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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
N. 0. PASSIFL0R.ZE. 
522. Gariea Papaya, Linn : h.f.b.i., ii. 599. 
Roxb. 736. 
Eng : — The Papaw or Papaya Tree. 
Vern: — Pappiyh, pepiya (B.); Papaya, papiya-amba, 
popaiyah (H.) ; Arand-kharbuza, kharbuza (Pb.); Popai (Duk.); 
Papai, papaya (Mar., Cutch and Bomb.); Paputa, katba chibhado 
(Sind) ; Papia, papayi, kath, chibda, eranda kakdi (Guz.) ; 
Pappayi, pappali (Tam.); Bappayi orboppayi, madana-anapakdya 
(Tel.) ; Perangi, perinji (Kan.) ; Pappaya (Mai.). 
Habitat ■— Cultivated in gardens throughout India. 
Introduced from South America. A small, fast-growing 
tree, usually unbranched, with milky juice. Bark thin, fleshy 
within, papery outside. Wood soft, consisting of an outer ring 
of fibrous wood bundles surrounding a large central mass of 
cellular pith' tissue. In the wood ring the bundles are wedge- 
shaped, crossed ladder-like at intervals by bars in which the 
rather small pores are found. Between the bundles comes the 
rather indistinct soft medullary rays on the vertical outer 
surface of the wood circle ; the ends of the bundles form a dia- 
mond, shaped network (Gamble). Leaves glabrous, palmatifid- 
12-24in. across, on long hollow petioles, forming a round 
tuft at the top of the stem. Stipules 0. Male flowers pale- 
yellow, fragrant, in long, drooping axillary panicles, generally 
dioecious, but occasionally there are a few hermaphrodite flowers 
•on a male plant. Female flowers in short clusters. Calyx 
small, 5-lobed. Corolla-male: — tubular, 5-lobed ; Female: — of 
5 tincar deciduous petals. Stamens 10, inserted in two rows 
in the mouth of the Corolla. Ovary free, ovules numerous, 
attached to -pariea) Placentas. Fruit indehiscent, fleshy, 
sulcate. Seeds black, numerous, embedded in sweet pulp, the 
testa consisting of an inner hard, and an outer soft, larger. 
Embryo straight ; cotyledons flat, in oily albumen. 
Uses : — Used in cases of enlarged spleen. The juice esteem- 
ed good for ringworm and also vermifuge (Lindley). The 
seeds are also considered vermifuge (O’Shaughnessy). 
