ARTOCARPUS.] URT1CACEM. 141 



16. ARTOCARPUS, Forst. ; FL Brit, Ind. v, 539. 



Evergreen trees with milky juice. Leaves alternate, coriaceous, 

 often very large, entire or pinnatel} 7 lobed, penninerved. stipules 

 lateral. Flowers monoecious, densely crowded on globose or oblong 

 unisexual solitary usually axillary receptacles often mixed with 

 scale-like bracts peltate bracts. MALE FLOWERS : Perianth 2-4- 

 lobed or partite ; lobes obtuse, concave, valvate or slightly im- 

 bricate. Stamen 1, erect, Pistillode none. FEM. flowers. 

 Perianth tubular, confluent below with the receptacle, limb minute. 

 Ovary straight, style central or lateral ; stigma entire, rarely 2-3-fid., 

 ovule pendulous. Fruit a much enlarged fleshy oblong cylindric 

 globose or lobed receptacle, clothed bearing on its outer surface the 

 accrescent fleshy perianths and carpels (anthocarps), which have 

 hard spinous or truncate or paramidal or flat apices. Achenes 

 deeply sunk in the fleshy mass. Seed pendulous, exalbuminous, 

 embryo straight orincurved, cotyledons fleshy ; radical very short, 

 superior. Species about 40, in Trop. Asia, Malaya, China and the 

 Pacific Islands. 



A. Lakoocba, Roxb. Fl Ind. m, 524 ; Royle III. 337 ; Brandis 

 For. Fl. 426 ; Ind. Trees 612 ; F. B. I. F., 543 ; Watt E. D. ; King 

 in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. ii, U, t. 13 ; Kanjilal For. Fl. (ed. 2), 379 ; 

 Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 655 ; Prain Beng. PI. 971 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, 

 ii, 6-57. Vern. Barhal, dheu. 



A large deciduous tree 50 60 ft. high, with a wide-spreading head ; 

 bark thick, rough, dark-grey ; young- parts clothed with soft grey 

 or tawny tomentum. Leaves subcoriaceous, 4-12 in. long, oblong 

 elliptic or subobovate, entire or (or the young shoots) sometimes 

 serrate, dark-green glabrous and shining above, softly tomentose 

 beneath ; base rounded or truncate ; main lateral nerves 6-12 pairs 

 with conspicuous reticulations between ; petioles J-l in. long, pubes- 

 cent when young ; stipules lanceolate, caducous. Flowers in axillary 

 globose shortly stalked heads, the male and female heads from 

 different axils ; bracteoles peltate, puberulous. MALE FLOWERS : 

 Sepals 2-3, truncate, puberulous. Stamen 1, its filament tapering 

 from a broad base ; anther exserted, short, broad, 2-celled. FEM. 

 FLOWERS : Fruit-clusters 2-3 in. in diam. lobulate, smooth, velvety, 

 yellow when ripe. Achenes surrounded by the fleshy perianths, the 

 whole immersed in a common fleshy receptacle. 



