English: Monkey jack.

Vern.: Barhal.

ABDUL GHAFOOR

A large deciduous tree, upto 20 m tall, with a dense spreading crown. Trunk with fissured blackish bark, 2-23 m in circumference, young shoots vinous tomentose. Leaves with a 1-2.5 cm long petiole; lamina oblong or elliptic to ± obovate, 15-25 (-30) cm long, 10-15 (-20) cm broad, scabrid, pubescent beneath, entire or denticulate; stipules lanceolate, 10-15 mm long, hairy. Male inflorescence ovoid, c. 20-25 mm long, subsessile, orange yellow. Female inflorescence subglobose, stout peduncled, slightly longer than male. Syncarp globose, 4-10 cm in diameter, irregularly lobed, almost smooth, yellow on maturity.

Fl. Per.: April June.

Type: India, Buch.-Hem. (K-W).

Distribution: Confined to Indo-Pakistan subcontinent, Burma and Malaysia; introduced and cultivated elsewhere.

Reported in cultivation in Lahore by Parker (l.c.).