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Cudrania tricuspidata, Bureau (Madura tricuspidata, Carr. C. triloba, Hance). Shrub, or small tree, to 20, rarely to 60 ft., with slender, thorny branches: Lvs. elliptic-ovate, acuminate, entire, sometimes 3-lobed at the apex and on young plants even tricuspidate, nearly glabrous, l½-3 in. long: fl.- heads axillary, solitary or in 2's, on short peduncles: fr. globose, about 1 in. across. China. R.H. 1864, p. 390; 1872, p. 56; 1905, p. 363 (habit). H.I. 18:1792.— Recently recommended as an excellent hedge-plant for the S. In China the Lvs. are used as a substitute for mulberry Lvs. and it is called silkworm thorn; the fr. is edible. Between this species and Madura pomifera, a hybrid has been raised, described as Macludrania hybrida, Andre. R.H. 1905:362. Alfred Rehder.
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