Vhniis] 



XCIX. ULMACEiE 



595 



tlie periantli-tube lengthening out 

 after flowering into a short glabrous 

 pedicel, lobes 5 obtuse not ciliate, 

 ovary and styles densely woolly 

 with long hairs. Samara (unripe) 

 densely villouSj lanceolate, \ in. 

 long. 



North-West Himalaya 4-7,000 ft. Fl. 

 Febr., Marcli. Bipe seed ,not seen. 

 Colonel Barrett reports that in Hazara 

 the seed falls before ripening. 4. 17. 

 oampestris, Spaoh. Balnchistan. Kuram 

 valley, 7-9,000 ft. Indigenous in Central 

 and South Europe and Western Asia 

 (planted and naturalized, not indi- 

 genous in England). A large tree, bark 

 often corky, 1. rough, 2-3 in. long, seed 

 etbove the middle of the samara. 



5. XT. parvifolia, Jacquin. — Syn. U. 

 virgata, Eoxb. ; Wall. PI. As. Bar. t. 290. 

 Introduced from China into the Bot. 

 Garden Calcutta, possibly wild in Nubra 

 (North Kashmir), An evergreen shrub, 

 1. glabrous rigid, 1-2 in. long, S and 

 fertile fl. mixed, perianth 4-lobed. Samara with prominently reticulate veins. 



Fig. 185. — Ulmus villosa, Brandis. -1. 



2. HOLOPTELEA, Planch.; Fl. Brit Ind. v. 481. 



H. integrifolia, Planch, (the only species); Wight Ic. t. 1968.— Syn. 

 VImm integrifolia, Eoxb. Cor. PL t. 78; Bedd. PL Sylv. t. 310. Vern. 



Papri^ KanJiCj Hind.; KunJ, Bisenda, Oudh ; Karcmjij Karinga, C. P.; 

 Pgaukseikj Burm. 



WavuU, Papara, Mar.; Tapashi^ Tel. Kan.; Avali, Tam. ; Myaickseik, 



A large deciduous tree, young shoots and inflorescence pubescent^ otherwise 

 mostly glabrous. L, elliptic, entire, those of seedlings and Coppice shoots 

 usually serrate, blade 3-5, pet. |-| in. long, sec. n. 5-7 pair. M. in short 

 lateral often compound corymbs, $ and ? fl. mixed, perianth cleft nearly to 

 the base, segments 5, hairy. ^ : Stamens 8, anthers hairy, no rudiment of 

 ovary. § : Stamens 5, ovary comp3:essed, 1-celled, stalked, the stalk lengthening 

 as the seed ripens, sometimes with the remains of calyx at its base. Samara 

 nearly orbicular, 1 in. diam. on a long slender stalk. 



Subhimalayan tract, Kashmir to Nepal, ascending; to 2,000 ft. Ajmere, Bundel- 

 khand and Behar. Central Provinces. Berar and the Peninsula. Upper and Lower 

 Burma. Leaves shed between Sept. and January, fresh 1. soon after the fl., which com^ 

 out Febr., March. — Ceylon, Cochinchina. 



3. CELTIS, Linn. ; FL Brit. Ind. v. 481. 



Trees or shrubs, L triple-nerved. FL small, polygamous, solitary or cymose. 



Sepals 4*-5, imbricate, stamens 4-5, short, erect in bud. Ovary on a hairy 



d.isk, stigmas 2, sessile, deciduous. Drupe ovoid or globose, endoca,rp hard. 



Albumen or scanty, cotyledons oily, broad, surrounding the upcurved radicle. 



Species 50-GO, temperate and tropical. 



A. Leaves serrate or crenate, base uneQ[ual-sided, ,$ fl. fascicled in compact 

 dichotomous panicles. 



(a) Fertile fl. on long axillary peduncles, solitary or in pairs. 



L C. australis, Linn.; Brandis F.FL tab. 50.— Syn. C. caucasica, Willd, 

 Yern. Taghar, Pushtu; Batkar, Haz.; Khatikj Kharak^ K1m% ^W^ 

 Him^l. ; K% Kun. 



