. et Thonn. Besler. 160 {Sponia). — {Sponia anom.) — Bl. Mm. Lugd.-Bat. ii. 65, t. 



Blanco, Fl. de Filip. ed. 2, 139 {Celtis). — 36.— Seem. Bonplandia (1861), 259 {Sponia). — 



HocHST. Flora (1845), 87 {Sponia).— y^mwi, MiQ. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 218, 1. 16. 



Icon. t. 1971 . {Sponia). — Benth. Fl. Songk. 8 _4^nn. So. Nat. ser. 3, x. 2C5 ; Prodr. xvii. 



324 {Sponia.) MiQ. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 265. — Romaiceltis'&jj. Mm. Liigd.-Bat.a.6i. — 



215 {Sponia). — Thw. Emim. Pl. Zeyl. "iXil, GaVumpita Bl. loc. cit. 73. 

 {Sponia). — Seek. Voy. Serald, Bot. i, 413 ; Fl. ' Shorter than in Gironniera. 



