CLASS XXI. 



STAMINA AND PISTILLA IN SEPARATE 

 FLOWERS, BUT BOTH GROWING ON THE 

 SAME INDIVIDUAL PLANT. 



This Class has ten Orders. 



BREAD-FRUIT TREE. This tree has been order r. 

 brought into particular notice since the discovery of 

 Otaheite and the Sandwich Islands, where the fruit is 

 eaten as bread. It is also a native of many islands in 

 the East Indies., as Java, Amboyna, Banda, &c. but in 



, those islands the tree was not cultivated, and little use 

 was made of the produce. 



The tree is described to be of the size of a mid- 

 dling Oak, and the fruit to be of the size and shape of 

 a child's head, growing on boughs like apples, with a 

 hard, thick, and tough rind. When it is ripe it is yel- 

 low and soft, and the taste sweet and pleasant. It 

 is gathered when full grown, while it is green and 



, hard, and baked in an oven, which scorches the rind 

 and makes it black; the outside black crust is then 

 scraped off, and there remains a tender thin crust; 

 the middle, soft, tender, and as white as snow, and 



. somewhat of the consistence of new bread. In this 

 sort, which is the best, there is neither stone nor seed- 

 in the inside, but all of one pure uniform substance. 

 It requires to be eaten new, for if it be kept more 



, than twenty-four hours it becomes dry cad thoaky. 



