FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. 



(the fruit), Waltara (a var.), Wcda (a var.), Cey. Booa-nanca, 

 Sukun, Klmvi, Tambul, Malaya. Chopada ? Sumutra. 



Habitat. East Indies. 



Remarks. First noticed by Zanoni. The Champada of the Archi- 

 pelago is smaller, but far superior in quality. A. incisa, W., True Bread 

 Fruit of the South Sea Islands, has been successfully reared in Bombay, 

 but has not yet fruited. A 



Artocarpus Lakoocha. Rox. 



Linn. Sytt. Moncecia Monandria. 



The fruit, used as a fruit. 



Vernacular. Lakoocha, Sans. Dephul, Beng. Lowi, By. 



Habitat. India. 



Ficus Carica. W. Common Fig. 



Linn, Syst. Polygamia Dioccia. 



The closed, succulent receptacle, used as a fruit. 



Vernacular. Adamvara, Sans. Doomoor, Beng. Unjeer, Dec. 

 Semicattie t Tarn. Maydipoondoo, Tel. Rata-attikka, Cey. Tin, 

 Arab. Egypt. Unjeer, Pers. 



Habitat. South Europe. Widely cultivated ; and very successfully 

 in the Deccan. 



Remarks. Mentioned frequently in the Bible, the "wild fig'* of our 

 translation however being Ficus Sycomorus, the o-vKa/ui/os eV alyimTQ) of 

 Theophrastus, and which must not be confounded with the Sycamine tree of 

 the Bible, the Morus nigra, Linn., or Common Mulberry of Italy, probably 

 one a-vKdp.Lvos of the Greeks. The fig is the epivebs of Homer, and one kind 

 of crvKr) probably of Theophrastus and Dioscorides. Pliny mentions several 

 varieties of " Ficus." This fruit has played a great part in the history t)f 

 man. The figs of Athens are said to have tempted Xerxes to the invasion 

 of Athens, and with fig-leaves our first parents first clothed themselves. 

 Pliny however tells the most striking anecdote in the history of the fig. 

 " Cato, burning with mortal hatred to Carthage, anxious too for the safety 

 of his posterity, and exclaiming at every sitting of the senate that Carthage 

 must be destroyed, one day brought with him into the Senate-house a 

 ripe fig, the produce of that country ; exhibiting it to the assembled 

 senators ' I ask you/ said he, ' when do you suppose this fig was plucked 

 from the tree ?' All being of opinion that it had been but lately gathered, 

 ' Know then/ was his reply, ' that this fig was plucked at Carthage the 

 day before yesterday so near is the enemy to our walls !' " Immediately 

 after this the third Punic war commenced, and thus at last, as Pliny says, 

 that mighty city, the rival of Rome for the sovereignty of the world during a 

 period of a hundred and twenty years, fell by a fig ! The term sycophant 

 has its origin in the fig Figs, Olives, Wine, and Honey were the staple 

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