N. 0. URTIOACEiE. 1179 



yellowish-grey, moderately hard, no heartwood. Young shoots 

 and inflorescence pubescent, otherwise mostly glabrous. Leaves 

 elliptic, entire, those of the seedlings and coppice-shoots usually 

 serrate ; blade 3-5 ; petiole i-iin. long ; secondary nerves 5-7 pair. 

 Flowers in short lateral, often compound corymbs. Male and 

 female flowers mixed; perianth cleft nearly to the base; segments 

 5, hairy. Male flowers : — Stamens 8 ; anthers hairy, no rudiment 

 of ovary. Hermaphrodite flowers : — Stamens 5 ; ovary compress- 

 ed, 1-celled, stalked ; the stalk lengthening as the seed ripens, 

 sometimes with the remains of the calyx at its base. Samara 

 nearly orbicular, 1 inch diam., on a long slender or obliquely 

 elliptic, glabrous or pubescent stalk. Wings membranous or 

 chartaceous ; tip 2-fid, lobes incurved. 



Uses: — The tree has a mucilaginous bark, which is boiled, 

 and the juice squeezed out and applied to rheumatic swellings, 

 the exhausted bark is then powdered and applied over the parts 

 covered by the sticky juice. (Pharmacogr. Ind. III. 318). 



1167. Celtis australis, Linn., h.f.b.l, v. 482. 



Vern. :— Batkar, brimdu, brimla, bigni, bingu, kharg, (Pb ) ; 

 Tughar (Pushtu). 



Habitat :— The Salt Range and Temperate Himalaya from 

 Murree to Nepal. 



A middle-sized, deciduous tree. Bark bluish-grey, smooth, 

 with horizontal wrinkles. Wood grey or yellowish-grey, with 

 irregular streaks of dark colour, hard Branchlets slender, 

 pendulous ; branchlets, petioles and young leaves glabrous 

 or hairy. Leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, base very 

 oblique, sharply serrate, sometimes entire ; blade 3-5 ; petiole 

 Jin. long ; the lateral basal nerves extending beyond the 

 middle, but not to the tip of the leaf. Flowers with or before 

 the leaves. Male flowers in axillary tufts, or racemed on short, 

 leafless, axillary branchlets ; pedicels capillary. Sepals oblong, 

 obtuse, marginally woolly. Female or bi-sexual flowers 

 rather larger than the male. Ovary ovoid, woolly at the base all 

 over. Drupe very variable in size and shape ; J-Jin. long. 

 (Brandis.) 



