CARICACANDAMARCENSIS. 



Mountain Papaya. Colombian tree, 

 smaller than Caricapapaya; presumably 

 hardier, with much smaller, more an- 

 gular fruits of too acid a flavor for 

 dessert, though very agreeable when 

 stewed: also used for jams and pre- 

 serves. 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; rel- 

 ished as breakfast fruit. Easily digest- 

 ed, containing powerful papain fer- 

 ment. Try as annual in northern 

 Florida and Texas. Easily grown in 

 hot-house. Both sexes required. 



CARISSA GRANDIFLORA. 



South African Amatungulu. A hand- 

 some apocynaceous spiny shrub with 

 glossy green leaves, white fragrant 

 flowers and ovoid scarlet fruits an 

 inch long. Useful home garden fruit 

 with a flavor when stewed peculiarly 

 like that of cranberries. Fruit may 

 be dried like prunes. A most attract- 

 ive evergreen hedge plant. Stands 

 clipping well and spines make it quite 

 impenetrable. 



