runs down its sides, and is concreted by the sun. It is eaten 
plainly boiled as potatoes, or as a substitute for bread, 
baked after the central pith has been removed. It is often 
also made into boiled or baked puddings. 
There are many varieties of the Bread Fruit, as may be 
supposed with a plant so extensively cultivated. Mr. Guixp- 
ing enumerates the following as the principal. 
Round and rough (muricated) fruit. 
Oval and rough, one of the most valuable. 
Oval and smooth variety ; the second-best. 
Round and smooth variety. 
Timor variety: small, and very inferior. 
orm GO RO 
_ 1 may sum up the properties of this tree by remarking, 
that in the native countries of this widely-diffused plant, 
clothes are made of the fibres of the liber or inner bark; the 
wood serves for building houses and making boats: the 
male catkins are employed as tinder ; the leaves for wrap- 
ing provisions in; and the viscid, milky juice affords bird 
ime. 
The Arrocarpus incisa, exists in a living state in the 
Glasgow, and, probably, other Botanic Gardens of this 
country: but it is both imported and kept alive in our 
stoves with great difficulty : so that we dare not expect to 
see it ever flourishing in Europe. = 
Tas. 2869. Artocarrus incisa,«. (Bread Nut.) Fig. 1. Branch reduced 
to one-third of the natural size, with Male and Female Flowers. 2. Section of 
a Male Flower (nat. size). 3. Male Flower. 4. Single ditto. 5. Cluster of 
Female Flowers. *6. Single ditto. 7. Germen. 8. The same laid open to 
shew the Ovyule. 9. A variety of the Germen with two Cells. 10, 'Trans- 
verse section of the same.—All but fig. 1 and 2 more or less magnified. 
Tas. 2870. Fruit of Artocarrus incisa, a, Fig. 1. Section of the ¢om- 
pound Fruit. 2. Single Fruit, withits enlarged Perianth. 3. The same with 
the Perianth forced back. 4, Seed. 5. Section of ditto. 6. Embryo.— 
natural size. 
_ Tan. 2871. Arrocarrus incisa, 8. (True Bread Fruit.) Fig. 1. Male 
Flower. 2. Female ditto, magnified. 3. Fruit, one-third of the natural size. 
4, Section of the same. 
