Tas. 5911. 
PASSIFLORA CINNABARINA. 
Native of Australia. 
Nat. Ord. PassirLorEm. 
Genus PasstrLora, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl., vol. i. p. 810). 
Passtrtora (Disemma) cinnabarina ; glabra, foliis trilobis palmatisve lobis 
ovatis v. ovato-ellipticis acutiusculis, petiolis eglandulosis, corona 
interiore ore contracto filis in membranam integram plicatam pilosulam 
concretis, exteriore interiorem superante filis uniseriatis distinctis. 
Passtriora cinnabarina, Lindl. in Gard.Chron., 1855, p. 724 (cum te. aylog.). 
DisemMa coccinea, Belgique Horticole, vol. xv. (1865), p. 289, tab. 18. 
This elegant climber was first introduced by Sir Thomas 
Mitchell fifteen to twenty years ago. It is very nearly allied 
to Passifiora Banksit, Benth. (“ Flora Australiensis, iu. 3] 2), 
the Disemma coccinea of De Candolle, differing in the absence 
of glands on the petiole, and in the relatively much shorter 
inner corona, which consists of a continuous deeply plicate 
membrane, closely contracted at the mouth around the gyno- 
phore. The only specimen in the Kew Herbarium was 
presented to Sir W. J. Hooker by Mr. Backhouse, who 
received it from Sir W. Macarthur. It is not localized, and 
neither Dr. Lindley nor the Belgique Horticole gives the 
precise region whence the plant was introduced. Our figure 
is from a plant flowered last March in the Temperate House 
of the Royal Gardens, Kew, grown from seeds presented by 
Mr. Grant Duff, M.P., Under-Secretary of State for India, 
and which had been procured from the Melbourne Botanic 
Gardens by Evelyn Sturt, Esq., who brought them to 
England. 
Dzscr. A slender glabrous climber. Branches terete, of 
JULY Ist, 1871. | 
