542 cxxxvi. URTICACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Artocarpus. 



appressed pubescent. Flower-heads of both sexes erect, cylindric ; peduncles 2J 

 3 iu. ; male 2\ in. long, very slender, ebracteolate ; sepals 2, oblong, obtuse, hairy. 

 Fruit immature, 2-2| by 1 in. diam. ; antbocarps 4-5-angled. Seeds few, \ in. 

 long. 



9. A. Xiowii, King in Ann. Sot. G-ard. Calc. ined. ; leaves oblong-lan- 

 ceolate acute glabrous or puberulous base narrow, stipules very long, young 

 fruit cylindric-oblong, anthocarps pyramidal obtuse or subacute smooth. 



PERAK, King's Collector. 



A tree, 50-70 ft. ; brancblets, petioles and peduncles sparsely bairy. Leaves 

 9-11 in., thinly coriaceous, minutely reticulate beneath; nerves 10-11 pairs; petiole 

 l.{ in. ; stipules 2^-3 in., narrowly lanceolate, puberulous. Male heads ^-f in., 

 slender, erect ; bracteoles ligulate ; sepals 2, ovate, truncate, hirsute. Fruit imma- 

 ture, 2-3 in., erect, oblong, glabrous ; anthocarps 4-5-angled. 



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10. A. Folyphema, .Persoon. Si/n. ii. 531; leaves ovate-oblong or 

 subobovate cuspidate strigose beneath, stipules large, fruit cylindric-oblong, 

 anthocarps low pyramidal puberulous. Blume Bijd. ii. 481 ; Trecul in 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, viii. 115 ; Miguel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 286 ; Wall. Cat. 

 4659; Jung in Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. ined. Polyphema Champeden, 

 Lour. Fl. Cochin. 547. 



PENANG, Wallich, King's Collector. MALACCA, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4667), 

 Maingay (K. D. 1473). DISTEIB. Malay Islands, Cochin China. 



A tree, 20-25 ft. in Perang ; shoots, petioles, peduncles, stipules and leaf-nerves 

 beneath strigose. Leaves 3^-8 in., opaque above with pubescent nerves, shining 

 beneath, young densely clothed with tawny bristles ; nerves 5-9 pairs ; petiole - in. ; 

 stipules 1-1J in., lanceolate, convolute. Flower-heads erect, cylindric ; males 1-1 1 in., 

 ebracteolate; peduncle as long, slender; sepals 2, thick, oblong, truncate, pubescent. 

 Fruit 2 in. by 1 in. diam., cylindric, not lobed. 



11. A. IDXaingrayi, King in Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. ined.; leaves 

 elliptic-obovate obtuse base narrowed scaberulous above appressed-pubescent 

 beneath, petiole slender, stipules small, fruit obovoid-cylindric surface 

 tessellate, anthocarps broad truncate. 



PERAK, Scortechini, King's Collector. MALACCA, Maingay ( Kew Distrib. 1481). 



A tree, 20-40 ft. ; branchlets slender, striate and annulate, scaberulous. Leaves 

 2^-4 in., rigid, reticulate beneath, base narrowed; nerves 8-9 pairs; petiole in., 

 pubescent ; stipules \ in., lanceolate, silky. Male heads 1^-2 in., cylindric, slender, 

 rugulose ; peduncle ^ in., pubescent ; bracteoles ; sepals 2, flat, square. Fruit 1 in. 

 long ; anthocarps flat, scaberulous. King remarks tbat this differs from the descrip- 

 tion of Miquel's A. Dadah in the leaves narrowed at the base (not rounded) and the 

 nerves meeting the midrib at a different angle. 



12. A. Scprtechinii, King in Ann. Sot. Gard. Calc. ijied. ; leaves 

 ovate-oblong obtuse base narrowed softly pubescent beneath, stipules large, 

 fruit cylindric, anthocarps truncate scaberulous. 



PERAK, King's Collector, Scortechini. 



A tall tree, 60-80 ft. ; branchlets annulate, warted, puberulous. Leaves 8-16 in., 

 rigid, puberulous above, especially on the nerves; nerves 14-16 pairs, appressedly 

 pubescent ; petiole l in., puberulous; stipules 2-3 in., ovate-lanceolate, silky, margins 

 recurved. Fruit long peduncled, immature, 2$ in. by 1 in. diam. Foliage of J. 

 Kunstleri, King. 



13. A. nobilis, Thwaites Enum. 262; leaves large broadly ovate 

 cuspidate coarsely crenate glabrescent base obtuse narrowed or rounded, 



