Tas. 4674. 
TACSONIA SANGUINEA. 
Blood-coloured Tacsonia. 
Nat. Ord. PAssIFLORE#®.—MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4406.) 
TacsonrA (Distephana) sanguinea ; foliis oblongo-ovatis subtus reticulatim ve- 
nosis simplicibus cordatisve trilobis lobis oblongo-ovatis marginibus grosse 
ineequaliter sinuato-lobatis, involucri minuti bracteis lineari-acuminatis ser- 
ratis basi utrinque glandulis magnis 1-2, sepalis (tubo brevi) petalisque 
lineari-oblongis acuminatis, corona duplici, interiore membranacea apice 
multifida, filamentis exterioribus erectis. 
PassIFLoRA sanguinea. Smith, in Rees Cycl. n. 45. 
Tacsonra sanguinea. De Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. 334. 
PassIFLora quadriglandulosa. Meyer, Essequib. p. 226. 
Tacsonta quadriglandulosa. De Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. 335. 
TacsonrA quadridentata? e¢ T. pubescens? De Cand. Prodr. l. c. 
In July of the present year (1852) we had the pleasure to re- 
ceive fine flowering specimens of this Zacsonia from Mr. Hugh 
Low, of the Clapton Nursery, to whom the plant had been sent, 
from Trinidad, by Henry Rye, Esq., under the appropriate but 
MS. name of Passiflora diversifolia. It is however unques- 
tionably the Passiflora sanguinea of Sir J. E. Smith, in Rees 's 
Cyclopedia, above quoted, and only by that description known 
to De Candolle, who was induced to refer the species, in its present 
genus, to the section Hutacsonia ; and thus, apart from three sup- 
posed West Indian species, 7. guadriglandulosa, T. quadridentata, 
and 7: pubescens, placed in the section “Distephanz dubiz. 
These three, though very briefly, characterized by De Candolle, 
one from Guiana (whence we have also received this species), 
and the two others from the “ West Indies,” derived from the 
Banksian Herbarium, and very probably from Trinidad, appear 
to us to be referable to one and the same plant. ‘The very va- 
OCTOBER Ist, 1852. . 
