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LVI. PASSIFLORE^E. 
[Modecca. 
base of the limb very shortly decurrent on the petiole and expanded into 2 rather 
large often confluent glands. Peduncles long and slender, terminating in a rather 
strong tendril, at the base of which are a pair of small opposite pedunculate 
cymes of very small flowers, very imperfect in our specimens, but according to 
Bauer’s figure, given Joy Endlicher, presenting all the character’s of the genus ; 
the stigmas are on very short distinct styles. Capsule ovoid, inflated, about 2in. 
long, very smooth, deep red or crimson. Seeds ovate, flat, almost muricate. — 
Endl. Iconogr. t. 114, 115. 
Hab.: Thursday Island. 
2. populifolia (Poplar-shaped leaves), Blame, Bumphia i. 168, t. 50. 
A glabrous climber, extending some distance over adjoining shrubs and trees ; 
stems striate, scarcely sulcate. Leaves cordate, ovate-acute, membranous, 4 to 
Sin. long, 2 to Sin. broad near the base ; petiole about lin., with 2 apical glands. 
Peduncles rather long and slender, terminating, as in M. australis, in a rather 
strong tendril, at the base of which are a pair of small opposite pedunculate 
cymes. (No flowers on the specimens examined.) Fruit stipitate, B^in. long, 
tapering to both ends, of a rich crimson. Seeds lenticular, 3| lines diameter, 
dark-brown and deeply pitted. 
Hab.: Ranges about Trinity Bay, E. Cowley, L. J. Nuyent, and Mrs. A. Taylor. 
Also indigenous in tropical Asia. 
3. :| 'CARICA, Linn. 
(From its supposed leaf resemblance to the common fig, Ficus curica, Carian.) 
Flowers unisexual or sometimes hermaphrodite. Male flowers : Calyx small, 
5-lobed ; corolla hypocrateriform, the tube slender, elongated, lobes oblong or 
linear, valvate or contorted ; stamens 10, inserted at the throat of the corolla, 
biseriate ; anthers 2-celled ; ovary rudimentary, subulate. Female flowers : 
Calyx of the males ; petals 5, linear-oblong, erect, deciduous ; staminodia none ; 
ovary free, sessile, 1 or spuriously 5-celled ; style none or very short ; stigmas 5, 
dilated or linear, simple or lobed, ovules numerous. Berry fleshy, sulcate, pulpy 
within, indehiscent. Seeds ovoid, subcompressed ; testa coriaceous or crusta- 
ceous, smooth, rugose, or echinate. Trees or shrubs with simple thick stems and 
milky sap. Leaves alternate, subpeltate, palmate, digitately divided into 7 to 9 
lobes. — Benth. and Hook. Gen. PI. 
1. C. Papaya (original name of the fruit), Linn. Papaw. Stems simple or rarely 
branched, thick, spongy inside, the leaves about the summit, on long petioles, 
glabrous, of about 7 pinnatifid lobes. On the male plants the flowers are borne 
on long drooping panicles, with often a few hermaphrodite or female flowers at 
the end ; the flowers on the female plants are usually sessile or nearly so in the 
axils of the leaves. 
Hab.: This plant of tropical America has become naturalised in many of the scrubs of tropical 
Queensland. 
Order LVII. CUCURBITACEjE. 
Flowers usually unisexual. Calyx-tube adherent to the ovary and produced 
above it into a campanulate or tubular 5-toothed or 5-lobed free portion, which 
forms the whole calyx in the males. Petals 5, free or united in a lobed corolla, 
adnate to the free part of the calyx-tube and usually so confluent with it as to 
appear continuous with it between its teeth or lobes. Stamens 3 or 5, inserted 
on the calyx-tube below the petals, the filaments free or united ; anthers separate 
or confluent into a waved or curved mass. Ovary usually 1-celled when very 
young, either with 3 or (rarely 4 or 5) parietal placentas soon thickening and 
