BY THE REV. J. E. TENISON-WOODS. 89 



Avocado pear, is a tree of the Laurel family with the highest 

 reputation for medicinal properties, and a husk rich in green oil. 

 It is a native of the West Indies and is only cultivated in Java. 



Bread-fruits, Jack-fruits, Champada and Terap or Tarippe, 

 known to botanists as Artocarpus incisa, L., A. hlumei, Tr., A. 

 elastica, Reinw., and A. integrifolia, L., and to the Malays as 

 Klowei, Sukon and Bendo in Javanese, are cultivated in all 

 Malaysia, and from Sumatra to the Marquesas Islands ; and this 

 was the case when Europeans first visited these regions. De 

 OandoUe regards Bread-fruit as a native of Java and the Moluccas. 

 Its fruit is constituted like the Pine-apple into a spherical fleshy 

 mass, and, like that fruit, the seeds come to nothing. From 

 this he argues, in the extreme eastern islands at least, the great 

 antiquity of its cultivation and probably also its introduction. 

 But, he adds, the number of varieties and facility of propagation 

 by buds and suckers prevent our knowing its history accurately. 

 The large almost palmate-leaved Bread-fruits are very ornamental. 

 The Jack-fruit, called also Nangka, is more generally cultivated, 

 producing immense fruits along the main branches or stem of the 

 tree A species with smaller fruits which are much better 

 flavoured is the Champada, distinguished by the underside of the 

 Ir'aves being hairy. It is a kind much preferred by the Malays. 

 Finally, the Tarippe or Terap [Artocarpus elastica) is a round tree 

 with leaves larger than the preceding, and hairy on both surfaces. 

 The fruits are borne near the end of the branches, and not from 

 the main branches or stem, as in Jack-fruit and Champada. 

 Most persons prefer the Terap as being less tough and leathery 

 and more juicy. The seeds of all the species are roasted like 

 chestnuts and eaten. All yield a kind of gutta. 



" The Tampoe or Tampui (Pierardia dulcis ?) is another very 

 common jungle-fruit, of which but little appears to be known. 

 There are three varieties — Tampoe shelou, Tampoe puti, and 

 Tampoe baraja. The two first-named difler in one having yellow 

 pulp and the other white. The last is a smaller fruit having 

 four internal divisions instead of six, and the pulp is of a bright 



