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limit of its successful cultivation, a fact that is corroborated by the evidence 
given above of the want of success, and the small extent, of its cultivation in 
important islands like Kiltén and. Akati. 
149, ARTocaRPUS INTEGRIFOLIA Linn. f., Suppl. 412; Roxb., Flor. 
TInd., ti, 522 ; Hook. f., Flor. Brit, Ind., v, 541 ; Watt, Dict.,i, 330. The 
Jack-frut. 
Anderut ; a stately-looking tree, with dark green foliage not unlike the 
broad-leafed elm, Waod. 
Dr. King, to whose attention the passage in Lieut. Wood’s paper has been 
brought, suggests that the notice refers most probably to the Jack. 'The tree is 
generally cultivated throughout the hotter parts of India and Indo-China and 
throughout Malaya ; it is said by Beddome to be truly wild in the Western 
Ghats above the Malabar Coast. That its cultivation should not have spread 
in the Laccadives is not at all surprising; doubtless the islanders generally view 
the Jack, as those of Kiltan, according to Mr. Hume (Stray Feathers, iv, 437), 
regard the Bread-fruit : trees that are all very well in their way, but consider- 
ing that, instead of fruiting all the year round like the coco-nut, they all flower 
and fruit together, and their fruiting season lasts at the outside only two months 
out of twelve, they are hardly worth the trouble of propagating. 
150. Pouzolzia indica Gaud. : Wedd. 7m DC. Prodr., xvi, pt. i, 220 ; 
Hook. f., Flor. Brit. Ind., v, 581. Urtica suffruticosa Roxb., Flor. Ind., iii, 
os4, 
var. typica. P. indica Gaud. in Freycinet, Voy., Bot. 503. 
Kalpéni ; Alcock! Kiltan ; Fleming ! Akati; Fleming } Kadamum ; Fleming ! 
Minikoi ; Fleming + 
A weed of cultivation common throughout tropical and subtropical Eastern 
and South-Eastern Asia. 
var. alienata Wedd. in DC. Prodr., xvi, pt. i, 221. P. alienata Gand. 
om Freycinet, Voy., Bot. 503, 
Minikoi ; Mleming ! 
A common Indian form of the same weed. 
REonocotyledones. 
ScITAMINEZ. 
151. Musa Saprentum Linn., Syst. Veg. (ed. x), ii, 1303; Roxb., Flor. 
Ind., i, 663 ; Watt, Dict. v, 290. 'The Plantain. 
Anderut ; cultivated, Wood, Améni; cultivated, Robinson. Kiltan ; cultivated, 
Hume. Kadamum ; four plants seen near some deserted huts, evidently planted, 
Fleming. Minikoi ; cultivated, Fleming. 
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