8 SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 
“There are store of good Roots and Plants with Fruites, as the 
Pina and Plantine, Potatoes, Nappoyes, and a fruite called of the 
Indians Poppoyes, it is bigger than an Apple and very pleasant to 
eat.” (Wilson in Purchas his Pilgrimes, iv. 1264.) 
Papanes, Smith, Gen. Hist. 184. 
Mamera mas § femina, Gerarde, Herball, ed. 2, 1608, f. ; Parkin- 
son, Theatr. 1649, f. 
“ Pappaw is a fruite as bigge as an Apple, of an Orange colour, 
(Parkinson, Theatr. 1671.) 
Mamawira mas § femina, Piso, Nat. Hist. Bras. lib. iii. cap. vi. 
102. 
De Paya, Francisco Hernandez, Rerum Med. Nov. Hisp. Thesau- 
rus, 99; Hist. Pl. Nov. Hisp, ed. Madrid, 1790, iii. 90. 
Papaie Peruvianis, Bauhin, Hist. Pl. i. 147. 
De deux sortes de Papayers, Du Tertre, Hist. Gen. Anitill. ii. 187. 
The Papa. 
the softest that yet I ever saw ; for with my knife, I can cut down 
and good to eate.” 
“The Tree, though it may be accounted wood, yet 
a tree as big as a man’s leg at one chop. The fruit we boyl, and 
serve it up with powdred pork, as we do turnips in England ; but 
the turnip is far the more savory fruit.” (Richard Ligon, A 
_ True and exact History of the Island of Barbados, 71.) 
Pinoguacu mas & famina, Piso, Nat. Hist. Bras. ed. 2, lib. iv. 
cap. xxiii. 159, f. 
Mameira, Johnson, Dendrologia, 59, t. 25 ; ed. 2, i. 60, t. 25. 
CARICACEA. 
De Arbore melonifera Mamera § Papaia dicta, Ray, Hist. Pl. ii. 
1370. 
Pepo arborescens foemina sive fertilis, Hermann, Parad. Bot. Prodr. 
362 (excl. syn.). 
Papaya major, flore & fructu majoribus pediculis curtis infidentibus, 
Sloane, Cat. Pl. Jam. 202; Nat. Hist. Jam. ii. 164. 
Ficus arbor Utriusque Indie Platani foliis wovooreréxns, fructu Mali 
Cydonii, aut Melonis magnitudine, Plukenet, Alm. Bot. 145; Man- 
tissa, t. 278, f. 1. 
Papaja, Merian, Hist. Gén. Insects de Surinam, i. 40, t. 40; 62, t. 
62; 64, t. 64. 
Du Papayer, Rochefort, Histoire Naturelle et Morale des Isles An- 
tilles, ed. 2, 65, f. 
Pepol, Arbor Melonifera, Hermann, Mus. Zeylan. 58. 
Papolghaha, Papaya, Hermann, Mus. Zeylan. 66. 
Papaya fructu Melopeponis effigie, T fort, Inst. i. 659, t.441. — 
Boerhaave, Ind. Alt. Hort. Lugd. Bat. ii. 170. 
Carica foliorum lobis sinuatis, Linnzeus, Hort. Cliff. 461; Fl. Zey- 
lan. 173. — Royen, Fl. Leyd. Prodr. 225. 
Papaya mas, Trew, Plante et Papiliones Rariores, t. 3, £. 1. 
The Popaw Tree, Griffith Hughes, Nat. Hist. Barbados, 181, t. 
14, 15. 
Papaya, fructu oblongo Melonis effigie, Trew, Pl. Ehret. 2, t. 7. 
Carica. Fronde comosa, foliis peltato-lobatis, lobis varie sinuatis, 
Browne, Nat. Hist. Jam. 360. 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 
Pratt DCCV. Carica Papaya. 
G9) 9 ssl en Gs SS 
A. staminate inflorescence, natural size. 
Diagram of a staminate flower. 
A staminate flower, the corolla laid open, enlarged. 
A pair of stamens, front view, enlarged. 
A stamen, side view, enlarged. 
Pistillate flowers, natural size. 
Diagram of a pistillate flower. 
A pistillate flower, the corolla laid open, enlarged. 
Vertical section of an ovary, enlarged. 
10. Cross section of an ovary, enlarged. 
11. A stigma seen from above, enlarged. 
12. An ovule, enlarged. 
13. A fruit, natural size. 
14. Cross section of a fruit, natural size. 
jet, 
oO 
. Vertical section of a fruit, natural size. 
16. A seed, enlarged. 
17. A seed with its aril laid open, enlarged. 
18. Vertical section of a seed, enlarged. 
19. A seed with the outer layer of the seed coat removed. 
20. An embryo, enlarged. 
21. A leaf, reduced. 
22. A seedling, natural size. 
