Iloloptelca.'] 



81. URTTCACEiE. 



S21 



Flowors in unisexual heads. Anthers erect in bud. 

 iStyle undivided. Ovule erect, Climbing shrubs. 



Male and female heads cymose, or fern, solitary . 11. Conocephalus. 

 f'lowers unisexual. Htamons itiflexed in bud. Style 

 undivided or 0. Ovule erect, orthotropous. Trees 

 or shrubs with watery sa-p, 

 Hirubs with stinging hairs. 



Flowers cymose, 2-5-merous. Fruit an oblique 



flattened achene, nor included in the perianth . 12. Lapobtba. 

 Trees or shrubs without stinging hairs. 



Flowers in spiked racemed or panicled clusters. 

 Fruit a dry achene included in the crustaceous 



perianth... ... ... ... 13. BOEUMERIA, 



Flower clusters in small branched, hispid cymes. 

 Fruiting perianth fleshy including the free 



achene ... ... ... ... 14. Villbbrunea. 



Flowers in sessile, panicled or spikate clusters. 

 Achene at first cohering with the fleshy perianth 15. DEBREaEASiA* 



1. HOLOPTELEA, Planch. 



Tives. Leaves simple, alternate, uneqnal-sided ; stipules caducous. 

 Flowers bisexual, in lateral fascicles. Perianth cleft to the base 

 4-8-lobed ; lobes imbricate in bud. Stamens as many as perianth- 

 lobes. Ovary free, 1'2-celled ; styles 2, papillose on the inner surface ; 

 cells 1-ovuled. Fruit a samara^ surrounded by a reticulate, obcordate 

 wing ; pedicel articulate. Albumen ; cotyledons complicated 

 longitudinally. 



H. integrifolia, Planch, in. Ann. Soc. Nai Ser. 3. X. 269 ; Fl. Br. I. 

 5. 481 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 238. TJhnus integrifolia, Brandis For. 

 Fl. 431 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t, 310. The Entire-leaved Elm. WawuU, 

 papara, M. ; Tapsi, K, 



Outer lower ranges of the Himalaya. From Behar to Travancore and 

 from Pegu to Ceylon. Throughout the presidency in deciduous forests. 

 Fl. Feb.-Mch. Fr. June- Aug. 



Wood yellowish, close-grained, smooth, moderately hard. Annual 

 rings visible. Pores small, enclosed in short, concentric, wavy bands 

 or lines of white tissue. Medullary rays fine, white, equidistant, very 

 distinct. Weighs 52 lbs. to the cub, ft. Used for building purposes, carts 

 and carving. 



2. CELTIS, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, stipulate, entire or serrate, 

 triple-nerved. Flowers polygamous, in axillary or lateral cymes. 

 Perianth 4-5-divided ; segments deciduous, imbricate in bud. Stamens 

 4-5, short, surrounding a woolly torus. Ovary on a hairy disk; 

 stigmas 2, sessile, deciduous. Fruit a globose drupe with a hard 

 endocarp. Albumen or scanty ; embryo curved ; cotyledons broa^d, 

 inflexed, surrounding the upcurved radicle. 

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