34 ILLUSTRATlNNS OF INDIAN BOTANY 



a fleshy albumen : radicle slender, turned towards the hilum : cotyledons flat.— Trees without 

 branches. Leaves alternate, lobed, on long slender petiols." 



.AFFiNirrES. Jussieu originally arranged Carica and the genera now referred to PasuHo. 

 reae as allied genera, under Cucurbi/aceae / remarking, that they were principally distinguished 

 by their superior ovary, he like others considering the Peponida as a 1 -celled parietal fruit, and 

 thus placed them between Cncurbifaceae and Urticaceae. Their affinity with the former is still 

 asserted but not with the latter. In my remarks on Cucnrbkaceae I have shown that in com- 

 mon with all other parietose orders they can have no very close affinity with that family 

 on account of the wide difference in the structure of their ovary. With Passifloreae they are 

 closely connected by one character, common to both, but not constant in all the species the 

 placentas, namely, bemg spread over the whole surface of the carpels in place of confined to 

 Iff^lV'ir «^ J""ft»<^°- ^^Ji« fed ivhich I have not seen well described, may perhaps 

 S° • '% '' ri' ^^l^ «"«^osed with a quaritily of thin mucous pulp, in k hyaline sack, 

 armus ? IS of an oval shape the testa thick, exteriorly black and of a loose cork like texture, rough 

 7t T f ^^ '"''T^// firmer polished within. Sir W. J. Hooker describes it, as about the 

 wrinkfed & ^^^"^^""d.sh. compressed, almost black, but covered w.th a transversely 

 ZSi'^h ' f. r^' '^'" ^i' f'""'' '"^"^ '"^^^"P«^^ ^^ "^"^^^^•" 'Hns description does not 



quddiate with specimens now before me-the testa of which evidently consists of 2 layers an 

 outer one spongy or suberose, furrowed, and an inner denser and polished wihi^ enclosed with^ 



of i:rE:ZTaTeaT^ ^^^^^ r '''''' "^i""^- 1 ^'""^ ''''' '^^^'^ «=--^ - strucWre w th those 

 a relte affinftv whernn^ TTl' '%^°'' '^^"'^ f Passijloreae, which however form only 



a remote amn.ty when not supported by characters taken from the ovary or mature fruit I 



lcnow?rora"'co"„.ril7arobZ; America!. ll,e native country of this order, which is only 



aistr.h„t.. a;;rr;- :ryX.i^ri^s:re.tr; rarit;'- -- - jz";;:^- f ' 



rather too lonrforZ^wtk 11^^^ T»^^^^' ^^^"""f^ though 



originals. One c r umsTance I h^" ^^^^ introduce in the words of the 



when chewed yLu fa vervJartll f ^^'^ ^-'P*^ «e«^« 



cress. This fl^avou and taLHsole^fpT/:^^^ ^^ nasturtium or Indian 



The first of the fSwhtex^ra^t^^^^^^^^^^ which is insipid, 



nical Magazine, C ^98 gJlTn^the L f' ^'" '^ ^'' ^'^ Hooker, published in the Bota- 



titioner in the We.t Indts nulfished ?nl w"" ^ ^'P'\^ ^^ "°'^^^' '^''^ ^ '"^^^ical prac 



when he described Y xm\ml ZtlZT^^^^^^ spoke from his own knowledge, 



trunk twenty feet hX with it, „Z? ^^^ ti'»e. produced a 



fruit, mainl/, that t£ plan is cuhrted^tnt^ftif T^ "^^ ^'"''- ^' '' ^"^ ^^e'sake of this 

 by what ripened in our stove I cinnnf r ' ^^"^ '^ ^l"'' ^^^'^"^ *«^*^ ^^^ better than that yielded 



History ol Jamaica te Is us Vat «rL:?nirs"/' '' r f '^^''''^^'- ««°-^ '" '- ^^-^^^'^^ 

 people ; that, while youn^ it is con i^^^^^^^^^ sweetish taste, and is much liked by many 



juice and sugar, is not ufl k , or n^h iidof toIS^^S'^ ^'""^ «"^^ ^'^^-^ -^^ ^'^^ 



xnonly substituted." In the opinion of 8 o vVi^ n o? ^ 7'' ^PP^f ./or which it is com- 



With pepper and sugar; and the more o dina^v u . t?. iT'^ E^^'v"""] ^'"^^' ^^'^" ^^en helped 

 when as large as one's fist, it is Tt into slic J naked in '. 'Vn^u ^^"''' ^^ ^^^""^^ ^' ^^ ^'P«' 

 then boiled and eaten as turnips, or bake^^^^^^^^ juice is out, and 



W.osp^eofthLilky^^-^;i-^^^^ 



been 



