Artocarpus. monoecia monandria. 527 



5. A. echinata. Roxh. 



Leaves oblong', entire. .Male and female amevts round. 

 Fruit sphericid, echinated. 



Tampoine of the Malays of Malacca. 

 A native of Prince ol" Wales' Island, and other parts east 

 o( the l^ay of Bengal, where it grows to he a moderate sized 

 tree, and the fruit is eaten by the natives. 



Trunk in a young tree in the Botanic garden at Calcutta, 

 short, stout, and straight. Branches numerous in every di- 

 rection, forn)ing a dense, sub-globular head. Bark of the old 

 Moody parts of a dark olive green, that of the young shoots 

 harsh with short stift' a p pressed brownish hairs. Leaves alter- 

 nate, short-petioled, oblong, entire, obtuse, hard, with the 

 upper surface glossy, and the lower one lighter coloured and 

 harsh, from six to eight inches long, and from three to six 

 broad. Stipules lanceolate, concave, harsh with short, ap- 

 pressed hairs. Male aments axillary, short-peduncled, glo- 

 bular, of the size of a gooseberry, yellow. Bractes, a few, 

 clavate-peltate, intermixed with the corollets. Calyx one- 

 leaved, bifid segments oblong, obtuse. Filanients single, 

 rather longer than the calyx. Anthers sub-rotund. Female 

 aments terminal, longer peduncled, globular. Fruit com- 

 pound, round, of the size of a small shaddock, armed with 

 numerous, long, straight, subulate spines as in A. hirsuta^ 

 (Ansjeli. Rheed. Mai. iii. t. 32.J Seeds numerous, and oval, 

 as in the genus. 



(). A. lancecrfoUa. /?. 



Leaves broad-lanceolar, or oblong, acuminate, entire. Fruit 

 terminal, spherical. 



A native of Prince of Wales' Island. 



7. A. incisa. Willd. iv. 188. 



Leaves gashed and pinnatifid. Male aments cylindric. 

 Fruit terminal, round. 



Bread-Fruit of Dampier, Anson, Cook, and Ellis. 



