166 NEW OR NOTEWORTHY BORNEAN PLANTS. 
cm. wide, shining, the upper surface olivaceous, the lower surface 
brownish, apex rather abruptly acuminate, the acumen acute or 
obtuse, rather stout, about 1 mm. long, base rounded to broadly 
acute, equilateral or nearly so; lateral nerves 10 to 12 on each side 
of the midrib, very prominent on the lower surface, spreading, 
curved, arched-anastomosing close to the margins, the reticulations 
rather close, distinct on both surfaces; petioles 8 to 10 mm. long. 
Staminate inflorescences oblong-obovoid to pyriform, axillary, solit- 
ary, yellow when fresh, brown when dry, about 12 mm. long, their 
peduncles stout, ferruginous-puberulent, 1 to 2 mm. in length. 
Flowers very numerous, crowded, 1 mm. long or less, the anthers 
only slightly exserted; bracteoles peltate, ciliate, densely imbricate, 
in the young inflorescences quite concealing the flowers, cupreous. 
Mature fruit red when fresh, cupreous or castaneous ‘when dry, 
densely and uniformly furfuraceous-lepidote, smooth, the tips of 
the anthocarps not evident, subglobose or depressed-globose, about 
+ em. in diameter. Seeds very few, sometimes only 3 or + matur- 
ing in one fruit, ovoid, 10 to 12 mm. in length, the accrescent 
perianth segments fleshy, glabrous. 
British North Borneo, Batu Lima near Sandakan, Ramos 1592 
(type), 1749, November, 1920, the former with mature or nearly 
mature fruits, the latter with staminate inflorescences. In damp 
forests at low altitudes. A species belonging in the group with 
Artocarpus gomeziana Wall. and manifestly closely alhed to that 
species, but at once distinguished by its denzely and uniformly fur- 
furaceous-lepidote fruits, the indumentum being cupreous or 
castaneous. 
Artocarpus peltata sp. nov. 
Arbor circiter 25 m. alta, partibus junioribus dense ferrugineo- 
pubescentibus ; foliis chartaceis, oblongis vel oblongo-lanceolatis, 20 
-28 cm. longis, aequilateralibus, integris vel junioribus minute 
denticulatis, basi rotundatis, distincte peltatis, apice acuminatis, 
subtus molliter pubescentibus, nervis utrinque circiter 18, per- 
spicuis, stipulis oblongo-ovatis, inaequilateralibus, pubescentibus, 
12 mm. longis; inflorescentiis @ axillaribus, globosis, peduncu- 
latis; fructibus junioribus 2 em. diametro, globosis, laevibus, 
cinereo-puberulis, anthocarpiis haud productis, areolatis, areolis 
haud 0.5 mm. diametro; seminibus paucis. 
A tree up to 25 m. high, the younger parts densely and uni- 
formly ferrugineous-pubescent with short hairs. Branches sub- 
terete, the ultimate ones 4 to 5 mm. in diameter, very densely 
pubescent. Leaves chartaceous, oblong to oblong- oblanceolate, 20 
to 28 cm. long, 6 to 10 em. wide, entire, when very young pubescent 
on both surfaces, in age glabrous on the upper surface except for 
the pubescent midrib, the lower surface softly pubescent with short 
hairs, the base rounded, equilateral, narrowly peltate, the petiole 
inserted 2 to 5 mm. from the leaf margins, the apex distinctly 
acuminate and usually shortly apiculate, the margins of very young 
Jour. Straits Branch 
