BREAD-FRUIT. 
deeply gashed, and scabrous, are two feet long ; 
that it has two lanceolate large stipules, hirsute 
on the outside, including the younger leaves, 
and caducous ; that it has violet-coloured 
peduncled aments, on the outmost branches, 
male and female on the sam.e twig; and, that 
the whole tiee, as well as the fruit before it is 
ripe, abounds with a very tenacious milkv 
juice, which may be drawn out into threads. 
Forster, and Thunberg, have each written still 
more minute botanical descriptions of this re- 
mxarkable tree : which seems to have been 
£rst mentioned bv Dampier, who gives us the 
following account. 
The Bread-Fruit grows on a large tree, 
as big and high as our largest Apple Trees. It 
hath a spreading head, full of branches and 
dark leaves, "i he fruit grows on the boughs 
like Apples: it is as big as a penny loaf, when 
\vhc:it is at live shillings the bushel. It is of a 
round shape, and has a thick tough rhlnd. 
W^hen the fruit is ripe, it is vellow and soft, 
and the taste is sweet and pleasant. The na- 
tives of GuaUi use it for bread. Thev gather 
it 
