JANUARY 25, 1908] A Century or New PLANTS 280 
ovules, its outer walls leathery and covered with a short 
dark brown tomentum; the seeds surrounded by thin scarious 
membranes, 8 mm, long, ellipsoid or somewhat flattened, 
light brown, rugose. 
Type specimen 7243, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Province 
of Leyte, Leyte, January, 1906. In deep fertile soil of light 
woods at the mouth of the Bangon River near a nipa 
swamp. It is not to be confused with A. paloensis Elm. 
which aside from the habitat and shrubby nature has dif- 
ferently shaped leaves, and the flower clusters are upon the 
two year old twigs, 
Artocarpus paloensis n. sp.—A shrub, 3 m. high; branches 
hard, with smooth grayish brown bark, the terminal young 
portion soft and rusty brown pubescent. Leaves alternate, 
toward the ends of the twigs, 2 to 3 cm. apart, ovately 
oblong, soft membranous, the average blades 15 cm. long, 
9 cm. wide just below the middle, glabrous above except 
along the grooves of the midnerve and larger lateral ones, 
apex rounded or obtuse or frequently acute, base broadly 
rounded, shallowly cordate, green above, much paler beneath, 
margins subentire or obscurely 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 clustered in the axils of the leaf scars 
along the two year old twigs, both sexes intermixed, but 
the male heads more numerous and upon peduncles only one 
half as long as those bearing the larger female heads; 
peduncles fleshy, longitudinally ridged in the dry state, 
densely covered with a very short chocolate brown tomentum, 
those bearing the female heads 1 to 2 cm. long, spreading; 
pistillate heads, obovoid, 6 mm. long, 5 mm. 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-ovuled; 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, its terminal rim 
. not large, glabrous; perianth tubular, 0.6 mm. long, truncate or 
obscurely lobed, glabrous but with a ciliate rim enclosing a 
