Morus. | CXXIIIc. MORACEZ (Rendle). 21 
side, ascending ; petiole slender, almost terete, thitily puberulous, 
to Lin. long. Flowers monecious, male and female often on distinct 
branches. Male inflorescence narrowly oblong, 4-5 lin. long, puberu- 
lous; peduncle very slender, 2-3 lin. long; female inflorescence 
ellipsoidal to subglobose, 3-4 lin. long ; peduncle very slender, 8 lin. 
or less. Flowers similar to those of M. nigra, but stigmas 1} lin. long, 
slender, densely and shortly hairy, borne on a glabrous style about 
? lin. long. Syncarp ellipsoidal to subglobose, black when ripe.— 
Brandis, Forest Fl. 408; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 492; Engl. PA. 
Ost-Afr. 160 and Monogr. Morac. Afr.3. M. alba, var. indica, Bureau 
in DC. Prodr. xvii. 243. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: route to Kilimanjaro; 40-60 miles from 
coast, Johnston |. Volkens, 33! Rabai Hills, near Mombassa, Taylor ! 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar: Stuhlmann, 685. German East Africa : 
Usambara, especially on formerly cultivated areas, Holst. Portuguese East 
Africa: Zambesi Delta ; Mavuvu near Mazzaro, cultivated, Kirk! between 
Tette and the sea-coast, Kirk ! 
Native in the temperate and sub-tropical Himalayan region; cultivated in 
India, China, Japan and East Africa. 
3. M. mesozygia, Stapfin Journ. de Bot. xxii. 99. Asmall tree ; 
branchlets a warm reddish-brown, glabrous. Leaves broadly or 
obovately elliptic, narrowly acuminate, base shallowly cordate, 
margin crenate-serrate, 2-44 in. long, 1}-2? in. wide, membranous, 
glabrous or sometimes shortly hairy on the nerves on the lower face ; 
3-nerved, nerves subparallel connected by thin transverse veins, 
the lateral emitting a series of spreading-ascendent branch nerves ; 
petiole slender, about 4 in. long. Male inflorescence unknown. 
Female inflorescences solitary or two or three together on arrested 
shoots, globose; peduncle slender, grey-pubescent, 4-8 lin. long. 
Sepals orbicular with ciliolate margin, barely 2 lin. long; stigmas 
sessile, subulate, densely papillose, up to about 2} lin. long. Syncarp 
about 3 in. in diam., scarcely succulent; fruit projecting shortly 
from the perianth, broader than long, to about 24 lin. broad. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Leprieuwr! Ivory Coast: Indénie; Zaranou, 
Chevalier, 16267. Gold Coast: Oduamase, Thompson! Togo: near Lome, 
Warnecke, 347! Southern Nigeria: Western Lagos ; interior, Rowland! Aye, 
Dodd, 394 ! 
According to Thompson this tree is cultivated by the Ashantis for its shade ; 
he regards it as a species introduced from the north. 
2. CHLOROPHORA, Gaudich.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 
Pl. iii. 363. 
Flowers dicecious. Male:. Calyx membranous, divided into 4 
broad slightly imbricate segments. Stamens 4; filaments free, 
inflexed in the bud. Rudiment of ovary small. Female: Calyx 
more or less deeply divided ; segments 4, concave, thickened at the 
apex, imbricate. Ovary enclosed within the calyx, oblique ; ovule 
