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pp. 1342 ef 1362; Lambert,Pin.ed.2,2, app.p.k; Miq.in Mart. Flora Bras. 

 fasc. 12, p. 153, t. 51-54.— Maclura part. Bl. Mus. bot. lugd.-bat. 2, p. 81.— 

 Toxylon Rafm. in Loudon's Gard. Mag. 8, p. 247, n. 33. — Broussonetia? sp. 

 Kunth in H. B. Nov. Gen. 2, p. 32; Spreng. Syst. veg. 3, p. 901; Mart. Herb. 

 Ft. bras. p. 249.— Chlorophora Gaudich. Itin. Freyc. Bot. p. 509.— Mori sp. 

 Sloane, Nat. Hist. of Jam. lib. 1, pars 2, p. 2, n. 4; Linn. Sp. plant. ed. 2, 

 2 (1763) p. 1398 ; Persoon Syn. 2, p. 558; Jacq. Select. stirp. amer. hist. 

 p. 247 ; Miller, Dict. des Jard. 5, p. 158 ; Lxft. Iter hisp. p. 228. n. 126. 



Flores dioici. Masc. in inflorescentias amentiformes v. breviter race- 

 miformes dispositi. Perigonium 4-fidum v. 4-partitum. Stamina 4 lobis 

 perigonii opposita; filamenta exsilientia, demum longe exserta; anthe- 

 ra subglobosae biioculares, loculis rima laterali dehiscentibus. Fem. in 

 receptaculo globoso sessiles et dense capitato-congesti. Perigonium 

 4-phyllum, foliolis imbricatis, crassis, oblongis, compressione angula- 

 tis, concavis, apice crassioribus obtusis et pilosis. Ovarium obovatum 

 compressum, 1-loculare. Ovulum prope apicem loculi parieti insertum, 

 pendulum, campulitropum. Stylus brevissimus inclusus v. exsertus. 

 Stigma simplex tiliforme longissimum v. stigmata 2, altero longissimo 

 filiformi, altero subulato brevissimo incluso. Syncarpium sphaericum 

 carnosum, perigoniis accrescentibus compressis, liberis v. coalescenti- 

 bus. Pructus syncarpio inclusi, achaenia simulantes, epicarpio nempe 

 tenuissimo, endocarpio coriaceo v. sublignoso. Semen e summo pariete 

 pendulum, ovatum, transverse compressum. Testa tenuissima. Albumen 

 parcum embryonem incurvum involvens, cotyledonibus aequalibus ob- 

 ovatis v. latissime obovatis subdiscoideis, radicula cotyledones asquanti 

 v. superatiti eisque incumbenti v. compressione subaccumbenti. Stig- 

 ma persistens v. caducum. — Arbores v. arbusculas lactescentes spi- 

 nosae, ligno citrino, flavum tingenti, spinis axillaribus, solitariis v. 

 geminatis, rectis. Folia alterna v. disticha, petiolata, membranacea, in- 

 tegra v. serrata, rarius lobata. Stipulas laterales caducae. Inflorescentias 

 axillares solitarias pedunculatas. 



§ 1. — Inflorescentiae masc. racemiformes. 



1. M. aurantiaca. (Nutt. Gen. of North. Am. plants, 2, p. 234), foliis alternis, 

 caducis, floribus masculis longe pedunculatis, in inflorescenlias racemiformes 

 brevissimas dispositis, perigonio 4-fido, floribus femineis ut videtur ebrac- 

 teatis, stylo brevissimo incluso, stigmatibus 2, altero brevissimo incluso, altero 

 longissimo filiformi, syncarpio aurantiaco aurantiique magnitudine, glabro, 

 carnoso, perigoniis accrescentibus coalitis triplo et ultra longioribus quam 

 fructus endocarpio coriaceo, embryone radicula cotyledonibus oblongis lon- 

 giore et dorso (saepius tamen non medio) unius cotyledonum incumbenti. 

 5 In ripis Parvi Missouri, rivi dicti Washita. prope Natchitoches et in ripis 

 Arkansae (Hunter et Dunbar ex Nuttall) ; in Louisiana superiore (Hale in nb. 

 Durand Musaei paris.). Lindley in Loudon, Encycl. of Plants, p. 784, 

 fig. 13256; Desf. cat. Hort. reg. paris. ed. 3, p. 347; Jacques in Ann. de 

 Flore et de Pomone, 1, p. 182 cum ic; Denson in Loudon Garden. Mag. 11, 

 seu2 decadis dua3, p. 312, fig. 45-47; Delile in Bull. Soc. Agric. Herault, 

 Jul. 1835, cum ic; Seringe in Mem. Soc. Agric. Lyon, 1835, p. 125, cum ic; 

 Lambert, Descr. of the gen. Pin. ed. 2, 2, app.p. 4, t. 3; Loudon, Arboret. et 

 Frutic. 3, p. 1342 et 1362, fig. 1826-1828; Bl. Mus. bot. lugd.-bat. 2, p. 82, 

 n. 231; Miq. in Mart. Flor. bras. fasc 12, p. 158, n. 3; Nuttall, The North 

 Amer. Sylva, 1, p. 126, t. 37 et 38; Seringe, Descr. et cult. des Muriers, 

 p. 232, t. 27. Nom. vern. Bow wood, Bois oVarc, Oranger des Osages. Arbor 

 patula, 8-15 metr. alta, ligno croceo durissimo, ramosissima, ramis teretibus 

 uexuosis pendulis glabris. Foliorum petiolus 2-4 \ centim. longus, pubescens, 



