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16. ARTOCARPUS, Forst. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. v, 539. 
Evergreen trees with milky juice. Leaves alternate, coriaceous, 
often very large, entire or pinnately lobed, penninerved, stipules 
lateral. Flowers moncecious, densely crowded on globose or oblong 
unisexual solitary usually axillary receptacles often mixed with 
scale-like bracts peltate bracts. MaLe FLOWERS: Perianth 2-4- 
lobed or partite; lobes obtuse, concave, valvate or slightly im- 
bricate. Stamen 1, erect. Pistillode none. Frm. flowers. 
Perianth tubular, confluent below with the receptacle, limb minute. 
Ovary straight, style central or lateral ; stigma entire, rarely 2-3-fid., 
ovule pendulous. Fruit a much enlarged fleshy oblong cylindric 
globose or lobed receptacle, clothed bearing on its outer surface the 
accrescent fleshy perianths and carpels (anthocarps), which have 
hard spinous or truncate or paramidal or flat apices. Achenes 
deeply sunk in the fleshy mass. Seed pendulous, exalbuminous, 
embryo straight orincurved, cotyledons fleshy ; radical very short, 
superior.—Species about 40, in Trop. Asia, Malaya, China and the 
Pacific Islands. 
A. Lakoocha, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 524; Royle Ill. 337 ; Brandis 
For. Fl. 426 ; Ind. Trees 612 ; F. B. I. V., 543 ; Watt E. D. ; King 
in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. ii, 14, t. 13; Kanjilal For. Fl. (ed. 2), 379 ;. 
Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 655 ; Prain Beng. Pl. 971 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. 
ii, 657.—Vern. Barhal, dheu. 
A large deciduous tree 50—60 ft. high, with a wide-spreading head ; 
bark thick, rough, dark-grey ; young parts clothed with soft grey 
or tawny tomentum. Leaves subcoriaceous, 4-12 in. long, oblong 
elliptic or subobovate, entire or (or the young shoots) sometimes 
serrate, dark-green glabrous and shining above, softly tomentose 
beneath ; base rounded or truncate; main lateral nerves 6-12 pairs 
with conspicuous reticulations between; petioles }-1 in. long, pubes- 
cent when young; stipules lanceolate, caducous. Flowers in axillary 
globose shortly stalked heads, the male and female heads from 
different axils; bracteoles peltate, puberulous. MALE FLOWERS: 
Sepals 2-3, truncate, puberulous. Stamen 1, its filament tapering 
from a broad base; anther exserted, short, broad, 2-celled. Frm. 
FLOWERS: Fruit-clusters 2-3 in. in diam. lobulate, smooth, velvety. 
yellow when ripe. Achenes surrounded by the fleshy perianths, the 
whole immersed in a common fleshy receptacle. 
