468 URTICACER. { Morus. 
turning quite glabrous, 3-4 in. long an often_ almost as broad; 
stipules linear-subulate, pubescent ; male spikés slender, 4-5 in. 
long, villous, on rather short pubescent peduncles arising from the 
axils of the leaves of the first year’s shoots; female spikes as long 
as the males and very similar to them, but the flowers more 
crowded and glabrous or nearly so; achenes enclosed in the little 
enlarged insipid whitish perianths. 
Has.—Martaban and Tenasserim hills, in tropical forests.—Fl. March. 
minutely pubescent ; fruits compound, oblong or nearly so, 3-4 lin. 
long, consisting of smooth, purplish black, fleshy perianths enclosing 
the achenes. 
Has.—Nowhere really wild in Burma, but generally cultivated by the — 
natives (especially the Karens) for food for silk-worms. Occasionally springing 
up in deserted toungyas or along the banks of mountain streams. —Fl. C.S. 
TREMA, Lour. 
_ Flowers dioecious or polygamous. Perianth 4- or 5-parted, 
imbricate in the bud, persistent. Males: stamens 4, or 5, opposite 
to the perianth-segments ; filaments incurved. Ovary rudiment- 
ary. Females: ovary 1-celled, with a single ovule attached to the 
summit of the wall; stigmas 2, elongate-filiform, free or sometimes 
crowned by the stigmas, containing a hard putamen.—Trees, with 
penninerved, entire or serrulate leaves. Male flowers clustered- 
More or less pubescent ; leaves serrulate . “ ; : . T. orientalis. 
Minutely puberulous ; leaves serrulate : i 1, Timorensts- 
1. T. orientalis, Bl. (Sponia orientalis, Planch. ; Brand. For. 
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