. The classification of flowering plants. Plants. MORACEAE 55 Broussonetia has two or three species in Eastern Asia. The })ark is used for paper-making in Japan. Dorstenia has about 150 species, one of which is East Indian, the rest chiefly tropical African and tropical American. Artocarpus has 40 species, native from Ceylon through the Indian Archipelago to China. A. incisa (Bread-fruit), native of the Sunda Islands, and A. integrifolia (Jack-tree), a native of India, are now generally cultivated in the tropics,^ especially in the islands of the Pacific. Antiaris, a tropical Asiatic genus of
. The classification of flowering plants. Plants. MORACEAE 55 Broussonetia has two or three species in Eastern Asia. The })ark is used for paper-making in Japan. Dorstenia has about 150 species, one of which is East Indian, the rest chiefly tropical African and tropical American. Artocarpus has 40 species, native from Ceylon through the Indian Archipelago to China. A. incisa (Bread-fruit), native of the Sunda Islands, and A. integrifolia (Jack-tree), a native of India, are now generally cultivated in the tropics,^ especially in the islands of the Pacific. Antiaris, a tropical Asiatic genus of five to six species, includes the Upas tree (A. toxicaria), the latex of which is very poisonous. On the contrary, in Brosimum galactodendron, the CoAv-tree of Venezuela, the latex is sweet and. Fig. 19. Artocarpus incisa (Bread-fruit), with male inflorescence, m, and fruit; much reduced. nutritious. Cecropiais3i tropical American genus with 30-40 species, which are rich in caoutchouc. Some species shcAV remarkable adaptations for housing and feeding ants, in the form of hollowed internodes and development of food-bodies on the leaf-stalks. The majority of the genera are monotypic or contain only a few species. Numerous fossil species of Ficus have been described, chiefly from leaves; many of these determinations are extremely doubtful, but it seems probable that the genus existed as far north as Greenland in the Cretaceous period, and was generally distributed in North America and Europe in the Tertiary period up to Miocene Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Rendle, A. B. (Alfred Barton), 1865-1938. Cambridge, University press
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