204 DIOECIA. TETRINDRIA. 



rolla none. Style 1 , filiform, villous. Germs nu- 

 merous, coalescinj^ into a compound globose 

 berry of many cells; cells l-seeded. Seed obo- 

 vate, comj)ressed. 



A small lactescent tree, producing' wood similar to Fus- 

 tic; leaves alternate, entire, destitute of stipules, furnish- 

 ed with superaxillary simple spines; aments axillary; ber- 

 ry verrucose and large, at first lactescent, yellow. A ge- 

 nus proximately allied to Broussonetia; and belonging to 

 the Natural Order XJRTiCff;. 

 M. aiirantiaca. 

 Obs. a spreading tree about 20 to 30 feet high, branch- 

 es flexuous and terete. Leaves petiolated, oval, acumina- 

 ted, very entire, apex mucronulate, upper surface smooth 

 and shining, petiole and nerves on the under side some- 

 what hirsutely but minutely pubescent; (petiole often 

 nearly an inch long; leaf 2 to 3 inches long, and 1 and a 

 half to 2 inches wide.) Male flowers unknown. Female 

 a globular ament, destitute of both calix and corolla. 

 Style 1 to each seed and germ of the compound berry, fili- 

 form, near an inch long and villous. Berry nearly the size 

 of an orange, axillary and subsessile, surface verrucose, 

 partly tessellated with obsolete caUcine vertiges; pulp 

 nearly as succulent as that of an orange, sweetish and 

 perhaps agreeable when fully ripe, v- v. 



Hab. "On the banks of the Little IMissouii of Washita 

 river, also near Natchitoches, and upon the banks of the 

 Arkansa." Hunter and Dunbar's voyage. — The above ac- 

 count has been taken from living plants which were culti- 

 vated in the garden of Mr. Shout ou at St. Louis, Louisi- 

 ana; plants of tills interesting tree are now also cultlva* 

 led in the garden of the late Mr. M'Mahon of Philadel- 

 phia, but have not yet flowered, v. s. In herb. Lambert, 

 London — The wood is very heavy and of a Saffron yel- 

 low; the bark as in Brousionctia affords a fine white flax. 

 Were it not for the particular description (^fjMorus tijic^ 

 iona given by Sloane in his History of Jamaica, vol. 2. p. 3, 

 we shouldfrom the corresponding liabit have almost been 

 induced to consider it, together with two other undescri- 

 bed species, as forming putt of the present genus. "The 

 fruit " ofMorus tinctoria, adds Sloane, " stands on a foot- 

 stalk, is as large as a Nutmeg and round, having its acini 

 like the other Mulberries, or a greenish colour both with- 

 out and within the pulp; there are in it some flat brown 

 small seeds, like Linseed, and before tlie fruit comes ta 

 be ripe Ms milky and not pleasantj but when come to 



