492 OXXXVI, URTICACE&. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Morus. 
M. ALBA, Linn. Sp. Pl. 986; leaves ovate or ovate-cordate acute often 
lobed toothed base 3-nerved, male sepals} elliptic, fem. spikes short ovoid, 
outer sepals keeled, inner flat or concave, styles short free. M. alba (in 
part), Bureau in DC. Prodr. xvii. 238; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 594; Brand. For. 
Fl. 407, t. 47; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 327; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 657. 
M. serrata, Wall. Cat. 4648 B. M. tatarica, Linn. Sp. Pl. Ed. 3, 1399; Roxb. 
l. c. 598; Pallas Fl. Ross. i. ii. 9, t. 59. 
Cultivated in the PANJAB, Nortu-Werst HIMALAYA and WESTERN TIBET, 
ascending to 11,000 ft.—DIsTRIB. Affghanistan, N. and W. Asia, wild, or cultivated 
(for its fruit). : 
A deciduous monecious tree, 30-40 ft.; branchlets petioles and leaves beneath 
puberulous or pubescent. Leaves 2-3 in., rather membranous; petiole 3-1 1. 
Fruiting spikes peduncled, white or red, sweet.— Roxburgh describes this as dicecious. 
The common black mulberry differs from alba in its broader firm thick often 5- 
nerved leaves, subsessile fem. spikes, densely hairy perianth and styles, and purple aci- 
dulous-sweet fruit, Brandis. M. alba is cultivated for its fruit. 
1. M. indica, Linn. Sp. Pl. 986; leaves ovate caudate-acuminate 
sharply serrate often deeply lobed scaberulous, male sepals elliptic hairy, 
fem. spikes short ovoid, sepals obovate, outer keeled, inner flat, styles long 
hairy connate below. M. alba, var. indica, Bureau in DC. Prodr. xvu. 
243; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 596 ; Brand. For. Fl. 408; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 468; 
Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 328; Wight Ic. t. 674; Wall. Cat. 4645 (except 
H). M. parvifolia, Royle mss. PM. acidosa, Grif. Notul. iv. 388. M. 
cuspidata, Wall. Cat. 4646; Gamble l. c. M. alba, var. cuspidata, Bureau 
. €. 243. 
TEMPERATE and SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Kashmir to Sikkim, ascending 
to 7000 ft., wild and cultivated (for silkworm-feeding) in Bengal, Assam, Burma, 
&c.— DISTRIB. China, Japan. . 
Habit of M. alba, but cultivated usually as a shrub, of which it is perhaps 4 
form with long points to the rougher leaves, connate styles, and obovate female sepas. 
Wallich’s 4645 H is a very different plant, which I do not recognize. 
2. M. serrata, Rorb. Fl. Ind. ii. 596 ; leaves broadly ovate-cordaté 
acuminate coarsely toothed or serrate, petiole tomentose, fem. spikes sho 
cylindric, fem. sepals 2-4 equal oblong ciliate, styles very hairy connas? 
below, fruit shortly cylindric purple sweet. M. alba, L. ?, Wall. Cat. 4648 A; 
Brand. For. Fl. 409; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 328. M. alba, var. serrata, 
Bureau in DC. Prodr. xvii. 242. M. pabularia, Dene. in Jacquem. oy: 
Bot. 149, t. 151. M. vicorum, Jacquem. mss. . 
K emer) ATE HIMALAYA, from Kumaon westwards, alt. 4-9000 ft. (cultivated in 
unawur ). 
A lofty tree, attaining 60-70 ft., and girth of trunk 28 ft.; young parts 
pubescent or tomentose. Leaves 2-8 in., often lobed, membranous ; petiole 1-2 in» 
and young leaves beneath pubescent ; stipules broadly lanceolate. Spikes, males 1-2 In» 
fem. 4 in., peduncles softly tomentose. Sepals of male elliptic-oblong, ager 
filaments flattened below. Fruit mucilaginous.—United with alba by Bureau, m 
I think very distinct. Roxburgh describes the leaves as rough but void of poet 
cence, and distinguishes the species by the long points and remarkably large teet 
the leaves, thus resembling M. indica, 
3. M. levigata, Wall. Cat. 4649; leaves ovate or ovate-cordate 
cuspidate finely serrate toothed glabrous or subscaberulous, spikes of bo of 
sexes very long-peduncled, sepals 4 rounded concave of male very hairy | 
fem. glabrous, styles nearly free papillose, fruit long cylindric yellow? 
