2U0 ALTEIUTION OF I'USITIUN. 



formed, as happened also in a garden variety of a 

 Fuchsia, wherein, however, the change was less perfect 

 than in the Begonia, and in which, as the flower is 

 naturally hermaphrodite, the alteration is of the less 

 importance. 



in hermaphrodite flowers of Carica Papaya (fig. 103) 

 there is a single row of five stamens instead of two rows 

 of five each as in the normal male flowers, the position of 



Fio. 104. Ovuliferous authers Ctteurbiia. 



the second or inner row of stamens being occupied 

 by five carpels, which, however, are not adherent to 

 the corolla as the stamens are, thus, supposing the 



