MACLDKA.t 
(Nuttall.) 
Natural Order , Artocarpe^e, (R. Brown.) Linncean 
Classification , Dkecia, Tetrandria. 
Flowers dioecious. — Male flowers with the calyx 4-cleft. 
Stamens 4 , exserted. Female flowers in globular aments; 
the calyx fleshy, 4-parted, with the bases ingrafted together. 
Corolla none. Style 1, filiform, villous. Germs numerous, 
each 1 seeded, coalescing into a compound globular berry of 
many cells, the cells 1 -seeded. Seed obovate. 
A lactescent tree, related to the Fustic, and with nearly simi- 
lar yellow wood. Leaves alternate, entire, without stipules, 
producing superaxillary simple spines. Male flowers in pedun- 
culated umbels. Aments axillary. Berry verrucose and large, 
resembling an orange, at first lactescent, greenish-yellow or yel- 
low. Nearly allied to Broussonetia , but distinguished by the 
coalescence of the germs, and a peculiar habit. 
OSAGE ORANGE, or YELLOW WOOD. 
MACLURA aurantiaca. Nutt . Gen. Amer., vol. 2. p. 234. 
Loudon’s Encycl. of Plants, p. 784. fig. 13256. Arboretum 
et Frutic, vol. 3. p. 1342. 1362. figures 1226, 1227, 1228. 
Lambert’s Supplement to Pinus, 1. c. Eaton’s Manual, 
(Ed. 8.) p. 311. 
This remarkable tree, though perfectly thriving and 
•|* In honour of the celebrated geologist, philosopher, and 
patron of natural science, Wm. Maclure. 
