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of the third, as if one had by Art cut of the third point, refembling in this 
the Leaves of the Tulip-Tree, orthe Acets{a rotundifolia repens Eboracenfis fo- 
lio in medio deliquinm patiente Morif. The Clavicles are ftrong, and the 
Flowers very fmall, of a pale red, or flefh colour, in every thing elfe like the 
others of this Kind. The Fruit is oval, having fix red Lines on it, and 
contains {everal, long, black Seeds, each of which is inclofed in a white 
mucilaginous membrane, and plac’d as the others of this Kind. 
All the parts of this Plant are without fimell. 
jt grows on the Banks of the Rio Cobre, about, and below the Town of 
St. Jago de la Vega, and clfewhere very plentifully. | 
XVI. Flos Paffionis perfoliatus, frve periclymeni perfoliati folio. Cat. p. 104. 
PAP tne Pie 3) a: 
This Paffion Flower has a round, purple Stalk, which has at every two 
Inches diftance, asit were two Leaycs joind together on one fide by a Seam, 
on the other between two Ears, it comprehends or catches hold of the 
. Stalk, and feems co be perfoliated like the Fremch Honyfuccle. Each Section 
or Leaf is two Inches long, very fmooth, one Inch broad at Bafe where 
broadeft, having one Rib: from Bafe to end. Both Sections or Leaves 
are joind to the Stalk bya fhort, thick, crooked Foot-Stalk. Out of 
the Alu of this comes a pretty long Clavicle, which catches hold of any 
thing near it, fo rifing or crecping as the others of this Kind. ‘The Leaves 
eottie out alternatively on each fide of the Stem, where are the Flowers 
towards the top of the Stalk, having an Inch long Foot-Stalks. They are 
purple in colour, made up of five large, and as many narrow Petala, of 
about an Inches length, ftanding horizontally. It has fome ftrong, green 
Filaments, with orange colour’d tops, and a green Stylus, every way like 
the other Patiion Flowers. 
It grew ina wooddy, rocky Mountains fide in Liguanee, near-Mr. Ellet {on’s 
Plantation. 
This is not the Paffflora [caphoides, gc. Plaken. Alm. p. 282: being nei- 
ther that defcrib’d by Plamier, nor Hernandez, mention’d by him in that 
piace 
XVI. Flos pafficnis minor, folio in tres lacinias non ferratas profundius divifo, 
flore tutco. Cat. p. 104. Flos paffionis triftdo folio, flore minimo pentapetalo vi- 
ridi, fruttu winimo, wigro, molli, Breyn. prod. 2. p. 47+ Flos paffionis flore & 
frudia omnisim minimis, Par. Bat. p.177. Granadilla folio amplo tricufpidi, 
fruit olive forma. Tonrnef. El. p. 2.06. Inft. p. 240. 
This has a three orfour Inches long black Root, about the bignef§ of ones 
little Finger, throwing into the Ground feveral long Threads or Strings very 
deep. From the top of the Root, are feattered on the furface of the Ground, 
er climbing any Plant for four or five Foot high, feveral round, green, 
tough Stalks, befet alternatively at an Inches diflance with Leaves fet on oné 
third part of an Inches long Foot-Stalk, being an Inch anda quarter long, and 
about an Inch from the end of one divifion at Bafe, tothat of the other, be- 
ing divided into three parts or Sections, cut even almoft to the Foot-Stalk, 
each of the divifions having Ribs from the Foot-Stalk. They are of a dark 
green fhising colour, and {mooth. Fx «kis folorum comethe Flowers, they 
itand on three quarters of an Inch long Foot-Stalk, are very tender, and of 
a greenifh yellow colour, im every thing refembling thofe of the other Paffion 
Flowers, and after them follows the Fruit, in every thing like the others of 
this Kind, only finaller. 
Tt grows ia all 'the rocky Banks and Sides of Hills in this Hand. 
This 
