A HERMAPHRODITE TREE 
The Elongata type of papaya, here shown, produces two kinds of flowers. One is a male, 
staminate, or pollen-bearing flower, which, however, ordinarily bears no good pollen; the 
other type of flower is a bisexual one, the flowers not only producing fruit, but pollen as well. 
Trees of this type offer great promise for producing a strain that will combine the two sexes 
on the same plant, and not make it necessary, as at present, to have a number of male 
trees which, although they produce pollen, yield no fruit and therefore are counted by the 
grower as drones. (Fig. 9.) 
