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ivided nearly to the base into five segments; male flowers 
illary in slightly compound racemes or panicles, white ; female 
reap on a different tree, in the axils of the leaves, large 
md fleshy, yellowish ; fruit succulent, oblong, furrowed; the 
size ofa small melon, yellowish-green when ripe, and con- 
aining a number of round, grey, sliny seeds, which smell like 
ress, In the unripe state the fruit abounds in a thick milky 
_ juice. 
_ Chemical composition and Physiolegical action.—The fruit 
‘has been examined by Dr. T. Peckolt (Zeitschr. des Oesterr. 
Apoth. Ver. 1879, 361—373) ; it was gathered in the full-grown 
ut unripe condition, when it contains a considerable quantity 
of milky juice, which disappears almost entirely after it has 
been kept fora few days. The analysis of the fresh fruit of 
he three varieties freed from acid gave the following 
numbers :— 
; Fruit of | Fruit of Her. 
emale culti-| may dite 
female gama vated plant. 
pinboas ie substance oesesiesers nae Oe vive 0-046 
page ’ 0-165 Ce Oet eee 
N eee tee 0-020 uf vor 
Ibuminoids 1-070 0-500 0-735 
238 8°580 4°333 
ctinous matter 1°315) 
ric acid 0-075 
itric = {combine with bases. 0-020 + 0-483 2-332 
alic acid 0-083 | 
Stan, &e 5 +503) 
Ww 85-351 92-500 89-445 
RIND codes obi sc 5A cianiase bia ced veeses 3-180 . 2-920 5091 
~The fresh fruit of the female plant gave 1- 239 per cent. of 
h, and the dried fruit 8°457 per cent. It contained a large 
mount of soda, potash, and phosphoric acid. The 288 fruit 
no free acids. 
The seeds contain an oil, papaya oil ; caricin, an oil-liké 
