288 PASSIFLORACEAE. 



or pinnatifid bracts about 2.5 cm. long; crown about one half as long as the 

 oblong white sepals; fruit ellipsoid, red, slightly fleshy, about 2.5 cm. long; 

 seeds rough. 



Littoral sands and savannas, Little San Salvador, Cat Island, Conception 

 Island, Watling's Island, Cave Cay, Great Guana Cay, Great Ragged Island, Acklin's 

 Island, Crooked Island. Fortune Island, Green Cay, South Caicos, Grand Turk, Little 

 Ambergris Cay, and the Inaguas : Bermuda ; Hispaniola. The plant recorded by 

 Hitchcock as P. ciliata riparia Wr. proves to be the above species. Pectinate 

 Passion-flower. Wild Apricot. 



\ * 4. Passiflora pallida L. Sp. PL 955. 1753. 



Passiflora minima L. Sp. PI. 959. 1753. 

 Passiflora suberosa L. Sp. PI. 958. 1753. 

 Passiflora angustifolia Sw. Prodr. 97. 1788. 



A slender vine, with nearly glabrous or pubescent foliage. Leaves ovate 

 to linear, 6-15 cm. long, eiliate, 5-nerved at the broadly cuneate or cordate 

 base, entire, toothed, or 3-lobed to above the middle, the lobes ovate or tri- 

 angular, acute or acuminate, the middle one much the larger; petioles 5-15 

 mm. long, each with 2 glands at or above the middle; peduncles surpassing 

 the petioles, commonly in pairs; calyx greenish, 2-2.5 cm. broad; sepals 

 lanceolate or linear-lanceolate; 8-12 mm. long; corolla wanting; crown-fila- 

 ments purple at the base, shorter than the sepals; berries subglobose or oval, 

 10-12 mm. in diameter. 



Coppices and scrub-lands, throughout the archipelago from Abaco and the Berry 

 Islands to East Caicos, Grand Turk and Inagua : Bermuda; Florida; West Indies; 

 continental tropical America. 



The species consists of a large number of races, glabrous or pubescent, the leaves 

 varying from linear-lanceolate to nearly orbicular, and the fruit from globose to 

 ellipsoid. Referred to by Hitchcock as P. villosa Macf. Juniper-berry. Small 

 Passion-flower. Catesby, 2 : pi. 51. 



& 5. Passiflora multiflora L. Sp. PI. 956. 1753. 



A somewhat woody, slender vine, climbing to a length of 6 m. or more, 

 the stems and leaves finely pubescent or sometimes glabrous. Leaves oblong 

 or ovate-oblong, 5-12 cm. long, entire, pinnately veined and triplinerved, 

 reticulate-veined beneath, obtuse or acute and mucronulate at the apex, ob- 

 tuse, rounded or subcordate at the base, the short petiole 2-glandular at the 

 top; peduncles 2-6 together in the axils, slender, jointed near the middle, 5-15 

 mm. long; involucre none; sepals oblong-lanceolate, greenish-yellow, about 6 

 mm. long; petals linear, white, shorter than the sepals; carpophore none; 

 berry globose, 6-10 mm. in diameter. 



Coppices and scrub-lands, Andros ; New Providence ; Eleuthera : Florida ; Cuba 

 to Tortolo. Oblong-leaved Passion-flower. 



6. Passiflcra rubra L. Sp. PI. 956. 1753. 



A softly pubescent, slightly woody vine, sometimes 2 m. long or more. 

 Leaves thin, eglandular, broader than long, 7-12 cm. broad, 5-nerved, deeply 

 cordate at the base, broadly 2-lobed or subtruncate, the lobes ovate, acute or 

 acutish, the midvein excurrent, the petioles 1-4 cm. long; peduncles solitary 

 or 2 in the axils, slender or filiform, longer than the petioles, jointed below 

 the flower; flowers 3-5 cm. broad, greenish-white, the 5 sepals somewhat 

 longer than the 5 petals; crown of 3 series of subulate processes, about as 

 long as the petals; berry oval or subglobose, pubescent, 6-ribbed, 2-4 cm. in 

 diameter, longer than the carpophore. 



Open fields and scrub-lands, Abaco ; New Providence : Cuba to Porto Rico and 

 Trinidad ; Jamaica ; continental tropical America. Broad-leaved Passion-flower. 



