500 PASSIFLOREZ. (Harv.) [ Modecea. 
smaller than the calycine lobes and inserted either at the summit, or 
far beneath the summit of the calyx-tube. Mate: Stamens 4-5, in- 
serted in the bottom of the calyx and opposite its lobes ; filaments 
subulate, connate in a ring at base; anthers introrse, 2-celled, erect. 
A rudiment of an ovary. Fermate: Abortive filaments 5, subulate, 
surrounding the ovary, sometimes wanting. Ovary stipitate or subses- 
sile, unilocular ; ovules numerous, on 3 parietal placenta. Stigmata 
subsessile, dilated. Capsule fleshy (leathery when dry), subglobose, 
3-valved, many-seeded ; seeds arillate, areolate-corrugate ; embryo in 
fleshy albumen. Endl. Gen. No. 5130. 
Herbaceous or shrubby plants, mostly climbing, natives of Asia and Africa. 
Leaves alternate, undivided or lobed, the petioles biglandular at the apex. Stipules 
obsolete or none. Peduncles axillary, branched, the medial branch tendriliferous. 
Flowers small and greenish. Modecca is the native Indian name for one of the 
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sae ANALYSIS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN SPECIES, 
Calyx-tube conico-campanulate ; limb §-cleft. Petioles short. 
Leaves lanceolate-linear, obtuse, undivided —_.... ... (1) Paschanthus. 
Leaves deeply 3-5-lobed, the lobes incised wee ... (2) digitata. 
Calyx nearly rotate, 5-parted. Leaves on long petioles, 
bluntly 3-lobed_... iv = on ae ... (3) gummifera. 
1. M. Paschanthus (Harv.); stem scarcely climbing ; leaves sub- 
sessile, lanceolate-linear, obtuse, distantly repand, glabrous, glaucous, 
semi-complicate, reticulated, having two large glands at the apex of 
the petiole, and one beneath each of the marginal inequalities. Pas- 
chanthus repandus, Burch. Trav. 1, p. 533. DC. Prod. 3, p. 336. 
Has. In the interior of South Africa, lat. 29°.20’, long. 23°.43’, Burchell, Cat. 
‘Geogr. No. 2036 and 2486, 2. At Motito, Feb. 1842. (Herb. Hk.) 
Stem about 2 feet high. Leaves of tender substance but thickish (much of the 
substance of a cabbage-leaf) subglaucous, elongate-lanceolate, the margins repand 
and reddish. Peduncles axillary, cirrhose. Flowers polygamous, ochraceous. Cal: 
tubular, 5-cleft. Petals 5, small, lanceolate, inserted between the divisions of the 
calyx. Filaments 5, inserted near the bottom of the calyx ; anthers linear. ‘ 
stipitate ; style very short ; stigma lacero-capitate. Capsule 1-celled, ovate, inflated, 
3-6-seeded, 3-valved, purple-rosy. Seeds ovate, inclosed in a scarlet arillus. Such 
is Burchell’s account. The specimen in Herb. Hook. above referred to, and which 
alone I have seen, is in fruit only, but in foliage and other characters it so nearly 
agrees with Burchell’s description that I feel little doubt of its identity with his 
plant. By the description of the flower, as given by Burchell, I cannot see how this 
species differs generically from Modecea : it probably belongs, as does the following, 
to the subgenus Blepharanthes. 
2. M. digitata (Harv. Thes. t. 12); stem herbaceous, climbing, an- 
gularly-striate; leaves on short petioles digitately 3—5-parted, the lobes 
pinnatifid, glabrous, margined, with two glands at the apex of the 
petiole, and glands beneath the sinuses of the lamina ; racemes few- 
flowered, equalling the petiole, sometimes cirrhiferous ; calyx funnel- 
shaped, tapering at base ; petals lanceolate, inserted toward the base 
of the calyx-tube, included. 
Has. In the Zulu country, Miss Owen/ Macallisberg, Burke! (Herb. Hk. D.) 
ih female flowers are unknown. For a full description see Thes. Cap. above 
quoted. 
3. M.? gummifera (Harv.); stem shrubby, extensively climbing, 
