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fissures, not running into each other. Sometimes the outer bark peels off in 

 scales, somewhat similar in appearance to the bark of jEsculus indica. Heart- 

 wood yellowish or dark reddish - brown, with white medullary rays. Easily 

 worked, not heavy, polishes beautifully, and might answer for cabinet-work. 

 Is used for agricultural implements, toys, troughs, and similar articles. The 

 tree is often lopped for cattle-fodder. 



Broussonetia papyri/era, Vent. ; DC. Prodr. xvii. 224 ; Bot. Mag. t. 

 2358, the Paper Mulberry, is a middle-sized dioicous tree, with ovate 

 dentate leaves, the upper side rough, the under side soft-tomentose, male 

 flowers in cylindrical catkins, female flowers in compact, tomentose heads, 

 from which project, at the time of maturity, long fleshy stalks, bearing 1- 

 seeded carpels. The leaves of young trees and root-suckers are often lobed. 

 Japan, China, Polynesia, Siam. Hardy in England, also in France and 

 Western Germany. Wood light-coloured, even-grained, not hard and not 

 heavy. The Tapa-cloth of the South Sea Islands is made of the inner 

 bark ; in Japan paper is made of it, particularly the thick paper for the 

 eggs of the silkworm ; and in Siam and Burma the thick blackened card- 

 boards, used like slates in Europe for accounts and other writing. (Pala- 

 baik Burm.) In February 1859 I found it growing apparently wild, on 

 the Sal ween river (lat. 18 40') near Kolodo and Dahguin zeik, at the 

 borders of the Karenee country. This useful tree seems to accommodate 

 itself readily to different conditions of climate, and might advantageously 

 be cultivated in North- West India. 



7. STREBLUS, Loureiro. 



Tree or shrub with alternate coriaceous distichous leaves and small lat- 

 eral early deciduous stipules. Flowers dioicous, male in shortly pedun- 

 culate axillary clusters, female singly pedunculate. Male fl. : perianth 

 4-partite, segments imbricate, stamens inflexed in aestivation. Female fl. : 

 perianth 4-phyllous, segments dry concave concealing the ovary. Ovary 

 1 -celled with a solitary pendulous ovule, stigmas 2 filiform. Fruit glo- 

 bose, enclosed in the accrescent perianth. Albumen none. 



1. S. asper, Lour. ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Anal. gen. t. 26. Syn. 

 Trophis asper a, Retz. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 761 ; Epiearpurus orientalis, 

 Blume; Wight Ic. t. 1961. Vern. Ji?idi, Pb. ; Siora, sihoura, kar- 

 channa, rusa, Oudh, N.W.P. ; Barranki, barinika, Tel. 



A rigid shrub or a small scraggy tree with dark-green foliage, branch- 

 lets hairy, all parts full of milky juice. Leaves short-petiolate, elliptic or 

 obovate, 2-4 in. long, penniveined, irregularly dentate, rough on both sides 

 with minute raised round dots ; stipules obliquely lanceolate. Flowers 

 dioicous. Male fl. in short-petiolate globose heads, with a few bracteoles 

 at the base; perianth campanulate, 4-fid, pubescent outside. Female fl. 

 solitary, on slender peduncles, longer than flower, supported by 2 brac- 

 teoles ; perianth 6-fid, closely imbricate, two opposite , segments inside, two 

 outside ; styles two, long-filiform, connate at the base. Fruit a yellow 1- 

 seeded berry, partly enclosed in the enlarged perianth. 



