50G XCIX. ULMAOEiE [Celt is 



A middle-sized deciduous tree, bark smooth , bluisli-grey, often with hori- 

 zontal wrinkles, branchlets, petioles and young 1. glabrous or hairy. L. ovate 

 to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, base very oblique, sharply seri^ate, sometimes 

 entire, blade 3-5, pet. \ in. long, the lateral basal n. extending beyond the 

 middle but not to the tip of the leaf. PL with or before the 1. Drupe \-\ in. 

 long. Two distinct varieties, a. fr. large purplish-black nearly -| in. long (/ift, 

 Nachar), /?. fr. yellow or red \-\ in. long (Tlku, pjakit, JSTachar). 



Baluchistan. ^ Suleiman range. Salt range. North-West Himalaya, from the foot 

 to 8,500 ft. Often planted, also in the plains of the Punjab. ¥1. March-May. 

 Pollarded for cattle fodder. — Western Asia. Mediterranean region. C. eriocarpa, Dene, 

 has pubescent di-upes. 2. C. tetrandra, Eoxb. — Syn. C. serotma, Planch. ; Wight 

 le. 1. 1970; 0. trinei^via, Bjoxb. ] Bedd. PI. Sylv. t. 312 ; C. Hamiltonii, 'PlB^nch. Oudh. 

 Nepal. Sikkim from foot of hills to 5,000 ft. Behar. Central Prov. (Majni). Oxissa. 

 Northern Circai's and hills of the Eastern Deccan. Western G-hats. Garo and Khasi 

 hills. Chittagong. Manipur. Burma, Upper ( ^/^^ipd^) and Lower. Nearly allied to 

 1, 1. often entire in the lower half, sepals usually 4. C. mollis, Wall., a softly pubescent 

 form in Upper Burma. 



(h) Pertile fl. in axillary dichotonious panicles. 



3. C. cinnamomea, Lindl. Sikkim, lower hills to 8,000 ft. Chittagong. Pegu. 

 Martaban, Konkan. Ceylon, moist region, con.mon, the wood when fresh cut smells 

 badly. Branchlets usually tawny-pubescent, 3. long-acuminate, remotely and often 

 indistinctly crenate, tert. n. and veins obscure, sepals usually 5. 



B. Leaves almost entire, base equal-sided. $ and fertile fl. in axillary 

 diehotomous panicles. 



4. C. Wi^htii, Planch. ; Wight Ic. t. 1969. — Syn. ^olenostigma Wightii, Miq. Hills 

 of the Northern Circars, the I)eccan and Mysore. Nilgiris. Tinnevelli. Andamans 

 (Kurz). — Ceylon. Thella-KaJca-Miishti, Tel. ; Hadawa^ Nilg. A small or middle-sized 

 evergreen tree, 1, rigidly coriaceous, entire or very sparsely crenate-serrate, blade 2-6,. 

 pet. -I— i in. long, young foliage pink, panicles usually twice the length of petiole, fr. 

 scarlet, J- J in. long. 



4 GIRONNIERA, Gaud. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 485. 



Evergreen trees or shrubs, 1. coriaceous, penninerved, entire or serrulate at 

 the tip, sec. n. impressed on the upper and very px'ominent on the underside. 

 PL dioecious. $ : Sepals 5, broad, obtuse, imbricate, stamens 5, erect 

 in bud, pistillode woolly. ? : Sepals narrow, acute, ovary sessile, style 

 central, arms 2, filiform, ovule pendulous. Drupe usually 2-keeled, endocarp 

 hard, embryo contorted. Species 8-10, Indo-Malayan region, China. 



1. G. su"bse<iiialis, Planch. — Syn. G, nervosa^ Planch., var. suhcBqualis, Kurz P. PI. ii. 470. 

 Andamans, Tenasserim. — Ceylon. Malay Penins. and Archip. China. A middle- 

 sized tree, branchlets, stipules, petioles, underside of 1. and cymes stx^igose with long 

 hairs, 1. elliptic, acuminate, rough beneath, blade 5-8, pet. J-J in., tert. n. often promi- 

 nent, veins strongly reticulate. 6 cymes 1-3 in. long. $ fl. solitary or a few together. 

 Drupe ellipsoid, J-J in. long, compressed, minutely hispid. 2. G. reticulata, Thw. ; Bedd. 

 PI. Sylv. t. 313.— Syn. G. cuspidata, Kurz P. PL ii. 470, Sikkim, outer hills to 4,000 ft, 

 Khasi and Naga hills. Upper Burma. Easteim slopes of the Pegu Yoma (Kurz). 

 Evergreen forests of the Western Ghats from North Kanara southwards. Kans of 

 Sorub, Mysore (D.B. 1868). — Ceylon. Java. A tall tree, stems buttressed. Youngest 

 shoots minutely strigose, otherwise glabrous. L. elliptic- or ovate-lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, veins minutely and elegantly reticulate. Drupes glabrous, |-| in. long. 3. G. 

 lucida, Kurz. Andamans. A middle-sized tree, quite glabrous. L. shining on both 

 surfaces, rigidly coriaceous, entire, sec. n. arching, tert. n. and veins obscure. 



5. TREMA, Lour. ; PI. Brit, Ind. v. 483. 



Shrubs or trees, 1. serrate, basal nerves 3-7, stipules lateral, free, deciduous. 

 PL unisexual and bisexual, in small axillary cymes, sepals 4-5 induplicate- 

 valvate. <J : Stamens 4-5, erect in bud, pistillode small glabrous. Drupe 

 supported by the persistent sepals, endocarp hard. Albumen fleshy, embryo 

 curved cotyledons narrow. Species 20-30 tropical and subtropical. 



