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PASSIFLORA albida. 
White long-stalked Passionflower. 
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MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. PassırLoRE®. Jussieu in ann. du mus. 6. 102. 
PASSIFLORA. Supra vol. I. fol. 13; et vol. 7. fol. 574. 
Div. Foliis indivisis. 
P. albida, foliis subrotundo-cordatis petiolo bicalloso; floribus solitariis pe- 
dunculo robusto longo aliquoties brevioribus; involuero foliaceo ante 
anthesin caduco; calycis carinis undulato-alatis ; operculo radiato; co- 
lumná inclinatà; staminibus secundis. 
Frutex alte scandens: rami teretes, pallidé virentes, glabri, supernè flo- 
riferi. Fol. distantia, intervallis longiora, membranacea, luteo-virentia, 
subrotundo-cordata, mucronata sub-5-nervia, reticulato-venosa, supra nitida, 
subtriuncialia, transverse parüm angustiora: pet. folio ter feré brevior, sulco 
supra inscriptus, rubro crebré puncticulatus, medium versús bicallosus callis late 
virentibus subrotundis approximatis cum disco glanduloso lutescente in apice : 
stipulæ gemine, tenuiter foliaceæ, erecta, subdimidiato-cordate, acuminate, 
mucronate, basi oblique rotundata, venosæ, unciä breviores, nervo longitu- 
dinali eccentrico. Pedunculi axillares, solitarii, uniflori, 6-G-unciales v. 
ultrà, pallidè virides, robusti, teretes, rigidi, articulo inter florem et invo- 
lucrum medio. Involucrum ante anthesin caducum, foliaceum, florem asti- 
tantem includens, unciale v. ultrà; foliola 3 tenuia, pallidé viridia, elliptico- 
lanceolata utrinque attenuata, subverticillata, sessilia, erecta, nunc margine 
vage glandulosa v. sapt levia, cicatrices 3 conspicuas post casum lin- 
quentia. Flos albidus, distantér radiatus, diametro triunciali v. majore, 
inodorus. CAL. : urceolus pallidissimé virens oblato-eylindraceus, limbo mul- 
totiès (4-Siesve) brevior, exsulcus, ecostatus, estriatus, subtüs intrusus ; 
limbus cAloroleucus segmentis elongato-oblongis ( sesquiuncialibus latitudine 
trilineari) obtusis, concaviusculis, cariná subvirente undulato-alatá supernè 
profundiore aristato-rostratá. Cor. calyci equalis alba tenuior mutica. Co- 
rona corolle concolor, triplo fermé brevior, patens, radiis laxiüs biseriatis, 
exterioribus filiformibus, flexis, interioribus duplo brevioribus. crassioribus 
compressis. Operculum corone concolor, radiatum, radiis stipitem lazè ob- 
vallantibus, clavatis, suprà compressis. Nectarium septulo brevi crasso 
denticulato fundum circumambiente subbicameratum, areolá columniferá 
centrali elevatá suprà marginatá. Columna corolla suba qualis, curvatus, 
inclinatus, pallidissimé virens; stipes crassitudine penne cortina, germine 
duplo longior. Germ. opacum pallidissimum, ovali-oblongum, obsolete 3-go- 
num. Stam. irregularia, inequalia, seeunda : filamenta viridia, linearia, 
punctis rubris vage picta: anth. lineari-oblonge, polline flavo. 
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An unpublished Brasilian species, found wild by Messrs. 
Cunningham and Bowie, the King's collectors, in the vici- 
nity of Rio Janeiro. Introduced into Kew Gardens in 1816, 
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