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USEFUL PLANTS OF THE DISTRICT OF LAKH I U PUR. 
Dibrugarh. No. 345. 
Local name. — Tar alu. Arrowroot.” 
Distrib. — A native of Tropical America and of the West Indies. 
Cultivated in India. 
Cultivated ou a small scale near Dibrugarh. 
DICOTYLEDONEAE. 
XV. PIPEHACEAE. 
35. Piper Linn. 
40. P. iletle Linn. F. B. I. v, 85 ; Eng. & Pranti iii^ 1, 10 ; 
Bong. PL 8 03; D. E. P. vi, 1, 247 ; Pharmacog. lnd. in, 183. 
Saikhoa. No. 318. 
Local name. — Pan. “ Betel.” 
Distrib. — Cultivated in the hotter and damper parts of India and 
Ceylon, and in the Malay Islands. 
Much cultivated. It is sometimes made to climb up trellises, sometimes it is grown on the 
Areca palm ( Areca Catechu L.) which yields the nut which is chewed with the pan leaves. 
It is then known as gachh pan. 
XVI MOR1CEAE. 
36. MorilS Linn. 
41. M. iudicsi Linn. F. B. I. v, 492 ; Beng. PI. 968; D. E. P 
v, *281. 
Dibrugarh. No. 14. 
Local name. — Tut , shahtut . "Mulberry." 
Distrib. — Temperate and sub-tropical Himalayas from Kashmir to 
Sikkim, wild or cultivated in Bengal, Assam, Burma to China and 
Japan. 
A small mulberry tree with sharply serrated leaves which, like the leaves of the mulberry 
common in English gardens {M. nigra Linn.) shows great variations in lobing, so that leaves 
of quite different form occur on the same branch. M. indica Linn, is a common cottage 
shrub in Lakhimpur. The fruits are sold in the bazars, but we did not hear of its leaves 
being used for feeding silkworms (see Ricinus and Machilus). 
37. Artocarpus Forst. 
43. A. integrifolia Linn. f. F. B. I. v, 541; Beng. PI. 971; 
I). E. P. i, 330; Pharmacog. Ind. iii, 355. 
A. integnfolia Forst. Eng. & Pranti, iii, 1, 82. 
