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land, St. Lucia (Agric. News, Barbados, May 6th, 1916, p. 155). 

 The spikes of the male flowers are sometimes candied like the 

 "Citron" and " Lemon " peel (I.e.) and sliced male flowers are 

 used as tinder (Mus. Kew). 



lothes are made of the fibres of the 

 fiber or inner bark, the wood is used for building houses and 



Mag. I.e.). 



male catkins , 



viscid milky juice to make 



Propagated by means of seeds in the case of the " Bread- 

 nut " and suckers, layering or root cuttings of the " Bread fruit.": 



^ Hef.—A Voyage to the South Sea undertaken by command of 

 His Majesty, for the purpose of Convening the Bread-fruit to 

 the West Indies in His Majesty's Ship the "Bounty," Bligh, 



pp. 1-264 (London, 1792). " Artocarpus incisa " in Flora 



Vitiensis, Seemann, pp. 255-257 (London, 1865-73). "L'Arbre a 



Pain," etc. in L'Hlustration Horticole (J. Linden) xxii. 1874, 

 pp. 32^34. The Bread-fruit, Artocarpus incisa (True Bread- 

 fruit)," Cowley, in Queensland Agric. Journ. ii. April 1898, 

 pp. 299-301.^ -The Bread-fruit, Baum : together with a Bio- 

 graphical Sketch of the Author, by W. E. Safford— Reprint from 

 ** The Plant World," Vol. vi. & vn. 1903-04, pp. 197-278 and 



36-40. " Starch prepared from the Bread-fruit Tree in the 



Seychelles,", in BuU. Imp. Inst. u. 1904, pp. 28-29, with analysis 



of Starch. Ibid, in Col. Rep. Misc. No. 71, 1910, pp. 225-227. 



"Propagation of the Seedless Bread-fruit," Wester in " The 



Phifijipine Agric. Review," vin. No. 3,1914, pp. 97-99. 



Artocarpus integrifolia, Linn. f. Suppl. p. 412. 



A large evergreen tree, 60 ft. high. Leaves 4-8 in. long, 

 coriaceous, dark-green ; petiole -J-l in. long. Fruit 1-2 ft. or 

 more long ; less across. Seeds numerous, oblong or reniform, 

 about an inch long, not quite so broad, with a paperv testa w hen 

 <iry. " . 



lU.—Hheede, Hort. Mai. iii. tt. 26-28; Rumpf, Amb. i. 

 tt. 30, 31 • Gaertner, Fruct. Sem. PI. i. tt. 71, 72 {Sitodium cauli- 

 forum); Lam. Encycl. t. 745; Tuss. Ant. n. t. 4; Roxb. PL 

 Corom. in. t. 250; Bot. Mag. tt. 2833-2834; Wight, Ic. PI. 

 Ind. Or. n. t. 678; Gard. Chron. Dec. 12th, 1896, p. 717, f. 125; 

 L' Agric. prat, pays chauds, vin. 1, 1908, p. 117; Queensland 

 Agric. Journ. xx. 1908, tt. 29-30 ; Journ. Indian Art & Industry, 

 xiii (1910), t. 25 (tree in fruit), tt. 43, 44, 46 (col. iU. of wood) ; 

 Journ. Hort. Ix. 1910, p. 195; Hubert. Fruits pavs chauds, 

 1 183 (fr.stem). ' "■ " ' 



Vernac. names. — Jaca or Jacca (St. Thome, Welwitsch) ; 

 Jack Tree, Jack Fruit or Entire-leaved Bread Fruit. 



Native of S. Asia : Cultivated in Incfia, West Indies, Tropical 

 Africa and in most tropical countries. 



The fruits — sometimes 60 or 70 lb. in weight (Kew Bull. 

 1892, p. 99) are commonly eaten as food — in Zanzibar (I.e. p. 89); 



