axils, as described and figured by Feuillé. In both Feuillé’s 
plant and the one grown at Kew, the leaves were pre- 
sumably not variegated, as no mention is made of their 
colour. 
In the Flora Brasiliensis 1.c., Masters quoted specimens 
of P. punctata from Peru, Ecuador and Brazil, including 
forms with geminate peduncles. He described the outer- 
most segments of the corona as scimitar-shaped. Some of 
the specimens of P. punctata in the Kew Herbarium (e.g. 
Lehmann’s No. 3049 from the Cauca Valley, Colombia), 
have scimitar-shaped outer segments, but others, including 
the “ Passiflora from Lima” in the Hookerian Herbarium, 
have triangular-headed segments, as in the plant now 
figured. Hardly any two specimens have the coronal 
segments precisely similar. 
The plant now figured has the segments of the middle 
series fewer and less conspicuous than in any other 
specimen we have examined. The leaves also differ from 
the type in having purplish blotches between the veins. In 
the leaves of P. trifasciata, which have a similar colora- 
tion, the purplish bands coincide with the three main 
veins, 
The figure was drawn from a plant which was received 
in 1904 from the State Botanic Gardens, Brussels, under 
the name P. maculata, and which flowered at Kew in the 
autumn of 1905. : 
Descr.—An herbaceous tendril-climber. Stems com- 
pressed, furrowed, minutely puberulous. Leaves nearly 
semicircular or almost lunate, shallowly trilobed, the lobes 
rounded and mucronate, the middle one smaller than the 
lateral, more rarely bilobed, one to three inches long, two 
and a half to four inches broad, rounded or subcordate at 
the base, membranous, variegated with purple on both 
surfaces, glabrous on the upper, gland-dotted and very 
minutely puberulous on the lower; petioles from half to 
one inch and a half long, minutely puberulous. Stipules 
subulate-sickle-shaped, entire, a twelfth to an eighth of an 
inch long. Peduncles usually two together, sometimes 
solitary in the axils, as long as or slightly longer than the 
petioles, jointed about an eighth of an inch below the 
apex ; bracts two to three, linear-subulate, an eighth to a 
sixth of an inch long. Receptacle slightly convex, rather 
