Morus. MONOECIA TETRANDRIA, 597 
leg. Branches numerous, spreading in all directions. Wood 
pale, yellowish, hard, close-grained. Bark smooth, ash-co- 
loured; the whole height of the largest trees I have seen 
about twenty feet. Leaves deciduous, alternate, petioled, 
ovate-cordate, long, tapering, entire, pointed, with the lateral 
margins serrate, and sometimes lobate and even deeply so, 
smooth on both sides, very various in size on the larger trees 
not kept cut, as in the plantations for feeding silk-worms, 
where they are larger and more divided, from two to four 
inches long, and from one to two and a half broad. Stipules 
sub-lanceolate, caducous. Female aments from the axills of 
the first leaves or from the scales of the envelope of the bud 
of the young shoots, solitary, short-peduncled, nearly oval, 
or oval. Calyx of four, fleshy, cuneate leaflets. Style single, 
half two-cleft; divisions tapering and villous. Berry about 
_ the size and shape of a small field bean; when ripe black. 
This is the species cultivated in Bengal to feed silk- 
worms. It is kept down by frequent cutting that the branches 
may become more numerous, consequently the foliage more 
abundant, and more easily gathered. The cultivators of 
these bushes, do not always rear the worm. When they do 
not, they sell the leaves upon the tender branches to the ryots 
who rear the worm, but do not cultivate the mulberry, by the 
basket, a measure called in some parts a Koopee, weighing 
on an average, one hundred pounds avoirdupois. The ave- 
rage price is about three Koopees for the Rupee. While the 
worms are very young they not only strip the leaves from 
the twigs but cut them small, Afterwards when the worms 
are larger, the whole leaves upon the twigs are given, and 
the sticks are removed when the leaves are consumed. 
The annual value of the biga which is a third of an Eng- 
lish acre, taking the general average of markets, and also the 
general average of lands in point of quality of soil, may be 
about eight Rupees; deduct for the rent of the land two Ru- 
pees, this leaves a profit of six to the ryot for his labour. — 
The plant is usually cut four times in the year, and strip- 
