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success, I understand, has attended its introduction there. The 

 fruits, it is said, are roasted and eaten in China as Chestnuts are 

 in England. 



DICLINOUS EXOGENS. 



ABTOCAKPACE.E. 

 Brosimum alicastrum. 



JAMAICA BREAD-NUT TREE. 



Dr. Voigt, quoting Swartz, says that the roasted nuts of this 

 tree are used instead of bread, and have much the taste of 

 Hazel-nuts. The tree was introduced, he says, in 1804 into the 

 Calcutta Botanical Gardens, but had not flowered up to 1814. 



Artocarpus incisus. 



BREAD-NUT. 



The seeds of the Bread-Fruit, it is stated, when roasted are 

 as good as the best Chestnuts. They are about the size of large 

 Peas. 



Artocarpus integrifolius. 



JACK-FRUIT NUT. 



Kuntul. 



Eoxburgh says that the seeds of the Jack-Fruit, when 

 roasted, are not inferior to the best Chestnuts. Those which 

 I have roasted and eaten have bad certainly the mealiness 

 and consistency of roasted Chestnuts, but so far from having 

 the fine flavour of the Spanish Nut, had not, so far as I could 

 discern, any flavour at all, and were perfectly insipid. They are 

 about the size and form of a large Broad Bean. 



The natives use them in their curries, as well as eat them 

 cooked in ghee. 



EUPHOEBIACE^]. 

 Aleurites triloba. 



LUMBANG NUT INDIAN WALNUT BENCOOLEN NUT. 

 CANDLE NUT OF THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS. 



Akrot. 



A tree of moderate size, with large round lobed leaves ; native 

 of India ; produces a very inferior description of nut, possessing 



