MORUS.] URTICACEM. 137 



A deciduous tree or shrub. Leaves ovate, caudate-acuminate, coarsely 

 and unequally serrate, 2-5 in. long, pubescent, or scabrous when, 

 old. Male spikes lax, on short slender 'peduncles. Fern, spikes 

 short, ovoid. Sepals 4, the two inner flat or concave, the outer ones 

 more less keeled ; styles long, hairy, connate high up. Fruit dark- 

 purple when ripe. 



Wild on the outer Himalayan ranges up to 7,000 ft., and on the Sub- 

 Himalayan tract ea&twards to Sikkim and Upper Burma. It is 

 largely cultivated as a shrub in Bengal and Burma for feeding silk- 

 worms, as well as on the Nilgiri Hills. In N. India the new foliage 

 and flowers appear in February and March and the fruit ripens in 

 May. The wood is hard and close-grained. 



2. M. Ijevigata, Wall. Cat 4649 ; Boyle III. 337 ; Brandis For. 

 Fl. 409 ; Ind. Trees 613 ; Gamble Man. 636 ; Prain Beng. PL 968 ;. 

 Cooke FL Bomb, ii, 658. M. cuspidate, Wall-Mem. Tut. 



A large or medium-sized tree ; young shoots stipules and bud-scales 

 clothed with long soft hairs. Leaves 3-7 in, long, ovate, cuspidate r 

 finely serrate, often cordate at jthe base ; petioles 1-1 J in. Spikes 

 drooping, male spikes very hairy, the female almost glabrous. Sepals 

 of feni. thin, two inner flat, outer ones keeled. Styles nearly free, 

 papillose from base. Fruit long, cylindric, yellowish-white, insipid. 



Tropical and subtrop. Himalaya from the Indus to Assam, wild and 

 cultivated, ascending to 4,000 ft., al.^o in Burma. A variety (M. 

 viridis, B.-Ham.} witk the leaves rounded at the apex is cultivated 

 in Behar. 



3. M. alba, Linn.; Boyle III. 336 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. in, 594 ; DC. 

 UOrig. PL Cult. 119 ; Brandw For. FL 407, t. 47 ; Ind. Trees 612 ;. 

 F. B. I. V, 492 ; Watt E. D.; Comm. Prod. Ind. 784 ; Gamble Man. 

 634 ; Kanjilal For. FL (ed. 2} 364 ; Collett FL Siml. 457 ; Cooke FL 

 Bomb, ii, 658. M. tatarica, Vern. Tut, tutri, tuntri.-White 

 Mulberry. 



A small or medium-sized deciduous tree ; young parts petioles and 

 underside of leaves more or less pubescent. Leaves 2-3 in. long or 

 more, ovate, acute, dentate or often lobed ; upper surface usually 

 glabrous ; base cordate ; petioles J-l in. Flowers on short ovoid 

 spikes, monoecious, the male and female often on distinct branches. 

 Sepals of fern. fls. 4, the two inner flat or concave, the outer ones 

 keeled. Styles free. Fruiting spikes white or red, sweet. 



