MORACEAE. — MORUS 293 
This is a well-marked species with its hairy leaves, shoots and petioles and 
with the cylindrical white fruiting catkins. The style is very short, the two stig- 
mas being long and short-pubescent or papillose. The hirsute pubescence of 
the ovate-oblong perigone lobes of the c flowers is often somewhat yellowish. 
The lobes of the perigone of the 9 flowers are round-obovate or the smaller 
ones ovate, the margins are more or less ciliate or hirsute at the apex, while 
otherwise there are only a few hairs on the outer surface. The large leaves 
Show the usual Morus variation, being very often more or less lobed or deeply 
trilobate. The serration is often rather coarse and obtuse. In Wilson's Nos. 10° 
and 10e the dentation of the rather young leaves is closer and more acute, and 
the apex is more distinctly pointed. The ripe fruits are up to 3 em. long and 
about 0.7 cm. thick. The nearest relatives are the following species and M. 
laevigata Wallich (see p. 301). 
This species is common by the sides of streams, in thickets and in moist woods 
on the mountains of western Hupeh and of Szech'uan between 900 and 1600 m. 
alt. As usually seen it is a small tree from 3 to 6 m. tall, but occasional specimens 
are met with 15 m. tall with a trunk 1.5 m. in girth. The bark is gray, smooth 
or nearly so; the branches are numerous and widespreading and form a flattened 
round crown. The leaves are either entire or much dissected and the fruit is white, 
red or black when ripe. A colloquial name for this tree in Hupeh is Hu-lu-sang; 
the leaves are not used for feeding the silkworm. E. H. W. 
Morus notabilis Schneider, n. sp. 
Arbor ad 8 m. alta; ramuli hornotini autumno glabri, purpureo- 
brunnescentes, lenticellis distinctis discoloribus conspersi, annotini 
vetustioresque vix diversi; gemmae ovato-acutae, circiter 8 mm. 
longae, perulis 4-5 satis laxis inaequalibus obtusis glabris eciliatis 
partim flavescentibus partim purpurescentibus cinctae. Folia adulta 
rotundata, basi cordata, apice breviter acutata, margine satis anguste 
crenulato-serrato-dentata, dentibus saepissime paullo incurvis, supra 
satis viridia, glabra sed subaspera, subtus in sicco flavescentia, 7-13 
em. longa et 7-12 em. lata, costa nervisque lateralibus elevatis utrin- 
secus 4-6 sparse v. vix pilosulis, facie glabra sed tactu plus minusve 
asperula, axillis vix v. haud barbulata, textura crasse membranacea; 
petioli 2-3 em. longi, latere ut videtur compressi, glabri v. pilis 
sparsis conspersi. Inflorescentiae tantum fructiferae (syncarpia) vi- 
sae, cylindricae, albae, circi 3 em. longae et 0.7 em. crassae, glabrae, 
pedunculis fere glabris ad 3.5 em. longis suffultae; fructus (ovaria) 
glabri, tepalis 4 late obovato-rotundis subcucullatis glabris (tantum 
Margine sub lente minutissime et indistincte denticulatis) involuti, 
Ovato-oblongi, angulati, apicem versus angustati et stylo distincto 
coronati, stigmatibus 2 satis marcidis glandulosis. 
Western Szech’uan: Hungya Hsien, round Wa-wu-shan, forests, 
alt. 1800 m., September 14, 1908 (No. 9r9, type; fruits white, tree 
8 m. tall, girth 0.9 m.). 
