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The Portuguefe call it the Jacca, of which, notice will be taken 

 in another place. 



The fecond kind is only mentioned by Knox under the name Incisus. 

 of VellaSy who fays it is as foft as pap. This is the fame with the 

 Seedlefs, or Apyreneoi George Forjier, PL JEJcul. Inf. Oceani Anjir. 

 p. 25, which is of a globular form, and is univerfally cultivated 

 in Otaheite, and poffibly others of the South Sea iflands. It is 

 alfo defcribed by Doctor Tbunberg, and faid to grow as large as 

 a child's head. This is filled with a fubftance like the crumb of 

 new-baked bread ; and is univerfally ufed in the iflands of the 

 South Seay but lefs fo in Ceylon, It is the Bread Fruit of Lord 

 Anfon^ p. 310; Ed. ifl: of Captain Cook'^ firil: Voyage, i. p. 80. 

 tab. II ; and of Mr. Ellis, in his Monograph, p. 11 ; and the ArtO" 

 carpus incifus of Lin. Suppl. 411. 



The varieties of the incifus, which have kernels, are thofe 

 engraven by Rumpbius, i. p. no. tab. xxxii. under the name of 

 Soccus lanofus. The Granofus, — p. 112. tab. xxxiii. and the Syi- 

 vejiris, — p. 114. tab. xxxiv. but thefe are all negledled in Ota^ 

 heite *, in preference of the Apyrene. The leaves of every one 

 of thefe are like that of an oak, and deeply lacerated, and of the 

 length of two feet, and the fruit pendent from the boughs. 



This, fays YioGiox'^hunberg^, is common in Ceylon, and from ptAcr?. 

 Coromandel to Gape Comorin. It is found near Columbo, Gale, 

 and feveral other place?, both wild and cultivated. 



It feems amazing, that Mr. Bligb fliould be twice fent to the 

 iflands of the fouthern ocean for thefe valuable plants, when 

 it appears that they may be had with fo little difficulty from 

 Ceylon. Dodtor Tbunberg brought feveral hundred flirubs of 



* G. Forller's PI. JEk. p. 26, f Thunberg's Travels, iv, p. 255. 



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