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with leafy cotyledons, the radicle next the hilum.—Climbers or 
rarely erect shrubs or trees, with alternate, simple, or divided leaves 
and stipules. Flowers solitary or in cymes or racemes, axillary, 
Tendrils axillary, often accompanying or terminating the peduncles, 
or none. 
CARICA, L. 
Flowers unisexual and sometimes hermaphrodite, the males and 
females dissimilar. Calyx very small, 5-lobed. Corolla of the 
males salver-shaped, with a slender elongate tube, in the females 
without tube and the lobes erect and deciduous. Stamens 10, 
inserted on the throat of the corolla, 5 of them alternating with 
short filaments, the others opposite the corolla-lobes and sessile ; 
anthers adnate to the filament, erect, the connective often shortly 
produced. Ovary in the males reduced to a subulate rudiment, in 
the females free, sessile, 1- or spuriously 5-celled, with numerous 
(rarely few) ovules attached in two rows to the 5 placentas ; style 
very short or none, terminated by 5 simple or lobed stigmas. Berry 
large, fleshy, many-seeded. Seeds with a mucous firmly adhering 
arillus, the testa smooth, wrinkled or echinate. Albumen fleshy.— 
Trees or shrubs, abounding in milky-juice, with alternate, large, 
palmate or rarely digitate-foliolate leaves. Stipulesnone. Racemes 
or panicles often peduncled, axillary, without bracts. 
1. C. papaya, L.; Brand. For. Fl. 244.—Thimbaw.—An ever- 
green glabrous tree (20—25+16—20+ 1—3), with a cylindrical 
naked stem forked-branched at the summit, and bearing there — 
numerous crowded, large, long-petioled leaves ; leaves on 14-24 ft. 
