THE NETTLE AND FIG FAMILY 



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They need not form a thick bark as a protection against too 

 great a loss of water by transpiration from the inner parts of 

 the stem.. ^ 



It may also be noticed that the leaves, growing in tufts at 

 the ends of the branches of the Jack tree, are not horizontally 

 spread, but in an obliquely vertical way, thus withdrawing their 

 surface from the most intense insolation. 



The yellow 

 wood of the 

 Jack tree, 

 which dark- 

 ens after 

 being cut, is 



used for 

 making orna- 

 mental furni- 

 ture, and its 

 tenacious, 

 white juice 

 makes the 

 best birdlime. 

 An ally of 

 the Fig tree 

 is the Mul- 

 berry (i¥onis 

 indica; Kan. 



Reshmikam- 

 b ali-gida) . 

 The fruit of 

 this is, like 

 the fig, a col- 

 lective frait, 

 with this 



Fig. 113. — A Jack tree {Arlocarpus inlegrifolia). 



difference, that in the Mulberry, as in the Jack fruit, the 

 individual flowers are arranged at the outside of a common 

 receptacle, whereas the flowers of a fig are inside the receptacle. 

 The leaves of the tree are the food of the silk-worm. The Mulberry 



