432 URTICACER. | Artocarpus. g : 
prickles subulate, somewhat angular, about 2 lin. long or somewhat 
longer, smooth. 
Has.—Burma, probably Tenasserim. 
4, A. chaplasha, Roxb.—TZoung-peing-nai.—A tree (100—150 
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+80—90+ 1-1 2), shedding leaves during H.S., the branchlets all 
minute bristles arising from pustules, shortly and roughish pubes- 
cent beneath; stipules lanceolate, pubescent ; both, male and female, 
inflorescences almost globular, on roughish-velvety peduncles 14- 
2 in. long and elongating, axillary and solitary, the flowers inter- 
mixed with small peltate scales; syncarps globular, as large as the 
fist, on a 2-4 in. long nodding peduncle, tubercled all over, the 
tubercles roundish, small, rough from brownish short bristles ; seeds 
oblong, about 4 in. long. 
Has.—Common in the tropical forests from Chittagong and Martaban down 
to Tenasserim and the Andamans.—Fl, March-Apr.; Fr. Apr.-May.—s: L- 
SS.=Metam. SiS., ete. 
MARKS.—Wood yellowish white, turning pale brown, the heart-wood 
darker coloured, rather loose-grained, rather heavy, soon attacked by xylophages. 
. = pd. Used for canoes and cart-wheels. Yields a tenacious milky caout- 
chouk,. 
5. A. integrifolia, Willd.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr., 219; Brand. For. 
Fl., 425.—Peing-nai.—An evergreen tree (40—60 + 10—25 + 6— 
7), all parts glabrous; leaves obovate-oblong to oblong, acuminate 
or acute at the base, on a rather slender glabrous petiole 3-1 ™. 
long, apiculate or bluntish, 4-6 in. long, thick-chartaceous, entire, 
glabrous, glossy and dark-green above ; stipules large, lanceolate, — 
glabrous; inflorescences before their development enveloped 2 
spathe-like bracts, afterwards naked, clavate-oblong, on rather a4 
slender glabrous peduncles } to an in. long and finally thickenmg, 
arising singly or by pairs from the end of the branches or more 
usually from the end of short shoots springing from the main 
branches and trunk ; syncarp very large, 1-24 ft. long, weighimg 
from 10-60 pounds, oblong, ‘muricate-rough; seeds kidney- — 
shaped, the size of a nutmeg, enveloped in a thin, white, smooth, 2 
chartaceous testa, lodged within the yellow-fleshy, and much- 
enlarged edible perianth-part. . 
Hap.—Cultivated all over Burma and the adjacent provinces and islands, 
but nowhere really wild, although often seen like wild shoiig choungs and m¢ 
especially in the vicinity of deserted habitations. —F1.C.S. ; Fr. R.8.+s.—89-= 
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