522 MONOECiA MONANDRiA. Artocarpus. 



the style, armed on the outside with stout stiff bristles. Carol 

 none. Germ ovate, one-celled, containing- one ovuluni at- 

 tached to the top of the cell. Style longer than the calyx, fili- 

 form. Stigma simple, acute. Fruit compound, oval, of the 

 size of a very large lemon, armed with numerous hispid 

 spines, on the enlarged end are still more indurated points of 

 what I called the perianth, (See above.) Internal parts and 

 arranoement as in the common ,/«/»;, Sitodium caulifloruiH, 

 G(srt. sem. i. 345. i. 71. and 72. Seeds many, ovate or oval, 

 the size of a field bean. Integuments two, the exterior one, 

 firm like parchment; the interior one thicker, dark brown, 

 and spongy. Perisperm none. Einlmjo with two equal 

 cotyledons, and minute body lodged close to the umbilicus 

 at the smaller end of the seed. 



2. A. integrijolia. Willd. iv. 184. 



Leaves oblong, entire. Floivers cauline. 



Sitodium cauliflorum. Gcerl. Sem. i. 345. /. 71, 72. 



Sans, and Teling. P?/nMsa. 



Tsjaca marum. Rheed. Mai iii. t. 26, 27, 28. 



Beng. Kanthal. 



Jak tree. 



Polyphema Jaca. Lourier. Cochin Ch. 667. 



It is much cultivated throughout Southern liulia, and 

 all the warmer parts of Asia ; where it is wild or originally 

 from, I know not. On the coast of Coromandel, it does not 

 in general attain to any great height, from thirty to forty feet 

 may be reckoned a high tree, but with a very large, ramous, 

 dense, shady head, particularly when it stands detached from 

 other trees, and a short thick trunk, about twelve feet high ; 

 flowering time the cold season, fruit ripe in four or five months 

 afterwards. 



Leaves alternate, petioled,oval,in young luxuriant plants 

 often lobed, of a firm leathery textiire, above of a deep smooth 

 shining green, below less so, about four inches long. Peti- 

 oles short, slightly channelled. Stipules two, broad-lanceo- 



