2 ARKIV FÖR BOTANIK. BAND 17. N:0 12. 



trunci, pedunculati, circ. 3,5 cm longit. Sepala triangularia 

 1 — 1,5 mm longit. Corolla paene choripetala. Petala graci 

 liter lanceolata usque linearia, supra revoluta, vertice sub 

 recto, superiore parte aurantiaca. Ovarium ovatum, acutum 

 quinqueloculare; stigmata 5, linearia, vertice bifido. Fructu 

 post maturitatem circ. 15 — 20 cm longit., a truncata bas 

 graciliter ovatus usque oblongus, acutus, obtuse quinquan 

 gularis, planis lateribus, flavus. Semina tuberculata. 



This species is a small tree. 3 — 5 m high, often bran 

 ched, with broad leaves of about the same size as the leave 

 of the papaya. The petals are particularly characteristi 

 with their reddish yellow colour and their upward-ben 

 ends that form a sort of small pocket. The yellow fruit i 

 broadest near its base; its five angles are not very prorai 

 nent. The pulp is yellowish- white, rather acid and ver 

 juicy and fragrant. The taste and smell of the fruit ar 

 much the same in this species as in the following one an- 

 in C. candamarcensis. The ovaries contain plenty of ovule 

 but only few of these reach maturity. The ripe fruit gene 

 rally contains but 3 — 4 seeds and often not a single one. 



This species is called »chamburo» in the neighbourhoo« 

 of Quito, where it is commonly cultivated up to about 3,000 m 

 It is probably identical with a species, called »higacho» (i. c 

 »monstrous fig»), that is cultivated in the valley of Pastazs 

 in fact, at the village of Baiios, near the foot of the vol 

 cano Tunguragua, I saw an individual of Carica that ver 

 much resembled the Quitonian »chamburo», but I did no 

 examine it very closely. The lower limit of the distributioi 

 of C. chrysopetala may thus be estimated at about 1,500 nc 

 Type specimens from Quito, Guapulo and Caraburo. Th 

 photograph, PI. I, shows an individual from the last-men 

 tioned place. 



Carica pentagona nov. sp. 



Textfigs. -2, Ö and PI. I, Fig. 2. 



Dioica. Arbor, perglaber; foliis palmatis quinquifidis 

 medio lobo trifido. Flores masculi ignoti; flores feminei soli 

 tarii, e superiore parte trunci, brevipedunculati, longit. cir( 

 3 cm. Sepala triangularia, longit. 1 mm. Corolla plan 



