PAPAYACEiE FLACOURTIACK^. 83 



Carica, L. {Spreng. syst. 3, p. 895, No, 3190;— fF. and A. pr. \.p, 325.) 

 1. Papaya, L. (Spreng. o. c. p. 905 ; — Roxb. fl. ind. 3, p. 824 ; — W. and 



A. I. c.;—J. Grah. Cat. B. pi. p. 80 ;— B. Reg. 6. t. 459. {male) ;— 



B. M. 56. t. 2898-9 ;— Wight, ill. 2, t. 106-7 .—Rheed. 1, ^ 15. /. 1, 

 (male,) and 2 (female). — Rumph. 1, t. 50.) C'lf^lirl Pepiya. b. S. 

 America. Domesticated in India. Fl. middle-sized, pale yellow, fra- 

 grant ; and fr. nearly the whole year. — Trees about Serampore either 

 straight and without branches like a palm, or branched. Leaves 

 employed by the negroes in the W. Indies to wash their linen, 

 instead of soap. Fruit, when unripe, used in curries by the Natives, 

 also pickled, and made into a preserve ; — when ripe, the soft, yellow 

 pulp, which is very delicious to many, is eaten' without the addition 

 of pepper and sugar, as in the W. Indies. It is certainly wholesome, 

 more especially when some of the olive-coloured, pungent, caper-like 

 seeds are partaken of at the same time. Juice of the pulp employed 

 in the W. Indies against freckles, of the unripe fruit as an efficient 

 vermifuge. " The tree has, moreover, the singular property of ren- 

 dering the toughest animal substances tender, by causing a separation 

 of the muscular fibre ; its very vapour even does this ; newly-killed 

 meat suspended among the leaves, and even old hogs and old poultry, 

 when fed on the leaves and fruit, become tender in a few hours. — A 

 principal constituent of the juice of the unripe fruit is fibrine, a prin- 

 ciple otherwise supposed peculiar to the animal kingdom and to 

 fungi." (Lindl.) 



* C. citriformis, Jacq. //; B. M. 65. t. 3133. b Guiana. 



ORDER XLVII.—FLACOURTIACE^.— Lindl. Nat. Syst. p. 70. 

 Bennet in Horsf. pi. jav. rar. 2, p. 189-190 



Shrubs or small trees, forming 10-13 genera, Flacourtia, Phoberos, 

 Roumea. Banara, Zylosma, Prockia, Thiodia, Aphloia, Azara, Echino- 

 carpus, Trichospermum, Ludia ? Laetia .'' from Madagascar ; Guinea ; 

 Africa ; Mauritius ; New Holland ; S. America. Fifteen species are from 

 the E. Indies. Of those which inhabit Nepal, the Neelgherries, Java, 

 Sumatra and the Moluccas, 9 belong to Flacourtia; and 9 to Phoberos. 

 — Properties nearly unknown. 

 Flacourtia, L'Herit. (DC. pr. \. p. 256; — W. and A. pr. I, p. 29.) 



1. Ramontchi, L'Herit. (DC /. c. j — W. and A. I. c. ; — Roxb. /?. ind. 3, 

 p. 834 ;— Wight, icon. J, /. 85 ;— /. Grah. Cat. B. pi. p. 10.) 5 Ma- 

 dagascar. Introduced into H. C. G. Fl. ? 



2. sapida, Roxb. (Carom. 1. t. G9 ■,—fl. ind. 3. p. 835 ;— DC. pr. 1, 

 p. 256;— »'. and A. pr. 1, p. 29;—/. Grah. Cat. B. pi. p. 10.) 

 f^^5 Booinch. B Peninsula of India. Bengal, (Serampore,) Hindoos- 



