386 LXI, PASSIFLOREE. [Passiflora 
6. PASSIFLORA L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. p. 810. 
1. P. edulis Sims, Bot. Mag. tab. 1989 (1818). 
MossaMEDES.—Cultivated under the name of “Maracuja roxo” of 
St. Helena, whence it is supposed to have been imported ; fruit of the 
size of a pigeon’s egg ($ by $ in. when dry), containing a very sweet 
pulp. It serves to furnish an excellent lemonade for use in fevers, etc. 
Determination doubtful. Cox. Carp. 594. 
2. P. quadrangularis L. Syst. Nat., edit. 10 (ii.) p. 1248 (1759), 
IstanpD oF St. THomas.—Called “Maracuja”; fr. Dec. 1860. 
Coy. Carp. 954. 
Princr’s Istanp.—Called ‘“Grenadilla”; fr. Sept, 1853. Cox. 
Carp. 592. 
This species is cultivated in the islands above-mentioned for the 
sake of its fruits, which Welwitsch found agreeable, sweet, and rather 
acid ; they are egg-shaped and as large as a man’s fist, and deserve to 
be cultivated throughout Angola. 
Both of these species of Passiflora are of tropical American origin. 
According to a manuscript note of Welwitsch, P. macrocarpa Masters 
in Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1869, p. 1012, occurs as a cultivated plant 
in Angola. 
LXII. CARICACE#. 
1, CARICA L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. p. 815. 
1. C. Papaya L. Sp. PL, edit. 1, p. 1036 (1753) ; Welw. Apont. 
p. 556, n. 128. Papaya vulgaris DC. in Lam. Encycl. Méth. v. 
p- 2 (1804) ; Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, p, 185 (1884). 
Gotuneo ALTO.—In secondary woods and in thickets about the sites 
of deserted dwellings. Cultivated and subspontaneous. At Sange; 
fi. Jan. 1855. No. 802. 
This is a beautiful tree, and has a very peculiar appearance, with its 
erect and undivided trunk, large leaves grouped in a terminal fascicle, 
and pendulous fruits of the size of a small melon ; it is of American 
origin, and is one of the plants which the Portuguese have distributed 
in the tropics and introduced for cultivation in Africa and Asia. It is 
fairly frequent in Angola and the Cape de Verde Islands. The tree is 
called by the Portuguese colonists ‘‘Mamoeiro” and the fruit “‘Mamio” 
or sometimes ‘‘ Papaya” ; the fruit is eaten raw when ripe or dressed 
when unripe and cooked in many ways for the table, and eaten with 
cream or pepper or sugar as confectionery, or as sauce; and it is of 
true economic importance in some of the Portuguese colonies, as, for 
instance, in St. Antonio, Cape de Verde Islands, where it enters largely 
into the food of the island. The tree is frequent throughout the 
mountain region of Angola, both cultivated and wild, and produces 
fruit nearly all the year; but it is rarely met with either in the 
coast or highland regions, and it does not grow wild there ; it is 
found in the warmer districts, in Icolo e Bengo, Cazengo, Golungo 
Alto, Cambambe, Benguella, etc. Welwitsch first saw it wild in 
secondary woods at Mongolo, not far from the river Chixe, in Oct. 
1854. The trunk attains 10 to 20 ft. in height and then branches ; 
beside its culinary uses the fruit has medicinal qualities. In a 
favourable climate it bears fruit at the end of the second year, but 
ordinarily not until the third or fourth year ; it is met with both 
as moncecious and dicecious; the trunk occasionally branches especially 
when mutilated near the top. 
