TAB. 13.
M AC LI K A AÜRANTIACA.
OSAGE ORANGE OR BOW-WOOD.
MACLURA. Nutt.
MORI SP. Auct.
Flores dioici. Masc. Amentum oblongum. Calyx 4-partitus. Petala nulla. Stamina 4. Foem. Amenta
globosa. Calyx minimus, urceolatus. Styli elongati, filiformes, villosi, singulis acinis singuli. Bacca
acinis confluentibus composita, multilocularis: loculis monospermis.
Arbores Americana1 lactifiuce. Folia alterna, integerrima v. serrata, petiolata. Stipulae bines. ciliatce. Spinae
( Pedunculi abortivi) solitaries, supra-axillares. Flores axillares. Bacca magna, succulenta.
I. Maclura Aürantiaca, foliis ovalibus acuminatis integerrimis, stipulis minimis subpersistentibus.
Maclura aürantiaca. Nuit. Gen. Amer. 2, p. 234.
Habitat in Americæ borealis territorio Missouriense, ad ripas fluviorum, et præsertim ad Arkansa flumen.
Hunier, Nuttall. b.
D E S C R IP T IO .
Arbor ramosissima, patens, 30-60 pedes alta. Hamuli flexuosi, teretes, glabri. Folia ovalia, acuminata,
integerrima, petiolata, 3-4 pollices longa, sesqui v. biunciam lata, laetd viridia; adultiora utrinque, nisi ad
venas, glabra ; juniora pubescentia. Petioli angusti, compressi, subvillosi, semiunciales. Spines axillares,
solitariae, erecto-patulae, subulatae, rigid®, 2-3 lineas longa?. Flores masculi parvi, albo-virentes;
feeminei in amentum sphaericum magnitudine Buddlejce globosa. Styli longi, villosi. Bacca carnosa,
pedunculosa, magnitudine Citri decumance, lutescens, sapida. Semina obovata, compressa.
Besides the interesting species now described, Maclura will include the Morus Tinctoria of Linnaeus, and
two new species, natives of Mexico. The former, Mr. Nuttall, who, I believe, had never seen specimens of it,
is inclined to think belongs to a different genus; but having myself examined carefully several specimens
I have been induced to refer it to this genus. The two Mexican species approach still nearer to the Maclura
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