Lxv. artoca'rpe^ : maclu ra. 



711 



13S5. B. papjrifera. 



a male plant in the Jardin des Plantes, which has its leaves curved 

 upwards, like the hood of a Capuchin, or the sides of a boat, 

 s . p. Z fructu dlbo. Fruit white. 



A very singular tree, from the great variation in the form of its leaves, and 

 Iso from its flowers and fruit. In general aspect it has the appearance of a 

 uilberry, but it is leas hardy than the species of that genus. 



Genus III. 



MACLU'R^ Nutt. The Maclur.\. Lin. Syst. Dice cia Tetrandria. 



\dentificafion. Nutt. Gen. N. Amer. Plants, 2. p. 23.3. ; Lindi. Nat. Syst. of Bot., p. 178. 

 \ynonyme. T6xylon Bafinesque in 1817, Card. Mag. vol. viii. p. 247. 



frivdtivn. Named by Nuttall, in honour of William Maclure, Esq., of the United States ; an 

 eminent natural philosopher. 



len. Char. Flowers unisexual, dioecious. Male flowers in a racemose panicle. 

 : Calyx 4-parted. Staviens 4, or 3. Female flowers closely aggregate upon 

 I an axis, and forming a globular head that is borne upon a short axillary pe- 

 i duncle. Calyx oblong, urceolar, apparently with 4 lobes at the tip. Style 

 ; thread-shaped, downy, protruded nearly an inch beyond the calyx. Fruit 

 \ an acheniuni about | in. long, compressed, with the tip blunt. {G. Don.) 

 \ Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, deciduous ; ovate, entire. Flowers 

 i small, mellow. Tree, deciduous ; native of North America ; with a fruit as 

 ' large as an orange, and when ripe of the same colour ; propagated by layers, 

 I cuttings of the roots, or grafting on the common mulberry. 



5 1. M. AURANTi' ACA Nutt. The Ovs.xigQ-Vike-fruited Madura, or 



Osage Orange. 



^entijication. Nutt. Gen. N. Amer. PI., 2. p. 234. 



hnoiiymes. Bow-wood, Yellow Wood, A". Amer. 



\h^ Sexes. Both male and female plants are in the Horticultural Society's Garden, and in the 



! Hackney arboretum. 



>'ngyavings. Appendix to Lambert's Monog. on the Genus Pinus. 2. p. 32. ; and our Jig. 1386. in 



which a is the female flower, and b the male ; the fruit is figured of the nat. size in our 1st edit. 



pec. Char. See Gen. Char. A deciduous widely spreading tree, with spiny 

 i branches. In the Arkansas, and on the banks" of the Red River, on deep 



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