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thers narrow, versatile. Fruit a many-seeded berry. Seeds pulpy-arilled, flat, 

 ovate; endosperm fleshy. [Flower of the Cross, or Passion, as emblematic of 

 the crucifixion.] About 300 species, mostly of tropical America, a few in 

 Asia and Australia. Type species: Passiflora incarnata L. 



Calyx subtended by an involucre of 3 pectinate or incised bracts. 

 Bracts pectinate into filiform segments. 



Plant villous-pubescent ; leaves flaccid. 1. P. foetida. 



Plant glabrous or somewhat glandular ; leaves firm in 



texture. 2. P. bahamenste. 



Bracts linear-lanceolate, irregularly incised-pectinate. 3. P. pectinata. 



Calyx not subtended by an involucre. 



Petals none. 4. P. pallida. 



Petals 5. 



Leaves softly pubescent or glabrate. 



Leaves oblong, entire. 5. P. multiflora. 



Leaves broader than long, 2-lobed, cordate. 6. P. rubra. 



Leaves glabrous. 



Leaves 2-lobed, wider than long. 7. P. biflora. 



Leaves ovate-oblong, narrower than long. 8. P. cupraea. 



1. Passiflora foetida L. Sp. PI. 959. 1753. 



Herbaceous, villous and glandular-viscid, trailing or climbing, sometimes 

 2.5 m. long. Leaves slender-petioled, broadly ovate or ovate-orbicular in out- 

 line, 3-lobed or 3-angled, flaccid, irregularly low-dentate, 3-12 cm. long, cor- 

 date or subcordate at the base, acute at the apex, the stipules 5-10 mm. long, 

 pinnatisect; peduncles 1-3 in the axils, mostly longer than the petioles, not 

 jointed; involucre of 3 finely pinnatisect bracts 2-4 em. long, the ultimate 

 segments nearly filiform, gland-tipped; calyx 5-parted, 1.5-2.5 cm. long; 

 petals white or pinkish, about as long as the calyx; crown pink, of three series 

 of segments; berry ovoid, 2-4 cm. long, nearly dry when mature. 



Roadsides, New Providence : West Indies and tropical continental America, 

 north to Texas. Viscid Passion-flower. 



2. Passiflora bahamensis Britton, Bull. X. Y. Bot. Gard. 5: 315. 1907. 



Stems slender, purple, usually trailing, sometimes climbing on low shrubs, 

 0.5-1.5 m. long. Tendrils wiry, mostly as long as the leaves or longer ; peti- 

 oles 1-3 cm. long, bearing scattered stalked glands, rarely glandless ; stipules 

 small, glandular-fimbriate ; leaf-blades firm in texture, panduriform, 7 cm. 

 long, or less, 3-lobed, cordate at the base, shining above, dull beneath, the 

 basal lobes' rounded or somewhat angled, one fourth to one half as long as 

 the acute middle one, the margin with stalked glandular hairs all around; 

 peduncles glabrous, longer than the petioles ; involucre-segments bipinnatisect, 

 2-3 cm. long, with very numerous stalked glands; calyx-segments ovate- 

 lanceolate, acute ; petals ovate-oblong, about 2 cm. long ; crown purple, its 

 outer segments about three fourths as long as the petals; berry globose, about 

 2 cm. in diameter, bright red and shining when ripe, its stalk above the per- 

 sistent involucre 6-8 mm. long; seeds oblong, rough, 4 mm. long. 



Pine-lands, coppices, white-lands and sandy soil, Andros : New Providence : Cat 

 Island. Endemic. Referred by Grlsebach and by Dolley to the Jamaican P. ciliata 

 Ait., and by Mrs. Northrop to P. pectinata Griseb. Bahama Passion-flower. 



3. Passiflora pectinata Griseb. Fl. Br. \V. I. 294. 1860. 



Glabrous, high-climbing or trailing. Leaves ovate, rather firm in texture, 

 3-8 cm. long, crenate, 5-7-nerved, somewhat contracted near the middle, cor- 

 date at the base, acute or blunt at the apex, with minute glands at the ends 

 of the veins, the petioles 2.5 cm. long or less, eglandular; tendrils slender, as 

 long as the leaves, or longer; flowers solitary in the upper axils, about 6 cm. 

 broad, on peduncles longer than the petioles; involucre of 3 linear pectinate 



