Tas. 7936. 
PASSIFLORA VITIFOLIA. 
Native of Tropical America, 
Nat. Ord. Passtrroracea.—Tribe PassIFLORER. 
Genus Passrrtora, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 810.) 
Passtrtora (§Granadilla) vitifolia; species P. quadriglandulose, Rodsch. 
(Tacsonia sanguinea, DC., Bot. Mag. t. 4674) simillima, sed bracteolis 
amplis coloratis et florum colore intensiore sat distincta; caulibus graci- 
liusculis debilibus ope cirrhorum simplicium alte scandentibus, novellis 
plus minusve tomentosis in sic’o spe ferrugineis, foliis petiolatis (inter- 
dum longe) demum coriaceis glabrescentibus sepissime ultra medium 
trilobatis, interdum lobis 2 basilaribus pirvis additis, maximis\6-7 poll. 
diametro basi cordatis, lobis ovato-oblongis acutis grosse crenato-dentatis 
vel foliornm superiorum denticulatis, pedun:ulis quam foliis brevioribus, 
bricteolis coloratis venosis glanduloso-dentatis circiter pollicaribus in- 
volucrum prope calycis basin formantibus, floribus cum cirrhis in folio- 
rum axillis solitariis in exemplariis nonnuallis sylvestribus usque ad 6 poll. 
diametro sanguineo-coccineis, tubo circiter 5. lin. lato altoque extus 
10-sulcato, sepalis petalis similibus oblongo-lance :latis dorso infra apicem 
cornutis, cornu viridi, corona exteriore (fauciali) tilamentosa triseriata 
erecta filis seriei prime liberis sanguineis quam petalis dimidio breviori- 
bus, filis seriei secunde etiam liberis quam exterioribus tertia parte 
brevioribus, filis seriei tertiz albis alte connatis quam intermediis paullo 
longioribus, corona intermedia (operculo) membranacea e floris tubo versus 
apicem emergente deflexa deinde ascendente tubum brevissimum apice 
fimbriatum formante, corona interiore (vel disco nectarifluo) squamis 
parvis denticnlatis consistente, gynandrophoro circiter 2 poll. alto viridi 
sanguineo-maculato, antheris viridibus, ovario viridi, stylis brevibus 
sanguineis, stigmatibus amplis disciformibus, fructu ignoto. 
P. vitifolia, H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. vol. ii. (1817) p. 138. Masters in Mart. 
Fl. Bras. vol. xiii. pars 1, p. 607, t. 121; Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xxvii. 
(1871), p. 637. Karst. Fl. Colomb. vol. i. p. 103, +. 51 (var. bracteosa). 
Hemsl, in Salv. et Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer. Bot. vol. i. p. 481. 
P. sanguinea, Sm. in Rees’s Cyclop. vol, xxvi. (1819), n. 45, 
P. punicea, Ruiz et Pav. ex DC. Prod. vol. iii. p. 329. 
P. servitensis, Karst. in Linnea, vol. xxx. p. 163. 
Tacsonia Buchanani, Lem. in Illust. Hort. vol. xiv. (1867), t. 519. 
P. Buchanani, Planch. et Triana in Ann. Se, Nat. 5me série, vol, xvii. p. 144, 
Passiflora vitifolia, H. B. K., appears to have been first 
introduced into Europe from Panama in 1851; but it has 
never got into general cultivation, probably because it 
requires tropical treatment to produce its magnificent 
flowers. At Kew it is cultivated both in the Palm House 
and the old Lily House, where it flowered in June, 1903. 
It is certainly one of the most brilliantly coloured species 
im a genus abounding in gorgeous forms. 
It has a wide distribution in tropical America, ranging 
January Ist, 1904, 
