Cudrania.) CXXXVI. URTICACEA. (J. D. Hooker.) 539 
2. €. fruticosa, Wight ex Kurz For. Fl. ii. 494; branchlets glabrous, 
spines curved, leaves 4—6 in. oblong or elliptic subcaudate-acuminate gla- 
brous, nerves 3—4 pairs very strong beneath, styles slender deeply 2-fid. Batis 
fruticosa, Roxb. 9 Wail. Cat. 4643 A. 
KnasrA Hirzs, alt. 4000 ft., J. D. H. 4 T. T. CHITTAGONG, AVA and UPPER 
NASSERIM, Kurz. 
A large scandent shrub. Leaves membranous, base rounded, laxly reticulate ; 
petiole 4-3 in., glabrous, Flower-heads globose, the size of a pea, puberulous ; 
females in pairs on stout puberulous peduncles 3-}in. long. Fruit the size of a cherry, 
glaucous green, velvety. Achenes the size of a large pea, ovoid, protruding from the 
fleshy perianths.—This description is taken from Kurz, who gives Wight as the 
authority for the specific name, which I do not find elsewhere published. 
3. C. pubescens, Trecul in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. iii. viii. (1847) 123; 
branchlets pubescent, spines straight, leaves 4-6 in. ovate or ovate-lanceo- 
ate cuspidately acuminate puberulous above softly pubescent beneath, 
nerves very strong beneath, style simple slender. Kurz For. Fl. ii. 435; 
Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 290. 
Prev and MARTABAN, ascending to 3000 ft., Kurz.—DrsTRIB. Java. 
An evergreen woody climber; stem lenticellate. .Leaves membranous, base 
rounded; petiole 1 in. Flower-heads globose in pairs; peduncles long, slender, 
puberulous. Fruit the size of a large cherry, fleshy, compact, velvety, wrinkled, 
glaucous green, (Descr. from Kurz.) 
20. ARTOCARPUS, Forst. (by G. King). 
, Evergreen trees. Leaves often very large, alternate, coriaceous, entire or 
Pinnately lobed, peuninerved; stipules various. Flowers moncecious, densely 
crowded on globose or oblong unisexual solitary axillary (rarely terminal) 
receptacles, often mixed with peltate bracts. MALE FL. Perianth 2-4-lobed 
e, Partite; lobes obtuse, concave, valvate or slightly imbricate. Stamen 1, 
Ace, Pistillode 0. Fem. rr Perianths tubular, connate, and con- 
fluent below with the receptacle, mouth minute. Ovary straight; style 
t ntral or lateral, stigma entire, rarely 2-3-fid; ovule pendulous. Fi ruit a 
rge fleshy oblong cylindric globose or lobed receptacle, clothed with the 
catly enlarged fleshy perianths and carpels (anthocarps) which have 
arvened spinous or truncate or pyramidal or plane tips. | Achenes deep ly 
sank in the fleshy mass. Seed exalbuminous; embryo straight or incurved, 
ab ledons fleshy equal or uuequal, radicle very short, superior.—Species 
oth 40, Tropical Asiatic and Pacific. «ot the 
ue following descripti mainly taken from Dr. King’s monograph o 
Indian Species to be published in the Annals of the Calcutta Botanical Gardens, " 
t 4. incisa, Linn. f, the bread-fruit tree (Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 927; Bot. Mag. 
cud 9-2871), a native of the Pacific Islands, with pinnatifid leaves, 1s occasionally 
vated in the hottest parts of India. 
Secr. T, Fruit spinous or tubercled (tips of the anthocarps mame 
arp spine or tubercle). 
* Poy. 
Fruit spinous. 
sh 
T Fruit globose or subglobose. 
l. A. Forbesii, King in Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. ined. ; leaves elliptic- 
