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sulo, intimo osseo s. nucamentaceo magis minusve compresso et nonnunquam crasse marginato. 
Semen ellipticum, compressum, pericarpii cavitatem implens. Albumen tenue, Embryo cotyledo- 
nibus ellipticis oblongisve radicula tereti et gracili paulo longioribus.—Frutices ; folis alternis, cre- 
nulatis serratisve, 3-nerviis, subtus cano-tomentosis ; cystolithis punctiformibus ; stipulis axillaribus, 
sepius profunde 2-fidis; glomerulis basi bracteatis; floribus femineis omnino nudis v. bracteolis 
parvis stipatis.— Lecanocnide, Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. vol. ii. f. xii. 
1, M. australis, Weddell, Urticac. p. 480; sepius dioica; foliis ovatis v. elliptico-ovatis lan- 
ceolatisve, anguste acuminatis ; basi acutis obtusatis rotundatisve, acumine basique exceptis grossius- 
cule crenato-serratis serratisve, siccitate plerumque subcoriaceis, planis rugosulisve, junioribus supra 
sparsim pilosulis et mox fere omnino glabratis levibusque, subtus niveo-tomentosis, nervis adpresse 
pubescentibus; achzniis breviter rostratis, inferne et in angulis presertim patule v. subadpresse 
setosis; stigmate obliquo, subrecurvo.— Urtica candicans, Sol. Prim. Fl. Ins. Pacif. (ined.) p. 926.— 
Nomen yernac. Vitiense, teste Williams, ** Dagasele;" Samoéense, teste Powell, ** O le Taunuta."— 
Viti Leva, Taviuni, Narai, Matuka, Ovalau, and Vanua Levu (Seemann! n. 425; Milne! Harvey !). 
Also collected in the Samoan (Powell!) and Society Islands (Banks and Solander! Bidwill!). 
Susporpo III. MORES. - 
All the Polynesian genera of this suborder are represented in Viti. 
XIII. Morus, Tournef. Inst. t. 362; Linn. Gen. n. 1055; Endl. Gen. n. 1856. Flores 
monoici, dense spicati. Fl.d : Perigonium 4-partitum, laciniis ovatis szestivatione imbricatis, demum 
patentibus. Stamina 4, perigonii laciniis opposita; filamenta filiformi-subulata, transversim rugosa, 
elastica; anthers introrse, 2-loculares, dorso affixe. Ovarii rudimentum, | Fl.2 : Perigonium 4- 
phyllum, foliolis ovatis concavis oppositis, exterioribus majoribus. Ovarium sessile, ovatum, 2-locu- 
lare, loculo altero minore. Ovula in loculis solitaria, dissepimento prope apicem affixa, amphitropa, 
micropyle supera. Stigmata 2, terminalia, elongato-filiformia, intus villosa. Achenium membrana- 
ceum v. subcarnosum, l-loculare, l-spermum, perigonio immutato stipatum v. eodem baccante 
inclusum. Semen pendulum, uncinatum, testa dura fragili. Embryo in centro albuminis carnosi 
homotropus, uncinatus; cotyledonibus oblongis, incumbentibus; radieula longiuseula, umbilico 
contigua, supera.—Arbores v. frutices lactescentes ; folis alternis, integris v. lobatis, stipulatis ; 
spicis axillaribus solitariis, masculis elongatis, femineis brevibus ovatis v. subglobosis, fructibus 
nonnullarum edulibus. 
Morus insularis, Spreng. Syst. vol. i. p. 492 (foliis oblongis obtusis basi attenuatis integerrimis tripli- 
nerviis glaberrimis), from the Marquesas (Forster ex Spreng.), placed by Sprengel in Tetrandria Digynia, I 
take to be a Menispermaceous-looking plant, which was collected by Forster in that group of islands, but 
is not named by him in his collection at the British Museum. Mr. Miers, whose attention I drew to it, 
holds it to be no Menispermacea, but a Euphorbiacea. a 
M. pendulina, Endl., has been collected in Norfolk Island and the Hawaiian group (Remy, 208, 204). 
1. M. Indica, Rumph. Herb. Amb. Auct. 5; Wight, Icon. vol. ii. tab. 677 ; fruticosa; foliis 
cordato-ovatis (rarius 5-lobis) longe acuminatis inzequaliter serratis glabriusculis ; spicis ovalibus, 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. vol. iii. p. 396.—Cultivated in Bau, off Viti Levu (Seemann ! n. 434), also in the 
Sandwich Islands (Seemann! Barclay !), Tranquebar (Soc. Unit. Frat. in Herb. Mus. Brit.), and 
India (Royen !). 
This species is much cultivated in India for feeding silkworms. In the Sandwich Islands it is termed 
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