Tas. 4565, 
PASSIFLORA pPpENDULIFLORA. 
Drooping-blossomed Passion-flower. 
Nat. Ord. PasstFLOREZ.—MOoNADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4406.) 
PassrFLora (§ Decaloba) penduliflora; glabra, foliis brevi-petiolatis semi- 
orbiculari-cuneatis transversim truncatis obscure 3-lobis 3-nerviis 3-setosis 
subtus glandulosis, pedunculis solitariis geminisve elongatis pendulis 
prope basin articulatis bibracteolatis, calycis tubo hemispherico 10-gibboso, 
corone aurantiace filamentis paucis uniserialibus clavatis erectiusculis. 
PASSIFLORA penduliflora. Bert. in De Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. 326. 
Apparently a very little-known Passion-flower: at any rate, 
I find no mention of it anywhere, save in the brief character of 
De Candolle above quoted. Though destitute of the varied 
colouring of many of the species of the genus, there is a grace 
and elegance in the plant that render it an object well worthy of 
cultivation: the flowers are very copious and hang downwards 
from peduncles much longer than the leaves, and these leaves 
are very singular in shape. We received our plants from the 
island of Jamaica, where, indeed, it would appear to be very 
common, judging from the copious specimens we have received 
from the late Dr. M‘Fadyen and Dr. Distan, and Messrs. Purdie 
and Wilson. It flowers in spring and summer. 
Descr. A climbing glabrous shrub, with the young branches 
herbaceous and striated. eaves copious, approximate, on very 
short petioles, varying a good deal in shape, but the general 
form is that of half an ellipsis approaching to cuneate, truncate, 
but more or less distinctly three-lobed, with three sete, three- 
nerved, with a row of five or six glands on each side the midrib. 
Tendrils simple, reddish. Peduncles solitary or geminate from 
the axil of a leaf, single-flowered, pendulous, jointed, and with 
two minute Jracteoles above the base. Flower drooping, pale 
yellow-green.  Calyz-tube hemispherical, ten-lobed: the five 
lobes of the Himé oblong, very acute. Petals resembling the 
MARCH Ist, 1851. 
