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VIII. PAPAYA SEEIES (Fr., Papayer). 



The Papayads 1 (figs. 332-338) have polygamous or dioecious re- 

 gular flowers. In the male flowers, the convex receptacle bears a 



Papaya Carica. 



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Fig. 332. 

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gamosepalous calyx, generally little developed, cut into five imbri- 

 cated, or valvate teeth, and a gamosepalous corolla, generally infun- 



1 Papaya T., Inst., 659, t. 441. — Adans., Ttjkp., in Diet. Sc. Nat., Atl., t. 212. — 

 Tain, des PI., ii. 357. — J., Gen., 399. — G^ktn., Schnizl., Iconoqr., fasc. 7, ic. — Spach, Suit, a 



Fruct., ii. 191, t. 122. — DC, in Lamk. Diet., v. 

 2.— Lamk., III., t. 821.— A. DC, Prod?:, xv. 

 p. i. 414. — H. Bn„ in Adansonia., x. 258. — 

 Carica L., Gen., n. 1127 (cd. 1, n. 759).— 



Buffon, xiii. 314. — End., Gen., n. 5119. — 

 Payee, Fam. Nat., 118.— B. H., Gen., 815, n. 

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