JACK-FRUIT

the huge fruit of a very large tropical tree (Artocarpus integrifolia) of the same genus as the bread-fruit. It frequently reaches from forty to fifty pounds in weight and sometimes eighty or more of them may be seen suspended at a time from the trunk and larger branches of a single tree. The fruit is long and irregular in shape—with a granulated, greenish skin enclosing a ma of vellow pulp and, embedded in the pulp, a few seeds about the size of an average walnut. It is important as a native food—and is much relished by elephants (it is truly of a size he coming to them!) —but it is coarse and, to most white palates, unpleasant in flavor.