96 PASSIFLORACEAE. 



corolla bright-yellow: capsules 5-6 mm. in diameter. Pinelands, L. keys. 

 [E. K.] 



2. TUENERA L. Shrubs or shrubby plants. Flowers usually solitary 

 and axillary. Corolla yellow. Stigmas 3, brush-like. 



1. T. ulmif olia L. A shrubby plant 2 m. tall or less, with appressed-pubescent 

 branchlets: leaf -blades ovate, varying to oblong, elliptic or spatulate, mostly 

 3-9 cm. long, serrate or crenate-serrate, 2-glandular at the base, short-petioled : 

 calyx 14-17 mm. long; lobes lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate: petioles 

 yellow, 2.5-3 cm. long: capsules globular to ovoid, 8-10 mm. long. Hammocks 

 and waste places, Key West. Nat. of Trop. Am. (Ber., Bah., Cuba, Ant.) 



Order PASSIFLORALES. 



Herbs, vines, or shrubby plants, or succulent tree-like plants with 

 milky sap. Leaves alternate: blades entire, toothed, or lobed. Flowers 

 perfect or dioecious. Calyx of 4 or 5 more or less united sepals. Corolla 

 of 4 or 5 distinct or united petals, sometimes accompanied by a fringed 

 crown, or rarely wanting. Androecium of 5 stamens, or of 10 stamens in 

 2 unequal rows. Gynoecium of 3-5 united carpels. Ovary superior. 

 Fruit a berry or a capsule. 



Corolla not accompanied by a crown : flowers mainly dioecious, the stamlnate and 



pistillate different. Fam. 1. PAPAYACBAE. 



Corolla accompanied by a crown : flowers perfect, all alike. Fam. 2. PASSIFLORACEAB. 



FAMILY 1. PAPAYACEAE. PAPAW FAMILY. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves with ample 7-9-lobed blades. Corolla 

 salverform. Stamens 10: filaments adnate to the corolla-tube. Anthers 

 erect. Fruit baccate, borne near the top of the stem. 



1. CARICA L. Plants with milky juice, the stem rather tender, simple or 

 branched, much-scarred above. Leaf-blades palmately or pinnately lobed. 

 Staminate flowers in long-peduncled cymes: pistillate flowers in short-peduncled 

 cymes. Berries nearly sessile, many-seeded. 



1. C. Papaya L. Stem 3-6 m. tall, simple, leafy at the top: leaf -blades 3-6 

 dm. broad, on stout spreading petioles: corolla yellow or reddish, that of the 

 pistillate flower the larger: berry oblong to subglobose, 2-18 cm. long. 

 Hammocks, pinelands and waste places, U. S. keys, U. keys, L. keys. Nat. of 

 Trop. Am. [E. K.](Ber., Bah., Cuba, Ant.) PAPAW. CUSTARD-APPLE. 



FAMILY 2. PASSIFLORACEAE. PASSION-FLOWER FAMILY. 



Herbs, tendril-bearing vines, or shrubby plants. Leaves with entire 

 or lobed, simple, or rarely compound blades. Corolla mostly rotate. 

 Stamens 5 : filaments usually monodelphous around the gynoecium. Fruit 

 baccate. 



1. PASSIFLOEA L. Perennial vines. Leaf-blades entire, lobed, or 

 parted. Crown filamentous, single, double, or triple. Anthers versatile. 

 PASSION-FLOWER. 



Peduncles single : foliage glabrous or obscurely pubescent. 1. P. subcrosa. 



Peduncles clustered : foliage tomentose or velvety. 2. P. multiflora. 



