ARTOCARPUS

(Lat.), n. m. (although treated by botanists as fem,). A®rt-o-ka’rp'u?s(uts). From épros, bread, and xaprés, a fruit. Fr., artocarpe, arbre à pain. Ger., Brodfruchtbaum, Brod- - THE ARTOCARPUS INCISA. (A, 327.] baum. A genus of artocarpaceous trees, made by Forster, eer separate male and female flowers, the former on long, club-shay spikes, and the latter in round heads which soon coalesce into a fleshy ma rich in starch--the bread-fruit—which is largely used O, no; 0%, not; 0%, whole; Th, thin; Th?, the; U, like oo in too; U?, blue; US, lull; U4, full; U®, urn; US, like ü German), 58 as food in the Pacific islands and in India. [B, 19.|—A. Blumei [frécul}. A species growing in Java and Malabar, used like A. pubescens and 4. lakoocha, An ointment of the buds and leaves is applied to buboes and hæmorrhoids. The fruit is edible, contains an oil used in cooking, and is employed in diarrhæa. [H. Baillon Be bras i liens is [Gomez]. The jaca of Brazil; a species roducing an edible fruit. [H. Baillon (B); L, 105.]—A. camans i. Khe camange!, dalangian, dolongyian, or pacac; & species growing in the Philippines, having edible seeds of à taste like that of chestnuts, [Blanco (B).J—A. chaplasha. A large species found In Chillagonz and the forests lying east of Bengal; furnishing timber. [B, 177.]—A. communis (Eonar: See A. incisa.—A. echinata. A large tree found in the Neilgherries, furnishing timber. [B, 172.]—A. elastic a eee An East Indian species with edible fruit.” [H. Baillon (B).|—A. heterophylla [Lamarck]. A species the root of which is astringent and used in diarrhoea and other affections, [B, 121.]—A. hirsuta (seu hirsutus) [Lamarck]. ‘The ansjeli of the Malays; a species bearing an ec ible fruit which, eaten in exce , is said to cause diarrhoea, for which the bark and root of the same plant are used as remedies, [L, 87, 105.J—A. imperial is DRoxtbare ny ‘An East Indian species having an edible fruit. [H. Baillon (B).J—A. inelsa (seu incisus) [Linnæus fil.].