ARTOCARPUS HIRSUTA. (Nat. order Urticeie.) 



ArTOCARPUS, Linn.— GEN. CHAK. Flowers niona:eiou3, minute, densely packed on the outside of a globose or oblong succulent rocep- 

 tacle, the males and females in separate heads. Male flowers : Perianth of 2 to 4 segments, imbricate in the bud. Stamen 1. Female flowers : Perianth 

 tubular entire. Style usually simple and linear, protruding from the perianth. Ovary usually 1-celled, with 1 pendulous ovule. Fruit compound consist- 

 ing of the somewhat enlarged persistent and consolidated perianths, each enclosing a minute nut. Seeds without albumen. Trees or shrubs, with milky 

 juice. Leaves alternate, entire or divided. Flower-heads axillary or terminal solitary or 2 together. 



ARTOCARPUS HIRSUTA. (Lam.) A very lofty tree attaining upwards of 200 feet in height and of great girth, young 

 parts hirsute, leaves ovate to oval (those of saplings or occasionally a few on older trees deeply pinnatifid and serrate) entire acute or 

 obtuse, glabrous above in age, hairy underneath particularly on the prominent parallel veins, 6-12 inches long by 4-6 inches broad, 

 (those of saplings often much larger), petioles 6-12 lines long hirsute, stipules lanceolate hirsute ; male ameuts slender 3-4 inches long 

 and 3 lines in diameter axillary solitary or in pairs, at first erect at length pendulous on peduncles J-l iuch long, the florets mixed with 

 numerous linear chaffy bracts ; female amenta solitary oval or roundish about 1 inch long by 6-8 lines broad on peduncles about 3 

 inches long, the upper part of the florets nearly solid tapering, armed with stiff bristles and almost consolidated with the style which is 

 much exserted, fruit oval about the size of a lemon armed with numerous hispid spines, seeds numerous oval or ovate the size of a 

 bean. Eoxb. FL Ind. iii. 521. 



This very valuable timber tree is most abundant in the moist forests of the Western Ghats of the Bombay and Madras presidencies from 

 the sea level up to about 4000 feet elevation; it is loell known by the Tamil and Malayalum names of Ayni and Angelli, and in Canarese (Mysore) 

 it is called Hebulsu ; its timber is strong and tolerably close and even grained, of a glossy texture and yellowish brown color, weighs about 4S lbs. 

 when unseasoned and 40 lbs. per cubic foot when seasoned, and has a specific gravity of - 604 ; it is much in use for ship btlilding, house building, 

 furniture, and various other purposes. 



Analysis. 



1. Portion of a branch with male inflorescence, and shewing one of the pinnatifid leaves which very rarely occur on a 



flowering branch though abundant on saplings, 



2. Portion of a branch with female inflorescence. 

 3, 4, 5. Male florets. 



6. A female floret. 



7. Female floret, vertical section, shewing the ovary and the solitary pendulous ovule. 



8. A young fruit, (All drawn from living specimens.) 



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