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LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vor. II, Art. 32 
are confusing. Father Blanco mentions the Tagalog name 
"Anabling", and describes it as a large tree whose very 
durable wood is used as posts for buildirigs. Leaf specimens 
are easily placed with the genus Ficus. 
17. Artocarpus xanthocarpa Merr. in Govt. Lab. Publ. 
i6 10, 1904. 
A tree, 30 m. high or less, with narrowly ovate or 
ovate-oblong, acuminate, entirely glabrous leaves, and  sub- 
globose, more or less irregular, entirely glabrous orange yellow 
fruit, 3 cm. in diameter or less. Barnches slender, glabrous, 
light gray. Leaves 8 to 12 cm. long, 3 to 4.5 cm. wide, 
subcoriaceous, shining, the base slightly rounded or subacute, 
inequilateral; nerves rather prominent beneath, 8 or 9 pairs, 
the reticulations lax; petioles glabrous, 1 to 2 cm. long. 
Flowers unknown. Female receptacles, axillary, the individual 
apocarps entirely united, the surface ofthe syncarpium very 
smooth, when dry somewhat sulcate between: the apocarps; 
seeds obovoid, more or less irregularly compressed, 1 em. long, 
4 to 15 in each receptacle. Peduncle of the receptacle 1 
cm. long or less. 
The specimens from Lamao River, province of Bataan, 
Luzon, are from the type locality, but how they can be 
separated from Blanco’s A. lamosella is not clear, and Merrill’s 
species may prove to be exactly what Blanco had in mind. 
A. zanthocarpa Merr. is recognizably distinct from Trecul’s A. 
nitida and A. lanceolata. Extends throughout Luzon, on 
Mindoro and on the Batanes islands. The leaves are strikingly 
similar to some species of Ficus. Tagalog ''Sulipa." 
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