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verified in Broussonctia, or the Paper-Mulberry (fig. 102-107), 

 beautiful trees of temperate and tropical Asia, with leaves very 

 variable in form, and dioecious tetramerous flowers. The male 

 inflorescence is amentiform and analogous to that of the Mulberry. 

 The female flowers have a gamophyllous urceolate perianth and a 

 gynaacium analogous to that of Moms, but with a simple style, 



Broussonctia papyrifera. 



Fig. 102. Foliaceous branch (-1). 



filiform at its sti^matiferous extremity. The fruit is formed of a 

 great number of stvpitate drupes, collected on a spherical receptacle, 

 and the fleshy mesocarp thickens only at the edges in a sort of 

 forceps with elastic branches which drive and project the putamen 

 as the seeds, analogous to those of the Mulberries, mature. 

 Madura differs very little from Broussonetia, of which it has 

 the flower and male inflorescence. But the female flowers are 

 destitute of a calyx with independent folioles, like that of the 



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