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some forms being very sweet and as well flavoured as a pine apple, 

 others are somewhat acid, or have an unpleasant leathery taste. 

 It is comparatively seldom eaten by Europeans and indeed is not 

 suited to them, being apt to disagree with the digestive organs. 

 The fruit when ripening is enclosed in mat bags to keep off the 

 squirrels, bats, and other such animals, and also insects which 

 speedily attack it. 



The Champedak, Artocarpus polyphemia differs from the Jack 

 in its smaller white fruits, very popular with natives but having a 

 nauseous flavour and odour, which would deter any European from 

 eating it. It is a native of the Peninsula being wild in many of 

 the denser forests. The wild form, however, differs in possessing 

 very many more seeds than the cultivated one, and is not usually 

 eaten, even by Malays. 



The seeds of this plant and the Jack are often roasted and eaten 

 as nuts. 



The Monkey Jack, Tampunei, Artocarpus rigiila, is a very fine 

 tree with deep green foliage, and orange yellow fruits about 6 

 inches through, the outside covered with short blunt processes. 

 When ripe it is easily opened, and discloses small seeds about a 

 quarter of an inch long in a sweet delicately flavoured orange pulp 

 with a taste of honey. It is well worth cultivating as the fruit is 

 far the best in the genus, and may rank as one of the best fruits in 

 the East. The tree which attains the height of 60 feet, often fruits 

 when about 14 or 15 feet tall, and is a native of our forests. The 

 fruits are attacked by Musangs and Monkeys as well as by fruit 

 bats. 



The Tampang Artocarpus Gomeziana, is a very different kind of 

 fruit from any of the others though the tree has a similar appear- 

 ance to that of the Tampunei. The fruit is soft smooth more or 

 less globular, about three inches through green outside and rose 

 pink within, pulpy all through, and rather acid. It is generally 

 cooked before eating and might be used for making preserve. 



The Kulun, said to be a variety of the Bread-fruit is often planted 

 in Singapore. The fruit resembles that of the Bread-fruit in form 

 and colour, but is sweet. 



All the Artocarpi are grown from seed. 



Figs fiicus Can'ca, have long been grown in the Botanic Gardens, 

 and though the plants make but little growth, they live and produce 

 a few figs each year. The variety grown is the white (or rather 

 green) fig, other varieties might be tried, perhaps with more success, 

 and a dryer climate than that of Singapore might suit them better. 

 I have seen excellent fig trees supplying plenty of fruits in Brazil, 

 grown in sandy spots near the sea, so that they will grow and 

 thrive in tropical regions. The flavour of the Singapore figs is not 

 as good as that of European ones and they are rather dry. 



There are a great many kinds of wild figs in the Peninsula, of 

 most of which the fruit is very small, and either tasteless or un- 

 pleasant. The small figs of Ficus Cunea which are red with white 

 spots and borne on branches running along the ground and half 

 buried are sweet and eatable. 



