Seed erect, irregular, oval, brown, veined. Albumen none. 
Embryo large, yellowish. Radicle superior. Cotyledons 
unequal. (G4 ee! | 
The var. @ has the flowers abortive. The styles have 
but one stigma, and the fruit, instead of being remarkably 
muricated, is marked with reticulations, whose areole are 
flat, or but slightly prominent, and it contains no seed. 
A tree, producing a fruit, which, without any preparation, 
has the appearance of, and is used as a substitute for, bread, 
cannot fail to be an object of great curiosity ; and from the 
time of Dampier, who appears to have first * made known 
the existence of such a plant to Europeans, it has been 
spoken of as one of the wonders of the vegetable creation ; 
but much of its present celebrity is due to that deeply affect- 
ing history of the sufferings of Captain, afterwards Rear 
Admiral Buiex, consequent upon the mutiny in the Bounty, 
the ship that was employed to convey so valuable a fruit to 
our own colonies in the West Indies. = 
Dampter saw the tree abundantly in the Ladrone Islands, 
speaks of it as being in size equal to a 
loaf; from which we may infer, that th C 
already risen considerably during that time. He compares 
the flavour of the Bread Fruit, when boiled or roasted, to 
that of the common potatoe ; and further tells us that, “ the 
Spaniards slice it, and expose it to the sun, and when 
a sai brought 
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be The Jaca of Cxustus, Exot. t. 281, though | e quoted as the A. 
incisa, seems certainly to belong to the A. integrifolia, and might, 1 think, 
with safety have been referred to under that species. 
