Alleanthus. | CXXXVI. URTICACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 491 
Resembles Malaisia tortuosa, a widely diffused Malayan and Australian plant, and 
mistaken for it by Kurz; it differs in the erect habit, embryo, and undivided style. 
The genera might well be united. The true M. tortuosa, though abundant from the 
Malay to the Pacific Islands, has not hitherto beer found in the limits of British 
ndia. 
13. PLHCOSPERMUM, 7recu/. 
Glabrous trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, quite entire, penninerved ; 
stipules minute. Flowers diccious, in axillary solitary or 2-3-nate peduncled 
heads. MALE Fr. bracteolate. Periunth-lobes 4, concave, imbricate. Stamens 
4, inflexed in bud. Pistillode minute, hairy. Fem. FL. Perianths fleshy, 
4-toothed, connate into a fleshy many-celled head. Ovary straight, included ; 
style filiform, undivided; ovule pendulous. Achenes few in the globose 
fleshy receptacle, coriaceous, adnate to the perianths. Albumen 0; embryo 
subglobose, one cotyledon very large fleshy, embracing the smaller folded 
one; radicle upcurved.—Species 3, an African and the foliowing. 
1. P. spinosum, Trecul in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, viii. 124; spinous. 
Bureau in| DC. Prodr. xvii. 233; Wight Ic. t. 1963; Brand. For, F l 401; 
Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 391 ; Bedd. Flor. Sylvat. t. ,220. Batis spinosa, 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 769 (excl. syn. Rumph.. B. aurantiaca, Wall. mss. 
Trophis spinosa, Heyne in Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 734; Wall. Cat. 4641 A, E. 
T. aculeata, Roth Nov. Sp. 368. 
From the SALT RANGE, alt. 3000 ft., eastwards along the foot of the Himalaya, 
and southwards to TRAVANCORE and CEYLON. . 
. A shrub or tree, spines axillary, straight; branchlets puberulous, Leaves 2-3 in., 
elliptic-oblong or obovate, obtuse or acute, glabrous; nerves obscure; petiole 4-5 in. 
Male heads } in. diam. ; sepals obtuse or notched, pubescent. Fruiting heads } in. 
diam., lobed, with 1-2 achenes.—Closely resembles Cudrania javanensis in habit 
and foliage. 
2. P. andamanicum, King in Herb. Calcutt.; unarmed. 
TENASSERI ; banks of the Atran, Lobb. ANDAMAN IsrANDps, King's Col- 
ctor. 
. Apparently a larger stouter species than P. spinosum, and unarmed, with 
elliptic-oblong coriaceous leaves 4—5 by 2-3 in., rounded at the base, longer petioles 
(3-1 in.) and larger fem. heads on very stout peduncles. 
14. MORUS, Linz. 
„Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire toothed or 3-lobed, base 
»-nerved; stipules small, lateral, caducous. Flowers mono- or dicecious, 
Spicate. MALE FL. Sepals 4, imbricate. Stamens 4, inflexed iu bud. Pis- 
tillode turbinate. Fem. FL. Sepals 4, ducussate, imbricate, accrescent and 
Succulent in fruit. Ovary included, straight, l-celled; sty le central, 
2 partite or 2-fid; ovule pendulous. Fruiting spikes or heads many; 
achenes enclosed in the succulent perianths. Seed subglobose, albumen 
copious fleshy; embryo incurved, cotyledons oblong equal, radicle ascending 
mcumbent.— Species few, tropical and temperate. 
I follow Brandis as to the first four Indian species of this genus, which he knew 
well in a living state, and had carefully studied. M. atropurpurea, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 
595, Wall. Cat. 4647, a Chinese species closely allied to if not a variety of M. alba, 
with long cylindric dark-purple fruit, is cultivated in India. 
