178 A FLORA OF MANILA 
merous, small, in about 6 rows. Fruiting receptacles large, about 4 cm 
in diameter, each with many red, fleshy fruits 1.5 to 2 em long. 
Occasionally cultivated, fl. all the year. A native of Mexico, now cul- 
tivated in many other tropical countries, of recent introduction here. 
5. MORUS Linnaeus 
Trees or shrubs with alternate, entire, toothed, or lobed leaves which 
are 3- or 5-nerved at the base, the stipules lateral, small, soon falling. 
Flowers monoecious or dioecious, spicate. Male flowers with 4 imbricate 
sepals; stamens 4, inflexed in bud; the rudimentary ovary turbinate. 
Female flowers with 4 sepals, which are imbricate, accrescent and fleshy 
in fruit. Ovary included, 1-celled; style 2-partite. Fruiting spikes or 
heads composed of many achenes enclosed in the succulent perianths. 
(The Latin name.) 
Species few in tropical and temperate regions, 1 introduced in the 
Philippines. 
1. M. ALBA L. Moral, Morera (Sp.-Fil.) ; Mulberry. 
A dioecious or monoecious shrub or small tree 3 to 6 m high. Leaves 
ovate, acuminate, base cordate, 3-nerved, margins toothed, sometimes 
deeply 3-lobed, 5 to 20 cm long, slightly hairy along the nerves on the 
lower surface or nearly glabrous. Fruit axillary, peduncled, dark-purple 
or nearly black when mature, fleshy, edible, 1.5 to 2 em long. (FI. Filip. 
pl. 206.) 
Not uncommon in Manila in cultivation, fl. all the year; found in many 
towns in the Philippines and naturalized in northern Luzon. Introduced 
from China at an early date for the purpose of feeding silkworms. India 
to China and Japan, cultivated in many other countries. _ 
6. MALAISIA Blanco 
A dioecious, climbing, nearly glabrous shrub. Leaves alternate, entire 
or toothed, penninerved. Male spikes dense, shortly peduncled, simple or 
slightly branched, short, axillary. Perianth 3- or 4-parted, the segments 
valvate. Stamens 8 or 4, the filaments inflexed in bud; rudimentary ovary 
small. Female flowers in small, axillary, solitary or fascicled, shortly 
peduncled heads, the flowers surrounded by bracteoles, 1 or 2 fertile, 
the others usually sterile. Perianth urceolate, mouth contracted. Ovary 
straight, included; style 2-fid, the branches filiform. Fruit 1 or 2 to 
each head, small, red, the pericarp thin, fleshy. (From the Tagalog name, 
malaisis.) 
A monotypic genus. 
1. M. scandens (Lour.) K. Sch. (M. tortuosa Blanco). Malaisis (Tag.). 
A climbing shrub reaching a height of 4 to 8 m, glabrous except young 
branchlets and inflorescence. Leaves oblong-ovate to elliptic-oblong, smooth 
or somewhat rough, 4 to 10 cm long, entire or obscurely toothed, acute or 
acuminate, base rounded or acute, often slightly inequilateral, the nerves 
small, greenish, the female inflorescence densely pubescent. Fruit oval, 
6 to 7 mm long, bright-red, sessile, 1 or 2 to each receptacle. 
In dry thickets, Balintauac, near Fort McKinley, etc., ‘fl. May—June; 
widely distributed in the Philippines. Southern China through Malaya 
to Australia and Polynesia. 
