610 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vor. II, arr. 32 
Species 40, widely distributed throughout tropical Asia and 
in the Pacific islands. In the Philippines we recognize 16 species, 
8 of which yield edible fruits and the wood of most of our species 
is hard and heavy, yellowish, either with a distinct bitterish or 
sweetish taste, and is much employed for structural purposes. 
The gum is used in calking small boats and the coagulated 
milky sap is occasionally gathered by the natives for a substitute 
for chewing gum. The younger folks also use it in making 
simple bird traps. Slender bamboo poles are coated with it 
and horizoutally placed among trees bearing edible bird fruits. 
When the bird alights on the gummed pole, he is unable to 
free himself from it. Nor is he given a decently fair time 
to accomplish a possible escape, since the captor usually lies 
in wait somewhere in the shade of the tree. The nuts of a few 
species are said to be roasted and used as food. The bark of 
young trees of some of our species is used by mountain 
tribes as ‘“gee-strings’’. 
Key to the Philippine species of Artocarpus. 
Fruits large, hanging from the stem and larger branches. 
| | 1. A. integrifolia. 
Fruits smaller, from the twigs or from the leaf axils. 
Leaves large, at least occasionally lobed or incised. 
Anthocarps terminating into slender tails. 
2. A. blumei. 
Anthocarps not tailed. 
Fruit black. . 
8. A. nigrescens. | 
Fruits greenish or turning to a pale greenish 
yellow or even yellowish red. 
. Leaves always incised, moderately long 
petioled, upper surface glabrous; antho- 
carps elongated; mos inflorescence long 
cylindric. ox 
a A. communis. — 
yak: Leaves as i in the above; SDN DE 1 cm. — 
o long, spiculate. e j 
e 28S d. communis Mant, 
re Leaves mostly entire, ” no 9 
