456 194. URTICACEX: MOREE. 
SHINGKING: Moukden and other localities (Webster! Ross !); ` 
Kranast: Kiukiang (Maries!); Formosa (Swinhoe! Wilford! - 
Playfair! Oldham !) ; Huren and SzzcnvEs : numerous locali- 
ties (A. Henry, 1335, 1339, 1392, 1586, 3498, 3756, 3843, 4755, 
5564, 5668, 5669, 5741, 5749, 5926, 6094, 6248, 6249 !) ; HAINAN 
(A. Henry, 8283!) ; Corra : Chemulpo (Carles!) ; Lucnu Ancur- 
PELAGO (Wright!). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 
Temperate and subtropical Asia, and extensively cultivated. 
We have not attempted to discriminate between Morus alba 
and M. indica. 
[Franchet (Mém. Soc. Se. Nat. Cherbourg, xxiv. p. 253) 
mentions that Morus nigra, Linn., is cultivated at Chefoo. ] 
^ 2. Morus cathayana, Hemsl., n. sp. 
Arbor 10-20-pedalis (A. Henry), ramulis ultimis floriferis cras- 
siusculis, cortice pallida lenticellata cito glabrescenti. Folia petio- 
lata, papyracea, cordiformia, cum petiolo usque ad 7 poll. longa, 
abrupte acuteque acuminata, calloso-crenata, supra scabrida, 
subtus molliter parce pubeseentia, venis primariis lateralibus 
utrinque circiter 6 duabus inferioribus venulis conspicuis circiter 
6 cum marginibus connexis; petiolus pubescens, teres, gracilius- 
culus, sepius circiter pollicaris. Florum d spice tenues, pauci- 
florz, graciliter pedunculate, cum pedunculo circiter sesquipolli- 
cares; perianthii hirsuti segmenta lata, obtusa. Florum 9 spice 
cylindriez, breviter pedunculate, absque pedunculo 9-15 lineas 
longe ; perianthii glabri segmenta fere orbicularia. Fructus 
maturus non visus. 
Huren: Chienshih, South Patung, and Nanto (A. Henry, 
5543, 5860, 6378 I). Herb. Kew. 
Near the Indian Morus levigata, Wall., but having relatively 
short flower-spikes borne on much shorter peduncles. 
There are specimens in the Kew Herbarium of what may be a 
third species of Morus (Fortune, 35, and A. Henry, 1409, 5459, 
5487); but there are only male flowers. 
[Dorstenia chinensis, Lour. (Fl. Cochinch. p. 90), is the Pro- 
eris chinensis, Spreng. (Syst. Veg. iii. p. 846), which Weddell 
(DC. Prodr. xvi. p. 194) says is alius ordinis; and Bretschneider 
(Early Res. p. 174) was unable to identify it by its Chinese name 
pechi. Loureiro, loc. cit., states that it was frequently employ ed 
medicinally. Possibly an Elatostemma. | 
