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PASSIFLORA alato-czrulea. 
Masters’s Hybrid Passiflora. 
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MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. PASSIFLOREE. 
PASSIFLORA. V. suprà vol. 1. fol. 13. 
P. alato-cerulea. 
d P. cerulea. 
9 P. alata. 
Caulis fruticosus, ramosus, scandens, utplurimim quadrangularis, viri- 
dis: angulis sepiús rubicundis. Folia sempervirentia, triloba, cordata, sub- 
quinquenervia, pallidé viridia, subundulata, lobis ovato-lanceolatis: inter- 
medio longiore, petiolis supra canaliculatis subtus teretibus glandulas 2-Ave, 
marginales viridi-fuscas circa medium gerentibus. Stipule auriculate, acu- 
minate, apicibus sepe mutuò trajicientibus. Flores solitarii, geminive, fo- 
liis breviores.  Involucrum triphyllum, sepalis brevius, foliolis membranaceis, 
venosis, ovatis, obtusis, basi cordatis. Calyx coriaceus, extus virescens, intus 
albidus, sepalis angustis-oblongis, carinatis, ad margines revolutis. Petala 5, 
oblonga, concava, sepalis longiora et latiora, extus albido-viridia, nitida, 
intüs pulcherrim? rubra. Corona triplex, exterior è processubus con- 
stans regularibus, subulatis, calycis longitudine basi atro-fascis, imedio 
ceruleis purpuro maculatis, apice albis; media brevis erecta apicibus pro- 
cessuum reflexis; interior annularis, incurva. Nectarium apice fimbriatum, 
basi solidum. Columna sursàm attenuata, corone exterioris longitudine. 
Filamenta compressa, obtusa, emarginata. Anthere ovate, sulcate, loculis 
sepe sepius inanibus. Ovarium ovale, obsoletè trigonum, viride.—Obs. Flores 
odorem gratum spirant. 
Many are the attempts which have been made to accli- 
matize the vegetable productions of countries warmer than 
our own, and universal has been the want of success in the 
experiment. What was denied to philosophy and perse- 
verance, appears, however, to have been granted to acci- 
dent, in the unexpected discovery, that by the admixture 
of the pollen of two distinct species, one being hardy, a 
hybrid offspring may be obtained possessing the beauty of 
the one parent and the robust constitution of the other. 
This was first observed in the curious hardy mule Passion- 
flower, raised a few years since by Mr. Milne, of Fulham, 
between P. ccrulea and P. racemosa, of which a figure and 
account have been published, in the Transactions of the Hor- 
ticultural Society, by Mr. Sabine. The fact seems to be now 
established by the production of _ beautiful variety figured 
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