M ————HHÁÀ— 
Morus. | CXXXVI. URTICACE®. (J. D. Hooker.) 493 
white sweet, acini very small. Brand. For. Fl. 409; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 
PB M. alba, var. levigata, Bureau in DC. Prodr. xvii. 245. M. glabrata, 
all. mss. 
TROPICAL and SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA ; from the Indus to Assam, wild and 
cultivated, ascending to 4000 ft. BEHAR, cultivated, Brandis, MARTABAN and 
TENASSERIM, wild, Kurz. 
A medium-sized tree, shoots stipules and peduncles softly hairy. Leaves 3-7 in., 
membranous, young sparsely pubescent, base rounded or cordate; petiole 1 in., 
pubescent ; stipules slender. Male spikes 4—5 in., slender, villous, shortly peduncled ; 
fem. as long, glabrous. Fruit insipid. 
Van. viridis, Bureau 1. c. 245 ; leaves rounded at the top. M. viridis, Ham. in 
Wall. Cat. 4650.—Patna, Hamilton. 
15. SLOETIA, Teijsm. and Binnend. 
Trees. Leaves large, alternate, entire, penninerved; stipules lateral, 
caducous. Flowers moneecious, in solitary or binate axillary long male or 
androgynous spikes with peltate bracts, often unilateral; fem. few, amongst 
the males. Mars rL. Perianth 3-lobed or -partite, imbricate. Stamens 3, 
inflexed in bud. Pistil/ode small. Fem. rr. Sepals 4, embracing the ovary. 
Ovary straight; style subcentral, persistent, arms 2, very long and slender; 
ovule pendulous. “Fruit globose or turgidly ovoid, elastically ejected. 
Albumen 0; cotyledons thin, broad, unequal, concave, outer embracing the 
smaller, radicle elongate.— Species 3 or 4, Malayan. 
l. S. Sideroxylon, Teijsm. & Binnend. in Tijdschrift. Nat. Ver. 1863; 
leaves petioled 10-12 by 34-5 in. elliptic-oblong or broadly oblanceolate 
cuspidate base acute subequal. Bureau in DC. Prodr. xvii. 257; Kurz in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. viii. 168, t. 19. Artocarpus elongatus, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. 
Suppl. 172, 419. Morus bifaria, Hort. Calcutt. (in part). 
SINGAPORE, Kurz.— DISTRIB. Java, Sumatra. .. 
A tall tree; shoots puberulous; branchlets smooth. Leaves shining above, sub- 
scaberulous beneath; nerves 16-22 pairs; petiole 3-1 in.; stipules $ in. Spikes 
3-5 in., one narrow part of the rachis flowerless. Fruit pisiform.— Kurz l. c. describes 
the nerves as 12 to 15 pairs, but I find (in his specimens) 16-20. 
2. S. penangiana, Oliv. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1531; leaves 9-15 by 
3-5 in. subsessile elongate-oblong acuminate broader at the unequal sub- 
cordate base, 
PENANG; on Government Hill, Curtis. Perak; at Goping, King's Collector. 
The form of the leaf distinguishes this from S. Sideroxylon. Old leaves from 
Perak are very large, glossy above, quite smooth beneath, cordate with overlapping 
develope Pe a very stout petiole } in. long. Spikes à-3 in. long (perhaps not well 
3. S. Wallichii, King mss.; leaves 6-9 by 1-3 in. shortly petioled 
oblanceolate or oblong and widened upwards cuspidate or acuminate, base 
very unequal acute obtuse or semicordate. Urticea, Wall. Cat. 9090. Morus 
ifaria, Hort. Cale. (in part). 
PENANG, Wallich, &c. PERAK, Scortechini, King’s Collector, MALACCA, Main- 
9?y (Kew Distrib. 1490). SINGAPORE, Murton.—DisTRIB. Java? (Herb. Hort. 
ogor., No. 7357.) a 
much smaller-leaved species than either of the foregoing, with 10-20 pairs of 
nerves. Spikes 2-4 in, with a narrow flowerless streak on one side.—The Calcutta 
Garden specimens have elliptic-oblong leaves quite equal at the base. 
