98 UrticaceCB. {Artocarpus. 



styliform ; fern, fl. : — sep. 4, ov, straight, style terminal, 

 simple or 2-fid, ovule pendulous ; fr. of achenes, bracts and 

 Sep., forming together a globose or ovoid compressed fleshy 

 head, testa membranous, endosperm scanty, cotyledons 

 twisted or folded, radicle slender, upcurved. — Sp. 3 or 4; i in 

 Fl. B. Ind. 



C javanensis, Tree, in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, viii. 123 (1847). 



Ctedranus Runiphii., Thw. Enum. 262. Plecospennuin ctmeifolium, 

 Thw. in Journ. Bot. vi. 303. C. P. 2526. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 538. Rumph. Herb. Amboin. v. tt. 15, 16. Bedd. Fl. 

 Sylv. t. anal. 27, f. i. 



A straggling or scandent shrub ; branchlets red-brown, 

 drooping; spines straight or recurved; 1. 1-3 in., obovate 

 oblong or oblanceolate, obtuse acute or acuminate, glabrous, 

 reticulate, veins 8-10 pairs, slender, base acute or obtuse; 

 petiole \ in.; fl. heads solitary or 2-nate, sessile or shortly 

 peduncled, pubescent, male about \ in. diam. ; sep, cuneiform, 

 unequal, hair)'; fem. sep. 4, tips thickened, velvety ; fr. 2-3 in. 

 diam., glaucous green, velvety. 



Low country in dry and intermediate zone; rare. HaldummuUa; 

 Kindagodda ; Rikiligaskodde. Fl. April. 



E. Bengal, Burma, Malaya, Australia, E. Africa. 

 Has much resemblance to Plccosperiiitiiii spinosiini. 



8. ARTOCARPUS, Forst. 



Evergreen trees; 1. alt., entire lobed or pinnatifid, penni- 



veined; fl. monoecious, male in catkin-like spikes; fem. 



crowded on oblong or globose axillary or terminal receptacles, 



with often peltate bracteoles ; male fl. : — perianth 2-4-lobed or- 



partite; stam. i, fil. erect; pistillode o; fem. fl. : — perianth 



tubular, base confluent with the recept., mouth minute ; ov. 



straight, style entire or 2-fid, ovule pendulous ; achenes 



(anthocarps) sunk in the enlarged fleshy receptacle, their 



exposed tops flat pyramidal or spinescent ; seed oblong or 



subglobose, endosperm o. — Sp. about 40; 18 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Fem. recepts. oblong i. A. nobilis. 



Fem. recepts. globose 2. A. Lakoocha. 



I. A. nobilis, Th^v. Enum. 262 (1861). Del, Bedi-del, S. 



A. pubesccns, Moon, Cat. 61 (non Willd.). King in Ann.Calc. Gard. 

 ii. 12. C. P. 2818. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 542. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 309. King, 1. c. t. 10. 



A tree 40-50 ft., hispidly scabrid on the very stout 

 branchlets petiole and veins of 1. beneath; I.6-14 in., broad!)- 



