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baring two glands under the base of the leaf; tendrils very long ; peduncles ihe length 

 of tiie petioles. The three leaflets of the involucre are roundish, concave, with blunt 

 glandular toothlets about the edge, and pale : the five leaflets of the calyx are broad- 

 lauceolate, slightly membranaceous at the edge, horned with a point or awn, smooth, 

 variegated on the inside with blood-red dots. Petals five, the length of the calyx, 

 narrower, acuminate, with blood-red dots scattered over them. Crown triple, the 

 outer rays half the length of the petals ; the middle longer than the petals, with toothed 

 points; the inner shorter near the column, all variegated with red and violet : column 

 cylindrical, straight; filaments variegated; germ jeilow; styles variegated; stigmas 

 bifid, black above ; fruit ovate, watery. f>':e. Browne calk .ihisekoney-suekk,, sculti- 

 Vated in many parts of America, for the sake of its fruit ; it climbs and spreads like the 

 granadilla, and is made into arbours. The fruit is very delicate, and much esteemed j 

 it is about the size of a hen's egg, full of a very agreeable gelatinous pulp, in which 

 the seeds are lodged. 



2. JNGl'STIFOLIA. NARROW-!. 1 ? AVP.D. 



Leaves sub-cordate, lanceolate, entire; petioles bi^landular; flowers solitary. 



The following havertjVBrlohed leaves.. 



3 RLBRA. RED. 



Leaves cordate ; lobes acuminate, sub-tomentose upderneath ; stem villose. 

 Stem herbaceous, twining, round, grooved, hirsute, red ; lobes of the leaves en. re, 

 nerved, somewhat hispid, soft; petioles round, re', villose without glands ; tendrils 

 sub-axillary. Flowers alternate,, nodding, on solitary one-flowered peduncles; calyx 

 ovate at the base ; leaflets membranaceous at the edge, white within, grv.vnv.iiln 

 villose; petals whitish, or pale flesh colour ; crown triple; outer rays the length of the 

 petals, multifid, pale red; middle one-leafed, very short, plaited; inner a fleshy 

 white rim ; germ small, villote, green; fruit spherical, marked with six lines, scarlet 

 when ripe, hirsute; pulp whitish; seeds black, tubeicled, shining, covered with a 

 puipy aril. Sw. 



4. PERFOLIATE. PK-RFOLIATE. 



Flos pass 'onis perjoliulus she perie/j/meni perfoliate f< tin. Sloar.c, v. 

 J, p. 230, t 142, f. 3, 4. Foliis trilobis ; crwOus oblongisobtusis, 

 intermedia fere obsolete et setula terminate. Browne, P. 10, p. 328. 



Leaves oblong, transverse, embracing, petioled, dotted underneath ; crown 

 simple, many- parted. 

 Stem herbaceous, climbing and twining, three-cornered, sub-divided, striated, 

 pubescent; leaves cordate-ovate, entire, besides the two lobes having a third between 

 them extremely obscure, a very small bristle ; they are nerved, smooth on both sides, 

 glaucous underneath and pubescent; the younger ones very thin; at the base the 

 leaves are lobate-cordate, embracing, with the lobes lying over each other, so that the 

 stem is as it were perfoliate ; lateral lobes emarginate, with a very short bristle ; pe- 

 tioles very short, curved inwards, round, without glands; stipules awl-shaped, bent 

 down, at the base of the petiole. Tendrils supra-axillary, very long ; peduncles ax- 

 illary, solitary, shorter than the leaves. Flowers middle-sized, scarlet; calyx bell- 

 shaped, growing to the corolla ; segments erect, liuear, of the same colour with the 



corolla. 



