MONOECIA. 3 



food of the bread kind, unless Yams'and Bananas may 

 be considered as such. Three trees are supposed to 

 yield sufficient nourishment for one person. 



There are several species or varieties of this tree, 

 and die fruit of some, has a core, and some, long ob- 

 long seeds, almost as large as chesnuts. 



This tree is useful not only for food, but also for 

 clothing, the inner rind of the young bark being 

 manufactured into a kind of cloth. 



In the year 1793 Captain Bligh took three hun- 

 dred and forty-seven of these trees from the South Sea 

 Islands to Jamaica, and about the same number to St. 

 Vincent's, in the West Indies, where they continue 

 to grow and bear fruit; but the hurricanes and tem- 

 pests of that climate have been unfavourable to their 

 increase in the degree that was expected, and the na- 

 tives still prefer the yams of their own country to the 

 Bread-fruit. 



ORDER 2. 



No British Plant of this Order. 



ANGURIA, of which there are three species, is a diandria 

 native of St. Domingo, a perennial plant, climbing; „ ~ — . 

 trees by the means of long tendrils to the height of 

 twenty feet. The old stems are woody and leafless; 

 the young ones, round, pliant, smooth, and leafy; 



