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PASSIFLORA peltata. 
Peltate Passionflower. 
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MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. PassirLoRER. Jussieu in ann. mus, 6, 102. 
PASSIFLORA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 13. 
Div. (Ebracteate: apetale). Foliis trilobis. . 
PP. peltata foliis peltatis profunde trilobis glabris, lobis lineari-lanceolatis di- 
varicatis, petiolis biglandulosis, floribus apetalis. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 
152. 
Passiflora peltata. Cavan. diss. 10. 447. t. 274. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 617. 
Passiflora hederacea; y. Lamarck encyc. 3. 88. n. 22. 
Grenadilla folio angusto tricuspidi, fruetà olivaformi. Tournef. inst. 240. 
Clematis indica, folio angusto trifido, fructü olivaformi. Plum. amer. 70. t. 
85. 
Fruticosa, depilis, caule infern? suberoso-corticato ind? ramisque fusco- 
rubentibus subque lente puncticulis flavis crebrè aspersis. Fol. peltata, sub- 
coriacea, obscuro-viridia, 3-nervia, nitida, margine subdeflexa linedque fuscá 
tenui circumscripta ; superiora majora palmato-triloba, lobis distantibus ad pe- 
fiolum fer? usque discretis elongato-lanceolatis, medio submajore 3-4-unciali; 
inferiora minora, brevitis divisa lobis ovato-acuminatis: pet. Levee subunciales, 
ad medium circa urceolato-biglandulosi: stipule erecte, plano-subulate: 
cirthi azillares, nunc flores intereipientes. Flores apetali absque omni bracted 
vel involucro, chloroleuci, inodori, gemir, sillares, ia fare ires gre fom 
iunciali: pedunc. fusco-purpureus, filiformis, duplo ferà brevior gracilior- 
que petiole pauld supra modium ars indègue crassior. Invol. 0. 
Cal. stellato-partitus disco plano subtùs subintruso atque decem-toroso: seg- 
menta distantia, recurvo-patentia, è basi latá lineari-attendata, firmula, 
obtusula. Cor. 0. Corona duplex bis ferm? brevior limbo calycis; radii nu- 
merosi, exteriores viridi-lutescentes lineolis fuscis paucis maculati, elongato- 
teretes, obtusi: interiores alterni capillares, longitudine tantüm operculi, 
Susco-purpurei, albo variegati obtusi: operculum plicatum purpurá varium; 
nectarium simplex planum: septo interiori brevi erecto, crasso, margine prui- 
Roso, nigroque-maculato. Pist. calycem aquans: stipes teres coronam subexce- 
dens pallidus lineolis interruptis is punctatus: fil. ligulata, pallida, antheris 
oblongis viridibus longiora. Germ. ellipticum glabrum viride: styli cum 
stigmatibus clavati, virides, longiores germine ; stig. subgloboso-conveza. 
"This pretty species is seldom seen in flower in our col- 
lections; nor has it been figured in any of the popular 
publications. It comes near to suberosa, and, like that, has 
neither involucre or bractes, nor petals, but differs, besides 
in having the upper leaves more deeply divided, by all the 
leaves being peltate, that is, with petioles inserted within 
the disk and not at the edge as there, and by flowers with 
twice the circumference of those of the other. But it comes 
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