of pellucid dots on the inner-side of the nerve of each. 

 Petioles short, curved, Stipules two, subulate, persistent. 

 Peduncles axillary, growing two together, jointed, with 

 three subulate bractes below the joint, one flowered. Ca- 

 lyx (or outer segments of the perianthium) 5-cleft, green 

 with whitish margin, concave. Petals (or inner segments) 

 five, rather shorter than the calyx, white. Outer series 

 of the nectarium or corona nearly the length of the petals, 

 yellow, compressed, somewhat broadest a little below 

 the point. Germen oval, obsoletely three-cornered, sup- 

 ported on a thickish column to which the filaments are 

 united. Anthers oblong. Styles recurved : stigmas large, 

 rounded. 



Sir James E. Smith, who has given a description and 

 beautiful figure of this plant in his Icones pictae, remarks 

 that the observation in the Systema vegetabilium affixed to 

 Passiflora punctata belongs to this plant, but not so the 

 specific character. 



We could not discover any appearance of the two glands 

 at the base of the leaf besides the row of pellucid dots, nor 

 do we discover them in either of the figures quoted, nor are 

 they noticed in Sir James's full description, though inserted 

 in the specific character. 



Native of Mexico and of Jamaica. Cultivated in the 

 stove, where it blossoms most part of the year. Introduced 

 by Dr. William Houstoun in 1733. 



. The outline figure represents the leaf of a variety received from John 

 Walker, Esq. except in foliage, differing in nothing from our plant. 



