 C 3633 =) 
CARICA CITRIFORMIS. SMALL CITRON- 
FRUITED PaApaw. 
SER KKK KKK ERK EERE KEK 
Class and Order. 
Diacia (rather Mona:cta) Decanpria. 
( Nat. Ord.—Caricez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Calyx (minutus) 5-dentatus. Masc. Corolla infundibu- 
- liformis. Stamina alterna breviora. Fam. Corolla pro- 
funde 5-partita. Stigmata 5. Pepo polyspermus. Semina 
membraua obvoluta. Spr. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Carica citriformis ; foliis cordatis 3—5-lobis lobis oblon- 
gis acuminatis medio trifidis nervis superne glandulo- 
sis, pedunculis axillaribus brevissimis, fructibus ovali- 
bus levissiimis aurantiacis. | 
Carica citriformis. ‘Jacq. fil.” (ex Spreng.) Spreng. Syst. 
Veget. v. 3. p. 905. 
As far as can be judged from the brief character (and I 
know of no other) of Carica citriformis, given in SPRENGEL, 
the present plant may be safely referred to it: and it isa 
native of Guiana. A specimen, with the charming fruit 
here represented, was communicated from the stove of 
Cuartes Horsraut, Esq., Liverpool, in 1835. That gen- 
tleman procured it from the Curator of the Botanic Garden 
of Rotterdam, as the C. monoica of Desronratnes: but that 
species, as may be seen by the figurein the Ann. du Mus. 
d’Hist. Nat. v. 1. t. 18, is the same as the C. microcarpa of 
the Hort. Scheenbr., and is easily distinguished by its small, 
deeply sulcated, and pointed fruit. Seeds from the fruit 
above-mentioned were raised in the Botanic Gardens of 
Glasgow 
