Tab. 4140 



DISEMMA AURANTIA. 



New- Caledonia Disemma. 



Nat. Ord. Passiflore^e.— Monadelphia Pentandria. 



Calyx 10-lobus; tubus brevis subtus sulcatus; faucis corona duplex: 

 exterior filis distmctis ; interior filis in membranam integram dentatamve 

 concretis. Caet. Passi/lora.— Species e Nova-Hollandia aut Nova-Cale- 

 donia ortse. Be Cand. 



Disemma aurantia; foliis glabris basi ovatis late trilobatis, lobis obtusis 

 inter medio longiore, lateralibus extus appendice subauctis, bracteis 

 setiformibus apice glandulosis a flore parum remotis, petiolis apice 

 biglandulosis, filis corona; exterioris lobis cal. internis subaequalibus. 

 Be Cand. 



Disemma aurantia. Labill. Sert. Austr. Caled. t. 79. Be Cand. Prodr 

 3. p. 332. 



Murucuja aurantia. Pers. Syn. 2. p. 222. 



Passiflora aurantia. Forst. Prodr. p. 326. 



The Genus Disemma (from J» r , double, and vip^x, a crown,) 

 was established by Labillardiere in his Sertum Austro-Caledo- 

 nicum, upon this very plant, a native of New-Caledonia, and 

 is readily distinguished, on the one hand, from Passiflora by 

 the presence of the membranous, truncated crown of Murii- 

 <™ja, and, from the latter, by the outer filamentous crown of 

 passiflora. The species are all of Australian origin, and 

 m !! U( ^' besides the present, D. Herbertiana, D. coccinea, 

 and D. admntifolia ; the latter from Norfolk Island. The 

 Botanic Gardens of Kew, where our figure was taken in the 

 greenhouse in July, 1844, owe the possession of this hand- 

 some plant to T. Bidwill, Esq. It is easily cultivated in a 

 Pot, with wire-trellice, and is remarkable, like D. adiantifolia, 

 or the flowers being nearly white in bud and on first expand- 

 ing, gradually assuming a yellow or tawny tint, and finally 

 Becoming a brick red. The sepals have a singularly broad 

 keel or deep wing at the back. 



