136 URTICACEdS. [ MAOUTIA. 



A shrub, with dark-grey bark marked with vertical lines of brown 

 lenticles ; branches clothed with long soft hairs. Leaves membra- 

 nous, 4-8 in. long, elliptic, caudate-acuminate, coarsely dentate with 

 large triangular teeth, scabrid above, intensely white beneath with 

 densely matted soft hairs except on the pubescent nerves, promi- 

 nently 3 -nerved from the rounded or subacute base, and with 3-4 

 pairs of lateral nerves from the midrib above ; petioles 1-5 in. long ; 

 stipules lanceolate, 2-fid. Flowers minute, in small round unisexual 

 or androgynous heads which are arranged in slender axillary and 

 terminal cymose panicles shorter than the petioles. Achenes gibbously 

 ovoid, trigonous, hispid. 



Dehra Dun, and Siwalk Range, in ravines and on banks of streams ; 

 also eastwards along the Sub- Himalayan tract. Fl. and fr. May to . 

 November. DISTRIB : Outer Himalaya eastwards from Garhwal up 

 to 4,000 ft. ; also on Khasia Hills and extending to Burma and 

 Japan. The plant yields a strong fine white fibre suitable for making 

 fishing nets and lines, and was formerly known as the wild rhea 

 of Sikkim. 



13. MORUS, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. v, 491. 



Trees or shrubs with milky juice. Leaves alternate, entire or 

 toothed or 3-lobed, base 3-5-nerved ; stipules small, lateral, cadu- 

 cous. Flowers monoecious or dioecious, spicate. MALE flowers in 

 elongate catkin-like spikes. Sepals 4, imbricate. Stamens 4, in- 

 flexed in bud. Pistillode turbinate. FEM. flowers in long and 

 cylindric, or in short oblong or subglobose spikes. Sepals 4, decus- 

 sate, imbricate, accrescent and succulent in fruit. Ovary included, 

 straight, 1-celled ; style central, 2-part. or 2-fid. ; ovule pendulous. 

 Fruit of many achenes enclosed in the succulent perianths and 

 aggregated in berry] ike spikes or heads. Seed subglobose, albumen 

 copious, fleshy, embryo incurved ; cotyledons oblong, equal, radicle 

 ascending. Species about 10, in temperate and tropical regions. 



1. M. indica, Linn. Sp. PL 986 ; Roxb. FL Ind. Hi, 596 ; Boyle 

 III. 337 ; Brandis For. FL 408 ; Ind. Trees 612 ; F. B. /, V, 492 ; 

 Watt E. D. ; Comm. Prod. Ind. 785 ; Kanjildl For. FL (ed. 2} 365 ; 

 Gamble Man. 635 ; Prain Beng. PL 968 ; Collett Fl. Siml. 457 ; 

 Cooke FL Bomb, ii, 658 ; M. parvifolia, Royle 1. c. Vern. Tut, tutris 

 sia tut, sia tunt. Small-leaved mulberry. 



