Artocarjms.'] cxxxvi. URTICACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 541 



PEEAK, King's Collector. MALACCA, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1484). 



A tree, 40-60 ft. ; brauchlets annulate, fulvous-tomentose. Leaves 9 in. to 3 ft. 

 by 6-15 in., minutely strigose above; nerves 10-12 pairs; petiole 1^-3 in.; stipules 

 4-7 in., sheathing the buds, ovate-lanceolate, fulvous-tomentose. Male heads cylin- 

 dric, 4-5 in., pubescent, cream-cold. ; peduncle (of both sexes) 2-3 in.; sepals 2, ovate, 

 concave, hispid. Fruit 4-7 in., yellow ; bracteoles 0. 



6. A. hirsuta, LamTc. Encycl. iii. 201 ; leaves broadly ovate elliptic or 

 obovate subacute glabrous except the hispidulous strong nerves beneath, 

 fruit ovoid, spines straight cylindric hispid. Roxb. FL 2nd. iii. 521 ; 

 Brandis For. FL 426 ; Bedd. FL Sylvat. t. 308 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 193 ; 

 Gamble Man. Ind. Timl. 331 ; Dalz. 3f Gibs. Bomb. FL 244 ; Wight Ic. 

 1. 1957. A. pubescens, Willd. Sp. PL iv. 189 ; Trecul in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, 

 viii. 122 ; Wall. Cat. 4656 ; Xing in Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. ined. Bheede 

 Hort. Mai. iii. t. 32. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; from the Concan southwards, ascending to 4000 ft. 



A lofty tree ; branchlets, stipules, petioles, midribs and peduncles strigose. Leaves 

 69 in., entire, base slightly narrowed ; nerves 711 pairs ; petiole f 1 in. ; stipules 

 about as long, lanceolate. Male heads pendulous, 4-6 in., slender, narrowly cylin- 

 dric ; sepals 2, united below; bracteoles chaffy. Fruit erect, size of a lemon; spines 

 in., perforate. Seeds -|-f in., ovoid. 



** Fruit x tubercled, i. e. with flattish rarely acute tips of the antho- 

 carps. 



\- Fruit oblong or cylindric. 



7. A. integrifolia. Linn. /. Suppl. 412; leaves elliptic -oblong or 

 obovate acuminate entire or 3-lobed base acute rather rough beneath, 

 stipules large spathaceous lanceolate, fruit large oblong or clavate, antlio- 

 carps pyramidal. Trecul in Ann. Sc. Nat. !Ser. 3, viii. 115 ; Roxb. Cor. 

 PI. t. 250, and Fl. Ind. iii. 522 : Griff. Notul. iv. 402 ; Brand. For. FL 

 425; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 432; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. FL 244; Bedd. For. 

 Man. 219; Wight Ic. t. 678; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 329 ; Wall. Cat. 

 4654 ; King in Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. ined. ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. ii. 287 ; 

 Bot. Mag. t. 2833, 4. Sitodium cauliflorum, Gcertn. Fruct. i. 345, t. 71, 72. 

 Rheede Sort. Mai. iii. t. 2628. Polyphema Jaca, Lour. Fl. Cock. 547. 



DECCAN PENINSULA, native of the forests of the Western Ghats, Beddome. 

 Cultivated throughout the hotter parts of India and Eastern Asia. 



A large evergreen tree, attaining 60 ft. ; shoots and nearly all parts glabrous. 

 Leaves 4-8 in., thickly coriaceous, dark green, those of young plants often lobed ; 

 nerves 7-8 pairs ; petiole ^-1 in., rather slender ; stipules glabrous. Floiver-heads 

 embraced by spathaceous deciduous stipular sheaths, axillary and terminal, often 2- 

 nate; peduncles f in., at first slender; male cylindric, 2-6 in. by 1-2 in. diam. ; 

 bracteoles ; sepals 2, oblong or spathulate, tips pubescent. Fruit 1-2 g ft. long. 

 Seeds size of a nutmeg, oblong or reniform, testa coriaceous. The discovery of this 

 plant in a wild state by Beddome is a very interesting one. The Jack fruit. 



8. A. peduncularis, Kurz in Trimen Journ. Bot. iv. (1875) 331 ; 

 leaves ovate or ovate-oblong obtuse base ronnded, fruit erect entire or lobed 

 cylindric, anthocarps pyramidal subacute smooth. King in 1 Ann. Bot. Gard. 

 Calc. ined. 



PEEAK, King's Collector. NICOBAB ISLANDS, Kurz. 



A tree, 40-50 ft. ; branchlets annular, puberulous. Leaves 6-7 in., glabrous on 

 both surfaces ; nerves 6-7 pairs ; petiole 1^-2 in. ; stipules as long, linear -lanceolate, 



