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The Generic Description of these trees is as follows : — 



Male Floivers. — Cal. None. Spadix cylindric, or subclavated, gradually 

 thickened, and covered on all sides with flowers. — Cor. Petals two, oblong, 

 concave, obtuse, villose, including the filament. — Stam. Filament single, within 

 each corol, filiform, diaphanous, length of corol. ^?zMer pyramidal. 



Female Flowers. — Cal. None. Pericarp ovate, covered with germens. — Cor, 

 None. — Pist. Germe7is convex, very numerous, hexagonal. — Style Hl'iform, per- 

 manent. — Stigma one, or two, capillary, revolute, a line in length. — Pericarp. 

 Berry, ovate, muricated, fleshy, multilocular. Seeds imbricated in a multiple 

 series, ovate, obliquely triquetrous, involved in a soft flesh. 



Generic Character. — <5 . Cal. None. Corol. Dipetalous. — 9- Ca/. None. 

 Corol. None. Style one. Berry Multilocular. 



Specijic Descriptions. — 1. Sitodium incisum. S. foliis incisis, ramulis florife- 

 ris. Bread-fruit. Hawhsiv. Voy. vol. 2. p. 18. pi. 11. 



This species grows naturally in the islands of Amboyna, Banda, and the other 

 Moluccas. In Java, about the city of Batavia, it is common enough, as well as 

 in the Maldives, &c. and is cultivated in Malabar, at Surat, at Cape Comorin ; 

 in Coromandel, at Succotor, Tranquebar, and Nagapatnam ; and in Ceylon 

 about Columbo, Gale, Matura, Jafna, Trinquimale, the Marian Isles, &c. 

 It flowers and bears ripe fruit, twice a year, viz. during the first eight months. 



The trunk is arboreous, upright, of the thickness of a man, and of about the 

 height of five fathoms : the branches are thickly opposite, subverticillato-quater- 

 nate, spreading. — Branchlets subverticillato-quaternate, floriferous. — Leaves al- 

 ternate, footstalked, oblong, deeply cut into nine very entire lobes, which are 

 villose-rough, and spreading : their colour above is green, with pale nerves : 

 beneath pale : the length of the leaves is two feet, and the breadth one : the 

 younger leaves are plaited, and the smaller ones viscid : i\\e footstalk is thick, 

 subtriquetrous, villose, and about an inch in length : the young stipules, in- 

 volving the leaves, are two, sessile, lanceolate, acuminate, concave, very entire, 

 smooth within, hirsute without, deciduous, and a palm long. 



The Flowers grow on the ultimate branchlets, the males and females distinct, 

 on the same branchlet ; and are footstalked ; i\\e footstalk roundish, villose, up- 

 right, two inches long, and the thickness of a finger : the spadix is a span long, 

 bending, and deciduous. The Pericarp is of the size of a child's head, and 

 sterile, or filled with sterile seeds. 



2. Sitodium macrocarpon. S. foliis indivisis trifidisve, caudice ramisque flori- 

 feris. Tsjakamaram. Rheede. Hort. Mai. 3. Jaca Zanoni Hist. Stir p. rar. 

 Jacca sive Jaccas Portugallis. 



This species grows naturally in the Moluccas, as Amboyna, Banda, &c. 

 rather sparingly in Java and Sumatra : in Ceylon common : in Coromandel, 



