Morus.] URTICACEZE. 967 
adnate to fleshy perianth. Seed with membranous testa ; albumen 
copious or scanty ; cotyledons short, broad. 
34, DEBREGEASIA DENTATA Hook. f.; F. B. I. v. 591. 
Chittago 
A much- ace bush, 10 feet high. 
865. Broussonetia Vent. 
Trees or shrubs ; juice on ; leaves alternate, serrate or lobed ; 
stipules lateral, deciduous. Flowers dicecious, males in solitary, 
cylindric spikes, pines in solitary, axillary heads, intzod with 
persistent bracts. ¢ Sepals connate in a 4-fid or 4-partite 
perianth ; Nees valvate. Stamens 4, inflexed in bud. Pistillode 
minute. ¢ Sepals connate in an ovoid or tubular, 3—4-toothed, 
persistent perianth. Ovary nee pe: stipitate ; ovule pendulous ; 
style subulate, 2-partite. Fruit of many exserted, stipitate 
achenes, aggregated in small has surrounded ‘by the bracts and 
perianths, fleshy below, crustaceous above. Seed with thin testa, 
adnate to endocarp ; albume n et cotyledons oblong, equal ; 
radicle incumbent, ascen ing. 
1935. nigoba => PAPYRIFERA Vent.; F. B, I. v. 490; E. D. 
B. 883. 
Planted occasionally, and wherever planted springing 
up spontaneously. 
A tree; native of Burma, Malaya, and Polynesia. The 
Paper Mulberry. 
866. Morus Linn. 
aga or shrubs; juice milky; leaves alternate, entire, toothed 
3-lobed, base 3~5-nerved; stipules small, lateral, caducous. 
Fi lowers moncecious or dicecious, spicate, male spikes ——— 
catkin-like, female long cylindric, or short oblong or subglobo 
¢ Sepals 4, imbricate. Stamens 4, inflexed in bud. Pistillode 
turbinate, ? Sepals 4, decussate-imbricate, accrescent an 
Succulent in fruit. Ovary included, straight; ovule pendulous; 
style central, 2- -partite or 2-fid. Fruit of achenes enclosed in the 
Succulent perianths, which are aggregated in berry-like spikes or 
heads. Seed subglobose; albumen copious, fleshy; embryo 
incurved ; cotyledons oblong, equal; radicle ascending. 
*Female spikes short, ovoid [p. 968] indica 
