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Pass//?ora.] lxiv. passifloee^. (M. T. Masters.) 699 



capitate or flattened. Ovules numerous, pendulous, anatropous ; funicle ei- 

 panded into a cup-shaped arillus. Fruit baccate or capsular. Seeds numerous, ' 

 ovoid or flattened, often pitted, covered with a fleshy arillus, albumen fleshy, 

 rarely scanty ; embryo straight, cotyledons flat leafy, radicle short terete.— 

 i^iSTEiB. Chiefly tropical; most numerous in South America. Genera about 

 ^U; species about 300. 



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Carica Papaya, L. The Papaw is commonly cultivated, and Is more or less natu- 

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Ikibe I. PasslfloresD. Flowet's hermaphrodite. Stamens hypogynous. 



Twining herbs or shrubs 1. Passuxora. 



iiJect shrubs 2. Paeopsia. 



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■T'wining shrubs^. Leaves simple or palmilobed, usually with glands on the 

 toder surface and on the petiole ; stipules thread-like or leafy. Flowers pedun- 

 culate ; peduncles simple or cymose. Bracteoles 3, small, scattered. Calyx-tvbe 

 neshy, limb 5-lobed. Petals 5, springing from the throat of the calyx. Corona 

 01 one or more rows of fine threads springing from the throat of the calyx-tube 

 ^m. of one or more membranous folds arising lower down. Oynoph&re sur- 

 '^ounded at the base by a shallow membranous cup or basilar corona ; filaments 

 ^j flat; anthers oblong, 2-celled, dorsifixed ; pollen grains reticulate on the sur- 

 ^?. Ovary 1-celled ; styles 3, stigmas reniformi-capitate. Fruit baccate. 

 ^eds ariUate. — Distrib. A large genus most abundant in tropical and sub- 

 Y^pical America. A few are Malayan and two Chinese. 



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^ens, and some have become more or less naturalized, as indeed in all hotter coun- 

 tries. Among these may be mentioned varieties of P.foetida anisuberosa, A form of 

 ^^^tter species was described by Wight as indigenous to Ceylon under the name of 

 ^' ^^kericB, 39 111. ii. (t. 108), but there is no reason to suppose it indigenous, 



1' P. Xiesclienaultil, DC. F^-odr. iii. 326; leaves semiorbicular trun- 

 ^te palminerved shortly 3-lobed glandless pubescent especially beneath. WalL 

 ^. 1231 ; JF.^A. Piodr. 352 ; Hook, Ic. PL t 363 ; Wiffht Jc. t. 39. 



Khasia, Pitlney and NiLOHrai Mrs. 

 . A climbing shrub. Branches slender, angular. Leaves broader than long, more or 

 iess pubescent, especially on the under surface and along the 3 nor\es, rarely 

 entirely glabrous, base rounded or cordate, apex truncately 3-lobed, lateral lobes 

 ^Pj'eading lanceolate, central lobe very small; petiole 1 in., with 2 sessile glands 

 l^elow the middle. Peduncles in pairs in the axils of the leaves, simple, longer than 

 ^® petiole; bracteoles 3, remote, linear. Flowers 2 in. diam. ; tube short, saucer- 

 ®"aped. Sepals oblong, obtuse. Petals white, equalling the sepals in length but 

 Narrower. Outer corona near the base of the tube, of two rows of linear filaments, the 

 ^^ter rather shorter than the petals, the inner much shorter ; itiner corona short, 

 'ibular. membranous, plicated, margin incurved and crisped; basilar^ corona sma,\l, 



)f the gynophore. Anthers linear. ^ 



glabrous, yellowish ; rind leathery. 



*^?{^shaped, surrounding the base of the gynophore. Anthers linear. Ovary elongat©- 

 ^^^ong. Fruit IJ by 1 in., ovoid, 



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