Tap. 6129. 
PASSIFLORA (Tacsonra) MANICATA, 
Native of New Grenada and Peru. 
Nat. Ord. PassirLoracem.—Tribe PassiFLORE&. 
Genus Passirtora, Linn. ; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant., vol. i. p. 810). 
Passtriora (Tacsonia) manicata ; caule flexuoso subangulato, foliis 4-polli- 
caribus coriaceis 3-lobis serratis supra glabris subtus pubescentibus, 
lobis ovatis acutis intermedio producto, petiolo pollicari 3-4-glanduloso, 
stipulis dimidiato-ovatis faleatis grosse dentatis, pedunculo _petiolo 
duplo longiore, bracteis pollicaribus ellipticis acutis serrulatis liberis v. - 
connatis, floribus coccineis, perianthii tubo 4~1-pollicari basi dilatato 
limbo 4-pollicari. 
TAcsonta manicata, Juss. in Ann. Muss., vol. vi. p. 898, t. 59, f. 2; Lindl. 
Pact. Fl. Gard., vol. i. t. 26; DC. Prodr., vol. iii. p. 3384; Humb. 
Bonpl. § Kunth Nov. Gen., vol. ii. p. 189; Masters in Mart. Flor. 
Bras., vol. xiii. pars i. p. 541. 
This lovely plant has been for many years cultivated in 
England, though not so extensively as it deserves, having 
had the reputation of not flowering freely. It was intro- 
duced previous to 1850 by the Horticultural Society, through 
its collector Hartweg, who found it in hedges near Loxa in 
Peru, where, indeed, it was discovered by Humboldt and. 
Bonpland half a century previously. It is also a native of © 
the Andes of Equador and New Grenada, where it was found. 
by Purdie on the arid plains of Suta Marchan, and is there 
called Ruruba de Seneno. A similar undescribed species, or 
perhaps a variety of this, with white flowers, was gathered by 
Pearce at Puquina (in Peru ?), at an elevation of 10,000 feet. 
I am indebted for the accompanying drawing to Mr. E. J. 
Smith, of Coalport, in whose conservatory the plant flowered 
in July last. - 
I regret not being able to follow Dr. Masters in retaiming 
the genus Zucsonia, as is doue in his very admirable Mono- 
graph of South American Passiflor, in Martius’s 2 Flora 
Brasiliensis ;” the only character hitherto adopted being the 
NOVEMBER lst, 1874. 
