as also that the flesh is not white within, but yellow. I can vouch 
for the delicious scent and grateful taste of the fruit, in both 
which qualities it widely differs from the common Papaw, 
which is not, in my opinion, worth cultivating for the dessert- 
table, while this is so decidedly ; it, moreover, makes a much 
handsomer greenhouse plant than the Papaw. 
According to De Mello and Spruce, thirty-three or thirty- 
five species of Carica (including Vasconcelle) are known to 
them, of which upwards of twenty are Andean, and the rest 
natives of other parts of tropical America. 
The name Chambiiru is, according to Mr. Spruce, applied 
to ail the larger-fruited Andean species. I have found no 
authority for that of candamarcensis, under which specimens 
have been received from Belgian nurseries. 
Descr. Stem in our plants eight feet high, as thick at the 
base as the fore-arm, strict, erect, tapering upwards, tomen- 
tose at the top. eaves numerous, subterminal, spreading, 
dark green above, pale beneath; petiole one to one and a half 
feet long, strict, terete, horizontal, and as well as the blade 
beneath and its nerves above densely clothed with fine, soft, 
pale pubescence ; blade one and a half foot in diameter, nearly 
circular in outline, 5-lobed to the middle, with the terminal 
lobe slightly produced, deeply cordate at the base, where the 
sinus is rounded at the petiole, but usually closed at a 
distance from it by the overlapping lobules of the two basal 
lobes; lobes palmately spreading, pinnatifid, 3-5-lobulate, the 
ultimate divisions spreading, broadly oblong, suddenly acumi- 
nate, entire or with an acute lobule or tooth on one or both 
sides ; upper surface glabrous, shining, with yellowish ribs 
and nerves, and sunk venules; lower surface with very stout 
prominent ribs, nerves, and venules. Flowers green, pube- 
scent, in very shortly peduncled axillary corymbs, almost 
sessile on the peduncle. Calyz-lobes minute, subulate. Corolla- 
tube one-third of an inch long, terete; lobes linear, revolute. 
Stamens in two series at the mouth of the tube; anther-cells 
linear, adnate to the face of the short thickened filaments ; 
connective with an incurved subulate point. Fruct three 
inches long and upwards, oblong-obovoid, apiculate, some- 
what contracted at the base, obscure ; 5-angled, with hollowed 
sides between the angles, bright golden yellow, very fragrant 
and sweet, 5-celled. Seeds a quarter of an inch long, aril 
transparent. 
Fig. 1, Reduced plant ; 2, inflorescence ; 3, flower laid open; 4, two stamens; 
and rudimentar ; 6, fruit - ‘ + -—all but figs- 
2'and 6 magnified, y ovary; 6, fruit ; 7 and 8, seeds with aril :—al/ but fig 
