
          36715. CARAPA GUIANENSIS.
Collected by Dorsett, Shamel and
Popenoe in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
An Amazonian meliaceous tree with
leaves 1 1/2 feet long, used to good effect
in the Rio Botanic Garden as an avenue 
tree. It grows 50 feet high, fruit
about the size of a baseball, russet
brown. For trial in south Florida
and southern California.

CARICA CANDAMARCENSIS.
Mountain Papaya. Colombian tree,
smaller than Carica papaya; presumably
hardier, with much smaller, more angular 
fruits of too acid a flavor for
dessert, though very agreeable when
stewed; also used for jams and preserves. 
Ripe fruit has a pleasant,
apple-like odor. Introduced for test of
papain quality and for hybridization
with Carica papaya.

CARICA PAPAYA. Papaya.
Rapid growing fruit tree, reaching
twenty-five feet; in ten months bears
numerous melon-shaped fruits on its
trunk. Good varieties deliciously
sweet with characteristic flavor; relished 
as breakfast fruit. Easily digested, 
containing powerful papain ferment. 
Try as annual in northern
Florida and Texas. Easily grown in
hot-house. Both sexes required.
        