Marca 15, 1909] Synopsis oF ARTOCARPUS 617 
5. Artocarpus communis blancoi Elm. n. var. 
Fruits 1 dm. long, 7. cm. wide, ellipsoid; anthocarps ex- 
tended into 1 em. long spiculate appendages; male inflores- 
cence smooth, cylindric, 5 to 8 em. long; seeds or nuts 
ellipsoid, 1 cm. inlength. 
Type specimen 488, T. E. Borden, from the Lamao River, 
Mount Mariveles, Province of Bataan, Luzon, August, 1904, 
(Forestry Bureau record 1682). 
This is a large tree, with leaf characters of ‘the species, 
but fruits not edible. 
6. Artocarpus treculiana Elm. n. sp. 
Tree, 12 m. high; wood of stems moderately hard, 
gnarly, covered with a thick brittle grayish bark; branches 
rigid, the ultimate ones quite thick and suberect, forming an 
oblongish crown; twigs glabrous, marked with ring like leaf 
scars, more or less lenticelled between the scars. Leaves 
mostly entire, elliptic, similarly obtuse or acute at both 
ends, margins slightly involute, only occasionally shallowly 
lobed toward the apex, the average blade 2 by 3 dm., 
rigidly coriaceous, glabrous and dark lucid green above, much _ 
paler and cinereous pubescent be: eath; nerves and midnerve 
bold beneath; the 9 to 13 pairs of lateral ones straight | 
and ascending, the larger ones usually forked towards the 
apex, the divisions uniting, with faint cross bars; petiole 
about 5 cm. long, cinereous and becoming glabrous, occasion-  — 
ally provided with a few strigose hairs, thick, triangular; 
stipule linear, 2 to 3 cm. wide, tapering to an acuminate 
point, 1 to 2 dm. long, deciduous, glabrous, deep brown 
on the inner side, grayish brown or cinerecus on the exterior, — 
with pubescent tips. Fruitssubglobose, quite regular, 7 to12em. — — 
in diameter, pendulous from 8 em. long axillary peduncles, 
almost isabellinus yellow wben mature; male inflorescence upon 
2 em. long peduncles, arising from the leaf axils, cylindric or 
subelavate, 4 cm. long, 8 mm. thick; anthocarps 2.5 em. 
long, united except the 5. mm. long pyramidally conical. 
apex which is’ glandularly seabrous; nuts smooth, ellipsoid, 
12 mm. long, imbedded in the pulpy mass, numerous. 
Type specimen 10406, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuer- 
nos FRAME Province of ipae Oriental, Tos UN 1908. 
