524 MONOECIA MONANDRIA, Artocarpus. 
best chesnuts, In Ceylon, where the tree grows most plenti- 
fully, and where the fruit attains to its greatest size, the in- 
habitants make them a very considerable article of their diet. 
The wood comes near to mahogany in appearance, and is 
much used for making furniture, in Ceylon and some other 
parts of India. 
The Indians of those parts prepare their best bird-lime 
from the tenaceous white juice, wich abounds in all the 
uneatable parts of the fruit, and in the young tender parts of 
the tree. It flows freely from recent wounds, 
3. A. Lakoocha, Roxb. 
Leaves entire, oval. Aments axillary, globular. Fruit 
nearly round, somewhat lobate, and almost smooth, 
Sans. Lukoocha, 
Beng. Dhea-phul-Burbul. 
Found in the gardens in the vicinity of Calcutta, and is 
‘common all over Bengal, Leaves deciduous during the cold 
season, appearing again with the flowers in March about the 
beginning of the hot season, 
It is so far as I have seen, a tree of a middling size, with a 
short but thick trunk, and a very large spreading head. 
Bark of the trunk very rough ; that of the young parts pret- 
ty smooth. Leaves about the extremities of the branchlets al- 
ternate, short-petioled, somewhat bifarious, oval, entire, gene- 
rally pointed, smooth above, downy beneath, with many pa- 
rallel veins, and beautifully reticulated between them, from 
four to twelve inches long, and from two to six broad. Strpu- 
les small, cordate, caducous. Aments axillary, being from the 
axills, or most exterior germs, of last year’s leaves; the male 
are below, the female on the same branchlets, but from diffe- 
rent axills, Maze rLowers, Calyx ; spathe no other than 
one, or two, small, stipule-like scales, embracing the insertion 
of the spadix, _Aments sub-sessile, irregularly roundish, 
about the size of a nutmeg, every where covered with innu- 
merable florets, internally of a beautiful rose-colour. Pert- 
