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PASSIFLORA cerulea. 
Common Passionflower. 
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MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. PASSIFLOREE, Jussieu in ann. du musée. 6. 102, 
PASSIFLORA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 13. 
Div. Foliis multifidis, 
P. cerulea, foliis palmatis quinquepartitis integerrimis, petiolis glandulosis, 
involucro triphyllo integerrimo, filis coronze corollà brevioribus. Willd. sp. 
pl. 3. 623. 
Passiflora cerulea. «Linn. sp. pl. ed. 2. 2.1360. Amen. acad. 1. 231. Fg. 
20. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 2. Lamarck encyc. 8. 39. Cavan. diss. 10. 
461.1. 295. Curtis's magaz, 28. Miss Lawrance's Passionft. Willd. 
enum. 2. 6%. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, 4, 154. 
Granadilla ‘pentaphyllos, flore cxruleo magno. Duham. arb, 1. 272. tab. 
107. 
Clematis quinquefolia americana s. Flos Passionis. Rob. ic. 
We have availed ourselves for the present article of a 
drawing of this favourite flower, made some years ago 
by Mr. Sydenham Edwards, for an engraving intended to 
be distributed amongst his friends, it appearing to us the 
best representation of the subject to be found in any work of 
this nature. i 
Cerulea, the Brazilian species, though now the com- 
monest of all exotic climbers in use for ornament, is of 
considerably later introduction than incarnata, the only 
other plant of the genus that will live with us in the open 
air; the earliest notice of the first in this country dating 
from about 1699, of the latter from as far back as 1629. 
The plant by which the type of this curiously configured 
genus made its first appearance in the south of Europe, 
some few years before any one had reached our country, we 
are persuaded from the contemporary figures done in Italy, 
was that which forms the 152d article of this publication, 
and belongs to South America, whence it was brought to 
Naples by a Spanish Viceroy on his return from Peru, The 
one which first appeared in our gardens, on the other hand, 
we believe to have been the North American plant of the 
332d article of this work. We shall not dispute the pro- 
priety of discriminating the two in the way they have been 
