270 CLASSIFICATION 



having a solid axis (rachis) lined externally by a 

 crowd of very small flowers, either only male or only 

 female. The inflorescence matures into an aggre- 

 gate spurious fruit known as soROSis (see fig. 135). 

 Artocarpus incisa, the Bread-fruit tree, a native of 

 the Pacific islands, with pinnifid leaves, is occasion- 

 ally cultivated in India. 



Tribe More^, including the genera of Moras, 

 Streblus, Broussonetia, &c., is characterized by stamens 

 inflexed in the bud. Mulberry or to'ont (Morus indicd) 

 has dioecious flowers in long or short spikes; female 

 perianth and bract accrescent, 

 and succulent in the fruit. 

 Fruit spurious, and consisting 

 of achenes enclosed in accres- 

 cent bracts and perianths, and 

 "<?. if? aggregated in spikes. It is 



Fig-. 239.— shaorha (Streblus asi>er) largely Cultivated for its leaves, 



which are used for feeding silk- 

 worms. Paper Mulberry {Broussonetia papyriferd), 

 a native of Burma, Malaya, and Polynesia, is planted 

 occasionally. The fibrous bark of this plant is beaten 

 out and worked up into a kind of cloth, and also a 

 kind of paper. Streblus asper (shaorha) (fig. 239) is 

 a rigid gnarled shrub, supposed to be the haunt of 

 evil spirits. It has dioecious flowers with inflexed 

 stamens, which on the slightest touch jump up and 

 scatter a cloud of powdery pollen-grains. 



Nat. Order 7. — JuglandiacecB includes the English 

 Walnut tree {Juglans regia), a native of Persia and 

 the Himalayas; Engelh'ardtia spicata (fig. 240), a 

 handsome tree of Khasi Hills and Chittagong, with 

 its fruit adnate to the 3-lobed bract. 



Nat. Order 8. — Cupuliflorce includes the Oak tree 

 {Quercus), the Beech tree (Fagus), and the Chestnut 



