32* 



TAB. i% 



MACLURA AURANTIACA 



OSAGE ORANGE OR BOW-WOOD. 



MACLURA. NutL 



MORI SP. AucL 



Flores dioici, Masc. Amentum oblongum. Calyx 4-partitns. Pefala nulla. Stamina 4. Foem. Amenta 

 globosa, Ca/i/a: minimus, urceolatus. Sti/Ii elon^ati, filiformes, villosij slngnliw acinis singuli, Bacca 

 acinis confluentibus composita, multilocularis : loculis monospermis, 



Arbores Americans lactijiuce. Folia alterna^ integerrima v. serrata^ petiolata. Stipula^ hinw. ciliatce, Spinae 



(Peduncidi abortivi) solitarice^ supra-axillares. Flores amllares^ Bacca magna^ succidenta. 



JV 



I, Maclura AuiiANTiACA, foliis ovalibns acmninatis integerrimis, stipulis minimis subpersistentibus. 



Madura aurantiaca. Nidt. Gen. Amer. 2, p. 234. 



Habitat in America? borealis territorio Missouriense, ad ripas fluviorum, et pr^sertim ad Arkansa flumen- 



Hiinfer^ NnttaJL h> 



DESCRIPTIO. 



Arhor ramosissinia, patens, 30-00 pedes alta. Ramuli flexnosi, teretes, glabri. Folia ovalia, acuminata, 

 integerrima, petiolata, 3-4 pollices longa, sesqui V. biunciam lata, laetd viridia; adultiora utriuque, nisi ad 

 venas, glabra ; juniora pubescentia. 'Petioli angnstl, oonipressi, subvillosi, semlunciales. S^inm axil- 

 lares, solitarlie, erecto-patulie, siibulatic, rigidsi:, 2-3 lineas longai. Flores mascuU parvi, albo-virentes ; 

 fwimuei in amentum spli^ricum magnitudine Buddlejce ghhmce. Styli longi, villosi. Bacca carnosa, 

 peduncuiosa, magnitudine Cihi decumanw^ lutescens, sapida. Semina obovata, compressa. 



Besides the interesting species now described, Maclura will include the Morus Tinctoria of Linngens, and 

 two new species, natives of Mexico. The former, Mr. Nuttall, who, I believe, had never seen specimens of it, 

 is inclined to think belongs to a different genus; but having myself examined carefully several specimens . 

 I have been induced to refer it to this genus. The two Mexican species approach still nearer to the Alacbira 



