596 MONOECIA TETRANDRIA, Morus. 
the base. Stigmas simple, small. Fruit cylindrical, com- 
posed of numerous, ovate, acute, one-celled, nuciform cap- 
sules, enveloped in the enlarged, now succulent, dark pur- 
ple calyx. Seed solitary, with scanty albumen, and embryo 
exactly as in M. alba. Gert, Sem. ti. 199. t. 126. 
3. M, serrata, R. 
Arboreous, Leaves evenly cordate, three-nerved, grossly 
and acutely serrate, cuspidate, rough, but void of pubes- 
cence, Female aments cylindric. 
Heemoo of the natives about Dosa. 
Found by Captain Hardwicke wild in the forests about 
Dosa, in his tour to Shreenagur. See Asiat, Res. vi. 373. 
Morus, N. 1. 
It differs from all the species I have yet seeh in the apices 
of the leaves being very long and sharp, and in most of the 
serratures being remarkably large and acute. 
4, M, Indica. Willd. iv. 370. 
-Dioecous, sub-arboreous, Leaves ovate, cordate, long, 
taper-pointed, serrate, smooth. Aments oval. Styles single, 
half two-cleft. 
Morus Indica, Rumph, Amb. vii, t. 5, is a pretty iia fi- 
gure of this; but Tinda parua of the Hortus Malabarieus, 
vol. i. t. 49, quoted for Morus Indica, is no doubt Kénig’s 
otras a and a — good ———— it is. 
“Mase: Tokai ai , 
‘T have never seid this tree in its wild state, but always 
in gardens, or plantations, or where it had been planted. 
Where it is indigenous I cannot say, Flowering time the 
eginning of the hot weather, in February, at which time the 
young leaves also make their appearance, ee by —— 
they may be continued the year round. 
Trunk, when the trees are suffered thgtow sianidiniel sill 
they are full grown, rarely more than the thickness oft man’s 
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