33 HORTUS JAMAICENSIS. mAt* 



criptive of the panicle in this species. Browne calls this smaller wood-grass, very com- 

 mon in the woods of Jamaica, agreeing with Guinea grass in Use arrangement and 

 formation of the flowers. The stalk and leaves are excellent fodder for all sorts of. 

 cattle, and the seeds feed the smaller sorts of birds. 



20. DIVARICATUM. DIVARICATE. 



Panicles short, awnless ; culm very much branched,,and extremely divaricating}, 

 peaicels two-flowered, one shorter. 



See Scotch Grass. 



PAPAW TREE. CARICA. 



Cl. 22, or. 9. Dioecia decandria (polygamic!.-) , Nat. or. Tricocae. 



Gen. char. Male calyx scarce manifest; it has, however, five very short sharp 

 teeth ; corolla monopetalous, funnel-form ; tube slender, very long, gradually 

 slenderer downwards; border five-parted, divisions lanceolate-linear, obtuse, 

 obliquely and spirally revolwte ; the stamens are ten filaments, in the top of the 

 tube of the corolla; the five alternate ones inferior; anthers oblong, fixed to the 

 filaments on the inner side. The female, or rather hermaphrodite calyx a very 

 small five-toothed perianth, permanent; teeth ovate-acute, spreading; corolla 

 five-parted, parts lanceolate, sharp, erect, below the middle, but reflected and 

 twisted above ; stamens ten filaments, five alternate, shorter, subulate, all united 

 by a membrane at the base ; anthers ovate, erect, two-vatved, fertile ; germ ovate, 

 ito style ; stigmas three or five, broad, flat, expanding, multifid ; segments very 

 short, blunt ; the pericarp a very large berry, anguh.ted with three or five fur- 

 rows, unilocular, fleshy ; seeds numerous, ovate, green, very smooth, tunjeatedj 

 nestling in the middle of the berry. There are two species, both natives of 

 Jamaica. 



1. PAPAYA. PAPAW. 



Papaya major, flore et fructu majoriinis pediculis curtis insidentibus. 

 S-ioane, v. 2, p. 164. Fronde comosa, Joliis ycltato lobatis, lobis 

 varie sinuatis, Browne, p. 360. 

 Lobes of the leaves sinuated. 



This tree rises with a thick soft herbaceous stem, to the height of eighteen or twenty 

 feet, naked till within two or three feet of the top, and having marks of the fallen 

 leaves most part of its length. The leaves come out on every side, upon very long; 

 footstalks. Those which are situated undermost are almost horizontal, but those on the 

 top are erect ; these leaves in full grown plants are very large, and divided into many 

 lobes deeply sinuated The stems of the plant, and also the footstalks of the leaves,, 

 are hollow. The flowers of the male plant are produced from between the leaves, on 

 the upper part of the plant. They have footstalks near two feet long ; at the end of 

 which the flowers stand in loose clusters, each having a seperate short footstalk : these 

 eie of a pure white, and have an agreeable odour : they are sometimes, but not often, 



succeeded 



