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BROUSSONETIA PAPYRIFERA. PAPER- 
Mueerry TREE. 
BS oes on oes On Ons Oy os On os eo 
Class and Order. 
Dia@cia Trerranpria. 
Generic Character. 
Masc. Amentum cylindraceum. Cal. 4-partitus. Cor. 0. 
o» _ Fem. Amentum globosum, e receptaculis cylindraceo- 
~ clavatis compositum. Cal. 3- s. 4-dentatus, in apice recep- 
taculi. Stylus lateralis subulatus. Sem. 1. calyce tectum. 
Specific Name and Synonyms. 
Brovssonetta papyrifera. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 5. p. 372. 
Bot. Repos. v. 8. t. 488. bre. es 
Brovussonetia. Vent. Regn. veg.3. p. 547. te 
Papyrius japonica. Lam. Encycl. Bot. 5. p. 5. Ejusdem 
Ill. Gen. t. 762, i Pigs ey 
eee es ; foliis palmatis, fructibus hispidis. Sp. 
. 1399. ge a 
ie 
Morvs sativa, foliis urtice mortue, cortice papyrife 
Kempf. Amen. 471. t. 472. Pee eee 
Morus Beg oe sativa japonica. Seb. Thes. 1. p. 44. 
t. . 
The Paper-Mulberry tree is a shrub of but caged 3 
but, both in Japan and in the South-sea islands, is of the 
utmost importance for economical purposes. In Otaheite, 
as we are informed by Captain Cook, in his relation of his 
first voyage, the finest and whitest cloth worn by the chiefs 
and principal persons of the island is entirely manufac- 
tured from the inner bark of this tree by a simple process 
of beating ; and in Japan the same species is cultivated in 
reat quantity, for the purpose of making paper of gtr 
