514 LXIII, PASSIFLOREH (MASTERS). [ Modecea. 
central lobule ovate, acuminate, contracted at the base so as to form a 
wide sinus. Petioles lin. or more in length, cylindrical, channelled 
on the upper surface, and with two roundish sessile glands at the 
junction with the lamina. Stipules minute, subulate. Peduncle axil- 
lary, as long as or longer than the petiole, dividing at the upper Vike: 
into a branched tendril, some of the divisions of which bear flowers. 
Male f.: Calyx about 1 in. long, orange-red, funnel-shaped, with 
a long tube divided above into 5 linear-lanceolate or oblong, many- 
nerved lobes. Petals 5, membranous, linear-oblong, attached below 
the middle of the tube, shorter and narrower than the calyx-lobes. 
Corona a membranous ring fimbriated at the free edge, projecting from 
the sides of the tube near the base, and sending inwards a connective 
process to each side of the filaments, thus forming a series of pouches. 
Stamens 5, springing from the base of the tube, equal to the petals; 
filaments flattened, dilated at the base where they are connected 
together into a short membranous tube, and confluent on either side 
with the processes from the corona; anthers shorter than the fil 
ments, linear, erect, sagittate at the base, obtuse, muticous, 2-celled, 
dehiscing laterally by two longitudinal chinks. Rudiment of the pistil 
minute, styliform. Hegale fl.: Rather smaller than the male. Calyx 
and petals as in the male, but smaller. Corona a thickened tuberculate 
rim projecting from the tube below the centre. Filaments subulate, 
membranous, connected into a tube at the base; anthers none. Ovary 
re vin ? Capsule stipitate (stipes 1 in. or more long, girt by the 
remains of the flower), oval, 2-21 in. long, dividing into 3 leathery, 
smooth, yellowish valves; seeds eee | ovoid; testa tubercled. 
Lower Guinea. Angola district, Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welwitsch! 
3. M. trisecta, Mast. A herb with a thick perennial rootstock 
(Welwitsch). Branches elongate, climbing, slender, terete, sulcate- 
striate. Leaves membranous, 2 in. long, rather less wide, deeply 
palmately 5-lobed, lobes oblong-lanceolate, tapering at the base 
repand-dentate, occasionally slightly lobulate, central lobe longest, 
petiolulate. Petiole 14 in. long, terete, with two large sessile glands 
at the junction with the blade. Tendrils thickened at the extremity. 
Stipules 4 in. long, subulate ; peduncle longer than the leaf-stalk, 
cymosely divided at the upper end. Male z. 4-3 in. long, com 
sot Calyx 5-lobed; lobes oblong, shorter than the tube. 
etals shorter than the calyx-lobes, membranous, oblong, dilated af 
the base, 3-nerved; corona none. Filaments membranous, connate 
at the base into a shallow tube ; anthers linear-oblong, erect, apiculate, 
shorter than the filaments.  Pistil rudimentary. Female fi.: Frut 
shortly stalked, subglobose, the size of a bantam’s egg, capsular, a 
valved; valves leathery, smooth, reddish; seeds ovoid, compress"? 
testa tuberculate. : 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welwitsch! 
4. M. abyssinica, Hochst. ex Rich. Flor. Abyss. i. 297. Stem sub- 
arborescent, branches elongate, twining, tendril-bearing, glabrous, 
