Broussonetia. | ; URTICACEH. 467 
numerous scales (abortive flowers) ; perianth urceolate or bell-shaped, 
4- or 3-toothed at the apex, persistent. Ovary stalked, with a 
olitary pendulous ovule ; style lateral, filiform, gh ces Berry 
elongate-club-shaptd, supported by ‘the perianth, with a sappy 
pericarp enclosing the seed at its thickened upper end, longer than 
the numerous parent bracts of the flower-head. Testa thin, 
membranous, Albumen scanty. Embryo with oblong cotyledons, 
the radicle superior.—Trees or shrubs abounding in milky juice, 
ae simple or lobed serrulate leaves. Inflorescences axillary. 
l. B. papyrifera, Vent.—Ma-daing.—An evergreen (?) shrub or 
small tree, 20-30 ft. high, with spreading pubescent. branchlets, 
the young shoots softly tomentose-pubescent ; leaves from obliquely 
ovate 5 trapezoid-oblong, undivided or often sinuately and deeply 
2- or 3-lobed, on a pubescent glabrescent petiole 2-3 in. long, 
obtuse at the one side of the base, rounded or almost cordate at the 
other, 8-8 in. long, scone serrulate-toothed, membranous, above 
very rough from a short tomentum, beneath softly and densely 
(often greyish) pubescent ; te male spikes cylindrical, 2-3 in. long, 
on pubescent 4-2 in. long peduncles, axilla se yes heads 
globular, tomentose, in frugt honk the size of a some- 
what longer pene pene) solitary in the te ‘of ‘the Heavies ; 
pes sappy, glossy re 
a Seu and ree hills. 
Ks.—The fibrous bark is made into a kind of cloth, from which the 
palate of the Karens are made, The inner bark is used in China and J apan 
r the manufacture of a kind of paper. 
MORDS, U 
the bud. Stamens one or rarely 5. tay radimentay Females : 
i. perianth and hence ang ds us. i) 
uncinnate with oblong cotyledons, the radicle rather ong soasieians — 
Trees or shrubs, with alternate, entire, serrate 0 bed leaves 
owers in axillary spikes, the male. ones iets _— female 
ones shorter. 
Fem . z - i. levi, 
Mak na ~ a wee 4-5 in, long ia LASS Te lewigate- 
1. M. levi w ll.; Brand. “For. Fl. 409. —Ma-lain-pen.— 
A tree » the y a ofa pilose ; leaves ovate to broadly ovate, 
dR or oe My lobed, rounded or cordate at the base, on 
