ing in every part with a viscid, milky juice. Leaves from 
one to two and even three feet long, and often a foot and a 
half broad, coriaceous, alternate, ovate, but cuneate and 
entire at the base, the upper part cut in a pinnatifid manner 
into from three to nine acute, more or less deep lobes ; on 
the suckers the foliage is often entire, and on the shoots 
from the larger branches, it has only two or three lobes* : 
the upper surface dark green, with numerous yellowish 
nerves, almost entirely glabrous, below scabrous, paler in 
colour, and marked with very prominent nerves. Petioles 
short and thick. Stipules large, soon withering and cadu- 
cous, downy. Peduneles axillary, solitary, from within the 
upper leaves of the branches : the superior one bearing the 
male, the lower, the female flowers ; when young, included 
within the same stipule with its accompanying leaf. The 
male flowers are very densely crowded around a central, 
sponsy receptacle, so as to form a cylindrical or somewhat. 
club-shaped catkin, ten to sixteen inches long, and of a 
yellowish colour. Perianth monophyllous, cylindrical, 
opening half-way down into two valves. Stamen one. Fila- 
ment broad, as long as the perianth, white. Anthers round- 
ish, two-lobed, two-celled. Female flowers collected into a 
globular, echinated head, having a central, spongy recep- 
tacle. _Perianths single, fleshy, united indeed, and incor- 
porated with each other, except at the very extremity, where 
they form as many sharp, pyramidal, downy points. The 
lower part only of each perianth is hollow, and downy 
within, where the pistil is situated. Germen oval, one- 
sometimes two-celled. Style lateral, incorporated with the 
solid substance of the upper part of the perianth, and again 
appearing beyond the point, where it divides into two sub- 
ulate, white stigmas. Fruit becoming a very large, aggre- 
gates oval or globose, fleshy Berry, as large as a good-sized 
elon ; in «, the seed-bearing kind, remarkably muricated. 
A vast number of these perianths prove abortive, and un- 
re & no alteration, but in becoming more developed and 
leshy ; those in which the fruit ripens, separate from the 
rest in the lower part and from the fleshy top, and form a 
loose cup-shaped, jagged, membranous receptacle to the 
enclosed fruit. Pericarp oval, gibbous on one side, mem- 
branous, loose, reticulated, still retaining the withered ay, 
—s 
* That kind which produces the seedless fruit, especially the Timor Bread 
Fruit, has the lobes very deep, reaching almost to the midrib. ; 
