Artocarpus. MONOECIA MONANDRIA. | 
late, pretty smooth, embracing like a spathe the next inner 
leaf and ament when present, falling as soon as they begin 
toexpand. Mae rowers. Ament single,short-peduncled, 
the size of a man’s thumb, or more ; generally on small, recent 
branchlets which ‘issue from the trunk and larger branches, 
every where most closely covered with the small sessile co- 
rollets. © Spathe no other than the above mentioned stipules, 
Perianth proper, or corol two-leaved ; leaflets wedge-formed, 
equal, a little hairy. Stamens, filament single, thick, club- 
shaped, rather larger than the perianth. .Anthers two-lobed; 
lobes oval, and grooved in the middle. FEMALE FLOWERS 
on the same tree, and mixed with the male on the same 
branchlets. Calyx ;spathe, no other than the male has, viz. 
the stipules, Ament oblong, closely covered with innumer- 
able, small, sessile germs, perforated at the apex for the style 
~ to pass. Germs numerous, their exterior coverings uniting 
near the base; above they are from four to six-angled, and 
throughout solid, except where the germ proper and style is 
lodged. Germ proper, ovate, lodged in the bottom of the 
last described covering. Style single, rather longer than the 
envelope of the germ, Stigma single, recurved, clubbed, 
grooved on the outside, Fruit compound, oblong, murexed, 
from twelve to thirty inches long, from six to twelve in dia- 
meter, weighing from ten to sixty pounds. Seeds reniform, 
gne in each germ, were all to come to maturity, which never 
can happen; they are about the size of a nutmeg, enveloped 
in a thin, smooth, leathery sheath, lodged within the fleshy 
eatable part of the fruit, which formed the exterior coverings 
of the germ, already noticed, 
. Fora more particular account of the fruit, see Gertner on 
Seeds, vol. i. page 344. 346, tab. 71. and 72. all that is intend- 
ed by this description, is to give a tolerable idea of the parts 
of fructification. 
The fruit of this tree is so universally known, that it is un- 
necessary for me to say any thing respecting its excellence, 
as well as that the seeds, when roasted, are not inferior to the 
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