BIXACEÆ. 327 
37. Kiggelaria L.'—Flowers diæcious ; receptacle shortly de- 
pressed, glandular, rather villous. Sepals 5, free, valvate 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; 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—o, 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. PAPAYEÆX. 
38. Papaya T.—Flowers diæcious, or more rarely polygamous. 
Male calyx small or very minute, 5-lobed or 5-dentate, imbricated or 
valvate. Corolla hypocrateriform ; tube elongated; lobes 5, oblong 
or linear, præfloration dextrorse (Z#papaya) or sinistrorse contorted, 
sometimes but more rarely valvate (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 (/aca- 
ralia) ; anthers erect, adnate, introrse 2-rimose; connective often 
produced beyond cells. Germen rudimentary, subulate. Calyx of 
female flower as in male. Petals 5, free, erect, contorted or val- 
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, ©-ovulate ; 
style short, presently or at the base divided into 5 lobes, dilated or 
linear, simple, sometimes 2- œ-lobed. Berry inwardly pulpous, in- 
dehiscent. Seeds c ; external coat subfleshy or suberose arilliform ; 

1 Gen., n. 1128.—J., Gen., 387.—GÆRTN., 2 Spec. 3. L., Hort. Cliff, t. 29.—JACQ, 
Fruct., i, 206, t. 44.—LamK., Dict., iii. 8365; Coll, 296; Ic. Rar., t. 628.—Hanrv. & SOND., 
IU., t. 821.— EnDx., Gen. n. 5082.— DC, Fl. Cap. i, 71.—WaLr., Ann. iv, 230; vii. 
Prodr., i. 257.—Cutos, in Ann. Se. Nat., sér. 232. 
4, viii. 267.—B. H., Gen., 130, n. 29, 
