244 XXXIX. SAMYDACEJE. [Casearia. 



for monkeys, the Burmese name), large subsessile obovate leaves, tomentose 

 beneath, and flowers in axillary racemes. Burma. Java. 



2. //. nepalense, Benth. Syn. Blackwellia nepalensis, Wall. PI. As. rar. t. 

 179, with ovate, petiolate, glabrous leaves and paniculate flowers, Nepal. 



Order XL. PASSIFLOREJE. 



Herbs, shrubs, rarely trees, with alternate leaves with or without 

 stipules. Flowers regular. Stamens definite ; anthers 2-celled, dehiscing 

 longitudinally. Ovary free, 1 -celled, with numerous ovules, attached to 

 3-5 parietal placentas. Fruit dry or fleshy with numerous seeds, covered 

 with an arillus or pulpy integument, testa coriaceous or crustaceous ; 

 embryo large, with foliaceous cotyledons, enclosed in a fleshy albumen. 

 Gen. PL i. 807 ; Eoyle 111. 220 (Papayacece) ; Wight 111. ii. 33. 



The principal genus of this family is Pass/flora, comprising a large 

 number of species, mostly American, and a few Indian, herbaceous or 

 perennial climbers, with axillary tendrils, showy bisexual flowers, with a 

 stalked ovary ; stamens adnate to the gynophore, and a ring with filiform 

 appendages arising from the calyx-tube. The genus Garica belongs to the 

 tribe Papayacece with unisexual flowers and no ring or corona. 



1. CARICA, Linn. 



Soft-wooded trees or shrubs with milky juice, stem generally simple, or 

 with few branches, leaves at the ends of branches. No stipules. Flowers 

 in axillary racemes or panicles, uni- or bi-sexual. Calyx small, 5-lobed. 

 Corolla in the male flowers gamopetalous, 5-lobed ; in the female flowers, 

 of 5, linear-oblong deciduous petals. Stamens 10, inserted in the mouth 

 of the corolla, those opposite to the lobes on short filaments, those 

 alternate with them sessile ; anthers adnate to the filaments, 2-celled, 

 dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary free, ovules numerous, attached in 2 

 rows to 5 parietal placentas. Fruit fleshy, sulcate, indehiscent with 

 numerous seeds. Embryo straight, in a fleshy albumen ; cotyledons flat, 

 oblong. 



1. C. Papaya, Linn. ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 824 ; W. & A. Prodr. 352 ; 

 Wight 111. t. 106, 107. Vern. Papaya, pepiya. 



A small soft-wooded, fast-growing, and short-lived tree, with large 

 glabrous palmatifid and palminerved leaves, 12-24 in. across, on long 

 hollow petioles, forming a round tuft at the top of the stem. Flowers on 

 axillary panicles, pale yellow, fragrant, generally dioicous, but occasion- 

 ally a few female flowers on a male plant. Male flowers in long drooping 

 panicles. Female flowers in short clusters. Ovary 1 -celled. Stigma 

 sessile, 5-lobed, lacerated. Fruit succulent, indehiscent, 1 -celled. Seeds 

 numerous, black, enclosed in sweet mucous pulp, and covered with a 

 loose hyaline skin or arillus ; testa thick, brittle. 



Indigenous in Brazil, and probably also in Central America and the West 

 Indies. Cultivated throughout South India, Burma, and Bengal ; in North-West 

 India as far as Saharanpur and Delhi. The Papaya must have been introduced 



