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broad-cordate, cuspidate : flowers few, axillary, sessile, tetrandrous : 

 calyx fringed with long bristly hairs: fruit ovate, furrowed or 

 broadly 4-winged. , 



Quilon in Travancore. ' 



ORDER CXLIII. ULMACEiE. 



Trees or shrubs : leaves alternate, simple, serrate, slightly- 

 scabrous : flowers lateral in the branchlets, fascicled, sessile, 

 hermaphrodite or seldom polygamous by abortion: perianth 

 free, turbinate-campanulate, limb erect, 4-5 — seldom 8 — cleft, 

 lobes imbricated in estivation: stamens inserted at the base 

 of the calyx, equal to the sepals in number and opposite, 

 seldom more: filaments filiform, free: anthers introrse, 2- 

 celled, afiixed by the back : cells obliquely opposite, dehiscing 

 lengthwise : ovary free, composed of 2 carpels, margins of the 

 latter inflexed, constituting a 2-celled dissepiment: ovules 

 solitary in the cells, attached near the apex, or in a 1 -celled 

 ovary hanging to the top of the cavity, anatropal : styles two, 

 continuous to the carpels, divaricately spreading, stigmatose 

 witMn nearly their whole length : fruit surrounded at the base 

 by the persistent perianth, membranaceous, samaroid, or coria- 

 ceous, smooth or scaly, 1 -celled by abortion, 1 -seeded: seed 

 pendulous : testa membranaceous : albumen none : embryo 

 orthotropal : radicle short. 



GENUS I. HOLOPETALA. 



Polyeramla SIoniKi^iia. Sex: Syst; 



Derio. From Solos all, entire, and Petalon a petal. 



Gen. Chae. Calyx 4 — 8-parted, hairy : stamens 7 — 9, scarcely 

 longer than the calyx : ovary pedicelled, oval compressed : styles 

 two, nearly as long as the ovary: fruit compressed, winged all 

 round. 



(1) H. rtriEGEiFOLiA. f Planch. J 

 Ident. Planch. Ann. des Scien. Wat. T. III. v. 10. 

 Si/n. TJlmuB integrifoUa, Roxh.flor. Ind. II. p. 68. 

 Engrcm. "Wight's Icon. t. 1968.— Eoxb. Cor. 1. 1, 78. 

 Spec. Chae. Large tree: leaves alternate, short-petioled, ovate,. 



