Order 107. Urticacece. 309 



In air and water and the infected ground, 



All things wherein the breath and sap of life is found." 



Southey. 



In Coorg and Ceylon sacks are manufactured from its bark. 



Tennent. 



7. ARTOCARPUS. 



1. A. hirsuta. A handsome tree, leaves elliptic, obtuse or 

 obovate, smooth above, hairy beneath, especially on the nerves ; 

 male flowers in pendulous heads 4 to 6 inches long, fruit 

 round, size of a small melon, surface prickly. Han fanas, pat 

 fanas, fansul. 



It seems doubtful from D. and Cr. whether this is wild in W. India, 

 but it is often found planted. Deccan peninsula (#.). The foliage 

 is very like that of the next. 



2. A. integrifolia. The jack tree. Leaves oval oblong or 

 obovate, rough below, male catkin size of a man's thumb ; 

 fruit growing on the trunk and main branches, very large and 

 irregular in shape, rough, tubercled. Fanas, kanthal. 



The immense fruit, the largest eatable fruit in the world (Tennent), 

 sometimes attaining (it is said) the weight of 60 Ibs. (R.) looks like a 

 huge parasite on the trunk of the tree : the smell generally deters 

 Europeans from tasting it, but having once ventured, I can state that 

 the flavour is not disagreeable. 



Colonel Beddome is said to have discovered it wild on the W. 

 Ghauts : otherwise it is known in India only as a cultivated tree. 

 The yellow wood is worthy of more attention for ornamental furni- 

 ture than it has received. 



It is said that the situation of the fruit varies with the age of 

 the tree, being first borne on the branches, then on the trunk, and 

 in very old trees on the roots. Its tenacious white juice makes 

 the best bird-lime (E.). 



* A. lakucha is a large tree, leaves oval entire, downy beneath, male 

 aments about the size of a nutmeg; fruit nearly round smooth, 

 yellow, size of an orange. Ldni,dond, Idkuch. Caranja and Bassein 

 (D.). Cultivated (.). 



* A. incisa is the bread-fruit tree of the South Seas. It has been 

 grown in Bombay, and elsewhere in India. The fruit is not nearly 

 so large as the jack. 



" The bread-fruit, the jaca, and the mango vied with each other in 

 the magnificence of their foliage. The landscape in the neighbour- 

 hood of Bahia almost takes its character from the two latter trees. 

 Before seeing them I had no idea that any trees could cast so black 

 a shade on the ground." Darwin's Naturalist* sVoy age. 



8. FLEURYA. 

 F. interrupta. A rough bristly plant, leaves long-petioled 



