Artocarpus.] UrticacCCB. 99 



ovate, cuspidate, margin sinuate, young pinnatifid, base nar- 

 rowed or rounded, coriaceous, rough on both surfaces, veins 

 about 9 pairs and midrib yellow; petiole \-\\ in., very stout; 

 stip. 3-5 in., spathiform; recepts. covered with stipitate, peltate, 

 hairy bracteoles, male ^-6 in., cylindric, ped. 1-3 in. ; sep. 2, 

 broad, truncate; fr. 6-8 in., oblong or cylindric, surface lobu- 

 late, tops of anthocarps nearly flat, 4-5 -angled; seed sub- 

 globose, about \ in. diam. 



Moist low country up to 2000 ft.; common. Fl. June. 



Endemic. 



The outer shells of the seeds roasted are good eating. The wood is 

 in great request for cabinet-making, and fishing boats are made out of 

 its hollowed trunks. 



2. A. Ziakoocha, Roxb.Fl. hid. iii. 524 (1832). Kana-g'ona, 5. 



Thw. Enum. 262. King, 1. c. 14. C. P. 2831. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 543. Wight, Ic. t. 681. King, 1. c. t. 13. 



A large deciduous tree, with a spreading head; bark 

 rough; branchlets fulvous-tomentose; 1. 4-12 in., oblong or 

 subobovate, obtuse, cuspidate, base broad or narrow rounded 

 or cordate, entire, or young serrate, thinly coriaceous, glabrous 

 and shining above, softly pubescent beneath, veins 4-12 pairs; 

 petiole i-i in.; stip. \ in., lanceolate, tomentose ; recepts, 

 axillary, globose, bracteoles peltate, puberulous, male |-i| in. 

 diam., sep. 2-3, triangular, truncate, puberulous ; fr. 2-4 in. 

 diam., lobulate, smooth, velvety, yellow, tops of anthocarps 

 smooth ; seeds few, about \ in. diam., broad, flat. 



Var. /3, G-omeziana, Wall, (sp.) Thw. Enum. 262. King, 1. c. t. 14 A. 

 C P. 2232. 



L. glabrous on both surfaces, or puberulous on the midrib 

 and veins. 



Moist region up to 3000 ft. ; rather rare. The type, Ratnapura ; 

 Morowaka. Var. /3, Colombo; Kalutara; Hantane. Fl. March-April 

 and September. 



India, Burma, Andaman Is., Malay Penins. 



I cannot make two species of the Ceylon material ; our var. /3 may 

 not be the true A. Goinesiana., Wall., which is maintamed as a species by 

 King, but not given for Ceylon. — Trimen. 



The seeds are eaten, but the tree is not cultivated. 



Artocarpus integrifolia., L. f., is the well-known Jack tree, Kos^ S., 

 Pila., T., universally cultivated in the low country for its fruit, but nowhere 

 wild in Ceylon. It is stated, in Fl. B. Ind. v. 541, to have been found 

 wild by Beddome in the forests of the western Ghats of India, but it is 

 not included in King's Monograph of the Indian species, who had not 

 this information in time. I have no knowledge as to the time of its 

 introduction to Ceylon, but no doubt it was at a very distant period; 

 curiously, Hermann has not any specimen or drawing. There are good 

 figures in Rheede, Hort. Malab. iii. tt. 26-28, Gaertn. Fruct. i. tt. 71, 72 

 (Sitodiiim catdiflormn), and Bot. Mag. t. 2833-4. It is C. P. 2233. The 

 timber is excellent. — Trimen. 



