CARICA Papaya; femina. 
Papaw Tree; fertile flowered plant. 
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DIECIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. CUCURBITACEE. Jussieu gen. 399. Div, V. Genera Cu- 
curbitaceis affinia, germine supero przecipué distincta, 
CARICA. Cal. minimus 5-dentatus. Masc. Cor. monopetala tubulosa 
infundibuliformis, limbo 5-lobo. Stam. fauci corolle inserta; alterna fila 
mentis duplo brevioribus, calyeinis laciniis opposita; anth. erecte oblongw. 
Fam. Cor. 5-partita. Germ. superum oblongum; styli 5 breves; stigmata 
dilatata compressa, cristata. Bacca maxima cucumerina aut ovata, ó-sul- 
cata, oblonga, inths pulposa 1-loc. ad parietes 6-placentaris polysperma; 
sem. numerosa, arillata, arillo testam fragilem rugosam 1-spermam obvolvente. 
Embryo planus in albumine compresso carnoso oleoso. Arbores succo lac- 
tescente glutinoso, ligno fungoso levi, trunco indiviso aut raris ramoso, 
subspinoso aut sepius inermi et pristinorum foliorum vestigiis tantüm scabro ; 
fol. terminalia conferta alterna longè petiolata, digitata aut sepids palmata 
et subtus in nervorum concursü subsquamuloso ; flores axillares, MASCULI 
in longis pedunculis racemosi penduli aut erecti, FEMINEI pedunculo cras- 
siori breviori et paucifloro insidentes; quidam interdum HERMAPHRO- 
DITI in ‚foemineis arboribus observante Trewio, in masculis memorante Com- 
mersonio; fructus esculentus peponiformis. Juss. l. c. (sub PAPAYA). 
C. Papaya, foliis palmatis septemlobis, lobo intermedio sinuato, laciniis 
oblongis acutis, floribus masculis corymbosis, Willd. sp. pl. 4. 814. 
Carica Papaya. Linn. sp. pl. 2. 2. 1466. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n.1. Hughes 
barbad, 181. 14, 15. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 6. 399. Smith in Rees’s cyclop. 
in loco. Kunth nov. gen. et spec. 2. 99. 
Papaya vulgaris. Lamarch illustr. tab. 821. 
Papaya Carica. Gaertn, sem, 2. 191. t. 122, fig. 2. . 
Carica fronde comosa, foliis peltatis: lobis varie sinuatis. Browne jam. 360. 
Arbor Platani folio, fructu Peponis magnitudine eduli. Merian surinam. 40. 
t. 40. et tabb. 62, 64. : 
Papaya-maram. Rheede mal. 1, 23. t. 13. fig. 1. 9. 
(Mas) Ambapaya. Rheede mal. 1. 21, t. 16, fig. 2. 
Papaya mas. Ehret pict. t. 3. fig. 1. Rumph. amb. 1. 145. tt. 60. 61. 
(Fem.) Papaya fructu oblongo melonis efigie. Trew eret. t. 7. 
The separate flower and pistil at the bottom of the na- 
nexed Plate are represented of the natural dimensions, but 
the principal figure is diminished in the proportion which 
these flowers bear to those in tbeir places on the plate, 
that the general appearance of the tree might be shown 
in our page. 
The drawing was taken from a sample produced in the 
Duke of Northumberland’s: garden near- Brentford, where 
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