Mopecca. PASSIFLOREZ. 353 
cre ; petals 5.—DC. prod. 3. p. 326 ; Wall.! L. n. 1931 ; Wight ! cat. n. 1154. 
—Neelgherries. 
+1101. (2) P. Heyneana (Wall.)—Wail.! L. n. 2248. : 
Dr Wallich is doubtful if this be not a species of Modecca: can it be the 
same with M. Wightiana, Wall.? ; 
II. MODECCA. Lam.; Roxb.; DC. 
Flowers unisexual. Calyx campanulate: tube short. Maxx. Stamens 5 ; 
filaments cohering into a membranaceous tube at the base: anthers erect. 
Fem. Ovary shortly stalked, surrounded with 5 sterile longish filaments. Stig- 
mas 3, petaloid. Capsule fleshy (when dry coriaceous and vesicular), 3- 
valved. Seeds numerous, arillate, scrobieulate.—Peduncles cirrhiferous. 
The two very different kinds of petals found in this genus have induced us to 
adopt for the present Mr Lindley’s views relative to these organs in this natural or- 
der: in our first subgenus they resemble most of those of the other genera both in 
texture and situation ; but in our second they are so very dissimilar in both respects, 
that it was some time before we could persuade ourselves to admit their being con- 
geners.—M. diversifolia, Wall. ! L. n. dro , is Vitis lanceolaria ; M. bracteata, pead 
is Trichosanthes palmata, Roxb. 
Subgen. 1. MicrosLErHaRIs.—Calyx-tube conical-campanulate: limb 5-par- 
tite; segments ovate, bluntish. Petals 5, ovate, entire, slightly shorter and 
more tender than the calyx-segments, inserted immediately below the sinus. 
Corona composed of a fringe of short soft hairs. Marr. Stamen-tube pretty 
long, membranaceous. Anthers shortly oval. Abortive filaments 5, short, 
situated on the bottom of the calyx opposite to the stamens. Few. Abortive 
filaments as in the male. Fruit-stalk not longer than the calyx-tube. 
1102. (1) M. Wightiana (Wall.:) leaves glabrous, from ovate entire round- 
ed or slightly cordate at the base, to hastate or palmately lobed, with a large 
glandular projection at the apex of the petiole on its upper surface: „stigmas 
cuneate, fringed.—Wall.! L. n. 6764; Wight! cat. n. 1155.——Alpine Jun- 
gles. Madura. Narthamala. 
Subgen. 2. BuzpnanANTRES (Smith's gramm. bot. p. 188).—Calyx-tube saucer- 
shaped, usually with 5-10 external gibbosities and internal corresponding 
cavities: limb cylindrical, shortly 5-cleft ; segments ovate, erect and acute. 
Petals 5, linear acuminated, ciliated, inserted at the base of the limb of the 
calyx (far below the sinus), membranaceous, included within the calyx. Co- 
rona a simple row of hairs fringing the hollow of the calyx-tube on the in- 
side. Marr, Stamen-tube connected at the base with the base of the petals 
by membranous expansions: anthers linear. Abortive filaments 5, short, 
revolute, inserted in the hollows of the calyx-tube and opposite to the sta- 
mens (sometimes? wanting). FEw. Abortive filaments as in the male (al- 
ways? present). Fruit-stalk elongated. : 
1103. (2) M. palmata (Lam. :) leaves from cordate acuminated (on young ~— 
plants) to palmately 3-5-lobed, glabrous, with two flat glands at the base 
and one below page geste between the lobes: stipules hardening and horn- 
like : male and female flowers both with 5 abortive short filaments placed 
within the gibbosities of the calyx-tube: capsule globular.—Lam. enc. meth. 
4. p. 209 ; Take, in Skriv. naturh. Selsk. Kiovenhag. 6. p. 103; DC. prod. 3. 
. P. 336 ; Spr. syst. 3. p. 45 ; Wall.! L. n. 6762 ; Wight! cat. n. 1156.—M. tube- 
rosa, Roxb. fi. Ind. 3. p. 134.—M. integrifolia, Lam. l. c; DC. l. e.; Spr. 
l. e—Rheed; Mal. 8. t. 20, 21, 22, 23.—— Courtallum. Malabar. 
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