Tas. 7643, 
PASSIFLORA PRUINOSA. 
Native of British Guiana. 
Nat. Ord. PassirLOREZ.—Tribe EurassiFLoRea. 
Genus Passirtora, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 810.) 
PassirLora (Granadilla) pruinosa ; frutex glaberrimus, scandens, ramis tereti- 
bus fistulosis rufo-brunneis, foliis longiuscule petiolatis orbiculari-ovatis 
ad medium 3-lobis supra saturate viridibus subtus glaucis, nervis 5 
rufescentibus, lobis ovato-oblongis v. lanceolatis acutis v. obtusis, petiolo 
subpeltatim affixo glandulis cupulatis sparso, stipulis magnis dimidiato- 
oblongis foliaceis, floribus 2$ poll. latis solitariis cum cirrho valido rufo- 
brunneo enatis, pedunculo 2-pollicari viridi, bracteis parvis ovato-lanceclatis 
acuminatis, calycis tubo brevi basi truncato, sepalis pollicaribus oblongis 
viridibus, petalis 5 oblongis obtusis pallide lilacinis, corone filamentis 
pluriseriatis infra medium in annulum intus glandulosum connatis, filis 
exterioribus infra medium violaceis apicibus cirrhosis, intimis brevioribus 
crassioribus apicibus dilatatis 3-4-lobis, gynophoro brevi cylindraceo, 
fructu? seminibus oblongis obtusis. 
P, pruinosa, Mast. in Gard. Chron. 1897, vol. ii. p. 393, fig. 17. 
A handsome evergreen stove climber, raised from seed 
sent to Kew in 1897 by Everard im Thurn, C.M.G., Govern- _ 
ment Agent, N.W. District, British Guiana, a gentleman 
well known for his many contributions to a knowledge of 
the natural history of his adopted country, and especially 
for his having accomplished the ascent of the previously 
unconquered precipitous table-mountain of Roraima; and 
also for his admirable description of the very peculiar vege- 
- tation of that mountain and of the surrounding district, 
which is published in the ‘‘ Transactions of the Linnean 
Society ” (Ser. II. Bot. ii. 249). 
Passiflora pruinosa is a species of remarkably rapid 
growth, plants raised from seeds sent to the Royal 
Gardens in 1897, having flowered in September, 1898. 
Deser.—A tall, stout, glabrous climber. Branches 
terete, fistular, red-brown; tendrils strong, red-brown. 
Leaves three to four inches in diam., orbicular-ovate in 
outline, five-cleft to the middle, dark green above, with 
five spreading pale nerves from the base, glaucous beneath, 
with red-brown uerves, lobes ovate-oblong or -lanceolate, 
Marcu Ist, 1899, 
