281 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Ver. I. Art. 16 
single stamen; filament very thick; bearing a short comparative- 
ly broad anther; fruits not seen, 
Type specimen 7244, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Province of 
Leyte, Leyte, January, 1906. A branched shrub in light woods 
of a dry ridge at 300 meters, 
Artocarpus subrotundifolia n. sp.— Large erect tree, 15 m. 
high; branches spreading, forming a dome shaped crown; 
the ultimate ones slender, not numerous, horizontally spread- 
ing, short brown pubescent at the ends. Leaves usually 
toward the ends of the twigs, few, scattered, unequal in 
size and shape, submembranous, flat, lucid green above, 
much duller beneath, quite rigid, usually glabrous above 
except the yellowish tomentum along the midnerve and lat- 
eral nerves, the medium sized blades 3 dm. long, 1.5 dm, 
wide across the middle, margins subentire or irregularly un- 
dulate and involute, apex rounded and terminated by a short 
acute point or acumen, base rounded or frequently emargi- 
nate, the smaller ones orbicular, the normal one broadly 
oblong or subrotund, petiole about 2 cm. long, when young 
with a dense rusty brown pubescence; nerves very promi- 
nent beneath, brown when dry, 9 to 13 pairs, subdivaricate, 
their tips submarginally interarching, covered with a soft 
sparse pubescence; cross bars one half as prominent, retic- 
ulations quite conspicuous beneath, similarly pubescent. In- 
florescence in the leaf axils or in the axils of leaf scars, upon 
stout very thick densely pubescent peduncles; the pistillate 
usually in the upper axils, solid, ellipsoid or obovoid, green, 
15 mm. long, 12 mm. in diameter above the middle; perianth 
tubular, narrowed toward the base, 1.5 mm. long, terminated 
by short broad densely ciliate appendages; ovary elongated, 
flattened, 1 mm. long, glabrous, with a single pendulous 
ovulule; style 0.5 mm. long, glabrous stigma thicker and 
darker brown in the dry state, flattened, characteristic- 
ally recurved, grooved along the upper side, at least 1 mm. 
in length; male flowers chiefly along the branchlets, pale 
yellow, spongy, unequal in size and shape, egg shaped or 
ellipsoid, the average ones 3.5 mm. in diameter, early fal- 
ling; perianth segments 3, falsely united, 0.75 mm. long, 
subglabrous or ciliate along the upper margins, the tips 
