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1, C. pelagicus, (sp. nov.) Seem.; ramulis foliisque glabris ; foliis alternis petiolatis ovato-ob- 
longis abrupte acuminatis v. obtusis, integerrimis coriaceis, supra lucidis penninerviis, nervis venisque 
subtus prominulis; fl. axillaribus pedunculatis, pedunculis spicas 3 villoso-puberulas gerentibus,— 
Island of Kadavu (Seemann! n. 434 B). Also collected in New Caledonia (M‘Gillivray !). 
I collected nothing but very young male flowers in bud. What induced me to refer it to this genus 
was a specimen, collected by M‘Gillivray in New Caledonia, preserved at the British Museum, which agrees 
exactly in habit, foliage, and pubescence, with my n. 434 B, but which has only female flowers. "These 
female flowers are in heads arranged in axillary cymose racemes, and their style is about twelve lines long. 
They quite agree, as far as I can make out, with those of the typical Caturus; and specimens gathered 
at Wide Bay, Australia (Bidwill!), seem also to belong to my C. pelagicus. My Viti specimens have 
slender, dark-coloured branches, with small white warts: their leaves are from 23—3 inches long, 13-14 inch 
broad, smooth above, and with prominent veins below; their primary veins being from 7—12 on each side 
of the midrib; their peduncles are braeteate; and their flowers numerous, and in dense spikes. 
XVIII. Artocarpus, Forst. Plant. Esc. p. 23; Trécul, Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. vol. viii. p. 109. 
t. 4. f. 100-120. Flores monoici, d et 9 in receptaculis distinctis globosis oblongisve dense conferti. 
Flores ebracteolati v. bracteolis peltatis interstineti. Fl. 4: Perigonium 2-3-4-phyllum ; foliolis liberis 
aut magis minusve inter se connatis, concavis, obtusis, in zestivatione imbricatis. Stamen 1, centrale, 
exsertum ; filamentum complanatum ; anthera oblonga v. brevissima, 2-locularis, loculis primum uni- 
lateralibus, postea oppositis, rima longitrorsum dehiscentibus, interdum incumbens, dorso medio 
filamenti vertici affixa. Fl. 9 : Perigonia magis minusve inter se adnata. Perigonium tubulosum, 
integrum, apice poro apertum. Stylus terminalis v. excentricus, simplex, stigmate cylindrico spathu- 
lato v. peltato terminatus, aut rarissime 2—3-fidus, cruribus stigmatosis, Ovarium liberum, 1-loculare, 
rarissime 2—3-loculare, loculis l-ovulatis; ovulum prope verticem loculi pendulum, anatropum. 
Syncarpium acheniis creberrimis paucis v. unico, perigoniis persistentibus inclusis compositum. 
Pericarpium pergamaceum, indehiscens. Semen parieti styligero pendulum ; testa membranacea. 
Embryo exalbuminosus, homotropus; cotyledonibus crassis ; radicula supera.— Arbores lactescenges ; 
foliis alternis, seepe distichis petiolatis ovatis obovatis oblongisve integerrimis, trilobis aut pinnatifidis, 
glabris v. pubescentibus; stipulis 2 deciduis axillaribus, nune magnis amplexicaulibus oppositis, 
altera marginibus alteram tegente, nunc minimis non amplectentibus ; pedunculis axillaribus solitariis 
simplicibus, in amenta globosa aut elongata desinentibus.— Sitodium, Sol. Prim. Fl. Ins. Pacif. (ined.) 
p. 814; et in Parkins. Icon. (ined.) t. 86-90. Rima, Sonner. Voy. p. 99. t. 57-60.  Rademachia, 
Thunb. Act. Holm. vol xxxvi. p. 252.  Soccus, Rumph. Amb. vol. i. p. 104-110. Polyphrema, 
Lour. Fl. Cochinch. vol. ii. p. 346. 
1. A. incisa, Forst. Plant. Escul. p. 23; et Icon. (ined.) t. 250, 251, 252; Trécul, l. c. p. 110; 
Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2869, 2871; foliis integerrimis v. pinnatifidis, lobis oblongis acutis acuminatis v. 
pinnatifidis; stylo 2- v. 3-fido.—Rademachia incisa, Thunb. Act. Holm. vol. xxxvi. p. 252.  Soccus, 
Rumph. Amb. vol. i. p. 112. t. 33. Sitodium utile, Sol. l.c. p. 314; et in Parkins. l.c. t. 86-90. 
—Nomen vernac. Vitiense, ** Uto.”—Cultivated throughout Viti, and in some parts to all appear- 
ances wild (Seemann! n. 450, 451, 452, 453, 454, 455, 456, 457, 458, 459, 460). Tahiti (Banks 
and Solander!); Hawaiian Islands (Seemann !). l 
In Viti the breadfruit is seen in regular forests, and in a great number of varieties, which a new-comer 
has some difficulty in distinguishing, until he has learnt to observe that in the shape of the leaves—which are 
either entire, pinnatisect, or bi-pinnatisect—their size, and their either bullate or even surface, the shape and 
size of the fruits, the time of its maturity, the absence or presence, as well as the length of the prickles on its 
outside, and the abortion of its ovules or their development into seeds, offer good marks of distinction. 
The general Fijian name for the breadfruit is “ Uto,” signifying “the heart,” from the oe of the 
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