'Monoecia 
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Jamaica in the year 1793. Three hundred trees were 
brought from Otaheite by captain Bligh in the ship 
Providence, and distributed to different places, from 
which they have spread to every part of the island. 
When the fruit of this tree is used as bread, it is col- 
lected before it is quite ripe, roasted in an oven, and 
the rind being scraped off, the inside, which is soft and 
white, is eaten, and is found to be a nutritious sub- 
stance. 
The bread-fruit-tree was alluded to by Bampier, 
lord Anson, captain Cook, and other voyagers, as a pro- 
duction of the Ladrone and Philippine islands, and of 
Otaheite and some of the neighbouring islands ; and 
from the opinion that was formed of its valuable quail® 
ties, the Bounty, Commanded by captain Bligh, was dis- 
patched by the British government in 1787 to collect 
plants to be transported to the colonies in the West 
Indies. A mutiny of the crew, who seized the ship, 
and carried it back to Otaheite, frustrated for a time 
this beneficial scheme ; and it was not till 1793, as al- 
ready alluded to, that the plan was successfully accom- 
plished. 
Several varieties of the bread fruit-tree are known 
in its native soil ; and another species, with entire leaves. 
Was also introduced at the same time with the first into 
Jamaica, and is now very generally cultivated in that 
island. 
DlANfiRIA. 
Lemna. Gen. char . — -( 1 ) Cal. one-leafed, cor. none. 
(2) Cal. one-leafed, cor. none ; style fine ; caps, many- 
Seeded. 
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