Tab. 6997. 

 PASSIFLORA violacea. 



Native of Brazil. 



Nat. Ord. PASSiFLOEEiE.— Tribe Passifloees. 

 Genus Passifloea, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. PL vol. i. p. 810.) 



Passifloea (Decaloba) violacea; alte scandens, glabra, foliis subpeltatis petiolatis 

 basi truncatis infra medium 3-lobis lobis divaricatis oblongo-lanoeolatis subacutis 

 integerrimis reticulars, marginibus bic illic petioloque sparse glandulosis subtus 

 glaucescentibus, stipulis 2 magnis foliaceis subdimidiato-oblongis subacutis, 

 pedunculis axillaribus solitariis valde elongatis pendulis apices versus mcurvis, 

 floribus suberectis, involucri triphylli bracteis foliaceis lanceolatis, floribus spe- 

 ciocis, calycis tubo brevissimo basi profunde intruso, lobis oblongis intus 

 coloratis calcare dorsali elongato viridi incurvo robusto terminatis, petahs 

 oblongis obtusis pallide roseis, coronas setis multiserratis extimis petahs iere 

 acquilongis violaceis apicibus albis, interioribus brevibus purpureis, toro brevi, 

 filamentis crassiusculis, antheris magnis, ovario tomentoso, stigmatibus crassis 

 clavatis. 



P. violacea, Vellozo Flor. Fluminensis, vol. ix. t. 84 {non Blasters in Mart. Fl. 

 Bras.). Andre in Rev. Horticole, 1885, p. 468, cum. Ic. 



Hitherto this beautiful plant has been known only through 

 the plate in the work cited above, which is a very cha- 

 racteristic one. That figured and described under the 

 same name by Masters in the " Flora Brasiliensis," vol. 

 xiii. pi. i. p. 612, t. 123, and supposed to be conspecific, 

 more resembles P. cornuta of the same work, and differs m 

 the more membranous leaves, cordate at the base, with 

 broader lobes, the lateral lobes ascending, and the mid-lobe 

 having a tendency to dilate in the middle, as also in the 

 much shorter peduncles, and shorter calycine spurs. Other 

 near allies are P. Mooreana, Hook. (Plate 3773 of this 

 work), a native of the Argentine Republic, and P. tucuma- 

 nensis, plate 3636, both of which have, beside other 

 differences, serrated leaves, shorter peduncles, smaller 

 flowers, short calycine spurs and more simple coronas. 



P. violacea is supposed to be a native of Rio Janeiro, 

 from whence there are presumably indigenous specimens in 

 the Kew Herbarium sent by Mr. Glaziou, Director of 

 Public Gardens in that city. The plant from which the 



MAT 1st, 1888. 



