12 M. J. C. DE MELLO AJ^D MB. E. SPEUCE ON PAPAYiVCEiE. 



cimens of each Carica; and when, some weeks afterwards, I 

 found time to revisit the spot, a deluge of rain compelled me to 

 limit my gatherings to ferns and mosses *. 



The Caricce that I have met with elsewhere in the Andes grew 

 much more dispersedly. They are all small arbuscles, but often 

 have ample foliage, which the natives boil and eat under the 

 name of " Cabbage " (Col del Monte) ; and their fruit is a small 

 scarlet or yellowish berry about an inch in diameter — In some 

 species 5-celled, in others 1-celled ; but all these species have a 

 valvate aestivation. Three of them grew in the Andes of Eastern 

 Peru (i. e. Maynas), and two others in the Chinchona forests of 

 Chimborazo. I add at the foot extracts from my scanty notes on 



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two of these plants, which may assist in identifying them f. 



The 



under 



no, 6460, 



in 



hollows on the desert coast of Chanduy, along with a few other 



* Specimens of the leaves and flowers of three of these Caries are deposited 

 at Kew. The fruits I was unable to preserve ; but I made a note of their cha- 

 racters j which I here subjoin, to aid in determining the species : 



TTo. 5190, $ . Arbor trunco simplice, tenui, flexuoso, 20-pedali 



Fructus diametro vix biunciah, globoso-turbinatus, apiculo brevi, obscure penta- 

 gonns, anguhs a basi ad medium usque depressis, a medio ad apicem elevatis, 



5-loculans, pericarpio carnoso, Shn.crasso. Semina pauca, dissepimentis prse- 

 eipue angulis parietaHbus affixa, 4 Un. longa, anguste ovalia, muricibus ma- 



juscxiHs sub-6-seriatis obsessa. 



No. 5191, $ . Arbor 25-pedaUs, diametro 9 unc., subramosa 



Fructus (vix maturus) 2*3 x 1*5 unc. ovato-fusiformis pentagonus, angulis 



latis obtusis, faciebus depress o-planis Semina ut in priore, crebrius 



mxiricata. 



No, 5192. This species grew to a tree of 40 feet, branched upwards ; and the 

 one I cut down was a male. All tliree species are very distinct in their foliage, 



+ No. 4345, <J. Carica lietero'phylla^ Poepp. (sec. cl, Bentham). — Sdh» 

 Andes Peruvianas, in sylvis montis Campana. Suffrutex 4-pedali8, basi sola 

 ramosufl. Foha 6-8-uncialia, pallide viridia, 'cenis albis^ basi cordata, alia in- 

 tegra, aha basi l-lobulata, aha pinnatim 5-partita. Flores pallide virides, 5- 

 meri, In <;ymos axiUares longissime pedimculatos dispositi* Corolla hypo- 

 eraterimorpha, tubo elongate tenui, limbo e laciniis angUBtis valvatis. 



No. 4337, ? • H.ab, Cum pr. etiam in M, Guayrapurina. Arbuscula mollis, 

 simplex, supra medium fohosa. Folia magna, 5-partita, laciniis profimde lo* 

 batis, lobifl oblongis cuspidatis acutis ; petiolo succulento, 12-15-\mciali. Kacemi 

 axiUares, pauciflori, Flores lutco-virides, 5-meri. Calyx minimus. Petala li- 

 neioiay valvata, basi ipsa coalita. Stigmata elongata subteretia ...... Bacca 



lut-eola, succulenta, globosa, diametro unciali. Semina plurima, albuminosa ; 

 cmbryone majusculo, cotyledonlbus foliaceis. 



