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37. Kigg-elaria L.' — Flowers dioecious ; receptacle shortly de- 

 pressed, glandular, rather villous. Sepals 5, free, vaivate or 

 sarcely imbricated. Petals same in number, alternate, imbricated ; 

 scales same in number, complanate-fleshy, placed inwardly at base 

 before each petal, and connate to greater or less height. Stamens 

 in male flower few (usually 10-12), in female 0; filaments short, 

 free, erect ; anthers basifixed j cells 2, lateral, apex dehiscing in 

 short clefts or pores. Germen free (in male flower 0) ; placentas 

 parietal 2-5 ; ovules usually few ; styles 2-5, stigmatiferous reflexed 

 at apex. Fruit fleshy, with difficulty dehiscing, or dry, imperfectly 

 2-5-valved. Seeds 1- co, exterior pulpy ; albumen fleshy, copious ; 

 embryo rather large ; cotyledons foliaceous, digitinerved at base. — 

 Unarmed shrubs, often stellate-pubescent ; leaves alternate, exstipu- 

 late, entire or crenate ; flowers in axillary cymes, shortly racemose, 

 bracteate {South Africa?). 



VIII. PAPAYE.E. 



38. Papaya T. — Flowers dioecious, or more rarely polygamous. 

 Male calyx small or very minute, 5-lobed or 5-dentate, imbricated or 

 vaivate. Corolla hypocrateriform ; tube elongated ; lobes 5, oblong 

 or linear, prsefloration dextrorse {Eiqmpaya) or sinistrorse contorted, 

 sometimes but more rarely vaivate {Vasconcella). Stamens 10, 2- 

 seriate, inserted in throat of corolla of which 5, oppositipetalous, 

 often subsessile ; other 5 longer, alternate ; filaments free or sub- 

 free, sometimes connate at base to a greater or less height (Jaca- 

 ratia) ; anthers erect, adnate, introrse 2-rimose ; connective often 

 produced be} r ond cells. Germen rudimentary, subulate. Calyx of 

 female flower as in male. Petals 5, free, erect, contorted or vai- 

 vate, deciduous. Staminodes 0, or in hermaphrodite flower fertile 

 stamens 1-10. Germen free, sessile, 1-locular or more rarely by 

 false septa, 5-locular {Vasconcella) ; placentas 5, parietal, co -ovulate ; 

 style short, presently or at the base divided into 5 lobes, dilated or 

 linear, simple, sometimes 2- oo-lobed. Berry inwardly pulpous, in- 

 dehiscent. Seeds ce ; external coat subfleshy or suberose arilliform ; 



1 Gen., n. 1128.— J., Gen., 387.— Gjertn., 2 Spec. 3. L., Sort. Cliff., t. 29. — Jacq., 



Fruct., i. 206, t. 44. — Lamk., Diet., iii. 365; Coll., 296; Ic. Bar., t. 628. — Hart. & Sond., 



III., t. 821. — Endl., Gen., n. 5082. — DC, Fl. Cap., i. 71.— Walp., Ann., iv. 230; vii. 



Prodr., i. 257. — Clos, in Ann. So. Nat., ser. 232. 

 4, viii. 267.— B. H., Gen., 130, n. 29. 



