Marca 15, 1909} Synopsis OF ARTOCARPUS 623 — 
inequilateral, 18 to 93 cm. long, 7 to 10 cm. wide; nerves 
reldi-h and conspicuous beneath, 6 to 10 pairs, ascendingly © 
curved, obscurely connected, reticulations equally distinct 
on both sides; petiole reddish, glabrous, 2.5 em. long; stip- 
ule 2 mm. long, broadly ovate to acute, sericeous. Inflor- 
escence axillary, obovate, provided with a yellowish brown pu- 
bescenee, upon 5 mm. long axillary and tomentulose peduncles; 
staminate heads 1.5 em. wide, L cm. high; pistillate ones 
subglobose, 1 em. in diameter; fruits several seeded, yellowish. 
Type collected by Dr. Warburg at Sampaloc, province of 
Tayabas, Luzon, and deseribed from his number 12949. It 
extends through middle Luzon but is more common along 
the Pacific coast. Sometimes called ''Cubi", ‘“‘Tagop”, or 
** Anubiong"". 
18. Artocarpus woodii Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. C. 
8; 221, 1908. 
Arbor ca. 10 m. alta, Ki follis anguste oblongo-obovatis, 
nitidis, 8 ad 15 em. longis, abrupte late acuminatis, basi 
cuneatis, integris, nervis utrinque 5 vel 6, prominentibus, 
anastomosantibus; fructibus, axillaribus, pedunculatis, irregu- 
lariter 7-12-lobatis, 6 ad 9 cm. diam., rugosis. 
A tree about 10 m. high, glabrous. Branches high-gray, > 
the tips brown and with few adpressed hairs. Leaves nar- 
rowly oblong-obovate, glabrous, shining, submembranaeeous, v 
entire, 8 to 15 cm. long, 5 to 7 cm. wide, the apex broadly _ 
. and abruptly acuminate, the acumen retuse, narrowed below | 
to the cuneate base; nerves 5 or 6 on each side of the © 
midrib, prominent beneath, anastomosing near the margins, - 
the reticulations lax; petioles 3 to 5 cm. long, dark colored, _ 
pruinose. Fruit peduncled, the peduncles 5 to 7 cm. long, | 
solitary in the upper axils, subglobose, 6 to 9 cm. in diameter, e 
irregularly obscurely lobed, the lobes rounded, rugose, gray, 
the anthocarps truncate or depressed, 2 to 3 mm. in diameter. m 
Ripe seeds 6 to 12, about 2 cm. long. 
nae Bucas (off the northeast coast of Mindanao), Merrill 5259, 
E October 4 1900. — eio 
|. This very distinct species is found on ii and Mudo o 
"e "iple: and from central. and northern Luzon. Its shining  — 
5 very” coriaceous oblongish obovate Tenn —- darge tpstins - 
