ated and fimbriated, yellowish-green lobes. The corolla 
falls away, and the germen, in coming to maturity, becomes 
peasant the tree, too, advancing in height, casts its lower 
eaves from beneath the flowers ; and the fruit, constituting 
a large oblong-kind of berry, or more correctly speaking, a 
pepo, rests suspended upon the leafless part of the trunk, 
very much in the same way as that of the Arrocarrus 
(Bread Tree). The surface, when the fruit is ripe, isa 
pale and rather dingy orange-yellow, obscurely furrowed, 
and often rough with little elevated points. The flesh is 
very thick, coloured, but paler than the outside ; and there 
pass through it, longitudinally, five bundles of vessels (cor- 
delettes pistillaires of Auguste Sv. Hmarre). In the centre 
is a considerable cavity, with five longitudinal ridges; aud 
these are thickly clothed with numerous. seeds, about as 
large as those of Cannasis sativa, roundish, compressed, 
almost black, but covered with a transversely wrinkled, 
loose, greyish, skin or arillus, and enveloped in mucus. 
Albumen fleshy. Embryo rather large, compressed. Radi- 
ele inferior. 
,. The Genus Carica is considered by most authors to be 
dicecious ; and in figuring the female plant in the Botanical 
Register, the author takes occasion to mention, that he had 
hot met with the flowers of the barren tree. In the stove 
of the Glasgow garden, we long possessed a tree, which, 
from the flowers I examined, being male, I imagined was of 
this barren kind. Ina few years’ time, however, this indi- 
vidual plant produced fruit, which came to great perfection, 
and the seeds of which yielded an abundant stock of young 
plants : and this was the case for several years in succession. 
Yet at the moment when I was engaged in’ making the 
analysis of the parts for the accompanying plates (in Febru- 
ary, 1829) none but male flowers were to be found upon the 
tree. I have had recourse, therefore, to the figure in the 
Botanical Register for the representation of the female, and 
for thus enabling me to give all the essential parts of the 
fructification. These, indeed, amply serve to show that 
the characters are at variance with those of any hitherto 
established Natural Order. Laiynaus referred it to the Tri- 
Coccm (or Evpnorsiacez), where Jussieu, in his Genera 
lantarum likewise places it, though he afterwards was dis- 
Posed to arrange it among the CucurBITACEZ, in which he has 
n followed by a great number of Botanists : the | Aa 
Ricuarp, alone placing itamongst Passirtorez. Dp Can- 
POLLE has not introduced the Genus into the third volume 
of his Prodromus, which contains the two latter orders, and 
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