TAB. 13.
MACLURA AURANTIACA,
OSAGE ORANGE OR BOW-WOOD.
MACLURA. Nutt.
MORI SP. Auct.
Flores dioici. Masc. Amentum oblongum. Calyx 4-partitus. Petala nulla. Stamina 4. Fcem. Amenta
globosa. Calyx minimus, urceolatus. Styli elongati, filiformes, villosi, singulis acinis singuli. Bacca
acinis confluentibus composita, multilocularis: loculis monospermis.
Arbores Americance lactiflues. Folia alterna, integerrima v. serrata, petiolata. Stipulae bince. ciliatce. Spinae
( Pedunculi abortivi) solitaries, supra-axillar es. Flores axillares. Bacca magna, succulenta.
I. M aclura A urantiaca, foliis ovalibus acuminatis integerrimis, stipulis minimis subpersistentibus.
Maclura aurantiaca. Nutt. Gen. Amer. 2, p. 2-34.
Habitat in Americæ borealis territorio Missouriense, ad ripas fluviorum, et præsertim ad Arkansa Humen.
Hunter, Nut tall. b.
D E S C R IP T IO .
Arbor ramosissima, patens, -30-00 pedes alta. Ramuli flexuosi, teretes, glabri. Folia ovalia, acuminata,
integerrima, petiolata, 3-4 pollices longa, sesqui v. biunciam lata, lact£ viridia; adultiora utrinque, nisi ad
venas, glabra ; juniora pubescentia. Petioli angusti, compressi, subvillosi, semiunciales. Spines axillares,
solitariae, erecto-patulae, subulatae, rigidae, 2-3 lineas longae. Flores masculi parvi, albo-virentes;
fesminei in amentum sphaericum magnitudine Buddlejes globe>ses. Styli longi, villosi. Bacca carnosa,
pedunculosa, magnitudine Citri decumancs, lutescens, sapida. Semina obovata, compressa.
B esides the interesting species now described, Maclura will include the Menus 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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