Passifora, characterized by the filamentous corona; its affinity 
with 7. Van-voleemii (Tab. 5571), 7. quitensis (Tab. 5876), 
T. eriantha (Tab. 5750), and 7 mollissima (Tab. 4187), is 
evident ; but in all these the corona is reduced to glands, and 
the leaves are lobed. 
Descr. A tall woody climber. Young parts, petioles, pe- 
duncles and leaves beneath clothed with pale or dark rusty- 
brown matted wool. Leaves five to seven inches long, ovate 
or oblong or lanceolate-ovate from a cordate base, obscurely 
lobed, toothed, upper surface glossy wrinkled ; petiole short, 
stout, glandular. Stipules small, pinnatisect. Flowers solitary, 
axillary, six fo eight inches diameter ; peduncle very long, 
four to six inches; bracts opposite, below the flower, oblong- 
ovate, fimbriate-toothed, concave, green, tomentose. Perianth 
tomentose externally ; tube two inches long, with a depressed- 
globose bulb half to three-quarters inch diameter at the base. 
Sepals linear-oblong, obtuse, concave, keeled, violet-crimson, 
the keel green and terminating below the rounded apex in a 
green spur one inch long. Peas rather shorter than the 
sepals and darker crimson, rounded at the tip, nearly flat. 
Corona half inch long, of one series of white threads, mottled 
with blue; inner corona an inflexed lacerate membrane at 
the base of the tube above the bulb. Gynandrium very long, 
slender, glabrous. Ovary subglobose, densely lanate. Anther 
and stigmas as in its congeners.—/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Vertical section of tube of per:anth ; 2, leaf :—both natural size. 
