BREAD-FRUIT TREL. 341 
Among these we find the Bread-fruit, Fig, and Mulberry, genera 
of extensive distribution, numerous in species, growing to a great 
size, and many of them of the greatest utility to mankind: though 
we have only to notice them with reference to their fibrous 
properties. These are probably much more important than is 
generally supposed ; if we look to them as sources of material 
for paper-making, since the bark of some of the species is al- 
ready applied to this purpose in some countries. 
Thus the Bread-fruit tree (Artocarpus ineisa), so famous for 
affording the chief article of food to the inhabitants of the 
South Sea Islands, and for which an expedition was sent by 
George III, under the celebrated Bligh, to introduce it into 
the West Indies, has bark which is also useful to the people 
from its fibrous qualities: for being stripped and then beaten 
and prepared, it makes a kind of cloth, with which the South Sea 
Islanders clothe themselves. At Taiti, clothing made of it, and 
worn chiefly by the common people, was more common than 
that made with the Paper Mulberry, though inferior to it in 
softness and whiteness. 
Some of the Indian species of Artocarpus, as the Juk tree, 
Kantal, or A. integrifolius, and the Dephal or A. Lakoocha, and 
others, are probably possessed of similar properties; they are 
very abundant, grow to a great size, and are frequently cut 
down on account of their wood. 
There were sent to the Exhibition of 1851, bark and bark 
cloth, which may all be produced by species of Artocarpus, as 
one of them is said to be bark of the 
Trap tree, a species of Artocarpus, which furnishes the 
Gutta used as birdlime. ‘The fibre of the bark is used for 
fishing lines, cordage, and nets at Singapore. 
Chowat Kurnat, similar to the above, from Baram River. 
Glam tree bark, from Borneo, furnishes a paper-like bark 
much used in caulking the seams of vessels. 
Kumut or bark cloth worn by the Kayans when mourning 
for the dead—River Baram. 
The Paper Mulberry, formerly Morus, now Broussonetia 
papyrifera, is atree of this family which has long been famous 
for its fibrous bark, as this is made into a kind of cloth as well 
as into paper. It is a native of the isles of the Southern 
Ocean, as well as of China and of Japan. In Taiti, or Otaheite, 
