LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY 
EDITED BY A. D. E. ELMER, A. M. 
ee 
Vol. Il. Manila, P. L, March 15, 1909. Art. 32. 
SYNOPSIS OF ARTOCARPUS 
BY 
A. D. E. ELMER. 
ARTOCARPUS Forst. 
Evergreen trees. Leaves often 1 m. long and proportionately 
wide, alternate, chiefly chartaceous, occasionally coriaceous, 
entire, lobed or incised, pinnatinerved; stipules various. Flow- 
ers monoecious, densely crowded on globose, oblong, or obo- 
void receptacles which arise from the leaf axils or from the 
axils of their scars, rarely terminal; flowers unisexual, usuel- 
ly mixed with peltate and ciliated bracts; perianth of male 
flower 2 to 4-lobed; the lobes obtuse, concave, valvate or 
slightly imbricate especially in the bud state; stamen soli- 
tary, strict; perianth of the female flowers tubular, connate, 
minute, united below tothe receptacle; ovary straight, style 
terminal or subterminal; stigma entire, rarely 2 or 3-lobed; 
ovule pendulous; fruit a large fleshy globose oblong or rugose 
receptacle, clothed with greatly enlarged perianths and carpels 
or anthocarps which later terminate into long hairy or spiculate ' 
tips, or which are pyramidal or even subtruncate; nut or 
achene deeply sunken in the fleshy pulp; seeds exalbuminous; 
embryo straight or incurved; cotyledons -r equal or unequal, 
with very short radicle. 
