620 Learcers OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. II, Art. 32 
A handsome tree, so far only known from the island of 
Leyte and from the province of Sorsogon, Luzon. The na: 
tives of southern Luzon call it ‘‘Lacoan’’ and use the wood 
for posts and other structural purposes. Its large subrotund 
shining leaves are very characteristic. 
9. Artocarpus cumingiana Trec. in Ann. Soc. Nat. 
3 Ser., 8; 119, 1847. A. ovata Bico.. Fl. Filip. ed. 1; 666, 
1837. 
Tree, 15 m. high or higher; wood hard, yellowish beneath 
the sap wood; branches rigid, forming an elongated rounded 
dense erown; twigs smooth, reddish brown except the apical 
young portion which is covered with a dense yellowish brown 
tomentum. Leaves distichous, membranaceous, oblong, occasion- 
ally somewhat elliptie, entire, base short cordate and usually 
unsymmetrie, apex short acute to frequently acuminate, glabrous 
above except along the sunken midrib especially toward the base, 
soft pubescent beneath, the average blades 1 dm. long; nerves 
13 to 17 pairs, very pronounced beneath, ascendingly curved 
especially the smaller and more numerous ones at the base, sub- 
= marginally united, straw yellow or brown; cross bars and con- 
-necting reticulations quite prominent beneath; petiole 1 to 2 cm. 
long, covered with a felt like olivaceous tomentum; stiples 2, 
subclasping, 4 mm. long. Male heads or inflorescence obovate - 
or pyriform, 2 to 3 em. long, 15 mm. thick above the middle, no — 
involucre; peduncle several from the axils of the leaves, slender, 
densely covered with an olivaceous tomentum, 3 to 6 cm. long; 
— flowers scattered among peltate and ciliate bracteoles and with 
. interstices between; perigonium 4-segmented; segments free, in the 
bud imbricate, concave, obtuse, with pubescent apices; filaments 
of the stamens equal, bearing terminal short anthers; fruiting 
: head subglobose, rugose, 3 to 5 cm. in diameter, several seeded, 
= covered with a yellowish pora, upon stout 6 to 9 em. 
s long peduncles. 
dieu of Manila. Very common through middle and southern - 
Luzon, It is also found on Mindoro, Masbate and Negros. 
Typical specimens have much elongated leaves with subequilat- 
eral | sides, especially s0- toward. the base. It is a valuable. 
'all it fies 2 
Type based on Cuming. onde: 1784 collected in the 
