824 DTOECIA DECANDRiA. Carica. 



the leaves; a little umbellet of five minute florets in a four- 

 leaved involucre. Bractes lanceolate, downy, caducous, 

 one under each pedicel. Calyx proper, six-cleft, exactly 

 as in the Lauri. Corol none. Stamina also as in that 

 order, only there are no glands alternate with the lower 

 and inner three. Germ, a slender, abortive column. 

 Female. Racemes, umhellets, and involucre as in the male, 

 but shorter. Calyx as in the male, but the segments are 

 deciduous, and the base, or undivided part, permanent. 

 Germ, as in the other species already described. Berries of 

 the size of a pea, rather oblate, smooth, shining, of a dark 

 purple when ripe, one-celled. Seed solitary, conform to the 

 berry. Integument single. Embryo inverse, no perisperm. 



9. T. peutandra. R. 



Leaves lanceolar, triple-nerved, smooth ; umhellets axil- 

 lary ; involucres four-leaved, five-flowered ; corollets pen- 

 tandrous. 



Teling. Nara. 



Laurus involucrata. Corom.pl.'u. A^. 187. 



A middling sized tree, a native of the Circar mountains ; 

 where it blossoms in the cold season, and the seed ripens in 

 April. Every part smells strongly of camphor. 



DIOECIA DECANDRIA. 



CARICA. Schreh. gen, N. 1536. 



Male. Ca/i/a; scarcely any. Coro/ five-cleft, funnel-shap- 

 ed Filainents on the tube of the corol, alternately shorter. 

 Female. Calyx five-toothed. Corol five-petalled. Stig- 

 mas five. Berry one-celled, many-seeded. 



C papaya. Willd. iv. 814. 

 Lobes of the leaves sinuous. 

 Papaja. Rumph. Amb. i. /, 50. 

 Bcng. Papeya. 



