Tab. 5737. 

 PASSIFLORA cincinnata. 



Curly-fringed Passion-flower. 



Nat. Ord. PASSIFLOKEiB.— Pentaadria Tkigtnia. 



Gen. Char. Calycis tubus brevis, urceolaris ; lobi 4-5, lineares v. oblongi, 

 intus saepius colorati et dorso infra apieem cornuti. Petala 4 o, v. 0, 

 calycis lobis subfequalia. Corolla simplex v. duplex, extenore nlamentis 

 1-2-seriatis v. membrana tubulosa, interior multisenata v. tubulosa v. U. 

 Gynophorum elongatum. Stamina 4-5, filamentis basi gyuophon adnatis ; 

 antherse versatiles. Ovarium stipitatura ; styli 3, subterrmnales, stigmatious 

 capitatis; ovula numerosa, placentis 3 affixa. Bacca polyspermy Semim 

 arillata.— Frutices, rarius herbse, scandentes, rarius erects, cirrhijerce. ± olia 

 alterna. Stipula3 2 v. 0. Flores inter majores, peduncuhs articulatis, septus 

 3-bracteatce. 



Passiflora (Granadilla) cincinnata; glabra, foliis digitatis v. palmatisectis 

 5-lobis, lobis oblongis mucronulatis integris v. pinnatmdis serrulatis, 

 petiolo 2-glanduloso, stipulis subulatis, peduncuhs axillanbus sohtarns 

 1-floris petiolis longioribus, bracteis ovatis obtusis basi glandu osis, 

 calycis tubo brevi, lobis 5 oblongis obtusis intus petahsque consimilibus 

 purpuras, corona sub-3-seriatse filis extimis petahs longionbus con- 

 tortis violaceis, ceteris brevibus capitellatis. 



Passiflora cincinnata. Masters in Card. Chron. Sept. 1868, cum ic. xylog. 



Of the one hundred species of Passion-flower known m 

 herbaria most have still to be introduced into our gardens, 

 and this though many of them are natives of very accessible 

 countries and of temperate regions long traversed by Euro- 

 peans. One of the latter is the present beautiful specie 

 which was discovered in the provinces of Pernambuco and 

 Ceara in Brazil, by the late Mr. G. Gardner so long ago as 

 1837. It was introduced into cultivation by Mr. FniUp 

 Frost, gardener to Mr. Fortescue, the proprietor of the beau- 

 tiful Dropmore Gardens. It flowered profusely in a cool 

 greenhouse in August of this year, and was ^™JJ™ 

 carefully described by Dr. Masters in the < Gardeners C hrc 



nicle.' 



Des 



'rete 



NOVEMBER 1ST, 1868. 



"descr. A branched, glabrous, slender climber; branches 



terete. Leaves about three inches broad, deeply palmate 01 



