THE LEAVES

FLOWER, AND heres il THE ARTOCARPUS INCISA. A, 827. Fr., arbre à pain, rimier. Ger., Brodfruchtbaum, gemeiner Brodbaum. The bread-fruit tree of the South Sea Islands; a tree of 50 to 60 feet in height, with rough, dark-green, lobate leaves, and a rounded, greenish, edible fruit, of the size of a man’s head, which consists internally of a whitish, pulpy ma resembling fresh bread in texture, and forms one of the staple articles of food in the Pacific islands. The fresh flowers are made into an acidulous conserve, and the dried female flowers are used in the manufacture of a sort of amadou. The seeds are eaten. The juice of the tree contains caoutchouc, and the bark can be fashioned into a sort of coarse cloth. The ashes of the leaves mixed with cocoanut oil are used as an inunction in peprous skin diseases, a decoction of the wood, together with that of Mangifera fetid a, is drank in onderitolpanty, the blood and bring on the lochia, and the root is employe as a remedy in dysentery. [B, 33, 121, 180.]—A. integrifolia (seu integrifolins) [Linnæus fil.]. Fr., jaquier, jacquier. Ger., in disc her Brodbaum, The iak, iack, jaq, jaques, or taca; a species found on the islands of the Indian Ocean, differing from A, incisa in having the leaves entire. The fruit is ovoid-oblong, sometimes 1} feet in length. ‘This and the other parts of the tree have properties and uses similar to those of A. incisa. A decoction of the root is used in diarrhoea and externally in leprous skin diseases, and concretions Touning spontaneously from the exuded juice of the root are employed in diarrhoeal diseases. [B, 33, 121, 180.—A. jaca [Lamarck]. See A. integrifolia.—A. kertan. A Java species bearing an edible fruit. ey Baillon (B).]—A. levis. An East Indian species bearing an edible fruit. [H. Baillon (B).J— A. lakoocha. A Bengal species. The male spadix is acid and astringent, and is eaten in curry. The roots furnish a yellow dye. [B, 172.|—A. long i folia [H. Cels]. An East Indian species bearing an edible fruit. [H. Baillon (B).|—A. maxima. The nangea; a species growing in the igi es, bearing an edible fruit 14 foot long and 1 foot thick. The ashes of the wı are used as an application to burns, [Blanco (B).]—A. ovata. A species with large, ovate-oblong leaves, indigenous to the Philippines, where it is called anobing, or a no bling. Its wood is very durable. [Blanco (B).J—A. arvifolia [Wight]. An East Indian species bearing an édible ruit. [H. Baillon (B).]—A. polyphema [Per so on]. Syn.: Polyma champ eden iHourerol © tjampeda, or cay mit nai, of nnam; a species with an edible fruit, indigenous to Cochin China, [H. Baillon (B).]—A. pubescens [Willdenow]. See A. hirsuta.— A. rigid a [Blume], An East Indian species bearing an edible fruit. [H. ill on (B).]--A. venenosa [Zoll.]. An East Indian species with a very poisonous juice. [H. Baillon (B).] ARTOCREAS (Lat.), n. n. A®rt-o7k’re?-a?s(a3s), Gen., artocre'atos (-tis). Gr., apréxpeas (from dpros, bread, and xpéas. meat). Fr., artocréas. Ger., Artokreas, Fleischbrod. Syn.: pastætum. An ancient article of pastry containing meat. [A, 32