Papaya 



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Fig. 652. — Papaya, Florida. 



and enlarged at the base. The yellow flowers appear at any season; usually the 

 different kinds are on separate trees, seldom on the same tree; the staminate are 

 in slender panicles i to 3 dm. long, and fragrant; the calyx is i to 1.5 mm. long; 

 the corolla is salverform, 2.3 to 3 cm. long, the tube slender, dilated near the top, 

 the lobes lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, scarcely as long as the tube; rudimentary 

 ovar}', if present, short, awl-shaped. The pistillate flowers are in i-to 3-flowered 

 short-stalked cymes; the calyx is 3 to 6 mm. high, persistent; corolla of distinct 



