234 DIOECIA. TETRAXDUIA. 



rolla none. Siyle 1, filiform, villous. Germs mx-^ 

 nierous, coalescing into a compound globose 

 heviy of many cells; cells 1 -seeded. Seed obo- 

 vate, compressed. 



A small lactt'scent tree, producing- wood similar to Fus- 

 tic; leaves alternate, entire, destitute of stipules, furnish- 

 ed with superaxillary simple spines; amenls axillary; ber- 

 ry verrucose and lartre, at first lactescent, yello\v. ' A ge- 

 nus proximately allied to Broussonetiu; and belonging to 

 the Natural Order UrtiGjE, 

 JM. auraniiaca. 



Ob5. a {spreading- tree about 20 to 30 feet high, branch- 

 cs fiexuous and terete. Leaves petiolated, oval, acumina- 

 ted, very entire, apex mucronulate, upper surface smooth 

 and shining-, oetioie and nerves en the under side some- 

 wJiat liirsutely but minutely pubescent; (petiole often 

 nearly an inch loni;; leaf 2 to 3 inches long-, and 1 and a. 

 half to 2 inches wide.) Male flowers unknown. Fem-tle 

 :i globular ament, destitute of both calix and corolla. 

 Style 1 to each seed and germ of the compound berry, fili- 

 form, near an inchloRg and villous. Berry nearly the size 

 of an orange, axillary and subsc«sile, surface verrucose, 

 partly tessellated with obsolete calicine vertigcs; pulp, 

 r.early as succulent as that of an orange, sweetish and 

 perhaps agreeable when fully ripe. v. ^^ 



Hab. « On the banks of the little Missouri of Washita 

 3'iver, also near Natchitoches, and upon the banks of the 

 Arkansa." Hunter and Dunbar's voyage. — I'lie above ac- 

 count has been taken from living plants which were culti- 

 vated in the garden of Mr. Shoutou at St. Louis, Louisi- 

 ana; plants of this interesting tree are now also cultiva- 

 ted in the garden of the late Mr. M'Mahon of Philadel- 

 phia, but have not yet flowered, v, s. In herb. I^ambert^ 

 London — '1 he wood is very heavy and of a Saffron yel- 

 iovv'; the bark as in Broussonetia aflords a fiua white flax. 



Were it not for the particular description (S Morns tinc- 

 ioria given I^y Sloane in his History of Jamaica, vol. 2. p. 3, 

 v.e should from the corresponding habit have almost been 

 induced to consider it, together with two other undescri- 

 bed species, as forming part of the present genus. " I'he 

 fruit " of Morus finctoria, adds Sloane, *' stands on a foot- 

 stalk, is as large as a Nutmeg and round, having its acirii 

 like the other Mulberries, ot a greenish colour both with- 

 out and wi'hin the pulp; there are in it some flat brown 

 small seeds,, like Linseed, and before the fruit comes to- 

 be ripe 'tis milky and not pleasant; but when come to- 



