406 URTICACEAE. [ Morus. 
on petioles of 3—4", acute, sinuato-dentate with patent teeth, more or 
less rounded or truncate, even emarginate at the base, thin, pale, scabrous 
above, glabrous on both faces, penni-nerved-with 10—12 almost horizontal 
pairs, which anastomose inside the margin by prominent sinuous arches. 
Flowers monoecious. Male ~_ in the upper axils, slender, 3—4‘ long, 
on peduncles of 12". Perigone 1‘, pubescent, pale bluish, 4-, rarely 
3-parted, umbilicate in the sees the lobes ovate-acute. Stamens 4, 
rarely 3, twice as long as the perigone, the inflected filaments not trans-, 
versely rugose, the anther-cells reniform, cohering at the apex. Pistil 
obeordate, naked. Fem. spikes shortened, often oyoid, at most 6“ long 
by 4“ broad, with few drupes when mature, generally carrying 4, often 
only a se one. Perigone 1“, pubescent, membranous, free, deeply 
parted into 4 ovate-obtuse segments. Ovary ovoid, peaked, as long as or 
shorter than the 2 divaricate conico-elongate stigmas. Fruit a black 
fleshy drupe, subglobose, 3—4‘, 2-horned with the conical style- bases. 
Pyrena trigonous. Embryo uncinate, the very Asc de albumen only filling 
the interstice between aside a 8 and ra — rus Brunoniana, 
Endl. Atakta Bot. tab. 32. — M. pendulina, i mi. Pl. Norf., tab. 186, 
ined. — Endl. Prod. ig Norf. — Mann, : 
Oahu! Wailupe, ernie range (eastern end Paes nti pie Hawaii! Kawaihae iuka, 
Kau (Remy); E. Maui! (Lydg.); Kauai! (Remy and Kn.). The specimens from the 
Waianae range are all lnishnetion as described Mee’ re from the other localities 
bear only spikes of one sex. It deserves to be noted oo the male spikes in the upper 
_axils are still in bud while the fruit below is fully matured. 
3. MORUS, L. 
Fruit enclosed by the fleshy and adherent perigone, the mesocarp 
pulpy and the endocarp fibrous. Seed-coat hard. Embryo surrounded 
by albumen. Otherwise as in spans 
A few aipine natives of Asia and Americ 
fl. M. nigra, L. — DC. Prod. oe — A small tree. Leaves 
on short eae ovate-oblong, rounded or 7 hibletdcte at the base, un- 
evenly serrate, sinuately incised on young plants, scabrous on the upper 
face, pubescent on the lower. Flower-spikes tomentose, those of the male 
flowers elongate, of the female short elliptical. Filaments transversely 
rugose. as subulate, papillose or pubescent all ak The fleshy 
fruits confluent with each other and with the rhachis in a black succulent 
syncarpium. 
_ The Black Mulberry, «Kilika» of the natives, originally cultivated for the raising of 
silk-worms, has become naturalized in various parts of:the Islands, particularly in Kula, 
Maui, and on Kauai. 
4. BROUSSONETIA, Dds 
_Dioecious. Male fl. in bracteate spikes. Perigone 4- parted, the segments 
ovate, acuminate, valvyate in the bud, at avg ean Stamens 4, with 
