Artocarpus. MONOECSA MONANDRIA, 521 
ARTOCARPUS. Schreb. gen. N. 1393. 
Male and Female florets on the interior surface of diffe- 
rent receptacles, Male proper perianth from two to three- 
~ leaved. Corollets none. Female proper perianth one-valved. 
Corollets none. Germ one-celled, one-seeded ; attachment 
superior. Style single. Fruit compound. Embryo with- 
out perisperm. 
1, A. hirsuta, Lamarck, Encyel, iii, 201. 
Leaves entire, ovate. Stipules hirsute. Male aments 
cylindric and pendulous. Female globular and erect. | 
Artocarpus pubescens, Willd. iv. 198. 
Ansjeli. Rheed, Mal. iii. t. 32. 
Angelee is the name it is known by amongst the natives in 
the vicinity of Tellicherry. 
A native of the forests of Malabar, where it is common and 
grews to be a tree of great magnitude, and its timber is used 
for various economical purposes. Mr. Dyer, the surgeon at 
Tellicherry, who sent me specimens in flower gathered in Fe- 
bruary, says it is chiefly hewn out to make fishing boats as- 
mentioned by Van Rheede. | 
Young shoots hirsute. Leaves alternate, petioled, oval, 
entire, obtuse, somewhat hairy underneath, particularly the 
large parallel veins, from six to seven inches long, and from 
four to five broad, Petioles short, hirsute. Stipules lan- 
hairy on the outside. Aments in pairs, axillary or 
from the axills of the former year’s leaves ; male long, slender 
and pendulous ; female round, longer-peduncled and erect. 
Bractes or chaffy scales linear, obtuse and mixed amongst 
the male florets. Male perianth one-leaved, sub-cylindric ; 
mouth two-parted. Corol none. Filaments single, the length 
of the calyx. Anthers two-lobed. Female perianth one- 
valved ; the lower third part of the whole length firmly unit- 
ed to each other, the other two thirds daggered; nearly solid, 
- there being only a slender pres through its centre for 
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