614 LrarLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vor. If, Art. 32 
hairs especially along the middle. Fruits 12 em. long, some- 
what less in diameter, greenish yellow when mature, heavy, 
subpendulous and solitary from the leaf axils; anthocarps 
dense, the free angular portion terminating into long ciliate 
appendages; nuts yellowish brown, less than 15 mm. in 
length, ellipsoid; peduncles 8 cm. long, subglabrous, thick; 
staminate inflorescence yellow, about 8 cm. long, the ends 
blunt, 3 em. across the middle, conspicuously wrinkled. 
Represented by 10307, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuer- 
nos Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, June, 
1908. 
First discovered by Zollinger along the Tjeliwung river 
near Buitenzorg, Java. At present we know this species from 
southern Luzon, north eastern Mindanao and from southern 
Negros. 
3. Artocarpus nigrescens Elm. n. sp. 
Tall tree, 20 m. high; trunk stocky, 1.5 m. thick, quite 
burly and with shallow irregular buttresses near the ground; 
wood moderately hard, yellowish, brittle when chopped, odor- 
less but bitter to taste; bark reddish except the grayish brown 
surface, comparatively thinly checked longitudinally; the milky 
juice viscid and coagulates somewhat after being exposed; main 
branches divaricate, from below the middle of the stem; branch- 
lets rather many, crookedly rebranched; the twigs erect or 
suberect, marked by ringlike leaf scars, quite rigid. Leaves in 
ascending crowded terminal tufts, chartaceous, lucid green on 
the upper side, paler beneath, from 18 to 25 em. long, at least 
1 em. wide, ovate to oblong in outline, glabrous on both sides, 
pinnately incised, acute at the base; lobes 3 to 5 pairs, the sinus 
well parted and rounded, incised two thirds the distance to 
the midnerve, the middle pair of lobes the longest, the terminal 
one broadest, the longer ones lanceolate, all acuminately taper- 
ing into fine points, margins ruguse, segments curvingly con- 
duplicate on the upper surface, veins yellowish green; nerves 
prominent and brown beneath, the Jarger one 8 to 5 pairs and 
| terminating into the segments; the secondary lateral nerves 
. strict, oblique, also conspicuous; articulations not very plain; 
petiole 3 to 5 cm. long, stout, triangular, more of less flattened 
on the upper surface, puberulous or scurfy, becoming glabrous; 
