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URTICACEJE. 
Artocarpus incisa. Bread-fruit. We have two varieties of 
the bread-fruit, the seeding and the seedless. The latter flourishes on - 
— the western coast, but is not likely to succeed on the inland plains of © 
India. Of the seeding fruit there are several sub-varieties, one of 
which fruits ragaticly at Bangalore. 1 
Antocarpus inte sg eae olia.  Jack-fruit. The Hindoos are 
exceedingly fond of this fruit, of which there are numerous ] 
varieties. A native nobleman (the Jaghirdar of Arnee) cultivates 
40 distinet varieties of Jack-fruit, each tree being carefully num- 
tree in full bearing is one of the grandest sights in the vegetable - 
kingdom 
Morus alba. White Mulberry. 
rry. 
ru Large-fruited Mulberry. 
All these are sparingly cultivated for the sake of their fruits, but the 
first, second, and third are extensively grown for fee ing silkworms. 
at Indian stations. en well- pon the good varieties are far 
preferable to d preserved figs I have ever peces 
regularly and almost exclusively grown for the European population — 
H f RE i 
merata. Country Fig is a native ne = 
Ficus 
which yields St abundant quantity of va iubere fruit. It is 
only wes the hungry and poor, us 
us Roxburghii, This is another native fig, but the fruit "s 
is E cock eaten, = 
SCITAMINES:. 
. Musa sapientum. Plaintain [or Banan Tu Of all the fruits : 
grown in India this is the most prolific and most useful ere are 
numerous varieties, of which the —— are the vernacular names sof E | 
the most prominent in this distric 
Yáláki bále - - Large-fruited plantain. - 
Ælle bile - - - ‘The foliage plantain. 
Gulur bale - Small butter plantain, 
lur dodda bále - - Large butter plantain. 
Rasa bále - Custard plantain. 
Havu bile - - Snake plantain 
Putta bale - - Guindy plantain. 
Chanava bále - - Red plantain. 
Jain bále - - Honey plantain 
Raja bále . - Custard ege 
Pacha bile - - Large green plantain, 
Yalaki bále - The mall plata 
BRoMELIACEE. Qu 
Ananas evi. Pine-apple. This succeeds fairly well with 
3 careful angr s treatment. We are in 1 want of the - varieti 
