Tas. 8101. 
PASSIFLORA punotata. 
South America. 
PassiFtornacE&. Tribe PassiFLoRFR. 
Passtrtora, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 810; Mast. in 
Trans. Linn, Soc, vol. xxvii. p. 629. 
Passiflora punctata, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 957; Cav. Diss. p. 446, t. 269 ; Mast. in 
Mart. Fi. Bras. vol. xiii. pars i. p. 593; planta nostra ab affinibus 
foliorum maculis intercostalibus purpureis facile distinguitur. 
Herba ope cirrhorum scandens. Caules compressi, sulcati, ut petioli minute 
puberuli. Folia subsemicircularia vel fere lunata, paullo triloba, lobis 
rotundatis mucronatis intermedio quam lateralibus minore, rarius biloba, 
1-8 poll. longa, 24-4 poll. lata, basi rotundata vel subcordata, membrana- 
cea, utrinque purpureo-maculata, supra glabra, subtus minutissime 
puberula, glanduloso-punctata; petioli 4-1} poll. longi. Stipu/e falcato- 
subulate, integra, 1-1} lin. longs. Peduneuli plerumque gemini, inter- 
dum solitarii, petiolis equilongi vel iis paullo longiores, circa 1} lin. infra 
apicem articulati, bracteis 2-3 lineari-subulatis 14-2 lin. longis. Recep- 
taculum convexulum, vix ultra 4 poll. diametro, dimiaio exteriore 
incrassato. Sepala lutea, ovato-oblonga, apice rotundata, 7-8 lin. longa, 
medio 3 lin. lata, anthesi reflexa. Petala lutea, conformia, 4} lin. longa, 
medio 2 lin. lata. Corona triseriata; segmenta extima lateraliter com- 
pressa, triangulari-capitata, 3 lin. longa, lutea, apice violacea; segmenta 
intermedia filamentiformia, pauca, inconspicua, circa 13 lin. longa; 
segmenta intima fere ad apicem in annulum plicatum inflexum vix 2 lin. 
latum connata. Axdrogynophorum 4 liv. longum, glabrum. Filamenta 
3-3 lin. longa. Ovariwm subglobosum, minute pubescens ; styli crassius- 
culi, 4 lin. longi.—Granadilla folio tricuspidi, obtuso et oculato, Feuill. 
Journ. vol. i. p. 718, t. 1]. Passiflora foliis trilobis oblongis subtus 
punctatis: intermedio minore, Linn. Amoen. Acad. vol. i. p- 224, t. 10, 
f. 12. 
Passiflora punctata was founded on the description and 
figure given by Feuillé in his “Journal.” Feuillé de- 
scribed the sepals as being greyish-green, the petals as 
whitish, and the segments of the outer series of the corona 
as violet with yellow points; and he stated that he found 
the plant in a garden at Malambo, a northern suburb of 
Lima, the capital of Peru. Almost the same form of the 
Species was cultivated in the Palm House at Kew, pro- 
bably about the middle of last century, and a specimen 
was laid into the Hookerian Herbarium. The label gives 
the following particulars :—Passiflora from Lima; sepals 
green; petals small, greenish white; coronal filaments 
light blue, outer row tipped with a creamy white. The 
peduncles of the herbarium specimen are solitary in the 
OctoBEr Ist, 1906. 
