Ord. papayacea 



1. C A RICA, Linn. 



1. Carica Papaya, Linn. 



Hab. Tahiti; on Point Venus. Cultivated in the Society, as also 

 in the Samoan, Tonga, Feejee, and Sandwich Islands; where the 

 fruit of the Papau is a favourite esculent. 



2. Carica candicans, Sp. Nov. 



G. caule parce ramoso ; foliis ovatis subcordatis integris nunc repandis 

 vel angulato-dentatis e basi trinerviis sabtus adpresse cano-tomentosis. 



Hab. Peru : in ravines of the Amancaes Mountains, between Lima 

 and Obrajillo. 



" Trunk a foot in diameter, 6 to 10 feet high, with a few coarse 

 branches: leaves entire, white-tomentose beneathr — Pickering, Ms. 

 This is very different from any Carica published or known in the 

 herbaria I have consulted ; unless it should prove to be a state of C. 

 pyriformis, Willd. (but not of Hook. & Arn. and Gay), founded on 

 the Papaya ramosa, etc. of Feuillee, which he found in a garden at 

 Lima ; but which has palmately nine-parted leaves, and there is no 

 mention of pubescence or wool on their lower surface. The leaves of 

 our plant are ovate or ovate-rotund, with a usually slight subcordate 

 base, and an obtuse or pointed apex, the margin entire or merely 

 repaid, or in a single and oblong leaf sinuately-dentate into 3 or 4 



