45 FLEMINGIA STRICTA. 
Leaves alternate, petioled, ternate. Leaflets broad-lanceolate, 
entire, acute, smooth ; about nine inches long, and three 
broad. Petioles five or six inches long, three-sided. 
Strpules sheathing, very large, scariose, caducous. 
Racemes axillary, solitary, erect, about as long as the petioles, 
supported on a short peduncle, which is hid in a large, sca- 
riose, spathiform bracte. 
Flowers numerous, alternate, short-pedicelled, beautifully striped 
with pink, yellow, and violet. 
Bractes solitary, one-flowered, linear-lanceolate, caducous long 
before the flowers expand. 
Calyx unequally five-cleft, the lower division being considerably 
larger than the other four. 
Filaments one, and nine conjoined. 
Legume oblong, acute, sessile, turgid, smooth. 
Seeds uniformly two, perfectly round, smooth, speckled brown 
and white, scarcely so large as a grain of black pepper. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
A native of the hills over the northern parts of the coast of 
Coromandel, where it blossoms during the cool season. 
249. FLEMINGIA SEMIALATA. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Shrubby, ramous, suberect. Leaflets elliptic, smooth; petioles 
winged : racemes terminal, and axillary, panicled. 
Leaves ternate: leaflets nearly equal, broad-lanceolate, three- 
nerved, entire, fine-pointed, smooth on hoth sides, length 
from 4 to 6 inches, and from one and a half, to two broad. 
Petioles shorter than the leaves, with broad, membranaceous, 
villous margin. 
Racemes axillary, and terminal, generally compound, particularly 
the terminal, and they are often panicled. 
Bractes chaffy, lanceolate, one-flowered, caducous. 
Flowers numerous, large, rose-colour, striated with greenish 
yellow and purple. 
Galyx villous ; segments 5, nearly equal, ensiform, about as long 
as the corol. 
Filaments: 1, and 9 ; the single one greatly enlarged near the base. 
Legume sessile, oval, slightly villous, turgid, size of a field bean. 
Seeds two, small, perfectly round, smooth, shining black. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
A native of Nepaul, from whence Dr. Buchanan sent seeds to 
the Botanic Garden at Calcutta; where, in little more than one 
year, the plants were tall, elegant, ramous, stout, erect shrubs ; 
with the bark of the ligneous parts dark brown, and smooth : of 
the tender parts villous, 
ARTOCARPUS. 
Gen, pl. ed. Schreb. n. 1393. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Male and Female florets on (the outer surface of) different amenta- 
ceous receptacles. 
ARTOCARPUS INTEGRIFOLIA. 46 
Male. Perianth two or three-leaved. Corol none. 
Style one. 
Female. Perianth one-valved. Corol none. 
Fruit compound. 
250. ARTOCARPUS INTEGRIFOLIA. 
Leaves entire: Flowers cauline. 
Linn. spec. plant. edit. Willd. 4. p. 189. 
Sitodium cauliflorum. Gert. sem. 1. p. 345.4. 71 and 72. 
Loureiro cochin. p. 546. 
Rheed. mal. 3 tab. 26, 27 and 28. 
Soccus arboreus. Rumph. amb. 1. tab. 30 and 31. 
Panasa, the Sanscrit and Telinga name. 
Kauthol, of the Bengalese. 
A. integrifolia. 
Polyphema Iaca. 
Tsajaca-marum. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Trunk short in proportion to the size of the tree, and when full 
grown, from 8 to 12 feet in circumference, covered with 
dark-coloured, deeply-cracked bark. 
spreading far in every direction. 
Leaves alternate, short-petioled, oval, or oblong ; in young luxu- 
riant plants often deeply divided ; upper surface a smooth 
deep-shining green: general length about six inches, and 
Branches numerous, 
about three broad. 
Stipules in pairs, broad-lanceolate, embracing, like a spathe, the 
next inner leaf, and ament when present, caducous. 
Male aments axillary, solitary, peduncled, sub-cylindric, about the 
size ofa man’s thumb; they are found only on short branchlets 
which issue from the trunk, or largest branches, and are 
_ every where closely covered with small sessile florets. 
Spathe no other than the stipules above mentioned. 
Perianth proper or Corol two-valved. Valvulets wedge-shaped, equal, 
a little hairy, united, with the base of the filament, into 
one body. 
Filament single, clavate, rather longer than the calyx. Anthers two, 
on the rounded margin of the apex of the filament, two- 
lobed. 
Female aments on the same branchlet with the male, but lower 
down, and generally but one on the same branchlet, though 
there are many male ; and when they first burst from the 
spathiform stipules, they are nearly of the same size, and 
equally well furnished with florets. 
Perianth proper or Corol, of one sub-cylindric, fleshy tube, per- 
forated at the apex, or it may probably be better termed 
the exterior coat of the germ, for it becomes the edible part 
of the fruit. 
Germs numerous, ovate, lodged in the base of what I have just 
called the proper perianth. Style longer than the perianth. 
Stigma single, clavate, recurvate, grooved on the convex 
side. 
Fruit compound, oblong, muricate, from 12 to 30 inches long, 
and from 6 to 12 in diameter ; and weighing from ten to 
sixty pounds. 
Seeds reniform, about the size of a nutmeg, very smooth, each 
lodged in a thin, smooth, somewhat coriaceous membrane ; 
which is again covered by the edible, thick, fleshy coat ; 
(formerly my proper perianth.) 
