4 . = 
——t Ss DIOECIA. TETRANDRIA. 
2. > . 
rolla none. Style 1, filiform, villous. Germs nu- 
merous, coalescing into a compound globose — 
berry of many cells; cells 1-seeded. Seed obo- 
vate, compressed. 
A small lactescent tree, preducing wood similar to Fus- 
tic; leaves alternate, entire, destitute of stipules, furnish- 
= ed with superaxillary simple spines; amentsyaxillary; ber- . 
ged Ty vetrucose and large, at first lactescent, sow A 
nus proximately allied to Bronssonetia; and belonging to 
the Natural Order Urntica, = 
we 
le 1 to each seed and germ of the compound berry, fili- 
ny near an inch long and villous. Berry nearly the size | 
“SMorange, axillary and subsessile, surface verrucese, 
‘partly tessellated with obsolete calicine vertiges; pulp 
neariy as succulent as that of am orange, sweetish and 
perhaps agreeable when fully ripe. vv. > 
B. “On the banks of the Little Missouri of Washita = 
ed also near Natchitoches, and upon the banks of the 
TKansa.” Hunter and Dunbar’s voyage.—The above ac> 
en taken from living plants which were culti- 
varden of Mr. Shoutou at St. Louis, Louisi- — 
