Chlorophora MOEACE^ 43 



perianths become somewhat fleshy, and are tightly crowded 

 together into a globose compound pseudocarp. Achene about 

 equal to the perianth, ovate, compressed, very oblique at the 

 apex; pericarp coriaceous. Embryo with ovate equal cotyledons. 

 Species 2, one a native of tropical America, the other of 

 tropical Africa. 



C. tinetoria Gaudich. in Freyc. Voy. Bot. 508 in nota (1826). 

 Morus fructu viridi ligno sulphureo tinctorio Shane Cat. 128 & 

 Hist. a. 3, t. 158,/. 1. Morus &c. Plum. PI. Amer. (Burm.) t. 204 ; 

 Browne Hist. Jam. 339. Morus tinetoria L. Sp. PI. 986 (1753) ; 

 Wright Mem. 303. Madura tinetoria 1). Don ex Steud. Nomencl. 

 ed. 2. a. 87 (1841) ; Mig. in Fl. Bras, iv.pt. 1. 155. t. 51, 52; 

 Griseb. Fl Br. W. Ind. 153. M. xanthoxylon Fndl. Gen. 

 Suppl. iv. II. 34 (1847) ; Mig. torn. cit. 156, t. 53; Griseb. loc. cit. 

 (Fig. 11.) 



Fustic Tree. 



" Plains of the north and south sides of the Island," Sloane Herb. v. 

 52a, 54 ! Wright ! Macfadyen ! Distin ! Cuming ! St. Ann ; Liguanea 

 Plain ; Purdie ! Bromfield ! Fairfield, Wullschlaegel, 1381b ! Rock Fort, 

 Camphell 1 Hope Grounds ; Sheldon ; Harris 1 Fl. Jam. 5281, 6504. — 

 W. Indies and tropical America. 



Tree to more than 60 ft. high, twigs with light-brown bark. Leaves 

 distichous, limb 5-12 cm. 1., 1-5-5 cm. br., elliptical, ovate-elliptical or 

 lanceolate, entire or toothed, acuminate. Berries as large as a raspberry. 



Male spike 3-7 cm. 1., stalk 1-1 '5 cm. 1. Female inflor-escence 6-8 mm. 

 in diam., stalk 3-5 mm. 1. Fruit 12-14 mm. in diam., stalk 10-12 mm. 1. 



Tree yields a yellow or yellow-brown, very tough, close-grained and 

 heavy-timber which is exported as a dye-wood, and used locally for mill- 

 rollers, naves for wheels, &c. 



3. DORSTENIA L. 



In the West Indies the species are stemless herbs with 

 membranous leaves, with long flat atalks springing from a 

 thickened perennial rhizome. Stipules lateral, distinct, persistent. 

 Flowers monoecious, densely crowded on a scape-like long- 

 stalked saucer-shaped androgynous receptacle. Perianths of 

 both sexes more or less connate into a fleshy layer clothing the 

 surface of the receptacle, forming unisexual pits. Male pits 

 slightly immersed. Stamens 2, filaments at first inflexed, at 

 length straight, exserted. Ovary rudimentary. Female pits 

 much deeper. Ovary enclosed ; style lateral, bifid ; ovule pen- 

 dulous. Fruits small, at length protruded from the pits ; 

 exocarp somewhat fleshy, endocarp crustaceous. Cotyledons 

 subequal, contortuplicate. 



Species about 50, natives of tx^opical America and Africa, 

 only one in Asia in eastern India. 



Leaves cordate 1. D. cordifolia. 



Leaves peltate 2. D. jamaicensis. 



