3. MoBus.] 125. MORACEM. 



oblique, serrulate (in wild examples), 3-7" long. Flowers with the 

 nearly developed leaves ; both sexes in long dense narrow more or 

 less pendulous spikes 3-5" long, with very hairy rhachis, pair of tepals 

 in the female facing the edges of the much compressed ovary usually 

 somewhat keeled, inner flat ; styles papillose, only connate at the 

 extreme base. Fruit pale-yelloAv, very small, in long-cylindric 

 syncarps. 



Wild in the Sikkim Tarai close to ovir area, not wild within it. Said to he 

 cultivated in Behar, near the Soane {Brandls).* Cultivated on the Ranclii plateau 

 (differs in some respects, see below) ! Fl. Feb. -March. Fr. April-May. 



Bark light fi;rey. Twigs lenticellate. Buds perulate. Leaves hairy when young, 

 especially along the nerves, basal nerves 3 and 4-6 sec. n. along tlae central one, 

 tertiaries distiuct, scalariform. Petiole rather stout, 1". Dicecious. Peduncles 

 •5", hairj' or villous, Male ti. sessile, tepals hairy. Fern, tepals glabrous {teste 

 Brandh) or hairj- (in my specimens). 



The following form is cultivated in Ranchi : — 



A large tree differing from the last in the more coarsely serrate leaves with 

 rounded or subcordate base (often oblique) and especially in the shorter suberect 

 female spikes which are only 1-5-2" long and less hairy. 



Var. viridis. Bureau. Syn. Morus viridis, Ham. (Wall. Cat. 4650.) 



Leaves rounded at the top. Patna. Hamilton ! No doubt only cultivated, 



4. BROUSSONETIA, Vent. 



Trees with alternate and sub-opposite hairy simple or deeply lobed 

 serrate leaves and lateral deciduous stipules. Flowers dioecious, in 

 solitary axillary capitate or cylindric dense spikes or heads, not 

 connate. Males 4-ticl or -lobed, valvate, pistillode minute. Fern, 

 mixed with persistent bracts, perianth ovoid or tubular, 3-4-toothed 

 enclosing the stipitate ovary, style subulate, entire. Ovule pendulous. 

 Fruits (drupels) free on the globose receptacle, fleshj- with a fleshy 

 elongated stipes, but with a crustaceous rugose endocarp and excentric 

 style, surrounded by the bracts and unaltered perianth. Albumen 

 scanty or fleshy, cotyledons oblong, equal, radicle ascending, incum- 

 bent. 



1. B. papyrifera, Vent. The Paper-mulberry. 



A small quick-growing tree with the branches marked with stipular 

 scars, subtomentose branchlets and large obliquely ovate or oblong 

 simply serrate or also (especially when young) deeply palmately 

 3-5-lobed soft leaves 3-9" long. Petiole 2-3". Male flowers in 

 cylindric pubescent peduneled spikes 1-3" long. Fem. flowers in 

 tomentose globose heads -S--?" diam., shortly stoutly peduneled, 

 heads over 1" in fruit, red, the individual fruits each with a fleshy 

 red stipes. 



Planted in the damper and warmer districts. Fl., Fr. r.s. 



The Japanese make paper from the bark of this tree which also yields a textile 

 fibre. It is easily grown both from seed and from cuttings or root division, but I 

 have nowhere seen it planted in the Province except for ornament. 



* Hooker quotes Bi-andii for the Bihar habitat, but there is a specimen of his 

 own collecting at Kew marked " Soane River." Patna is also near the Soane (see 

 var. viridi»). 



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