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NATUBAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



and stigmata not plumose as in Gironniera^ stipules united in pairs 

 like those of Parasponia ; but the flowers are monoecious and not 

 dioecio-polygamous. The same is the case with those of Jphananthe^ 

 spinous trees of the Cape, with fruit accompanied at the base with 

 the persistent calyx and filiform style-branches, but possessing a 

 yalvate-induplicate calyx and stipules united to each other in one 

 large membranous axillary blade, which is early detached in one 

 piece, nearly like those of Parasponia. 



Ampelocera cannot, apparently to us, be removed from Celtis^ to 

 which, by its stamens 10 to 15 in number, it bears nearly the 

 same relation as Holoptelea to Ulrnus. The gynoecium is also quite 

 that of a Lotus, and the fleshy fruit is monospermous. It comprises 

 trees of tropical America, with alternate leaves and membranous 

 caducous stipules. 



II. MULBEEEY SEEIES. 



In the Mulberry^ (fig. 98-101), the unisexual, monoecious or 



Morus alba. 



Fig. 99. Male flower (f). 



Fior. 98. Male floriferous branch. 



Fig. 100. Female inflorescence. 



dioecious flowers are tetramerous, and the straight almost flat or, in 

 the male flower, slightly depressed receptacle, bears four decussate 



1 Morus T. Imt. 589, t. 362.— L. Ge)i. n. 

 1055. — Adans. Fam. des PL ii. 377.— J. Gen. 

 402.— ScHKUHR. Handb. t. 290.— G.ertn. Fruct. 

 ii. 199, 1. 126.— PoiR. Bid. iv. 373 ; Suppl. iv. 



33.— Lamk. Ill t. 762.— Spach, Suit, a Buffon^ 

 xi. 39.— Endl. Gen. n, 1856.— Payer, Fam. Nat. 

 171.— H. Bn. Adansonia, i. 214, t. 8, fig. 1-12. 

 —Bur. DC. Frodr. xvii. 237. 



