. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 710 Papaya linear-lanceolate, erect petals 2 to cm. long, twisted in the bud; the ovary is ovoid, bluntly 5-angled. The perfect flowers have a tubular-bellshaped, corolla, its lobes erect, and usuaUy 5 stamens; ovary obovoid or oblong. The fruit is a large berry, oblong to subglobose, 2 to 12 cm. long, short-pointed at the apex, yel- lowish or orange-colored, the skin thick, closely adhering to the firm flesh, sweetly
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 710 Papaya linear-lanceolate, erect petals 2 to cm. long, twisted in the bud; the ovary is ovoid, bluntly 5-angled. The perfect flowers have a tubular-bellshaped, corolla, its lobes erect, and usuaUy 5 stamens; ovary obovoid or oblong. The fruit is a large berry, oblong to subglobose, 2 to 12 cm. long, short-pointed at the apex, yel- lowish or orange-colored, the skin thick, closely adhering to the firm flesh, sweetly insipid, enclosing a mass of numerous black, round, rough seeds each about 4 mm. long. It is largely cultivated in the tropics for its fruit, improved forms yielding very large sweet kinds. In Florida two varieties are growing wild, one with slender green stems, producing small fruit, the other has stout, purplish stems, and yields a large Fig. 653. — Papaya. The Papaya is useful in many ways; various parts of the plant have been used medicinally for many human ailments. The juice will remove warts and cleanse wounds. The leaves are used as soap and tough meat is packed in them to make it tender. The active principle, an enzyme of the milky juice, papain, is a gray- ish white powder, which has been used in scientific medicine as a digestive agent similar to pepsin, and to dissolve the membranes in diphtheria. The genus consists of about 21 species, all tropical American plants very similar to the Papaya, which is the type of the genus. The name Papaya is the old Carib one; the generic name refers to the supposed resemblance of the fruit to figs. The wood is soft and spongy and of no known Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Shafer, John Adolph.
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