Marca 15, 1909] Synopsis OF ARTOCARPUS 621 
10. Artocarpus paloensis Elm. Leaf. Philip. Bot. 1; 
280, 1908. 
A shrub, 3 m. high; branches hard, with smooth gray- 
ish brown bark, the terminal young portion soft and rusty 
brown pubescent. Leaves alternate, toward the ends of the 
twigs, 2 to 3 em. apart, ovately oblong, soft membranous, 
the average blades !5 em. long, 9 cm. wide just below the 
middle, glabrous above except along the grooves of the mid- 
nerve and larger lateral ones, apex rounded or obtuse or 
frequently acute, base broadly rounded, shallowly cordate, 
green above, much paler beneath, margins subentire or ob- 
scurely undulate; petiole 1.5 cm. long, pubescent; nerves 7 
to 9 on each side, ascendingly arched, pubescent, reticulations 
also pubescent and quite prominent beneath. Flowers clus- 
tered in the axils of the leaf scars along the two year old 
twigs, both sexes intermixed, but the male heads more nu- 
merous and upon peduncles only one half as long as those 
bearing the larger female heads; peduncles fleshy, longitudi- 
ally ridged in the dry state, densely covered with a very short 
chocolate brown tomentum, those bearing the female heads 1 to 
2 em. long, spreading; pistillate heads obovoid, 6 mm. long, 5 _ 
m. thick above the middle; perianth more or less united into - 
a 0.75 mm. long tube, its appendages minute and very sparsely 
ciliate; ovary oblong, 0.5 mm. long, flattened, glabrous, 1-ovul- - 
ed; style also glabrous, 0.25 mm. long, terminated by a short  — 
flattened stigma which barely exceeds the perianth; shield like 
bracts of the male flowers erect, 0.75 mm. long, their terminal _ 
rim not large, glabrous; perianth tubular, 0.6 mm. long, trun- - = 
cate or obscurely lobed, glabrous but with a ciliate rim enclosing _ 
a single stamen; filament very thick; bearing a short, compar- .— 
atively broad anther; fruits not seen. His 
Very similar to <A. cumingiana Trec., but the miie 
leaves are not quite as uniformly elongated; the peduncles 
of the much smaller heads are shorter and mostly arise — 
from the two year old twigs. Type described as a shrub _ 
from Palo, Leyte, but if Copeland’s number 1244 from - 
Todaya, district of Davao, Mindanao, can be referred under 
this name, it grows to be a tree 15 meters high. Dr. 
` AH. Hallier also collected it on Basilan, — 1904. The 
| natives cig it ““Bagobo-caluit.”? Moos 
