Carica.'] CARICACEAE. 525 



peduncles often produced into tendrils. Calyx-tube campanulate 

 or tubular ; lobes 4-5. Petals 4-5, inserted on the throat or 

 bottom of the calyx-tube. Male flowers : stamens 4-5, at the 

 bottom of the calyx-tube, opposite as many scales or glands; 

 filaments free or connate ; anthers basifixed ; ovary rudimentary 

 or 0. Female flowers : staminodes 4-5, opposite as many scales 

 or glands ; ovary stalked or subsessile ; ovules numerous, attached 

 to 3 parietal placentas ; style or 3-fid ; stigmas 3. Fruit a 

 loculicidal 3-valved capsule. Seeds numerous, arillate, flattened, 

 usually pitted ; funicle long ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons 

 foliaceous. 



Flowers very small ; petals attached to the throat of the calyx-tube, 

 small, obovate ; anthers short, filaments combined in a tube ; corona 

 a fringe of short hairs at the bases of the petals ; leaves ovate, entire 

 or hastate or palmately 3-lobed, glandular at the top of the petiole ; 



capsule 1 in. long 1. Wightiana. 



Flowers rather large ; petals attached to the base of the calyx-tube, 

 linear- spa thulate, long-fringed; anthers long, filaments forming a 

 cup below ; leaves palmately 3-5-lobed, rarely undivided, glandular 

 at the sinuses and base; capsule 2 in. long 2. palmata. 



1. ADENIA WIGHTIANA, Engl. Modecca Wightiana, Wall. ; 

 F. B. I. ii. 601 ; W. & A. 353 ; Wt. Ic. t. 179. 



Deccan and Carnatic, in dry hilly country from N". Arcot 

 southwards, at low levels. 



A tuberous -rooted slender climber with very small flowers, 

 the petioles much twisted. 



2. ADENIA PALMATA, Engl. Modecca palmata, Lamk. ; F.B.I. 

 * ii. 603 ; W. & A. 353 ; Wt. Ic. t. 201. 



Hills of the Carnatic, W. Ghats and W. Coast in moist 

 hilly country at low levels. 



A large tuberous-rooted woody climber, the stems thickened 

 at the nodes, the leaves large and deeply palmate. 



Family LXXII. CARICACEAE. 



CARICA PAPAYA, Linn., the P^/paw tree, a soft- wooded, almost 

 branchless tree, introduced from South America, is cultivated in 

 gardens in the plains Districts for its valuable edible fruit, which 

 is of the size of a small melon with a soft yellow pulp. Yern. 

 Hind. Papaya, Popai. 



