728 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
Variety. Brotero, in his Flora Lusitanica, mentions a variety with variegated 
leaves, that was found wild in Portugal. 
The tree grows rapidly, more especially when once established, and after- 
wards cut down; sometimes producing shoots, in the climate of London, 
6 or 8feet in length. It bears pruning remarkably well, at every age. Its 
leaves are very seldom touched by insects, either on the Continent or in 
England ; and the Céssus Lignipérda and Scélytus destractor, which are so 
injurious to the timber of many other trees, never touch either that of Céltis, 
that of Planera Richardi, or that of Pyrus Sérbus. 
¥ 2.C. (a.) cauca’sica Willd. The Caucasian Celtis, or Nettle Tree. 
Identification. Willd. Sp. Pl., 4. p.994.; Poiret in Encycl. Suppl., 3. p. 
688.; Roem. et Schult Syst. Veg., 6. p. 305. 
Engraving. Our fig. 1407. from a specimen in Sir W. J. Hooker’s her- 
barium. 
Spec. Char., §&c. Leaves oblong, acuminate, serrate with 
large teeth, a little narrowed at the base and almost equal 
there; above, deep green; beneath, pale yellowish ; and 
the veins, when seen under a lens, alittle hairy. ( Willd.) 
Atree. Caucasus. Height 30ft. to 40ft. Introduced ' 
in ? 1800. Flowers greenish; June. Fruit globose, reddish. 
This is very closely akin to C. australis; but it differs 
in its leaves being more ovate, having the acuminate part ) 
shorter, and being glabrous. 1407. C. (a.) caucisica. 
¥ & 3. C. Tournero’rtrzt Lam. Tournefort’s Celtis, or Nettle Tree. 
Identification. Lam. Encycl., 4. p. 132.; Willd. Sp. Pl., 4. p. 994.; N. Du Ham., 2. p. 38. 
Synonymes. C. orientalis minor, foliis minoribus et crassioribus, fructu flavo, Towrn. Cor. 42.3; C. 
orientalis Ml. Dict. No. 3., but, according to the Nouveau Du Hamel, not of Lin., which is 
1408. C. Tournefértii. 
considered a half-hardy plant in Britain ; Micocoulier du Levant, Micocoulier d@’Orient, Fr. ; 
Morgenlandischer Zungelbaum, Ger. 
ee et Tourn. Itin., t. 41.3 the plate of this tree in Arb. Brit., Ist edit., vol. vii.; and our 
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