Chlorophora
(from chloros, greenish, and phoreo, to bear; alluding to the economic properties of C. tinctoria). ORD. Urticaceae. A genus comprising only two species of milky, stove trees; one is a native of tropical America, and the other is tropical African. Flowers dioecious, the males in cylindrical spikes, the females in globose or oblong heads; inflorescences of both sexes shortly pedunculate, solitary in the axils. Leaves alternate, petiolate, entire or toothed, penniveined; stipules lateral, caducous. The species thrives in almost any soil, and is readily propagated by cuttings of the half-ripened wood.
C. tinctoria (dyers'). Fustic-tree. fl., male inflorescence 1 1/4in. to 2 3/4in. long; female 1/4in. to 1/3in. in diameter; peduncles pubescent or puberulous. l. distichous, 2in. to 6in. long, 1 3/4in. to 2 3/4in. broad, ovate or ovate-elliptic, entire or toothed, rarely lobed; petioles 1/4in. to 1/2in. long. h. 20ft. Tropical America, 1739. Yellow, brown, olive, and green dyes are extracted from the wood. SYN. Maclura tinctoria.