498 _ PASSIFLOREZ (Harv.) [ Pisosperma. 
Bryonia spec. Drege, 8185, with very small, reniform, and trilobate puberulous 
leaves, and racemose flowers, is perhaps a Coniandra. 
Bryonia acutangula, Thund. | fl. cap. 35, and herbar. is a species of Senecio. 
i. X. PISOSPERMA, Sond. 
Flowers moncecious, much aggregated, on radical branches; the male 
on longish, racemose, 1-flowered pedicels; the female solitary, on shorter 
pedicels. Male: Calyx 5-tid, tube subcampanulate, lobes lanceolate. 
Petals 5, oblong. Stamens 3, short. Anther—cells flexuose, cohering, 
without appendage. Female : Calyx and corolla as in the male. Style 1 ; 
stigma thick, lobed. Fruit subbaccate, pseudo-trilocular, subglobose, 
apiculate, 6-12-seeded. Seeds round, subcompressed, with a tumid 
margin. 
A herbaceous, perennial, subscabrous plant, with tuberous root and precocious 
flowers. Leafy branches prostrate, rising from the short radical flower-bearing 
branches, when the fruit begins to ripen. Tendrils simple. Leaves petiolate, pal- 
mate-digitate, 5-lobed ; lobes linear, the middle elongated. Flowers small, pale yel- 
low, striped with green, and very thinly pubescent. Name from mos, a pea, and 
omepua, a seed. 
1. P. Capense (Sond.) 
Has. Nieuwejaarspoint and Caledonriver, Zeyher, 593, and Cucurbit. 1; Camde- 
ae sae 8188 ; Zwartekey River, Mrs. F. W. Barber. Oct.Jan. (Herb. 
Leafy branches 1 foot or longer, prostrate, sulcate-angulate, hairy-scabrous, at 
length subglabrous. Petioles 3-4 lines long, shorter than the tendrils. Middle lobe 
of the leaves 1-2-uncial, 1-1} line wide, acute, very entire; the intermediate lobes 
twice shorter ; the lower ones very short, often bilobed. Radical flowering stem 
1-2-uncial ; branches with 10-16, filiform, uncial pedicels, each of which has a 
small, subulate bract. Flowers 4-5 lines long. Ripe fruit the size of a large hazle- 
nut, pubescent, at length nearly glabrous. Seeds as large as a pea. 
OrpER LIX. PASSIFLOREZ, Juss. 
(By W. H. Harvey.) 
Flowers perfect or unisexual. Perianth (consisting either wholly of 
calya, or of caly« and corolla soldered together) monophyllous, free, the 
tube long or short, sometimes scarcely any, the limb, if in a single row, 
3-4-5-cleft, if double, 8-10-parted, the outer segments herbaceous, the 
inner more or less petaloid. Corona-staminea occupying the bottom of 
the perianth, annular, fimbriated or entire, sometimes consisting of 
fleshy glands, always exterior in insertion to the stamens. Stamens as 
many or twice as many as the lobes of the perianth, rarely subin- 
definite, monadelphous or free; anthers introrse, either versatile or 
adnate, bilocular. Ovary stipitate or rarely subsessile, free, unilaeular ; 
ovules many or few, on 3-5 parietal placenta, pendulous, orthotropous. 
Styles or stigmata as many as the carpels. uit either a succulent 
berry or a 3-5-valved capsule, usually many-seeded. Sveds on long 
seed-cords, mostly arillate, with a furrowed and ridged seed-coat, albu- 
minous ; embryo orthotropous, with flat, leafy cotyledons. 
Herbaceous or suffruticose, rarel i i i 
of the warmer parts of America, imc La iE cuncans sarieestsegry Maman 
and Australia. Leaves mostly simple, entire or variously lobed, rarely imparipin- 
