136 ~ URTICACE. [ Maoutta. 
A shrub, with dark-grey bark marked with vertical lines of brown 
lenticles ; branches clothed with long soft hairs. Leaves membra- 
nous, 4-8 in. long, elliptic, caudate-acuminate, coarsely dentate with 
large triangular teeth, scabrid above, intensely white beneath with 
densely matted soft hairs except on the pubescent nerves, promi- 
nently 3-nerved from the rounded or subacute base, and with 3-4 
pairs of lateral nerves from the midrib above; petioles 1-5 in. long; | 
stipules lanceolate, 2-fid. Flowers minute, in small round unisexualh 
or androgynous heads which are arranged in slender axillary and 
terminal cymose panicles shorter than the petioles. Achenes gibbously 
ovoid, trigonous, hispid. 
Dehra Dun, and Siwalk Range, in ravines and on banks of streams ; 
also eastwards along the Sub-Himalayan tract. Fl. and fr. May to 
November. Distrrp: Outer Himalaya eastwards from Garhwal up 
to 4,000 ft. ; also on Khasia Hills and extending to Burma and 
Japan. The plant yields a strong fine white fibre suitable for making 
fishing nets and lines, and was formerly known as the: wild rhea 
of Sikkim. 
13. MORUS, Linn. ; FI. Brit. Ind. v, 491. 
Trees or shrubs with milky juice. Leaves alternate, entire or 
toothed or 3-lobed, base 3-5-nerved ; stipules small, lateral, cadu- 
cous. . Flowers. monececious or dicecious, spicate. MALE flowers in 
elongate catkin-like spikes. Sepals 4, imbricate. Stamens 4, in- 
flexed in bud. Pistillode turbinate. Frm. flowers in long and 
cylindric, or in short oblong or subglobose spikes. Sepals 4, decus- 
sate, imbricate, accrescent and succulent in fruit. Ovary included, 
straight, 1-celled ; style central, 2-part. or 2-fid. ; ovule pendulous. 
Fruit of many achenes enclosed in the succulent perianths and 
aggregated in berrylike spikes or heads. Seed subglobose, albumen 
copious, fleshy, embryo incurved ; cotyledons oblong, equai, radicle 
ascending. Species about 10, in temperate and tropical regions. 
1. M. indica, Linn. Sp. Pl. 986; Rorb. Fl. Ind. i, 596; Royle 
Ill. 887 _; Brandis For. Fl. 408 ; Ind. Trees 612; F. B. I. V, 492 ; 
Watt E. D.; Comm. Prod. Ind. 7&5 ; Kanjilal For. Fl. (ed. 2) 265 ; 
Gamble Man. 635; Prain Beng. Pl. 968 ; Collett Fl. Siml. 457 ; 
Cooke Fl. Bomb. ti, 658 ; M. parvifolia, Royle l. c.—Vern. Tut, tutris 
sia tut, sia tunt. Small-leaved mulberry. 
