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internal application is said to be a cure for tænia, and other intestinal 
worms. It is bitter without acridity, and is so rich in albuminous sub- 
stances, that Vauquerin' compares it to blood deprived of its colouring 
matter. The pulverized seeds have also vermicidal qualities ; which 
may perhaps be explained by their containing the same milky juice 
as the other organs. It is said that a few drops of this latex in 
water will give it the property of rapidly making meat tender when 
too fresh, or the animal too old; and that the same result is 
obtained by wrapping the meat during one night in a leaf of the 
Papaya.  Wicur has remarked, that the seed, when masticated, has 
the flavour of the nasturtium. The root has the smell of dried 
The negroes make gutters of the stem to receive the rain 
The pulp of the ripe fruit, 
radishes. 
water, and use the leaves to soap linen. 
employed as a cosmetic, is said to remove sunburn. In the 
Moluccas confections are made of the male flower. Another 
species of the same genus, P. digifa/a,? of northern Brazil, is consi- 
dered a deadly poison, as terrible, it is said, as the Upas of Java. 
Its latex burns the skin that comes in contact with it, and produces 
blisters. The male flowers have a repulsive excremental odour. 
The fruit is inodorous and insipid; but most animals refuse to 
touch it. 
On the contrary, the fruits of Papaya cauliflora dodecaphylla,' 
Mamaya, microcarpa nana, and pyriformis,’ are said to be edible. 
P. quercifolia’ (figs. 337, 338), is the Jacamatchiha of the Guaranis 
Indians. The fruit of several Oncobas is also edible; the inner 
pulp of that of O. spinosa’ is also eaten. In Macourtia the entire 
berry is fleshy and edible, especially in /. sapida,” sepiaria," 1ner- 

1 In Ann. Chim., xliii. 271. 
2 Carica digitata Parr. & ENDz, Nov. Gen. 
et Spec., ii. 260.—Jacaratia spinosa, var. di- 
gitata A. DC., Prodr., loc. cit., 419, n. 1 (vulg. 
Chamburu). 
3 Porr., Dict., Suppl., iv. 296.— Carica cau- 
liflora Jacg., Hort, Schenbr., iii, 33, t, 311.— 
Vasconcellea cauliflora A. DC., Prodr., loc, cit., 
Alyn ale 
4 Carica dodecaphylla Vutt., Fl. Flum., x. 
t. 132.—Jacaratia dodecaphylla A. DC. 
Prodr., 420, n. 3. 
$ Porr., Dict., Suppl., iv. 296.—Carica mi- 
crocarpa JACQ., Hort, Schenbr., iii. t. 809, 310, 
— Vasconcellea microcarpa A. DC., Prodr., 
418, n. 13. 
$ A. DC., Prodr., 415, n. 3.—Carica nana 
Bentu., Pl. Hartweg., 288. 
VOL. IV. 
7 Carica pyriformis Hoox. & ARN., in Bot. 
Mise., iii. 325 (nee W.).—C. Gay, Fl. Chil, ii. 
413, t. 25.—Vasconcella chilensis Pu., in Ann. 
Se. Nat., sér. 4, ii. 259. 
8 Vasconcella quercifulia A. S. H., Deux. 
Mém. Réséd., 12.—A. DC., Prodr., 416, n. 5 
(vulg. Umbuzeiro à Rio-Grande do Sul). 
9 Forsk., Ægypt.-Arab., 103.—LamMK., Il. 
t: 471.—A. Ricu., Fl. Sen. Tent., i. 32, t. 10.— 
Ox1v., Fl. Trop. Afr., i. 115.—O. monacantha 
STEUD.— Lundia monacantha ScHuM.& THONN., 
Beskr., 231, 
10 Roxs., Pl. Corom., i. 49, t. 69; Fl. Ind., 
iii, 834.—DC., Prodr., i. 256, n. 2—Wieur & 
ARN., Prodr., 29.—Bu., Bijdr., i. 55.—Ctos, in 

* Ann. Sc. Nat., sér. 4, vii. n. 7. 
1 Roxs., loc. cit., 48, t. 68.—DC., Prodr., n. 
4,—CLos, loc. cit., n. 6. 
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