uncialis, viridis rulro-maculosus^ inferne pentagonus, superne teres. Fil. pro 

 longitudine antherarum discrete, recurvo-patentia, vtridiusculoy ligulatay 

 nervo medio intus prominulo: anth. lineari-oblongee, mridi-lutescentes. 

 Germ, oblongum, obsolete trilobum, viridescens, glabrtinij opacum: styli 

 xnridiuscidi, clavaHf recttrvati, primb subiongiores germine : Htigmatsk subpul^ 

 vinato-orbicularia. 



This fine species blossomed, we believe, for the first 

 time in our country, at the nursery of Messrs. Loddiges, 

 Hackney, and has been already figured in the " Botanical 

 Cabinet," a work edited by those ingenious and industrious 

 horticulturists to record the rare and curious plants which 

 flower in that extensive collection. It was there that we 

 had the opportunity of taking the present drawing from a 

 sample cultivated in a hothouse where the use of tan has 

 been discontinued, and its agency supplied by the introduc- 

 tion of steam. 



The plant is indigenous of the Brasils, and was observed 

 by the late Mr. E. J. A. Woodford growing wild in the shade 

 of the woods, near the shore, at the distance of about a 

 league from the city of Rio Janeiro. By this gentleman it 

 was brought to Lisbon, (cultivated there, and through his 

 means communicated to Professor Brotero, by whom a 

 drawing and description of it were transmitted to the ^^in- 

 nean Society of London, both of which appear in the twelfth 

 volume of the Transactions of that body. The species is 

 distinguishable among the others by the long leafless racemes, 

 that terminate the branches, and which have procured it 

 the name of Martyrio cachudo (bunch-flowered Passionflower) 

 among the Brasilian colonists- At some points it approaches 

 to Passiflora adiantifolia y of the 233d article of tMs publi- 

 cation. In its own country it blossoms in November and 

 December, producing usually two stems from the same 

 stock , one of which proves fertile, and is without leaves while 

 60 ; the other remains barren and in leaf, becoming fertile in 

 its turn the ensuing season. 



Perennial. Stem round, smooth, dividing into slender 

 high-climbing branches, flowerbearing ones pendulous and 

 deprived of leaves for some distance below the inflorescence, 

 having in their places only stipules and tendrils. Leaves 3-4 

 inches long, substantial and subcoriaceous, smooth, deep 

 green, some of the lowermost and uppermost entire and ob- 



longly ovate, the rest obiately cordate and three-Iobed, lobes 



