BIXACEA. 291 
VIII. PAPAYA SERIES (Fr., Papayer). 
The Papayads' (figs 
gs. 332-338) have polygamous or diæcious re- 
gular flowers. In the male flowers, the convex receptacle bears a 
Papaya Carica. 

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.—Apans,, Turp., in Dict, Se. Nat, Atl., t. 212. — 
Fam. des Pl., ii. 357.—J., Gen., 399.—GÆRTN.,  SCHNIZL., Iconogr., fase. 7, ic.—SPACH, Suit. à 
Fruct., ii. 191, t. 122.—DC., in Lamk. Dict.,v. Buffon, xiii. 314.—END, Gen, n. 5119.— 
2.—Lamx., Ill, t. 821.—A.DC., Prodr., xv. PAYER, Fam. Nat., 118.—B. H., Gen., 815, n. 
p. i. 414.—H. BN., in Adansonia,, x. 258.— 17. 
Carica L., Gen. n. 1127 (ed. 1, n. 759).— 
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