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Artocarpus 
Fischer 
Artocarpus lakoocha 
The specimens from the Malay Peninsula agree exactly with 
specimens distributed from Buitenzorg as Ar tocarpus dadah Miq. 
This has lead me to question whether the specimens from the Malay 
Peninsula are really A.lakoocha from India. 
In Singapore we have only 2 sheets of A.lakoocha from India, 
namely, King's Collector k 1 7 & In venation, hairiness and 
male inflorescence, these two sheets indicate a species different 
from the Malayan. The Indian species has oblong male heads with 
shorter peduncles, coarser reticulations and relatively broader 
and shorter leaf-blades than the Malayan. 
I am sending you King's two sheets and some typical sheets of 
the Malayan species. If King's sheets are truly A.la kooch a, the 
malsyan species must be distinct and is certainly A.dadah . Would 
you compare them with the Indian specimens? 
A rtocarpus A . 
I cannot find what this species is. It differs from A.lakoocha 
and A.dadah in the broadly elliptic to ovate leaves with much fewer 
veins (4*8 frs) and the fruits which are velvety hairy and GK-ert~ \ 
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orange-yellow with yellow flesh, (the malayan specimens of A.lakoocha 
have bright pink flesh in the ripe fruit and 11-20 prs of veins). 
Artocarpus lowii 
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The—following collections, referred to A.peduncularis should 
be placed under A.l o wii if King's description (Ann.Soy.B.G.Calc.II 
p.10) is correct. 
A. lowii should differ from A.peduncularis in;- the oblong 
elliptic leaf tapered at each end with more pairs of side veins 
(6-7 in A.peduncularis and 10-17 in A.lowii ); also perhaps in the 
tubercles on the fruit. But do you think that they are merely 
varieties of one species 9 
Can you check this by reference to the type of A.peduncularis ? 
I am sending 2, sheets of what I consider to be A. lowii . 
