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la, alternately shorter. Fem. Calix 5-toothed. 

 Coroi/a of 5 petals. Stigmas 5. Berry gvoo\- 

 ed, (Cucumber form) l-celled, many-seeded. 



Lactescent comose trees, trunk mostly undivided, spl- 

 nose or rough with the vestiges of rejected leaves; leaves 

 terminally crowded, allernate and long pedunculate, pal- 

 mate or rarely digitate; flowers axillary, the masculine 

 racemose and pendulous or erect and corymbose, female 

 ones fewer; fruit of C. Papaya sweet and esculent. 



Species. 1. C. Papaya. flAB. In Florida. — Agenusof 

 5 species indigenous to tropical America. 



SOS. GYMNOCLADUS. Lamark. (Coffee-Beaii 



Tree.) 



Masc. Calicc tubular, 5-cleft. Corolla o^ 5 

 petals. Fem. Flower as the male. Style 1. 

 Legume l-celled, internally somewhat pulpy. 

 Seeds roundish, large and indurated. 



A tree with naked branches; leaves partly terminal, ve- 

 ry large and bipinnate; flowers racemose, erect; legume al- 

 sX) large and thick; beans lenticular, extremely hard and 

 edible. 



Species- 1. G. canuilensis^ The only species of the 

 genus. 



Order XI.— POLYANDRIA, 



S03. DATISCA. X. (Bastard Hemp.) 



Masc. Calix 5-leaved. Corolla none, fa- 

 thers sessile, oblong, about 15. Fem. Calix bi- 

 dentate. Corolla none. Stijlcs 3, bifid. Cap- 

 sule triangular, 3-horned, l-celled, pervious, 

 many-seeded, inferior. 



Herbaceous; leaves alternate, unequally pinnate; flow- 

 ers axillary, erectly racemose, unibracteate. 

 Species. L U. hirta.-\- Of this genus there is another 



species indigenous to Crete, 



