192 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



widely serrate, penninerved or S-plinerved at base ; stipules rarely- 

 subfree, oftener growing into one, intra-axillary not enfolding, 

 caducous ; male flowers cymose in lower part of the branches ; 1 or 

 a few female sometimes intermixed; females solitary in axils of 

 upper leaves. [Trop. Asia, Indian Archipelago, Australia}) 



10. Chsetacme Pl.^ — Flowers monoecious (nearly of Celtis); 

 sepals 6, induplicate-valvate, marcescent under fruit. Stamens 6, 

 inserted under thin pilose disk ; filaments erect subulate in bud ; 

 anthers at aestivation 2-rimose introrse, not inverted ; cells at base 

 shortly 2-saccate, longitudinally dehiscent. Germen (in male flower 

 rudimentary) girt at base with pilose disk, 1-ovulate ; style branches 

 2, filiform elongate densely papillose-stigmatose. Fruit drupaceous 

 (juiceless ?) ; seed... ? — An evergreen tree,^ unarmed or armed with 

 axillary spines (abortive branches); leaves distichous elongate, at 

 apex often setiform mucronulate, entire or spinously dentate, coria- 

 ceous penninerved, finally glabrous ; petiole short ; stipules connate 

 in one wide intra-axillary enfolding the convolute leaf-bud, cadu- 

 cous ; male flowers cymose springing either from naked base of new 

 branches, or from perulate leaf-buds ; female flowers solitary in 

 axils of upper leaves ; pedicels 1-2-bracteolate.* (South Africa}') 



11. Ampelocera Kl.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamo- 

 monoecious; calyx gamophyllous cup-shaped, unequally 5-fid, 

 imbricate. Stamens 10-15 ; filaments connate at base with perianth 

 filiform, long exserted (sometimes short in female flower) ; anthers 

 ovately oblong apiculate, introrse, 2-rimose. Germen (in male 

 flower rudimentary or 0) free, unequally ovate, 1-locular; style 

 erect, afterwards 2-partite ; lacinise elongately subulate divaricate, 

 papillose within. Ovule 1, inserted under apex of cell peritropous 

 descending; micropyle superior, protected by small obturator. 

 Fruit baccate compressed-ovate ; embryo of descending seed . . . ? 



1 Spec. 4. KzEMPr. Amain. ISxot. 799 fjiuk- ^ "A genus very near ^jo/ianani/j«, differing 

 «o-«j).— Thdnb. Fl. Jap. 201 {Pruims).—Smii. chiefly in its induplicate valvate calyx at jesti- 

 et Ztjcc. in Abhandl. Miinch. Akad. iii. 223 vation " (Pl.), otherwise in habit, leaves and 

 (5po»m).— SiEB. Synopi. 28 (C««2«).— Bl. SijAr. spines resembling the Celastrinca, and also some 

 599 {Gyelostemon).—M.iQ,. M. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. Bixaeea: and Crat(egm. 



224 {Galumpita). s gpec. 1. C. aristata Pl. loe. ««.— Hahv 



2 Am. Sc. Nat. sir. 3, x. 340; Prodr. xvii. Thes. Cap. 16, t. 25.-CeltU anstata-&. Met.— 

 ^OS- C appendiculata E. Met.— C. subdentata E. Met. 



' " With habit of BvmoUa or Madura " Herb, 

 closely connecting the TJlmea with this and ^ Linnaa, xx. 541. 

 other MorecB.) 



