Cudrania."] cxxxvi. URTICACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 539 



2. C. fruticosa, Wight ex Kurz For. Fl. ii. 434; branchlets glabrous, 

 spines curved, leaves 4-6 in. oblong or elliptic subcaudate-acuminate gla- 

 brous, nerves 3-4 pairs very strong beneath, styles slender deeply 2-fid. Batis 

 fruticosa, Roxb. ? Wall. Cat 4643 A. 



KHASIA HILLS, alt. 4000 ft., J. D. S. Sf T. T. CHITTAGONG, AVA and UPPER 



TENASSEKIM, Kurz. 



A large scandent shrub. Leaves membranous, base rounded, laxly reticulate ; 

 petiole \-\ in., glabrous. Floiver-heads globose, the size of a pea, puberulous ; 

 females in pairs on stout puberulous peduncles g ^ in. long. Fruit the sizepf a cherry, 

 glaucous green, velvety. Achenes the size of a large pea, ovoid, protruding from the 

 fleshy perianths. This description is taken from Kurz, who gives Wight as the 

 authority for the specific name, which I do not find elsewhere published. 



3. C. pubescensj Trecul in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. iii. viii. (1847) 123 ; 

 branchlets pubescent, spines straight, leaves 4-6 in. ovate or ovate-lanceo- 

 late cuspidately acuminate puberulous above softly pubescent beneath, 

 nerves very strong beneath, style simple slender. Kurz For. Fl. ii. 435 ; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Sat. i. ii. 290. 



PEGU and MARTABAN, ascending to 3000 ft., Kurz. DISTRIB. Java. 



An evergreen woody climber; stem lenticellate. Leaves membranous, base 

 rounded; petiole in. Flower-heads globose in pairs; peduncles long, slender, 

 ptiberulous. Fruit the size of a large cherry, fleshy, compact, velvety, wrinkled, 

 glaucous green. (Descr. from Kurz.) 



20. ARTOCARPUS, Forst. (by G. King). 



Evergreen trees. Leaves often very large, alternate, coriaceous, entire or 

 pinnately lobed, penninerved ; stipules various. Flowers monoecious, densely 

 crowded on globose or oblong unisexual solitary axillary (rarely terminal) 

 receptacles, often mixed with peltate bracts. MALE FL. Perianth 2-4-lobed 

 or -partite; lobes obtuse, concave, valvate or slightly imbricate. Stamen 1, 

 erect. Pistillode 0. FEM. PL. Perianths tubular, connate and con- 

 fluent below with the receptacle, mouth minute. Ovary straight ; style 

 central or lateral, stigma entire, rarely 2-3-fid ; ovule pendulous. Fruit a 

 large fleshy oblong cylindric globose or lobed receptacle, clothed with the 

 greatly enlarged fleshy perianths and carpels (antliocarps) which .have 

 hardened spinous or truncate or pyramidal or plane tips. Achenes deeply 

 sunk in the fleshy mass. Seed exalbuminous ; embryo straight or incurved, 

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

 about 40, Tropical Asiatic and Pacific. 



The following descriptions are mainly taken from Dr. King's monograph of the 

 J'Hti'-in species to be published in the Annals of the Calcutta Botanical Gardens. 



A. iiicifta. Linn, f., the bread-fruit tree (Rozb. Fl. Ind. iii. 527; Bot. Nag. 

 2871). a native of the Pacific Islands, with pinnatifid leaves, is occasionally 

 cultivated in the hottest parts of India. 



SECT. I. Fruit spinous or tubercled (tips of the anthocarps ending in a 

 sharp spine or tubercle). 



* Fruit spinous. 



f Fruit globose or sulglobose. 



1. A. Forbesii, King in Ann. Sot. Gard. Cede, ined.; leaves elliptic. 



