Artocarpus. | CXXXVI. URTICACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 541 
Perak, King’s Collector. Matacca, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1484). 
A tree, 40-60 ft. ; branchlets annulate, fulvous-tomentose. Leaves 9 in. to 3 ft. 
by 6-15 in., minutely strigose above; nerves 10-12 pairs; petiole 13-3 in.; stipules 
4-7 in., sheathing the buds, ovate-lanceolate, fulvous-tomentose. Male heads cylin- 
ric, 4-5 in., pubescent, cream-cold. ; peduncle (of both sexes) 2-3 in. ; sepals 2, ovate, 
concave, hispid. Fruit 4—7 in., yellow ; bracteoles 0. 
6. A. hirsuta, Lamk. Encycl. iii. 201; leaves broadly ovate elliptic or 
obovate subacute glabrous except the hispidulous strong nerves beneath, 
fruit ovoid, spines straight cylindric hispid. Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 521; 
Brandis For, Fl. 426 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylvat. t. 308; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl.193; 
Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 331; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 244; Wight Ic. 
t. 1957. A. pubescens, Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 189; Trecul in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, 
vil. 122; Wall Cat. 4656; King in Ann. Bot. Gard. Cale. ined.—Rheede 
Hort. Mal. iii. t. 39. 
Decoan PENINSULA; from the Concan southwards, ascending to 4000 ft. 
A lofty tree ; branchlets, stipules, petioles, midribs and peduncles strigose. Leaves 
9 in, entire, base slightly narrowed ; nerves 7-11 pairs; petiole 3—1 in. ; stipules 
about as long, lanceolate. “Male heads pendulous, 4-6 in., slender, narrowly cylin- 
me; sepals 2, united below ; bracteoles chaffy. Fruit erect, size of a lemon; spines 
0., perforate. Seeds 1-3 in., ovoid. 
** Fruit tubercled, i.e. with flattish rarely acute tips of the antho- 
Tps. 
t Fruit oblong or cylindric. 
7. A. integrifolia, Linn. f. Suppl. 412; leaves elliptic-oblong or 
obovate acuminate entire or Sched tose acute rather rough beneath, 
Stipules large spathaceous lanceolate, fruit large oblong or clavate, antho- 
pes Pyramidal. Zrecul in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, vii. 115; Roxb. Cor. 
Lt. 250, and Fl, Ind. iii. 599. Griff, Notul. iv. 402; Brand. For. FI. 
25; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 432; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 244; Bedd. For. 
an, 219; Wight Ic. t. 678; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 3829; Wall. Lat. 
4654 ; King in’ Ann. Bot. Gard. Cale. ined.; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 287 ; 
Bot. Mag. i. 2833, 4. Sitodium caulifloram, Gertn. Fruct. i. 345, t. T1, 72. 
“Eheede Hort. Mal. iii. t. 26—28. Polyphema Jaca, Lour. Fl. Coch, 547. 
C Deccan PENINSULA, native of the forests of the Western Ghats, Beddome. 
erated throughout the hotter parts of India and Eastern Asia. ; 
Leame ree evergreen tree, attaining 60 ft.; shoots and nearly all parts gla rous, 
ne 4-8 iu. thickly coriaceous, dark green, those of young plants often obed ; 
oun’ 7-8 pairs ; petiole 1-1 in., rather slender; stipules glabrous. Plower- eads 
tate, d by spathaceous deciduous stipular sheaths, axillary and terminal, often 2- 
bracet peduncles 4 in., at first slender; male cylindric, 2-6 in. by 1-2 in. imn. ; 
racteoles 0; sepals 2, oblong or spathulate, tips pubescent. Fruit 1-2} ft. long. 
eeds size ofa nutmeg, oblong or reniform, testa coriaceous.— The discovery of this 
Plant in a wild state by Beddome is a very interesting one.— The Jack fruit. 
8. A . ; Bot. iv. (1875) 331; 
* Peduncularis, Kurz in Trimen Journ. Bot. 1v. (. ; 
leaveg ovate or ovate-oblong obtuse base rounded, fruit erect entire or lobed 
. 
aia tie, anthocarps pyramidal subacute smooth. King in Ann. Bot. Gard. 
res AK, King's Collector, NICOBAR ISLANDS, Kurz. 
both ree, 40-50 ft.; branchlets annular, puberulous. 
Surfaces ; nerves 6-7 pairs; petiole 13-2 in. ; stipules as long, 
Leaves 5-7 in., glabrous on 
linear-lanceolate, 
