142 ‘ URTICACEA. _ [ ArRTocaRpus. 
Dehra Dun and eastwards in the Sub-Himalayan tracts of Rohilkhand 
and N. Oudh, usually inswampy ground. Often planted in gardens 
within the area and by roadsides. The leaves fall during the cold 
season and are again renewed with the flowers at the beginning of the 
hot season. Distrisp: Trop. and Subtrop-Himalaya, ascending to 
4,000 ft. in Kumaon, also eastwards to Burma and south to Travan- 
core Ceylon and Malacca. The fruit is largely eaten by the natives 
of India, either cooked or raw, or as a pickle. A fibre suitable for 
cordage is obtained from the bark, and the wood yields a yellow dye. 
A. mnTEGRIFOLIA, Linn, f. Suppl. 412. A large evergreen tree with 
leaves 4-8 in. long, thickly coriaceous and glabrous. Fruit 1-23 ft. 
long. The tree is largely cultivated throughout the warmer parts 
of India and in Burma and is quite wild in the forests of the Western 
Ghats. The fruit, which is known generally as the Jack-fruit, is 
much eaten as are also the seeds which are cooked. The wood, which 
somewhat resembles that of mahogany, has been extensively used in 
the manufacture of furniture. 
A. tnctsa, Linn. f. Suppl. 411 is the Bread-fruit tree, a native of the 
Pacific Islands. It is cultivated in some of the hottest parts of India, 
but it does not thrive well if planted at any great distance from the 
sea. 
17, FICUS, Linn.; F!. Brit. Ind. v, 494.. 
Trees or shrubs, sometimes scandent or epiphytic; juice milky. 
Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, entire lobed toothed or serrate ; 
stipules enveloping the bud, cadacous. Flowers minute, usually 
moncecious, on the inner wails of a fleshy receptacle, the mouth of 
which is closed by imbricate bracts; florets often mixed with brac- 
teoles, of four forms : male, female, gall and (rarely) neuter ; recepta- 
cles usually androgynous, the males nearest the mouth; male fem. 
and gall flowers sometimes occur in the same receptacle, or males 
and galls may be in one set, females and neuters in another, or males 
and galls in one set, females only in another. MAte flowers: 
Perianth 2-6-fid, or-partite. Stamens 1 or 2, rarely 3-6, erect in 
bud. Nevurers. /erianth as in males. FEM. flowers: + erianth. 
as in the male or imperfect or obsolete. Ovary straight or oblique, 
style excentric ; stigma entire or 2-armed, acute or obtuse; ovule 
pendulous. GaLu flowers: /erianth as in female. Ovary contain- 
ing the pupa of a hymenopterous insect ; style short, often dilated 
upwards. Fruit an enlarged hollow cup-shaped closed recep- 
