336 ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BOTANY OF [ Artocarpee. 
as southwards to the Cape and southern parts of New Holland, and north to Japan 
and the south of Europe. Two species of Morus and one of Maclura extend into the 
United States of America, 
The genera of Artocarpee are few in number ; those found in India are, Artocarpus, 
Ficus, Broussonetia, and Morus. Gunnera, thought to be confined to the New World, 
has been found by Blume in Java. Artocarpus, from which the family is named; and 
the genus, from the well-known species, A. incisa, or Bread-fruit tree of the Pacific 
Islands, and which is also found in the Moluccas, has also species in India and the 
islands, as A. integrifolia, or the Jak fruit, much cultivated in Southern India, and 
found in many parts where the climate is not too dry. A. Chaplasha and A..Lakoocha, 
Roxb., with other species, are also common in the southern parts, as Silhet, and the . 
latter in gardens even in the most northern parts. The genus Ficus, the most numerous 
in species, is also the most abundant in India. Species may be seen nearly every 
where, either cultivated in the neighbourhood of villages, or wild in every jungle or 
hilly, situation, from the Peninsula to the most northern portion of the Himalayas ; 
one or two species are found as high as at Mussooree, F’. laurifolia, nob., and Soveolata, 
Wall. Dr. Roxburgh has described about fifty species, Dr.Wallich has add ed nearly 
as many, without including those from the Malayan Peninsula or islands. The whole 
require a more critical examination than they have yet received, before we can 
determine the species which are common to India with other countries; but many 
of the same species extend from the southern to the most northern parts, as F. indica, 
religiosa, glomerata, conglomerata, venosa, &c. F. Rumphii occurs in the vallies in 
Kemaon, and at Barahat on the anges ; but it may have been introduced, as it is 
held in veneration by the Hindoos. F. elastica does not extend beyond Pundua, 
Juntypore, and Chirraponjee. Broussonetia, with species in the West-Indies, Louisiania, 
and Brazil, has one species, B. papyrifera, common to the Society Islands, New 
Zealand, and Japan ; and another, B. integrifolia, at Goalpara, in Lower Assam. The 
Mulberry, though not so numerous in species, is more widely diffused than any other 
genus of the family. Species are found in Madagascar and Mauritius, in the islands of 
the Pacific Ocean, in Java, Quito, N . America, and China. In India we trace them 
from the southern to the most northern parts; with one species common in the Hima- 
layas; thence we find them in Cashmere, Persia, Asia Minor, and Media, near 
Bokhara, and S. of Russia. In a great part of Europe Morus nigra is common, 
but probably introduced from the South. 
Of M. alba, so valuable in an economical point of view, and especially cultivated in 
the south of Europe for feeding the silk-worm, the native country is not well known; 
but it is supposed by some to be Persia, Media, and Asia Minor, and by others China ; 
though we do not hear when it was introduced into Europe, nor is it mentioned at 
the time when the Monks brought the eggs of the silk insect to Constantinople. The 
species of this genus, like that of almost every other which is cultivated, has been so 
little attended to by those best qualified to determine the degree of variation, and conse- 
quently 
