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Passiflora quadrangularis. Square- 

 stalked Passion-flower. 



Class and Order. 



MONADELPHIA PeNTANDRIA. 



Generic Character. 



Cal. 5-partitus, coloratus. Cor. 5-petaIa, calyci inserta. 

 Nectar, corona filamentosa. Pepo pedicellata. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Passiflora quadrangularis ; foliis oblongo-ovatis subcordatis 

 integerrimis venosis, petiolis sex-glandulosis, stipulis sub- 

 rotundo-ovatis, involucro triphyllo, caule membranaceo 

 tetragono. Willd. Sp. PL 3. p. 60S. Persoon Syn. 2. 

 p. 219. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 148. 



Passiflora quadrangularis ; foliis indivisis ovalibus subcor- 

 datis glabris multinerviis, petiolis sex-glandulosis, caule 

 membranaceo tetragono, stipulis ovali-oblongis. Hort. 

 Kew. ed. l ma - 3. p. 306. Bot. Reg. 14. 



Passiflora quadrangularis. Spec. PL 1356. Jacq. Amer. 

 p. 231. t. 143. Swartz Obss. 332. Cav. Diss. 10. p. 

 453. t.283. Sowerby in Lin. Soc. Trans. 2. p. 21. t.3. 

 f. a. Miss Lawrence's Passion Flower. 



Stem winged, 4- sided, climbing. Leaves alternate, oval, 

 subcordate, smooth, reticulately veined underneath. Stipules 

 oblong-oval, oblique. Petioles channelled, . bearing three 

 pair of glands. Peduncles solitary, one flowered, opposite the 

 petiole, with a tendril between them. Involucrum of three 

 roundish obtuse leaves, overlapping one another at the base, 

 close to the flower. Calyx or outer segments thick, spongy, 

 three-nerved, green without and white within. Corolla or 

 inner segments of the calyx equal to the outer, white without, 



pale 



