642 



of the first to occupy abandoned farm-land, extensively used as 

 a^^ nurse in plantations further south (Thompson, Col. Rep. Msc. 

 No. 51, 1908, p. 61) ; one of the most beautiful of fcJrest trees " 

 (Barter, I.e.) ; " the most ornamental tree of the forest," Uganda 

 (Dawe, I.e. p. 23) and in general the tree is remarkable for its 

 handsome appearance and quick growth. 



ReJ 



Musang 



1913, p. 96.— "W. African Corkwood," Bull. Imp. Inst. 1921 

 pp. 10-13. 



Artocaepus, Forst. 



Artocarpus incisa, Linn. f. Suppl. PI. (1781), p. 411. 



A tree, 30-40 ft. high, trunk 1-2 ft. in diam. bark exuding 

 a milky juice. Leaves large— 1-3 ft. long by about li ft. broad, 

 alternate, coriaceous, deeply lobed. Male flowers on a catkin- 

 hke receptacle, 10-16 in. long; female flowers in a globular 

 head. Fruit ovate or globose, 4-6 in. diam., murieated in the 

 seed-bearing variety, reticulated with more or less evenly- 

 marked areolae — surface comparatively smooth, 'in the seedless 

 variety. Seeds in the former, chestnut-hke. The Botanical 

 Magazine (1828— se^.) distinguishes these varieties as " frvctu 

 seminifero" and " fructu apyreno." 



/ZZ.— Rumpf, Amb. i. tt. 32, 33; Cook, First Vov. ii (1773) 

 t. 11; Elhs, Bread-fruit & (Mangostan) (1775), Frontispiece; 

 Forster, Gen. Char. PI. t. 57 {A. communis); Sonnerat, Voy' 

 Nouv. Guinee, tt. 57-60; Lam. Encycl. t. 744; Bligh Voy 

 South Sea (1792) p. 10 (Sections of fruit); Plenck, Ic. t 656- 

 Tuss. Ant. ii. tt. 2, 3; Diet. Sc. Nat. t. 286; Bot. Mag. tt. 2869- 

 2871 ; Desc. Ant. viii. t. 539 ; Schnizlein, Ic. t. 93 ; Burnett, PL 

 Util. ii. t. 34b ; Spach, Suites (Hist. Nat. des Vegetaux) t. 130 • 

 Baillon, Adansonia, iv. t. 5; 111. Hort. 1874, p. 32; Blanco, Fl'. 

 ^ihp. t. 267 {A. Rima), t. 457 {A. Camangsi); Vidal, Fl. For 

 Fihp. t. 88b; Zippel, Ausl. Handels. Nahrpfl. tt. 54^55; 

 Queensland Agric. Journ. ii. April 1898, t. 14 ; Krieger, Neu- 

 Gumea, t. 8 ; Baum, Bread Fruit (Plant World, 1903-04) tt 26 

 27, 29, 37; Tropenpfl. 1904, Beih. v. tt. 19, 20. 



Vernac. nawie^.— Barabutu (Hausa, Dalziel) ; Rima (New 

 Guinea., Sonnerat); nhjm&y (Ladrone Is., Bligh); Sukun 

 ^edless var., Keluway-seeded var. (Singapore, i?iV//ey).— Bread 

 Fruit (seedless var.), Bread Nut (seeded var.). 



Native of the South Sea Islands. Introduced to Tropical 

 Africa, Asia, America, West Indies and Queensland. 



The introduction to the West Indies is a well-known story, 

 probably the first expedition of its kind specially equipped by 

 the Government. The first expedition under Capt. Bhgh in 

 the "Bounty" (1787) was a failure but a second under the 

 same Officer in the " Providence " was successful in landing 

 (Jan. 1793) 550 plants (out of 1,150 less those lost on the way) 

 at St. Vincent, the remainder going " to Jamaica with the 

 exception of five destined for the Royal Gardens at Kew " 



