514 BENGAL PLANTS. [Carica, 
short filaments, alternate with corolla-lobes, 5 sessile, opposite 
corolla-lobes; dehiscence introrse, connective usually prod 
Ovary reduced to a subulate process. ¢ Petals 5, free, Tinear- 
oblong, erect, deciduous, Staminodes 0. Carpels 5, connate ina 
sessile, 1-celled ovary; ovules many, several-seriate on 5 parietal 
placentas ; style short or 0, stigmas 5, linear or flattened, simple 
orlobed. Fruit a large, fleshy, somewhat furrowed, many-seeded 
berry. Seeds ovoid, with an adnate arillus ; albumen fleshy. 
858. Carica Papaya Linn. ; F. I. iii, 824; F. B. I. ii. 599; E.D. 
581. 
Generally cultivated and often subspontaneous. oii 
An erect small tree ; native of America. Vernac. Pippiya 
(from the American name). The Papaw. 
Order LXI. CUCURBITACEZ. 
Herbs or shrubs, climbing by means of solitary, lateral, spiral, 
simple or divided tendrils. Leaves alternate, petioled, often gx 
date, simple, lobed or pedately divided; stipules modified ages 0. 
Flowers regular, 1-sexual, monecious or dicecious, usually panicled, 
rarely racemose or subumbellate, often solitary, usually yellow 
white. Disk 0. Sepals united in a calyx, with tube almost always 
quite adnate to ovary ; limb rotate, campanulate, or tubular; lobes 
5, rarely 3, imbricate. Petals 5, inserted on the calyx-limb, connate 
anthers free or connate in a tube, usually one 1-celled and se 
2-celled, cells straight or flexuous or conduplicate, the connect! : 
; dehiscence dinal or in curves, follow 
horizontal, rarely 
2-seriate on 3 vert 
or by a stopple, usually 1-celled, less often spuriously soot 
seeds embedded in pulp or fibre. Seeds usually many, often 
