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EXPLAl^ATION OF PLATE IV. 
Fig. 1. CAmcK papaya. Papaw-tree. (F'amily unknown.)* The name carica 13 
from Caria, where the tree was first cultivated. DicEcious. 20 feet hi^h. It is a native 
of the East and West Indies and Guinea— Fig. 1. A fertile plant. Trunk very simple, 
vertical, cylindric, marked with cicatrices produced by the fall of leaves. Leaves ter- 
mi;ial, large, seven-lobed, petioled. Petioles two or three feet long. Flowers grow at 
tho base of the petioles. Berries large, furrowed, depressed in the centre. The green 
fruit is eaten by the Indians in the same manner as we use the turnip. The buds are 
usod for sweetmeats. The ripe fruit is eaten for a dessert, like rnelons. 
Fig. 2. Crescentia cujete. Calabash-tree. A tree 16 feet in height; native of 
Soutli America and the West Indies. Trunk thick. Branches horizontal or reflexed. 
Leaves fasciculate, obovate, cruciform, fascicles alternate. Flowers rameus, son)etimea 
caiiline, solitary. Calyx campaiiulate, bi-lobed. Corolla large, sub-cainpanu!ate. 
Be Ties large, resembling the pumpkin in figure ; the epicarp cortical, like that of the 
go ird. 
Ji'ig. 3. Vanilla arovtath-a. (Family of the Orchidecc.) This plant is somelims3 
ca led Epidendron vanilla, the generic name being derived from e/n, upon, and devdron, 
a tree, because the plant grows parasitically on the trunks and branches of trees. It 
is perennial, climbing, parasitic; a native of South America. Stems cylindric; flow- 
ers ramose, producing roots at every joint, which fasten themselves to the bark of trees. 
Le ives alternate, oval, oblong, acute, thick. Flowers in terminal spikes, which are 
laj and pendent. Perianth simple, six-lobed. Capsule fusiform, containing small 
bis ck seeds which have an aromatic taste and fragrant smell ; they are used as per- 
fu! les. This plant belongs to Gynandria Monandria. 
J "ig. 4. Nepenthes distillatoria. (Family unknown. )+ A perennial plant of the 
Indies. Stem simple, with leaves towards the base. Leaves alternate, large, oval, 
larceolate, contracting at the base into petiole.s which are senu-amplexicaulis, and 
lerninated at the summit by a tendril which supports an ascidium ; this is cylindric, 
atjil furnished with an operculum which opens and shuts according to the state of the 
at! losphere. Flowers terminal, panicled. 
] 'ig. 5. Sempep.vivum Icrtorum. House-leek tribe.t The generic name is derived 
fron the I-atin, semper, always, vivire, to live, and the specific name from tectum, 
house. This is a perennial, herbaceous plant, which grows to the h*;ight of sixteen 
inc ties. The stem is simple, vertical, foliated. Leaves suc(;ulent, oblong, alternate ; 
rac ical leaves cordate. Flowers in close panicles. Polyandria Polygynia. 
I'ig. 6. Panicum italicum. (Family of the Grasses.) An herbaceous, annual 
plsnt, two feet in height, a native of India. Cutm erect. Leaves elongate, lanceolate, 
sheathing. Spike elongated, compontuh^d of numerous spikelets. 
I'ig. 7. Clathrus cancellatns. Mushroom. (Family of the Fungi.) A, young 
~'lant enclosed in its volva. /?, another more advanced; a, volva ruptured ; b, peri- 
dium beginning to appear. C, a plant entirely developed. The periuium is glohulai 
and cancellated. 
* Lindlcy form.s of this a Hi.'<tinct famity, c.n)hd ParayaceeE. He considers it as allied to ihi' Pa-tsioo- 
flower tribe, in its fniit ; and to the Fig tribe, in rhe .separation of stamens and pistus, and in iis milky jiutse, 
which resembles that found in some species of Ficiis. 
1 Formed by Lindley into a new family, Ne'P''ntheai. .1 
I Belongiiif to tlie (irassulaceiE ot Lindley ; allied to the Cacti and Euphorbias. 
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