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1 VIII. PAPAYAC1 I 



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- or -!ii I ling ;ui acrid milky juiei I. 



M long taper petioles. Flowers in axillary racemes or solitary, unisexual. < 

 rior, minute, 5-toothed. Corolla monopetalous, with 

 uens definite, epipetalous ; ami. •. splitti 



tudinally, mally partly imperfect, j ">. 



with 3 to 5 parietal polyspermous placenl 

 lacerated. Fruit succulent, or dehisc I, with ] 



•*ith 

 :i brittle pitted testa; embryo in the axis of fleshy all 

 with flat cotyledons and a taper radicle turned the hilum. 



It was the opinion ■ eu that the genus upon which 



» fader was originally founded i.- • ■)! middJ 



rta and Cucurbits. 



' . r. marki <l uj this subject, that thi 



with Urtical plants consists in tl , milky ju 



habit, which is like th » i* 



very different from that >>t Cecropia, and i! 

 *mas ; and to these In- attached little importance. But 

 Papaw trie, instead of standing in the Bystem almost 

 ha- hitherto done, app are t" 1"- in reality ti 

 unisexual genera hitherto referred t" thi Pas 

 if its structure be scrutin fully it will be found I 



from that Order in nothing except having a fruit witl 

 ■ '• parietal placentse, in it- -> parati • l the al - 



net, which in rnn or other is so chai 



il Alliance. On the other hand, it ma\ 

 a Cucurbitaceous plant with a 

 mm. in-. -■ . da ; and in that point of » ii « it i qua 

 «ith tin- unisexual Passionworts. The o| uioi 

 ms t" have been right, 



in difficult i . 

 I hi 



and unknown, > \> 



the temperate parts and tr 



The fruit oi tl" P 

 wh< 



it appi ara t" have litt 

 peculiar • that thi 



■ most power ul and efficient vermifuge (the powder of tin 



,and that a constituent of thi> juice i- fibrine, 

 peculiar to the animal kingdom and to Fung da I 

 property of rendering the toughest animal substani es I 

 Hie muscular fibre ; its very vapour even does this . 

 the leavi -, and i ven old hogs and old poultry, wh< 

 tender in a few hours. See an i v- ll< nl account of tl 

 Dr. Wight observes that the - eds, wl 

 . the pungency and flavour of I 

 renders the Papaw an active vermifuge, is indicati Ibyt 

 odour of its roots, which smell like di 





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