Tas. 6198. 
CARICA CANDAMARCENSIS. 
Native of the Andes of Ecuador. 
Nat. Ord. PassIFLOREZ.—Tribe PAPAYACE, 
Genus Carica, Linn, (Benth, et Hook. f., Gen. Plant., v. i., p. 815). 
CaRICA CANDAMARCENCIS; caule gracile stricto, foliis longe petiolatis subtus 
petioloque molliter pubescenti-tomentellis ambitu orbiculatis profunde cor- 
datis sinu basi rotundato ad medium fere 5-lobis, lobis latis 3-lobulatis, 
lobulis ovatis oblongisve acuminatis, lobis basalibus extus auriculato- 
lobulatis, superne glabris saturate viridibus nervis tomentellis venulis 
impressis, subtus pallidis nervis validis prominentibus, corymbis axillaribus 
breviter pedunculatis floribus monoicis terminali sepius foeminea ceteris 
masculis, omnibus brevissime pedicellatis, calycis lobis triangulari-subulatis, 
corolle viridis tubo } pollicari, lobis linearibus revolutis, staminibus fauce 
tubi insertis biseriatis, filamentis crassis brevibus, antherarum loculis con- 
nectivo incrassato apice abrupte subulato adnatis, fructibus oblongo- 
obovoideis 5-locularibus apiculatis basi constrictis obscure et obtuse 5-gonis 
inter angulos depressis. 
C. candamarcensis, Hort, Belg. 
The graceful little tree here described was raised from 
seeds sent from the Ecuadorian Andes by the late Professor 
Jameson, of Quito, to the late Mr. Hanbury, with whom it 
flowered in an open border at Clapham in 1874. A speci- 
men received from him again both flowered and fruited abun- 
dantly at Kew during the past summer and autumn, in the 
open air, where it was stood out after being brought into bud 
im a greenhouse. According to Mr. Hanbury this is the 
species mentioned by Mr. Spruce in his and M. de Mello’s 
very learned and interesting paper on the Papayacee, 
published in the Journal of the Linnean Society quoted 
above, as the Chambiiru, or common Carica, of the Ecuado- 
rian Andes, where it is cultivated up to an elevation of 9000 
feet for the sake of its edible fruit, Mr. Spruce adds that 
when he visited the mountain of Tunguragua in February, 
1858, the ground was strewed with its ripe and rotting fruits, 
which were smaller and sweeter than that of the common 
Papaw, and were the favourite food of the bears that infest 
the forests of that mountain. The trunk he describes as 
being as stout as that of the common Papaw, and the leaves 
even larger; the fruits as being 8-9 inches long, and some- 
times nearly as broad; the flesh white (not yellow, as the 
common Papaw), soft, and with a pleasant flavour, being 
sometimes very acid in cool sites. 
It will be seen from our drawing and description that, as 
might be expected, the trunk is smaller with us than in Ecuador, 
November Isr, 1875. 
