





Plate 1792. 



CUDRANIA TRILOBA, Dance. 

 Urticaceje. Tribe Artocarpm- 

 C. triloba, Eance in Journ. Botany, vi. (1868), 49 J «* £ 



frutex, ramulis foliiferis scepe spinis axillanbus armati. , 10 

 ellipticis v. obovato-ellipticis, breviter et abrupte acnmi ^ P^ 

 latisve in ramis sterilibus sjepe apice late tnlobatis loooi . ^ 



prrecipue 



psoideo lenticulari-compresso 



t* 



Cudrania tricuspidata, Bur. in Lav. Arb. begrez. ** • _ ; fi - 

 cwptaato, Carr. in Rev. Hart. 1864, 390, fig. 3, and 18/-, *>, K 

 Nichol. Diet. Gard. ii. 312-3 with figures. 



m Hab. China, Shantung, Bev. J. Gra f s X^j, \ J. Fa 



es 



Consul 



Oldham. 



West 



Nan-t'o, Dr. A. Henry; w'«v > Archipelago 

 0. JFW ; Hooper Island, Corean 



i poll, longus ; perianthii segmentis truncatis «P>c ^^ angasto 

 Capitula o fl poll, diam.; brevissime pedunculate, . J 



subulatis. Pericarpium 2h lin. longum. , free 



This is the ' Silkworm Tbom,' known in W> ^ of Fpenn ie> £ 

 (Dr. fl^ry, to whom we are indebted for a .** & , , 



It is evidently of wide distribution in China. M 1 for * 



common about Ichang, where ■ it is <» n » d £long as mulberry '* 

 worms as the mulberry, but is not, used so J <M ? troub]e90ro e to J 

 can be got, because tbe tree is thorny an Il^S^t'i* 



off the leaves. It is hence given chiefly to ^^jn 



mulberry leaves soon become finish^ ^ »,» 



attains a 



peri* 



especially from near the base, are o 

 straight-pointed axillary spines.— -^ ^ 



Fig. l. Staminata flaw*. 2. Stamen and ja^ ^JJJT »• 

 tillate flower, immerse.l in its caP ,tu !"? m1 ' 7. Fr ** **' 

 action. 6. Portion of fruitin? enpituluni. 



f 'pen. 9. Embryo. Enlarg 



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