544 CXXXVI. URTICACEZ. (J.D. Hooker) ([Artocarpus. 
A large deciduous tree, attaining 60 ft.; branchlets softly tomentose or villous. 
Leaves 4-12 in., thinly coriaceous, above glabrous or puberulous, reticulate beneath, 
young sometimes serrate; nerves 8-12 pairs; petiole 1-1 in., pubescent, at length 
glabrous ; stipules } in., lanceolate, pubescent. Flower-heads shortly peduncled, pubes- 
cent ; male j—1 in. diam., oblong or globose, pubescent; bracteoles clavate, puberu- 
lous. Fruit 2-3 in. diam. Seeds oblong. 
Var. malayana, King l. c.; leaves more uniformly elliptic and narrower, pedun- 
cles 1 in., male sepals fleshy, fruit 14 in. diam. — Perak, King’s Collector. 
17. A. Denisoniana, King in Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. ined. ; leaves 
elliptic-oblong or -ovate cuspidate base narrowed rarely rounded beneath 
glaucous or subpuberulous, stipules small glabrous, fruit obovoid not lobed 
smooth. 
Perak, King’s Collector. 
A tree, attaining 60 ft.; branchlets slender, grey, smooth, glabrous. Leaves 
5-7 in., glabrous except the nerves and shining above; nerves 7—10 pairs; petiole 
il in., glabrous; stipules ovate-lanceolate. Flower-heads shortly peduncled ; males 
iu the upper axils 1-12 in. long, slender; bracteoles stipitate, peltate, ciliate ; sepals 
4, oblong, truncate, hirsute, sometimes connate below, tips thickened. Fruit rugulose, 
at length smooth; bracteoles sessile, crowded, peltate.— King suggests this being 
possibly the Sumatran A. tephrophylla, Miquel (Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 422), but that 1s 
described as having velvety golden stipules; in other respects the descriptions tally 
very closely. 
18. A. Gomeziana, Wall. Cat. 4660; leaves oblong or ovate-oblong 
cuspidate glabrous shining above subpruinose beneath base rounded or 
obtuse, stipules small linear, fruit unevenly globose or ovoid. Kurz For. 
ii. 433 ; King in Ann. Bot. Gard. Cale. ined. A. rigida, 
A. pomiformis, Teijsm. & Binnend. in Nat. Tijdsch. Ned. Ind. xxv. 400. 
_TENASSERIM ; at Tavoy, Wallich, Perak, King’s Collector. MALACCA, Maingay 
(Kew Distrib. 1486). ANDAMAN IsLANDS, King’s Collector. : 
A medium-sized tree, quite or nearly glabrous, and subpruinose. Leaves 6-10 in, 
reticulate beneath between the 8-12 pairs of very strong nerves ; petiole ilm 
stipules sparingly hairy. Flower-heads on short pubescent peduncles, more or less 
globose or ovoid, or the males cylindric ; bracteoles of male broadly peltate, stipitate, 
puberulous; sepals 2, ovate, puberulous. Fruit smooth. g 
VAR. Griffithii, King mss.; smaller in all its parts, leaves 33-6 in. obiong 
or elliptic-oblong, fruit ovoid not shining or pruinose beneath.— Perak, Soorteehin 
King's Collector; Malacca, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4665), Maingay (K. D. 1482) 5 
Penang, Curtis. 
21. BALANOSTREBLUS, Kurz. 
A small nearly glabrous evergreen tree. Leaves alternate, penninerved, 
: axillary; 
MALE FL: 
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Sepals 4, thick, obtuse, subvalvate. Stamens 4, erect in bud. Pistillode 
minute. Ovary included, half-superior; style short, bifid, arms 8 or 
thick villous; ovule pendulous. Fruit a globose drupe enclosed 1 
B. ilicifolia, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlii. 247, t. 19, and For. 
FI. ii. 465. 
CHITTAGONG, Kurz, J. D. H, & T. T. Buamo, J. Anderson. 
PENANG, on Prang Islan’, King’s Collector. 
AVA, Kurt 
Wall. Cat. 4658 A. 
