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Passiflora Actinia. Sea-Anemone 

 Passion-Flower. 



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Class and Order. 



MONADELPHIA PeNTANDRIA. 



( Nat. Ord. — Passiflore^;. ) 



Generic Character. 



Calycis tubus brevissimus^Mx corona filamentosa multi- 

 plici ornata. Bacca saepius pulposa, rarius submembra- 

 nacea. D C. 



Specific Name and Character. 



Passiflora Actinia ; scandens, foliis integerrimis ovatis ob- 

 tusis emarginatis subtus glaucis, petiolis pluri-glan- 

 dulosis, pedicellis solitariis axillaribus, involucri sub 

 flore triphylli foliolis ovato-cordatis acutis integerri- 

 mis, sepalis petalisque oblongis coronam filamentosam 

 subaequantibus. 



I can nowhere find the description of any Passion- Flower 

 which accords with this, and which was sent last year from 

 the Organ Mountains of Brazil to Mr. Veitch of Exeter, by 

 his Collector, Mr. Lobb. It produced its handsome, and 

 highly fragrant blossoms; first, in November, 1842, and 

 again, more profusely, in February of the present year : on 

 both which occasions, the plant was exhibited at the meet- 

 ings of the Horticultural Society, where it could not fail to 

 be much admired. The name, as will be at once seen, is 

 suggested by the resemblance of the flower to those marine 

 animals, so common upon our rocky coasts, known by the 

 name of Sea- Anemone (Actinia). The plant deserves a 

 place in every stove. 



Descr. Stem climbing ; branches rounded, green, gla- 

 brous, as is every part of the plant. Leaves about three 



inches 



