2.**sioi HO TIT US JAMAICAN STB. 4! 



corolla. -Petals between the segments of the calyx, and double their length, lanoeo- 

 JaU', from erect spreading. Nectary single, many- parted ; segments erect, linear, 

 fleshy, green, with blunt scarlet tips ; column long; germ ovate; berry roundish. < 

 Native of Jamaica in dry hedges near the coast, on the southern side of the island, 

 flowering in the middle of summer. SV. Sloane says the fool , talks are of a purplish 

 ^colour; the leaves alternate; flowers purple. Browne calk-it the larger passion flower 

 fcith two-harikcd leaves. 



5. NORMALtS. NORMAN. 



y&iS passi'onis, folii media facinia quasi abscissa, /fore minore, carmrp, 

 Sloane, v. l, p. 129. Foliis trildbis ,- cruribus angustis oblongis, 

 intermedia fere obsolete. Browne, p. 328. 



Leaves emarginate at the base ; lobes linear, blunt, divaricate, the middle one 

 obsolete, mucronate. 



This has slender angular stalks, rising twenty feet high, to which it fixes itself by its 

 clavicles. The flowers andtendtils come out from the same joints. The leaves are oi* 

 ;a pale green colour. The flower is red, and the stamens grow all on one side. This 

 plant has been supposed to be the coanenepffli of 'Hernandez, but this seems doubtful aj 

 the figure.in that author wants the intermediate lobe altogether. The fruit is oval,- 

 iaving six red lines upon it, containing black seeds, inclosed in a mucilaginous pulp. 



6. LUNATA. CRESCENT. 



Leaves dotted, at the base slightly cordate, and having two glands; outer rays 

 of the nectary club-shaped, compressed, obtuse. 



Stems several, sometimes thirty feet high. Lobe* of the leaves remote, elongated, 

 entire, obtuse, terminated by a small bristle, sijpilar to one placed between them in 

 .the middle of the leaf, each marked by a series of nectariferous dots between the larger" 

 *eins. Petioles short, roundish, slightly downy, without glands. . Tendrils axillary/ 

 simple, very long, smooth. Flowers axillary, two'together, drooping; on peduncles 

 twice as long as the petioles. Bractes three, -small, setaceous, below -the joint, at a 

 little distance from each other. Corolla flatfish at the base, deeply divided into te 

 segments, whitish and smooth; segments oblong, ovate~J obtUs"e';'the five outermost 

 (calyx) thickest, externally green ; the innermost (corolla) narrower and shorter. 

 External crown of the nectary consisting of about thirty yellow rays, a line shorter 

 than the corolla; middle, of greenish capillary rays, much shorter; innermost a single, 

 green, plaited, truncated, membrane, closely covering the cell where the honey 

 juice is lodged ; genitals as long as the corolla, smooth ; -column cylindrical, thickish, 

 white ^ germ oval, slightly triangular. Smith. 



7. CAPSULARIS. CAPSULAR-LIKE* 



Leaves cordate, oblong, petioled. 



Stalks slender, rising twenty feet when supported, and dividing into many weak 

 tranches. Leaves four inches long and three broad, ending in their points in two 

 horns, in some more acute than mothers, several of them appearing as if cut a little 

 hollow at the top ; they have threQ longitudinal veins, which join, at the base. of the 

 leaf to-the'for>tstalk ; but the two Outer-'diverge towards the borders of the leaf in the 

 middle, drawing in again at the top; they are of a deep green on the upper 'side, but 

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