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7. Passiflora 'bifldra Lam. Encycl. 3: 36. 1789. 



Passiflora lunata Wilkl. Sp. PI. 3: 612. 1801. 



GlaTDrous, somewhat woody, 1 m. long or longer. Leaves chartaceous, 

 2-lobed, mostly broader than long, 5-8 cm. broad, ocellate beneath, strongly 

 3-nerved, reticulate-veined on both surfaces, subcordate or obtuse at the base, 

 shining above, dull beneath^ the lobes obtuse or rounded, the slender gland- 

 less petioles 1-4- cm. long; flowers white, about 2 cm. broad, solitary or in 

 pairs in the axils, the peduncles as long as the petioles or longer; flower- 

 tube campanulate; crown white or yellowish, its outer segments spreading, 

 nearly as long as the petals, dilated above; berry subglobose, about 2 cm. in 

 diameter, fleshy. 



Pine-lands, Abaco, New Providence : — Jamaica ; tropical continental America. 

 Two-LOBED Passiok-flower. Apparently recorded by Shoepf as P. Vespertilio L. 



8. Passiflora cupraea L. Sp. PI. 955. 1753. 



A somewhat woody, glabrous vine, 1-2 m. long. Leaves ovate to elliptic, 

 rather thin, short-petioled, 3-5 cm. long, 3-nerved, dark green, rounded and 

 mucrouulate at the apex, rounded or subcordate at the base, reticulate-veined 

 on both sides, with a few distant flat circular glands beneath; peduncles 

 longer than the petioles, jointed at about the middle; calyx white to red or 

 purple, 2-3 cm. long; petals narrowly oblong, shorter than the calyx; crown- 

 segments few, linear; carpophore 2-3 cm. long; berry globose, 10-20 mm. in 

 diameter, dark purple. 



Scrub-lands, coppices, and coastal thickets, Abaco and the Berry Islands to 

 South Bimini, Andres, Inagua, North Caicos, the Anguilla Isles and Cay' Sal : — Cuba. 

 Devil's Pumpkin. Wild Watermelon. Smooth Passion-flower. Catesby, 2 : pi. 93. 



Family 2. CARICACEAE Dumort. 

 Papaw Fa:mily. 



Trees, with milky sap, ample broad palmately 7-9-lobed leaves and 

 unisexual, or rarely perfect flowers. Calyx short. Staminate flowers with 

 a salver-shaped corolla, its tube slender; the lobes 5, valvate or convolute; 

 stamens 10, inserted in the throat of the corolla; filaments short; anthers 

 adnate to the filaments, 2-celled. Pistillate flowers with 5 distinct petals 

 and no staminodia; ovary compound, 1-celled, or sometimes imperfectly 

 5-celled, free, sessile; stigmas 5, sessile; ovules numerous, in two or many 

 series on the 5 placentae. Fruit a large fleshy ben-y. Seeds numerous, 

 flattened, with a roughened testa; endosperm fleshy; embryo axile. There 

 are two genera, the following composed of about 25 species of tropical and 

 subtroj)ical distribution, and Jacaratia of tropical Africa and America, 

 w^hich differs from Carica by having the stamens partly united. 



1. CARICA L. Sp. PI. 1036. 1753. 



Characters of the family. [Named from the fancied resemblance of the 

 fruit to that of the Fig.] Tj-pe species: Carica Papaija L. 



L Carica Papaya L. Sp. PI. 1036. 1753. 



A small tree, with a simple wand-like stem, 3-6 m. tall, leafy at the top. 

 Laves large, thick, suborbicular in outline, 2-6 dm. broad, mostly palmately 



