Artocarpus.} URTICACEJJ. 331 



A lofty deciduous tree. Bark of young trees smooth, light grey 

 with dark blotches; of old trees dark biuwn, tuberculate, inch thick. 

 Wood yellow to brown, moderately hard, even-grained, rough, durable, 

 seasons well. Pores large and moderate-sized, uniformly distributed. 

 Medullary rays short, fine and moderately broad. Pores frequently filled 

 with a white substance. 



Eastern Bengal, Burma and the Andaman Islands. 



Growth rather fast, 5 to (> rings per inch of radius. Weight, 36'8 for the average 

 of our 14 specimens; Brandis' Burma List of 1862, No. 91 gives 391bs. ; No. 92 

 gives 30 Ibs. No. 15, Skinner (1862) (Artocarpus echinatus, Vern. Toungpeingnai), 

 gives : Weight = 63 Ibs., P = 672. Bennett (1872) gives : Weight = 32 Ibs. ; P = 459 

 for Andaman wood. The wood seems to get harder and heavier as it gets older ; two 

 of our specimens from the Andaman Islands cut in 1866 and stored since then in 

 Calcutta give respectively 46 and 52 Ibs., and Skinner gives 63 Ibs., but this is 

 probably a mistake. It is much used for canoes ; in Sikkim and Assam for planking, 

 tea-boxes and furniture. Kurz says it gives a tenacious milky caoutchouc. The leaves 

 of young plants are pitmatifid, resembling a gigantic hairy leaf of Quercus Robur ; 

 those of old trees are oblong, entire. 



4. A. hirsuta, Lamk. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 521 ; Beddome t. 308 ; 

 Brandis 4-26. Vern. Ayni, anjalli, aiyanepela, Tarn. ; Aini, ansjeni, 

 Mai. ; HclalsUj heb halasu, hesswa, hessa'm, Kan. ; Uebalsn, pat-phaiias, 

 ran-phanas, Mar. 



A lofty evergreen tree. Heartwood hard to very hard, yellowish 

 brown, durable, seasons well. Pores moderate-sized to large, enclosed 

 in narrow rings of soft tissue, often filled with a white substance. Medul- 

 lary rays fine to moderately broad, wavy, very distinct. 



Evergreen forests of the Western Ghats, ascending to 4,000 feet. 



Growth appears fast, but the rings are too indistinct for proper counting. 

 Weight, Skinner, No. 16, gives 40 Ibs. ; Wallich, 37 Ibs. ; our three specimens average 

 34 Ibs. Skinner gives P = 744. The wood is much used on the western coast, for 

 house and ship building, furniture and other purposes. 



Ibs. 



D 1090. Madura, Madras . 32 



W 1219. North Kanara 

 W 744. South 

 W 755. 



31 

 39 

 41 



(This last specimen differs by having very short, moderately broad, medullary 

 rays and pores in irregular patches of soft texture ; it may possibly be A. Lakoocha.) 



5. A. nobilis, Thw. Enum. 262; Beddome t. 309. Vern. Del, 

 aludel, Cingh. 



A large tree. Heartwood shining, moderately hard. Pores large 



filled with a white substance, prominent on a vertical section, and 



