Artocarpnx. monoecia monandiua. 525 



until proper, or corol, consisting- ot small, wedge-shaped, trun- 

 cated scales. I find it difficult to assign any determined num- 

 ber to each stamen, from two to four is most common. Fi- 

 laments rather longer than the scales of the calyx, tapering 

 from the base. Anthers round, minute, elevated a very little 

 above the surface of the spadix. Female flowers. Calyx; 

 spathe as in the male. Anient short-peduncled, globular. 

 Perianth proper, as in A. integrijolia. Germs numerous, 

 of the shape of a Florence flask; style the length of the ex- 

 terior coat of the germ. Stigmas subulate. Fruit compound, 

 the surface pretty smooth ; the internal structure as in the 

 genus, about the size of a man's fist or larger, and generally 

 of an irregular, roundish form, when ripe yellow. Seeds ob- 

 long, involved in the same number of integuments as in A. 

 integrijolia. 



The natives eat the fruit ; to an European the taste will 

 generally be found disagreeable. The male spadix is acid, 

 and astringent ; the natives eat them in their curries. The 

 roots dye yellow. The whole tree and unripe fruit, like A. 

 incisns, and integrijolia, contain much tenaceous milky juice. 



4. A. C haplasha. Roxb. 



Leaves in the adult, obovate, entire; in the young pinnati- 

 fid. Aments axillary, long-peduncled, sub-rotund. Fruit 

 spherical. 



Beng. Chaplash, 



A native of the eastern frontier of the Province of Bengal, 

 about Tipperah, and Chitfagong, where it grows to be a tree 

 of the first magnitude. Flowering time March and April, 

 when the first flowers appear, the tree is destitute of leaves, 

 but they make their appearance before the fruit is formed. 



Trunk straight ; branches numerous, ascending. Bark to- 

 lerably smooth, of a dark brownish olive colour. Leaves al- 

 ternate on short, round, pubescent petioles ; in young plants 

 frequently, indeed generally, pinnatifid ; in grown trees oval 

 or obovate, cuneato, with the luargins somewhat remotely 



