Morus. MONOECIA TETRANDRIA, 599 
* 
6, M. mauritiana, Willd. iv, 371. 
Dioecous. Leaves obovate oblong, entire. Aments cylin 
_dric. 
Trophis sphadrion! Roxb. Mss. N. 1703. 
Reported to be a native of Madagascar. Dr. Anderson of 
Madras received the plants from the Mauritius. ‘In his gar- 
den they thrive well, and from thence seeds and cuttings were 
procured for the Botanic garden at Calcutta, in 1799, where 
they blossom and ripen their seed at various periods, 
Trunk of the young trees in Dr. Anderson’s garden, 
straight, and regularly clothed with spreading branches near- 
ly to the base. Bark ash-coloured, Leaves alternate, short- 
petioled, obovate-oblong, entire, without pubescence, but a 
little scabrous, from two to three inches long by one or one 
and half broad. Stipules small, chaffy. Aments axillary, so- 
litary, sub-cylindric ; the male oneson one treeand the female 
oneson another, the latter generally recurved. Wale aments 
half the length of the leaves, Calyx four-parted, divisions 
cordate, with villous margins. Stamina as in the genus, with 
double whole anthers. Pisti/lum, a four-winged rudiment 
_ of one in the centre. emale amenis nearly the size of the 
male. Calyx four-leaved, enlarging with the germ into a 
fleshy covering for the single seed, which is covered by a 
crustaceous envelope. Germ superior, broad ovate, one-leay- 
ed, one-celled, ovulum single, attached to one side of the cell 
a little under its apex. Style or rather stigma two, subu- 
lates vilens on the inside, united at the base. 
”. M. peniesilata: Roxb. - 3 
. Arboreous, dioecous. Leaves ieee Ling pended, 
constate; serrate, hoary underneath. Panicles axillary. Fe- 
male calyx urceolate, entire. Berries round, Agere _— ‘ 
_ Urtica fruticosa., Banks's Herbarium, ib fies 
_ Perlarius primus. Rumph. Amb. iv. t. 56. Witsgae ne : 
| A native of the Moluccas, from thence ‘the seed came’ 
. 
