492 . cxxxvi. URTICACE2E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Mows. 



M. ALBA, Linn. Sp. PL 986 ; leaves ovate or ovate-cordate acute often 

 lobed toothed base 3-nerved, male sepals' elliptic, fern, spikes short ovoid, 

 outer sepals keeled, inner flat or concave, styles short free. M. alba (in 

 part], Bureau in DC. Prodr. xvii. 238 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind.ni. 594; Brand. For. 

 Ft. 407, t. 47; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 327; Reichb.Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 657. 

 M. serrata, Wall. Cat. 4648 B. M. tatarica, Linn. Sp. PI. JEd. 3, 1399 ; Roxb. 

 I. c. 598 ; Pallas Fl. Ross. i. ii. 9, t. 52. 



Cultivated in the PANJAB, NOETH-WEST- HIMALAYA and WESTEEN TIBET, 

 ascending to 11,000 ft. DISTBIB. Affghanistan, N. and W. Asia, wild, or cultivated 

 (for its fruit). 



A deciduous monoecious tree, 30-40 ft. ; branchlets petioles and leaves beneath 

 puberulous or pubescent. Leaves 2-3 in., rather membranous; petiole -1 in. 

 Fruiting spikes peduncled, white or red, sweet. Eoxburgh describes this as dioecious. 

 The common black mulberry differs from alba in its broader firm thick often 5- 

 uerved leaves, subsessile fern, spikes, densely hairy perianth and styles, and purple aci- 

 dulous-sweet fruit, Brandis. M. alba is cultivated for its fruit. 



1. M. in die a. Linn. Sp. PL 986 ; leaves ovate caudate-acuminate 

 sharply serrate often deeply lobed scaberulous, male sepals elliptic hairy, 

 fern, spikes short ovoid, sepals obovate, outer keeled, inner flat, styles long 

 hairy connate below. M. alba, var. indica, Bureau in DC. Prodr. xvii. 

 243 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 596 ; Brand. For. Fl. 408 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 468 ; 

 Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 328; Wight Ic. t. 674; Wall. Cat. 4645 (except 

 H). M. parvifolia, Royle mss. ? M. acidosa, Griff. Notul. iv. 388. M. 

 cuspidata, Wall. Cat. 4646 ; Gamble 1. c. M. alba, var. cuspidata, Bureau 

 I. c. 243. 



TEMPEBATE and SUBTEOPICAL HIMALAYA, from Kashmir to Sikkim, ascending 

 to 7000 ft., wild and cultivated (for silkworm-feeding) in Bengal, Assam, Burma, 

 &c. DISTEIB. China, Japan. 



Habit of M. aflba, but cultivated usually as a shrub, of which it is perhaps a 

 form with long points to the rougher leaves, connate styles, and obovate female sepals. 

 Wallicb/s 4645 H is a very different plant, which I do not recognize. 



2. Itt. serrata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 596 pleaves broadly ovate-cordate 

 acuminate coarsely toothed or serrate, petiole tomentose, fern, spikes short 

 cylindric, fern, sepals 2-4 equal oblong ciliate, styles very hairy connate 

 below, fruit shortly cylindric purple sweet. f M. alba, L. ?, Wall. Cat. 4648 A ; 

 Brand. For. Fl. 409 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 328. M. alba, var. serrata, 

 Bureau in DC. Prodr. xvii. 242. M. pabularia, ,JDcne. in Jacquem. Voy. 

 Bot. 149, t. 151. M. vicorum, Jacquem. mss. j 



TEMPEEATE HIMALAYA, from Kumaon westwards, alt. 4-9000 ft. (cultivated in 

 Kunawur). 



A lofty tree, attaining 60-70 ft., and girth of trunk 28 ft. ; young parts 

 pubescent or tomentose. Leaves 2-8 in., often lobed, membranous ; petiole 1-2 in., 

 and young leaves beneath pubescent ; stipules broadly lanceolate. Spikes, males 1-2 in., 

 fern. ^ in., peduncles softly tomentose. Sepals of male elliptic-oblong, villous; 

 filaments flattened below. Fruit mucilaginous. United with alba by Bureau, but 

 I think very distinct. Eoxburgh describes the leaves as rough but void of pubes- 

 cence, and distinguishes the species by the long points and remarkably large teeth of 

 the leaves, thus resembling M. indica. 



3. M. leevig-ata, Wall. Cat. 4649; leaves ovate or ovate-cordate 

 cuspidate finely serrate 'toothed glabrous or subscaberulous, spikes of both 

 sexes very long-peduncled, sepals 4 rounded COD cave of male very hairy of 

 i'em. glabrous, styles nearly free papillose, fruit long cylindric yellowish- 



