294 FOBEST TREES. 



they are in common use to carry rice and similar 

 articles of export. The liber, or inner bark, affords 

 this dense fibrous layer wliicli nature has "woven 

 into a coarse fabric for the instruction of man. 

 But although coarse in the natural fabric, the fibre 

 is really soft and durable and could .be utilised for 

 ropes, matting; and similar articles. The wood is said 

 to be coarse-grained and- unserviceable. Being a 

 tree of the racist evergreen forests, any attempt to 

 grow it on the plains would, in all probability, meet 

 with failure. 

 563 Artocarpus hirsuta, Lamk. Kan. Hebhalasn, 



Heb balsu, Kad halasu, Hesswa, HeBsan. 



Fig.-Bedd. Fl. Syh. t. 308. Wight Ic. 1 1957. 



References.— Dici. of Econ. Prod, of Ind.; 

 Gamh. Man. Timh.; Brand. For. Fl. 436. 



The wild jack-tree. Abundant in Western My- 

 sore, Ooorg, and the Baba Budaii range where it 

 ascends to 4,000 feet, and attains an individual 

 height of nearly 200 ft. This lofty evergreen tree 

 is well known to the planters, who prize it as a shade 

 for coffee. Leaves alternate, petiolate, broadly 

 ovate-elliptic or obovate, subacute, young parts 

 strigose ; average blade 6 >< 9 in. Fruit erect, cover- 

 ed with spines, the size of a large lemon. A reserv- 

 ed timber tree of the local evergreen forest. 

 Wood hard and durable when well seasoned, yel- 

 lowish brown, close-grained and highly prized for 

 boat-building, in which it stands next to teak in 

 value. But it is also used for house-building, 

 furniture, and agricultural implements. Weight 

 35—40 lb. per cubic foot. 



"A stately evergreen tree, which affords good 

 shade and produces a large quantity of leaf mould 

 annually. The shoots from stumps — coppice — should 

 never be encouraged or depended upon as they are 

 easily blown down and generally get cankered or 



