6. CuDRANiA.] 125. MORACEJE. 



excurrent midrib, base acute or subobtuse ; sec. n. 6-8 fine but distinct^ 

 looping and including fine intermediate nerves and much reticulate 

 nervules, margin slightly thickened. Petiole '3- -5" Flo^^■ers heads 

 greenish or yelloAv mostly geminate in the axils, •25--3" diam. Pedi- 

 cels short tomentose •1--25". Males pubescent, often compressed 

 with (usually 5) large oblong rounded tepals with inflexed tips, pistil- 

 lode slender. Female head -3" diam. in flower, \" in fruit, globose. 



Near rivers or streams. N. Champaran ! Piirneah ! Fl., Fr. April-Majv 

 Evergreen. 



The Orissa localitj' (in Bengal Plants) appears to be an error founded on a 

 wronorly named sheet of Plecospermum in the Cal. Hprh. The following differences 

 easily serve to discriminate the two species in the field even without tlowers. The 

 ureoles formed by the sec. n. in Plecospermum are occupied by much branched 

 nerviTles with free endings whereas the nervules are mostly trul.y and closely 

 reticulate in tlie Cu(h-ania,thQ leaf tip is usually different (see above), the male 

 tepals are much more conspicuous in Ciidranin, Avhile the female heads are (piite 

 different, being quite globose (not angular) in Citdrania with the individual Howei-s 

 easily separable ; the ovary is sunk between the perianth lobes but is not relatively 

 so deep in the head. The'achenes are numerous all round the circumference of 

 the larger pseudocarp. 



7. ARTOCARPUS, Forst. 



Trees Avith alternate coriaceous, often very large, leaves entire or 

 pinnately lobed. or pinnatifid when young and entire when mature, 

 penninerved. Stipules usually leaving an annular scar. Flowers 

 monoecious, densely crowded on globose or variously shaped 1 -sexual,, 

 usually axillary solitary receptacles, often mixed with peltate bracts. 

 Male perianth 2-4-lobed or -partite, lobes concave, valvate or slightly 

 imbricate, stamen 1 erect in bud, pistillode 0. Fem. perianth tubular,, 

 confluent below Avith the receptacle, mouth minute, ovary straight,, 

 stj'le central or lateral, stigma entire rarely 2-3-fid ; ovule pendulous. 

 Fruit a large fleshy syncarp covered superficially Avith the fleshy 

 perianths and the usually apically spinous or otherAvise hardened 

 carpels, the lower parts of Avhich are deeply sunk in the syncarp. 

 (Seed often very large, exalbuminous, embryo straight or incurA-ed^ 

 cotyledons fleshy equal or unequal, radicle very short, superior. 



A. Leaves of mature trees undivided. Native or commonly 



cultivated species:— 



1. Syncarp not tubercled (tips of anthocarps flat) :— 



Branchlets and leaves softly pubescent or tomentose . . \. lakoochn. 



2. Syncarp tubercled :— 



Sj'ncarp globose. 3-4" diam. LeaA-es oboA'ate, scabrid . 2. chuplasha. 

 Syncarp not globose, 12-30" long, L. smooth shining . 3. infef/rifolia. 



B. Leaves of mature trees pinnatifid. Exotic, mrely cult. . . 4. incisa. 



1. A. lakoocha, Roxb. Daho, Dahu, H., K., S. ; Denyo, Barhal, 



Barhar, H. : Madar, Benrj. ; Jeota, Or. (Lakucha is the Sanskrit 



name). 



A moderate-sized tree Avith broad dense croAvn, villosely-tomentose 



branchlets, large elliptic or ovate, obtuse or shortly acuminate leaves 



C-10" long, pubescent or tomentose beneath, entire. Recepts. axillary, 



males subsessile from previous year's, females short-peduncled from 



current year's axils. Male recept orange-yelloAA*, spongy, ovoid,, 



•75-1", closely covered Avith the minute peltate bracts, perianths ancl 



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