544 cxxxvi. URTICACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Artocarpus. 



A large deciduous tree, attaining 60 ft. ; branchlets softly tomeutose or villous. 

 L-art-t 4-12 in., thinly coriaceous, above glabrous or puberulous, reticulate beneath, 

 j<>^g sometimes serrate; nerves 8-12 pairs; petiole ^-1 in., pubescent, at length 

 glabrous ; stipules in., lanceolate, pubescent. Flower-heads shortly peduncled, pubes- 

 cent ; male \-\ in. diain., oblong or globose, pubescent ; bracteoles clavate, puberu- 

 lous. Fruit 2-3 in. diam. Seeds oblong. 



VAK. malayana, King 1. c. ; leaves more uniformly elliptic and narrower, pedun- 

 cles 1 in., male sepals fleshy, fruit ! in. diam. Perak, King's Collector. 



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17. A. Denisoniana, King in Ann. Sot. Gard. Calc. ined. ; leaves 

 elliptic-oblong or -ovate cuspidate base narrowed rarely rounded beneath 

 glaucous or subpuberulous, stipules small glabrous, fruit obovoid not lobed 

 smooth. 



PEBAK, King's Collector. 



A tree, attaining 60 ft. ; branchlets slender, grey, smooth, glabrous. Leaves 

 5-7 in., glabrous except the nerves and shining above; nerves 7-10 pairs; petiole 

 |-1 in., glabrous; stipules ovate-lanceolate. Flower-heads shortly peduucled ; males 

 in the upper axils f-1^ in. long, slender ; bracteoles stipitate, peltate, ciliate ; sepals 

 4, oblong, truncate, hirsute, sometimes connate below, tips thickened. Fruit rugulose, 

 at length smooth; bracteoles sessile, crowded, peltate. King suggests this being 

 possibly the Sumatran A. tephrophylla, Miquel (Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 422), but that is 

 described as having velvety golden stipules; in other respects the descriptions tally 

 very closely. 



18. A. G-omeziana, Wall. Cat. 4660; leaves oblong or ovate-oblong 

 cuspidate glabrous shining above subpruinose beneath base rounded or 

 obtuse, stipules small linear, fruit unevenly globose or ovoid. Jfurz For. FL 

 ii. 433 ; King in Ann. ot. Gard. Calc. ined. A. rigida, Wall. Cat. 4658 A. 

 A. pomiformis, Teijsm. fy Binnend. in Nat. Tijdscli. Ned. Ind. xxv. 400. 



TENASSEKIM ; at Tavoy, Wallich. PEKAK, King's Collector. MALACCA, Malngay 

 (Kew Distrlb. 1486). ANDAMAN ISLANDS, King's Collector. 



A medium-sized tree, quite or nearly glabrous, and subpruinose. Leaoes 6-10 in., 

 reticulate beneath between the 812 pairs of very strong nerves ; petiole 1 in. ; 

 stipules sparingly hairy. Flower-heads on short pubescent peduncles, more or less 

 globose or ovoid, or the males c.ylindric ; bracteoles of male broadly peltate, stipitate, 

 puberulous ; sepals 2, ovate, puberulous. Fruit smooth. 



VAR. Q-riffithu, King mss. ; smaller in all its parts, leaves 3J-6 in. oblong 

 or elliptic-oblong, fruit ovoid not shining or pruinose beneath. Peruk, Scortechini, 

 King's Collector; Malacca, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4665), Maingay (K. D. 1482) ; 

 Pcuang, Curtis. 



21. BAXiANOSTREBXiUS, Kurz. 



A small nearly glabrous evergreen tree. Leaves alternate, penninerved, 

 spinous-toothed ; stipules small, caducous. Flowers monoecious, axillary, 

 bracteate; males in cylindric catkin-like spikes, fern, racemose. MALE PL. 

 Sepals 4, thick, obtuse, subvalvate. Stamens 4, erect in. bud. P'istillodeO. 

 FEM. FL. Perianth utricular, base connate with the ovary, free above, mouth 

 minute. Ovary included, half-superior ; style short, bifid, arms short 

 thick villous ; ovule pendulous. .Fruit a globose drupe enclosed in the 

 He shy perianth. 



B. ilicifolia, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Seng. xlii. 247, t. 19, and For. 

 Fl. ii. 465. 



Kurz, J. D. H. fy T. T. BHAMO, J. Anderson. AVA, Kurz. 

 PEN AN G, on Prang Island, King's Collector. 



