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7. Passiflora biflora Lam. Encycl. 3: 36. 1789. 



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



Glabrous, 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 cfimpanulate ; crown white or yellowish, its outer segments spreading, 

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

 diameter, fleshy. 



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

 TWO-LOBED PASSION-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 

 mucronulate 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, Andros, Inagua, North Caicos, the Anguilla Isles and Cay Sal : Cuba. 

 DEVIL'S PUMPKIN. WILD WATERMELON. SMOOTH PASSION-FLOWER. Catesfoy, 2 : pi. 93. 



Family 2. CARICACEAE Dumort. 

 PAPAW FAMILY. 



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 berry. 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 

 subtropical distribution, and Jacaratia of tropical Africa and America, 

 which 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.] Type species: Carica Papaya L. 



1. 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 



