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J[l) A. SAcciBOEA. fjDah.J 



Ident. Dalzell in Hook. Joum. Bol. III. p. 232. 



Syn. Lepurandra sacoidora, Nimmo in Orah. Cat. Bomb. pi. 

 p. 193. 



EngroB. Wight's Icon. t. 1968. 



Spec. Chak. Large tree : leaves stipulate, alternate, oblong-^ 

 elliptic, dentate-serrulate, scabrous, short petioled : flowers on a 

 convex, fleshy, pediceUed receptacle : fruit purple, size of a filbert, 

 1 -seeded. 



Conoan hills. Khandalla Grhaut. Waree country. Coorg. 

 Flowering in October. 



GENUS ir. ARTOCARPUS. 

 Monceela Monanflpla. Sex: Syst: 



Deriv. From Artos, bread, and Karpos fruit. 



Gen. Chae. Flowers monoecious : males densely clustered to- 

 gether on a club-shaped, ament-like receptacle, ebracteolate : perianth 

 2 — 3-leaved, leaflets erect, more or less cohering at the base : stamen 

 one, filament linear, flattened: anther 2-celIed, cells opposite: 

 females densely capitately clustered on a globose receptacle, con- 

 crescent: ovary free, 1 -celled: ovule one, parietal, amphitropal: 

 style long filiform, exserted, lateral : stigma undivided or 2-cleft : 

 syncarp baccate, muricated with utricles between fleshy-thickened 

 densely glued together perianths (many barren ones intermixed), 

 the apices of the perianths pyramidate, free : utricles membranaceous, 

 marked with the remains of the style, dehiscing lengthways : seed 

 ovate, parietal. — ^Milky trees: leaves alternate, short-petioled, 

 obovate, entire, pinnatifld-lobed, scabrous beneath : stipules very 

 large, coriaceous, hiding the buds : peduncles axillary, at first 

 enclosed in spathiform stipules, soon deciduous, lateral by the fall 

 of the leaf. 



(1) A. HiESiTTA. (Lam.) 



Ident. Lam. encycl. III. p. 201. Roxb. flor. Ind. III. p. 521. 



Engram. "Wight's Icon. t. 1957. Rheede Mai. III. t. 32. 



Spec. Chae. Leaves elliptic, obtuse, or rounded at both ends, . 

 glabrous above, hairy especially on the nerves, beneath : male 

 catkins long cylindric, abouf the thickness of a quill, at first 

 ascending or erect, afterwards pendulous : females oval, size of an 

 egg : fruit globose, echinate. 



Malabar. Travancore. 



