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Ef)c Crcasfurg at 2Sotang. 



[murr 



midaveris. —.WHITE. Yerbascum Lych- 

 nitis. 



MULLEEA. A genus of Leguminosce of 

 the tribe Dalbergiece, founded on a tall 

 woody climber from tropical America, with 

 the pinnate leaves and racemose flowers of 

 a Lonchocarpus, from which genus it only 

 differs in the pod, which is thick, of a dry 

 fleshy consistence, and either contracted 

 between each seed so as to resemble a suc- 

 cession of large globular beads, or if re- 

 duced to a single seed the whole pod is 

 nearly globular. The Cyanobotrys of Zuc- 

 carini, from Mexico, appears to be a second 

 species of the same genus. 



MULSARI. An Indian name for Mimu- 

 sops Elengi. 



MULT, MULTUS. In Latin compounds 

 = many. Thus, multifarious or multiserial 

 means in many rows ; multiflorous, bearing 

 many flowers ; multifoliate, bearing many 

 leaves, &c. 



MULTICEP3. Having many crowns, as 

 some roots. 



MULTIFEROUS. Producing several 

 times in one season. 



MULTIFID. Cut halfway into many 

 segments. 



MULTIJUGOUS. Bearing a very con- 

 siderable number of pairs of leaflets. 



MULTIPLE. Composed of several dis- 

 tinct parts. 



MULTISEPTATE. Divided by many 

 stages into many chambers, as the pith of 

 the walnut. 



MUr.TISILIQU^:. A natural order of 

 plants, proposed by Linnaeus, and the same 

 as the order Ranunculacece. 



MUXDIA. A genus of Polygalacece, 

 consisting of two species, one from the 

 Cape, the other from South Brazil, both 

 of them little low prickly much-branched 

 shrubs, with small leaves and flowers. It 

 is nearly allied to Muraltia, but the two 

 inner sepals are large and wing like as in 

 Polygala, and the fruit is a small drupe 

 containing one or two seeds; that of the 

 Cape species is said to be eatable. 



MUXDIKEI. The Malay name for the 

 Water-Melon. 



MUXDULT. An African name for Ara- 

 chis hypogcea. 



*MUXGPALLI. An Indian name for Ara- 

 chis hypogcea. 



MUXJEET, or MUXJEETH. The com- 

 mercial name for the Madder root, fur- 

 nished by Rubiacordifolia. 



MUXROXIA. A genus of Meliacece, in- 

 habiting the East Indies, and consisting of 

 erect shrubs, with imparipinnate glabrous 

 leaves, and isolated axillary white flowers, 

 emitting a delicious scent. The calyx is 

 four or five-cleft : the corolla four or five- 

 petaled : the stamens united into a tube 

 or ten in number ; and the capsule five- 



i valved and five-celled, containing two or 

 I often only one seed in each cell. [B. s.] 



J MUXTINGIA. A tree from tropical 



America, constituting a genus of Tiliacece, 



remarkable for the broad sessile stigma, 



and for the fruit, which is a globular berry 



■ containing a large number of small seeds 



i immersed in pulp. In St. Domingo the 



j wood is used for staves, and cords are 



' made from its bast. 



i MURALTIA. A genus of Polygalacece 

 consisting of about fifty species, all from 

 South Africa. They are all small low 

 much-branched shrubs or undershrubs, 

 often rigid and scrubby, with alternate 

 often stiff and needle-like leaves, and small 

 flowers solitary in their axils. As a genus 

 this is distinguished from Polygala, by 

 the inner sepals being scarcely larger than 

 the others, and by the capsule, which al- 

 most always terminates in four short 

 points, horns, or protuberances. None of 

 them are known to have useful properties. 



MURUMURU. Astrocaryum Murumuru. 



MURDANNIA. A genus of Commely- 

 nacecp, founded on Commelyna scapijlora, 

 an Indian herb, with ensiform root-leaves, 

 and a branched scape bearing blue flowers. 

 The perianth has the three outer leaves 

 herbaceous, and the three inner larger and 

 petaloid ; there are six staim nswith beard- 

 ed filaments ; the parallel anther-cells sepa- 

 rated by a bicrural connective, the alternate 

 ones sterile. [J. T. S.J 



MURET. (Fr.1 Cheirantlms Clieiri. 



MURICARIA. A genus of Crucifero?, 

 forming a procumbent herb, growing in 

 sandy places in Northern Africa, and hav- 

 ing pinnatifld leaves, and terminal or late- 

 ral racemes of white flowers. Thepouch is 

 indehiseent, globose, with a short style, 

 leathery and rough on the surface ; the 

 seed solitary, globose. [J. T. S.] 



MURICATED. Furnished with nume- 

 rous short hard excrescences. 



MURICI. A Brazilian name for the bark 

 of Byrsonima. 



MURIER. (Fr.) Morus. — A PAPIER. 

 Broussonetia papyrifera. — DE RENARD. 

 Rubus fruticosus. — NAIN. Eubus Cha- 

 mcemorus. 



MURINUS. Mouse-coloured; grey, with 

 a touch of red. 



MURLINS. The Badderlocks, Alaria es- 

 culenta. 



MURRATA. A genus of Aurantiacece, 

 consisting of trees or shrubs, without 

 spines, having pinnate leaA'es, and a ter- 

 minal many-flowered cymose inflorescence. 

 The flowers have a five-cleft calyx, oblong 

 petals, ten free stamens, and one or two 

 ovules. The fruit is succulent. With this 

 genus Professor Oliver associates Bergera, 

 there being too many transitional charac- 

 ters between the two to allow them to re- j 

 main separate. The species are natives of j 

 India, Java, China, &c. ; two of them with 



