Tas. 4958. 
PASSIFLORA TintFo.ta. 
Laurestine-leaved Passion-flower. 
Nat. Ord. PasstFLoREH.—MOoONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4406). 
PasstFtora (§ Granadilla) ¢inifolia ; foliis oblongis brevi-acuminatis integer- 
rimis basi obtusis, petiolis brevibus infra apicem biglandulosis, stipulis 
lineari-subulatis, bracteis amplis ovalibus apice pauci-crenatis dentibus glan- 
duligeris, coronz filamentis calycem zequantibus. 
PassIFLora tinifolia. Juss. Ann. Mus. v. 6. p. 118. t. 41. f. 2. De Cand. Prodr. 
v, 3. p. 328. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 36. 
A rare and very little known species of Passion-flower, of the 
group or section called “ Graaadilla” of De Cand. Mem.: that 
is, having a triphyllous involucre beneath the flower, whose leaf- 
lets are entire or toothed, not laciniated ; the calyx ten-lobed ; 
the pedicels single-flowered, and with simple cirrhi arising from 
the same axils with the flowers. This group contains the eatable 
kinds of Passifora. Jussieu’s figure and description were made 
from Richard’s dried specimens gathered in French Guiana. 
We knew not of any other locality, till our friend Charles S. 
Parker of Liverpool sent us living specimens, derived from De- 
merara, in July of the past year, 1856. It is a species of con- 
siderable beauty, and the fruit, described as “‘ globose, yellow, of 
the size of an apricot,” is probably as esculent and well-flavoured 
as that of the other edible species, especially of the P. Jaurifo- 
fia, \., its nearest ally; which however differs from our plant in 
its shorter and, at the base, more heart-shaped leaves, stipules 
which are truncated obliquely at the apex; in the two glands of 
the petiole being placed nearer the leaf; in the large, oval, more 
crenulated leaflets of the involucre, which are equal in length 
with the calyx, of which the segments do not exceed in length 
the longest filaments of the corona. It is a plant of easy culti- 
vation in a moist stove. 
Duscr. Stem climbing, the branches terete, glabrous, tinged 
JANUARY Ist, 1857. 
