14:2 URTICACE^E. [ ARTOCARPUS. 



Dehra Dun and eastwards in the Sub-Himalayan tracts of Rohilkhand 

 and N. Oudh, usually in swampy 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. DISTRIB : Trop. and Subtrop-Himalaya, ascending to 

 4,000 ft. in Kumaon, also eastwards to Burma and fcouth 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. INTEGRIFOLIA, Linn. f. Suppl. 412. A large evergreen tree with 

 leaves 4-8 in. long, thickly coriaceous and glabrous. Fruit l-2 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. INCISA, 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. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. v, 491. 



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 

 monoecious, on the inner walls of a fleshy receptacle, the mouth of 

 which is closed by imbricate bracts ; florets often mixed with bra,c- 

 teoles, of four forms : male, female, gall and (rarely) neuter ; recepta,- 

 cles usually androgynous, the males nearest the mouth ; male fern, 

 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. MALE flowers : 

 Perianth 2-6-ficl, or-partite. Stamens 1 or 2, rarely 3-6, erect in 

 bud. NEUTERS. 1 erianth as in males. FEM. flowers : 2 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. GALL flowers : Perianth 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- 



