BOTANICAL SUBJECTS 



PANTHERION. 



Through the windows on the left side of the entrance 

 is a fine specimen of Citrus Aiirantium, the Seville 

 Orange. 



On entering the rooni on the same side, forming 

 the division of the first and second windows, is Atro- 

 curpus Incisi, the Bread-fruit Tree. 



The fruit of this tree the inhabitants of the La- 

 drone, Philiipine, and most of the islands in the 

 South Seas, use as bread. Dumpier saj^s, " that in 

 " Guam, one of the Ladroue islands, there is a cer- 

 *' tain fruit called the Bread-fruit, grov nig on a 

 " tree as big as our large apple-tree, with dark leaves. 

 " The fruit is round, and grows on the boughs like 

 *' apples, of the bigness of a good penny -loaf: 

 *' when ripe it turns yellow, soft and sweet; but the 

 " natives take it green and bake it in an oven till the 

 *' rind is black; this they scrape ofjj and eat the inside. 



