1603 





PASSIFLORA* phoenicea. 



Crimson Passion-flower. 



MONADELPHIA PENTANDRtA. 



Nat. ord. Passifloreje Juss. (Introduction to the natural system of 

 Botany, p. 148.) 



PASSIFLORA.— Suprd, vol. l.fol. 13. 



Sect. 6. Granadilla. Be Cand. mem. soc. gen. 1. part 2. p. 435. 



Prodr. 3. 327.— Anthactinia. Bory de St. Vincent am. gen. 2. 138. 



Involucrum sub flore triphyllum, foliolis integris dentatisve non laciniatis. 



Calyx 10-lobus. Pedicelli 1-flori et cirrhi simplices ex iisdem axillis. De 

 Cand. 



P. phoenicea; foliis glabris oblongis cuspidatis integris, petiolis apice bi- 

 glandulosis, stipulis lineari-lanceolatis petiolo brevioribus, bracteis cor- 

 dato-ovatis basi serratis. 



A splendid acquisition, for which we are indebted to 

 the Right Honourable the Countess of Bridgewater, in 

 whose stove at Ashridge it flowered in September 1832. 



It is nearly allied to P. alata and quadrangular is, from 



which it differs in having only two glands at the upper 



end of the leaf-stalk, and in the form of the leaves of 

 involucrum. It is also much more brilliantly coloured than 

 either of those well-known species. 



, The stem is quadrangular, about as thick as a swan's 

 quill, twining, slightly tinged with purple, extending to the 

 length of many feet. The leaves are large, bright green, 

 about 6 inches long, of an oblong figure, rather abruptly 

 Pointed ; their petiole rather more than an inch and a half 

 ^ng, with two yellow conical glands at the upper end. 

 ! ne stipulae are very narrow, taper-pointed, one-third the 







* Seefol. 1339 











