OP BK1T1M1 INDIA. 



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India, Ceylon, and Burmah, up to elevations of 2,500 ft; widely distribut d. Oft n 

 cultivated for its eatable recentacles. Malacca, — '/ ilfith, ( Kcw Dktrik) 4666 ; M '"//, 1 J '*. 



Young shoots thiu, d 



coriaceous, 



r _. f e (sometimes serrate when young); the apex rounded, shortly cuspid :e or sal- 

 acute; the base slightly attenuate or rounded, or broad and sub-trumut e ; under surface shortly and softly 

 pubescent; the lateral nerves 8 to 19 paii rather prominent, as are the midrib and main oervOl ; up) r 

 surface glabrous and shining, or minutely puberulous; the midrib and larger nines pubescent ; Length 

 of blade 4 to 12 inches, breadth 2 to G inches; pel >le *5 in. to 1 in. lung, pubeeot , glabrous when 

 adult; stipules lanceolate, tawny-pubescent, -5 in. long. Receptacles of both » n illai , globular, 00 



short pubescent 



in. in diameter, puberulous 



sessile; the perianth of 2 (sometimes of 3) triangular, truncato, puberulous pieces; filament broad 



tacular 



ecoptaele globose, slightly and 



broad, 2 'lied, lo 





which 016 thickened 

 sometimes flattened 



9 to 3 in. in diameter, the surface glabrous 

 earns completely uuitod: ripo seeds few, hi 



core 



Var. Malayana, King.— A, Lakoocha, Roxb., Miq. in Ann. Mua. Lttgd. Bat. iii. 21 



Leaves more uniformly elliptic and longer than in the typical t 



i 



ped 



more 



than 1 in. Ion*- ; pieces of male perianth fleshy; female receptacle q 



from 1-25 in. to 1-25 in. in diameter, sometimes sliditly lobed.— A. Tampang> Miq. Fl. End 



B 



Suppl. 421.— A. rufesccns, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. SuppL 420; Ann. Mus. Lagd. Bat 

 Perak and Penang (King's Collector, 1040, 4187, 5653) ; Amb 



lcl 



Iu India this is a tree 20 or 30 ft. high, with spreading umk.igeous head. In the Malayan countries 



it attains a height of 40 to 50 ft 



Kohimain theft a Hills (0 



Clarke), have more coriaceous loaves, with bold nervation and unusually large, lather rough, hmale 



receptacles 



Plate 13. 



Roxb 



Branch with young receptacles. 1, mature female receptacle ; 



k > section of the same— of natural *ize, and copied from Roxburgh' $ original dravmg in the Calcutta II , banum 



; section of a young female receptacle showing two authocarps with their styles; 4, male flower with -have* 

 perianth ; 5, male flower with the pieces of the perianth 2-cleft; 6, leoeptoeoJor scale; 7, female 



enlarged. 



1 



flow 



17. Artoc 



Wall Cat. 46G0. Foliis oblongs vel ovato-oblongis, bre 



cuspidatM nitidis ; receptaculis ma>eulis breviter cylindratis 1 I L-Iobosis; feminiis globosis \ 

 ovoidis Integra* glabris, hand lobatis, -75 unc. ad 1*5 one. in diametro.-AV, For. Flora L'nt 

 Burm ii. 433.-4. pomiformis, Teysm. and Binn. Nat. Tijdsch. Ned. Ind. xxv. 400 



Burmah in Tavoy district (Wallich Cat. 4660 and 4658 A) ; Malacca,— Maingay {K< 



Dittrib. 1486) ; Perak (King's Collector, 4189, 5078, 7535, and 8838); Andamans (A 



Collector 



Young 



pruinose 



Lo;. 



branches and receptacles minutely puberulous ; otherwise glabrous; leaves shining, sometimes 



minutely 3-nerved, slightly attenuate or rounded, sometimes broa.l and sub-truncate 



inent 



^^ES^^l^othlnie 3-5 in. to 7 (rarely as much as 11) in.; breadth IJ in to about 



in ; stipules small, linear, 2 in. long, caducous 



shortly pedu 



4 in : Stipules smau, uiieai, * *"• — "&> i - - 



lis globular, smooth ; the males -2 in. to 5 in., the females -7o „ to -38 m. m dmme ter when mature ; male 



or lt "° & ' ... «• yi_a- i a\. T^lfof Q wiWn nn« Ronlpa t mala nenanth of Z. fiat. 



rmixed with numerous pedicellate, b 



stamen single ; the filament as long as the perianth , its apex dil 



