296, FOfiEST TREES. 



Being very ornamental, the species should find a 

 place in irrigated pleasure grounds. The seeding 

 variety, which is equally effective for scenic pur- 

 poses, is easily propagated from seed. 



565 Artocarpus integrifolia, Linn. Kan. Halasu, 



Halsu, Hulsen, Halasina mara. - 



■Eig—Bot Mag. t. 3833. Wight Ic. t. 678. 



References— jBec^ci For. Man. Diet. of. Econ. 

 Prod, of Ind.; Gamb. Man. Timb. 329, 



The jack-fruit tree. Wild in parts of the 

 Malnad. Elsewhere extensively cultivated for its 

 fine fruit of which there are many varieties differ- 

 ing in form, colour, size, and taste. A handsome 

 evergreen tree with dark-green foliage; usually 

 45 — 60 feet in height but much loftier in the wild 

 state. Leaves alternate, petiolate, ovate-oblong to 

 elliptic-oblong, glabrous, acuminate, entire; average 

 blade 3^x7 in. 



Stipules spathaceous and very large. Fruit 

 enormous, suspended from the trunk and main limbs 

 by short, stout peduncles, hypogeous in very old 

 trees, oblong to clavate, with a thick and densely 

 muricated rind. Maximum size 30 inches long by 

 12 in. in diameter, more usually half the above size. 

 Maximum weight of a single fruit 60 lbs. The 

 edible part of the jack-fruit consists of the yellow, 

 fleshy pericarp of the achenium, of which there are 

 30 to 90 in each receptacle — ^fruit — according to 

 size, position, and kind. When less than half grown 

 and quite tender, the whole fruit is sliced up and 

 curried. The roasted seeds are also much consumed 

 by the hiU tribes; but they are indigestible to 

 Europeans and are rarely used in lieu of chesnuts. 

 In his useful compilation of "Forest Trees in the 

 Coffee Lands of South Mysore," Mr. Graham 

 Anderson describes two varieties under the, verna- 



