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PASSIFLORA lutea. 

 Yellow Passionflower. 



MONADELPHIA PEXTAXDRIA. 



PASSIFLORA. Snprdfol. 13. 



P. lutea, foliis cordatis trilobis obtusis glabris, p< tiolis cglandulosis, pe* 

 duuculis axillaribus gemiuis, petal is calyce dtiplo angustioribus. f) Hid. 

 sp. pi. 3. 615. 



Passiiiora lutea, Lin. sp. pL 2. 1358. Jman. acad. 1. 224. t. 10./. 



]3. 3i///. dict.ed. 8. ;>. 3. Car. Air. 10. 444. t. 267 . Jtfrr/. if. 



rar. 3. t. 607. Coll. 2. 282. Michaux bor. amer. 2. 37. JPf*r*A 



twwer. sept. 2. 444. //prf. A>o?. 3. 308. «/. 2. 4. 151. 

 P. foliis trilobis cordatis a3qualibus obtusis giabris iutegenimis. Gron. 



virg. ed. 2. 140. 

 Clematis passionalis tripbyllos, flore luteo. Moris, hist. I. 7. sect. 1. t. 



Flos passionis minor, folio in tres lacinias non serratas minus profundas 

 diviso. Sloane jam. 1. 231. 



Herbacea. Radix perennis, repens ; caules plurimi, annui, ramosi, 



dm 



fy folia 



vix pedes 4 excedentes, superne 



villosi. Folia valde oblate cordata, transversim latiora, venosa, 3-nervia 9 

 truncato-triloba, lobis latis brevibus obtusius acuminatis v. rotundatis setuld 

 brevi in anice 9 medio productiore, lateralibus divaricatis obsolescent ibus : 

 petioli eglandulosi, producti: stipulae exiles. Pedunculi axil/ares, ca- 

 pillaceiy \-jlori, scepius gemini, petiolo longiores, erecto-patentes, paulo 

 infra calycem articidati. Cirrhi his laterales et intermedin. Flores erecti 

 herbaceo : flavescentes. Invol. aid Bracteae 0? Cal. extics hcrbaceus, villosius- 

 cidus, basi intrusus, stellatus, foliolis linear 'i-oblongis, oblu suits, don 



trisidcis. Cor. pet. albicantiafe 



ex pi an at a. 



Jilifc 



patent 



is; lntima (si mavis operculum j membranacea, plieata, 

 incumbens nectario. Septum annulus carnosus in fundo J/oris prominidus 

 distinguens receptaculum columnae d nectario. Fil. superne I _ nice mem* 



' anth. linear i-oblongce, jlavce. Germ, viride, glabmm, 

 elliptico-irigonum : rtyli saturate virides. Bacca v. Pepo rotunda, vix piso 

 major. 



The present species, and the quadravgularis already < 

 in the fourteenth article of this work, are, we suspect 

 emplifications of nearly the extremes of size in the 

 of this genus. Probably likewise of the fruit, which 



flo 



of a pea, in the 



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