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3. C DjEMONUM, Miquel. — rShrubby ; leaves generally opposite, 

 cuneate-oblong, pointed, serrate, scabrous above, downy beneath, 

 with a green gland in the axils of the veins ; fruit for the most 

 part in pairs in radical, withering racemes, often under-ground, of 

 the size of a large nutmeg, obovate, very hairy, obscurely ridged. 

 Ficus dsemona, Keen. Wight Ic. 641. Common; generally near 

 the sea. 



CXXVI. ARTOCARPACE^. 



1. ANTIARIS, Leschenault. 



1. A Saccidora, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iii, 232. — A stately 

 forest tree; leaves stipulate, alternate, obloiig-elliptic, dentate- 

 serrulate, scabrous, on shoi t petioles ; flowers on a convex, fleshy, 

 pedicelled receptacle, tetrandous ; fruit purple, the size of a filbert, 

 containing one seed. Hills in the Concan ; Kandalla Ghaut ; Warree 

 Country. Syn. Lepurandra saccidora, Nimmo in Grab. Cat. Bomb. 

 PI. p 193 ; Wight Ic. 19.58. Native name " Jassoond." 



2. ARTOCARPUS, Linn. 



1. HiRSUTA, Lam. Encyc. iii, 201. — Leaves elliptic-obtuse, or 

 rounded at both ends, glabrous above, hairy, especially in the nerves 

 beneath ; male catkins long-cylindrical, about the thickness of a 

 quill, at first ascending or erect, afterwards pendulous ; females 

 oval, about the size of an egg ; fruit globose echinate. Punt 

 Suchew's Country. Native name " Ranphunnus" and Patphunnus. 



2. A Lakoocha, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 524. — A middling-sized 

 tree, with a short, thick trunk ; leaves alternate short-petioled, oval 

 entire, generally pointed, smooth above, downy beneath, 4 to 12 

 inches long, 2 to 6 broad ; aments axillary ; male subsessile, about 

 the size of a nutmeg, female short-peduncled, globular ; fruit with 

 a pretty smooth surface, of an irregular roundish form, yellow 

 when ripe, eatable; ripe in July. Caranjah Hill and Bassein, not 

 common. 



3. A Integrifolia, Willd. iv, 1 84 — Leaves petioled, oval, of a 

 firm, coriaceous texture, of a deep, shining green above ; male 

 ament of the size of a man's thumb, female oblong ; fruit very large, 

 oblong-muricated ; seeds of the size of a nutmeg. The well-known 

 Jack tree. Native name " Phunnus." The wood is excellent, 

 becoming by age very like Mahogany ; in colour bright-yellow 

 when newly cut. Formerly much used for furniture, but has gone 

 completely out of fashion, having been superseded by Blackwood. 



