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sometimes cordate, entire, smooth, shining : stipules lanceolate : 

 flowers polygamous : male and bisexual mixed in cymes along the 

 naked branches: capsule orbicular, leafy, compressed, emarginate, 

 1 — 2-celled, iudehiscent. 



Ciroar Mountains. Hurdwar Conoans. Ghauts near Arcot. 

 Flowering in the cold season. 



(2) H. tANCiEOLiA. (Roxb.) 

 Ident. Eoxb. 1. c. p. 66 (under TJlmus.) 



Spec. Chae. Lslrge tree : leaves obliquely lanceolate, equally 

 and obtusely serrulate, obtusely acuminate : flowers numerous, small, 

 long-pediceUed, fascicled ia the lower axils, hexandrous : capsules 

 unequally obcordate, scariose, very thin, winged. 



Chittagong Tfills, flowering in March. 



GENUS II. CELTIS. 

 Polygfamia lllonaeoia. Sex: SyU 

 Deriv. One of the ancient names given to the Lotus. 



Gen. Chae. Flowers polygamous, hermaphrodite or males by 

 abortion of the ovary : perianth 5-leaved, , persistent, leaflets equal, 

 concave, imbricated in aestivation : stamens five : filaments incurved 

 at the apex, at length straightish : anthers introrse, 2-ceIled, 

 cordate-acuminate, fixed by the back : ovary ovate, 1 -celled': ovule 

 one, amphitropal : stigmas two, terminal, long acuminate, spreading 

 or recurved, glandular pubescent : drupe fleshy, smooth : seed pen- 

 dulous, arched. — Trees : leaves alternate, serrated : flowers axiUary, 

 solitary, pedicelled. 



(1) C. EOXBinBaHii. (Planch.) 



Ident. Planch. Ann. soc. nat. 8. III. p. 302 — Dalz. Bomb. flor. 

 p. 237. 



Syn. C. trinervia, Roxb. flor. Ind. II. p. 65. 



Spec. Chae. SmaU tree : leaves obliquely ovate-cordate, acumi- 

 nate, glabrous, 3-nerved : flowers pentandrous ; male ones from the 

 base of the yoimg shoots or solitary under the bisexual ones : bi- 

 sexual flowers on slender, villous, axillary racemes. 



Common on the Ghauts. 



(2) C. wiGHin. (Flomoh.) 



Ident. Planch. 1. c. p. 307. 



Engram. "Wight's Icon. t. 1969. 



Spec. Chae. Leaves oblong, abruptly acuminate, somewhat 



