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In the natural system Passift-ora was first assorted 

 with the Capparides, or vegetables allied to the Caper- 

 plant; afterwards more correctly with the Cucurbitacea 

 or Gourd-tribe- From these, however, it has been since 

 detached by the present luminary of the science, Pro- 

 fessor de Jussieu, and forms the foundation of a separate 

 natural order to which it gives the name. The order 

 is distinguished from that of the Cucurbitacea, by being 

 furnished with stipules, by having stamens and pistil in 

 the same flower, by a germ en detached from the calyx and 

 corolla, by stamens concrete with the stipe or stalk of the 

 fruit, by anthers of a quite different conformation, distinct 

 from each other, and iixed to their li lament at the middle. 

 In the artificial system, the genus had fluctuated between 

 Gynandria and Petit andritt, but is now correctly fixed by 

 Cavanilles in Monaddphia; the filaments being connate, and 

 also below the germen, not upon it, as in a gynandrous flower. 



The fruit is a berry of the sort specified by the term pepo> 

 of which we know no closer equivalent than gourd. In 

 the West Indies it is called by the Spanish name of Gra- 

 f?adi/la, from being full of seed, as in the Granata or Pome- 

 granate. 



The species is native of Jamaica, Virginia, Carolina, and 

 Florida. Will endure our common winters planted at the 

 foot of a warm wall. The root is perennial and creeping. 

 The stem herbaceous, diffusely branched, climbing by ten- 

 drils, seldom exceeding four feet. The foliage varies much 

 in size, and when young has a minute soft pubescence on 

 the under surface, as well as the petiole, peduncle, and 

 branches. The flowers are generally in pairs, and appear 

 about August. 



In the article Passiflora holosericea (fol. 59), we have 

 in two places termed the dissepiment or partition between 

 the receptacle of the column and the nectary, by mistake, 

 " the incomplete operculum or cover." By operculum the 

 inmost membranous crown, a sort of ruffle that lies over 

 the nectary, is meant. 



The plant was introduced by Catesby in 1714. 



The drawing was made from a specimen with which Mr. 

 Edwards was favoured by Lady Aylesford, from her col- 

 lection at Stanmore. 





a Outer crown, b Inner crown, c Inmost crown or cover. dThe die* 

 tepimenl of the nectary, e An anther* j One of the styles. 



