ARTOCAKPUS NOBILIS. (Nat. order TTrtioese.) 



For Gei:. Char, see letter-press to PI. cccviii. 



ArTOCARPUS NOBILIS. (Thw.) A large tree 50 feet high and up to 12 feet in girtb, monsecious, young branchlels 

 terete strigoso-scabrous, rugulose, leaves asperulous ovate shortly acuminate, the margin coarsely crenated, above dark-green with the 

 costa and veins pale, beneath pale green, up to 14 inches long by about 10 inches broad, those of saplings often larger and pinnatifid, 

 petiole cylindric |-1| inches long furnished sparingly with long hairs, stipules strigose 2-3 inches long soon deciduous, peduncles axil- 

 lary 2-3£ inches long, the aments covered with orbicular stipitate peltate puberulous persistent scales, the male linear-cyliudric 3-6 

 inches long by 5-8 lines in diameter, the female oblongo-cylindrio shorter and broader than the male, flowers minute very numerous 

 papillseform a little glandular, fruit oblong papillose 6-8 inches long 3^-4 inches broad, seed subspherical white £ an inch in diameter. 

 Thw. En. PI. Zey. p. 262. 



This magnificent tree is only found in Ceylon, where it is most abundant in the southern and central parts of the island up to 2000 feet 

 elevation, and well hnoion by the Singalese name Del ; the timber is of good quality and much in use for various purposes, such as common furniture, 

 almirahs, &c., and boats are holloioed out of single trees. 



Analysis. 

 The figure represents a leaf and female ament. 



1 & 2. Portions of male ament. 



3. A male flower shewing the solitary stamen and front view of anther, 



4. Male flower cut open, shewing insertion of the stamens and back view of the anther. 



5. Portion of a female ament. 



6. Ovary cut vertically, shewing the single pendulous ovule.. 



7. Section of a portion of a female ament shewing the flowers. 



8. Nearly ripe seed enclosed in the enlarged perianth (removed from the fruit.) 



9. The same cut open. 



10. Nearly ripe seed, (All drawn from flowers in spirits.) 



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