eaten; and when rotting under the tree, the odour is highly 
disgusting : in this state affording support to hundreds of Curcu- 
lionidew, Staphylinidee, Forficule, &c.” (Guiupine MSS.) The 
seeds, however, are allowed by all to be good, and even when 
roasted, to have the taste of chesnuts. In Amboyna, the bats 
greedily devour this fruit, and, passing the seeds entire, thus 
aid the more extended propagation of the plant. In Ceylon, 
where the tree grows most plentifully, and where it attains the 
eatest size perfection, it forms a considerable — of the 
iet of the natives, at particular times of the year. ‘The unripe 
fruit is also used pickled, or cut into slices and boiled, or fried in 
Palm oil. The wood itself is like mahogany in colour, when it 
has been for some time exposed to the air: and in some parts of 
India, is on that account employed to make furniture of. It is 
more commonly employed in building houses, for which it is well 
suited. From the juice or milk, a very viscid bird-lime is made. 
The tree seems naturalized in the West Indies, particularly in 
the island of St. Vincent. It was probably introduced there by 
the late Dr. AnpErson, and constitutes one of the peculiar fea- 
tures of its Botanic Garden. Mr. Guinpine says, Mh inter- 
esting account of that establishment, ‘* Assembled together are the 
various fruits transplanted from the islands of Asia and other 
distant lands, or the nations of the Antilles, attracting by their 
nectared flowers, the gaudy humming birds. You behold the 
Bread Fruit (Artocarrus incisa) of he Friendly Islands, the 
most precious gift of Pomona, and the Jack of India (ArtocarR- 
Pus integrifolia) bearing its ponderous fruit of sixty or seventy 
Saree on the trunk and arms—huge deformities for the lap of 
The Flowers have a sweet smell, and are produced, in the 
tropics, in the months of January and February. The fruit ripens 
in August and September. | 
We see no reason for making two species of this plant as 
Lamarck has done; for it is very certain, that, as far as leaves 
are concerned, the two kinds, with entire and cut leaves, are 
found on the same plant. The different quality and flavour of 
the fruit described by authors, probably depend upon cultivation. 
Into England, the Jack Tree was introduced in 1778, by Sir 
Epwarp Hucues, K. B. 
Tas. 2833. Fig. 1. Small Branch of the Jack T 
Female Amentum, and the two Bractez, enclosing anoth 
Spadix : reduced to one-third of the natural size. 2. ) 
ral size. 3. Ripe Fruit, very much diminished, 
Tas. 2834, Fig. 4, Male Flower,-or Stamen, with its two-leaved Peri- 
anth. 5. Female Fiower, or Pistil, enclosed within its monophyllous Perianth, 
6. Germen and part of the Style. 7. Portion of the Ripe Fruit, less than the 
natural size. 8. Abortive Female Flowers : one of them cut open below, to 
shew the Pistil within. 9. Ripe Fruit, natural size, surrounded by the 
enlarged, soft, fleshy Perianth. 10. The same cut open to shew the Fruit 
within, the Pericarp already beginning to burst and shew the seed within. 
11. Seed. 12. The same deprived of its Outer Coat. 13. Section of the 
same, 14. Embryo, taken entire from the Seed.—Fig. 4, 6, and 7 only, 
magnified. 
e, with a Male and 
er Male Amentum or 
Amentum, natu- 
