Tab. 36. 
MURUCUJA BAUERI. 
Nar. Orv. Passifloree, Juss. : Lanny. Syst. Monadelphia Pentandria. 
‘4 . “ 2 . ; | ie: X s . . 
MURUCUJA, Tourn., Juss. Calyx Passifloree coloratus, urceolo preterea subttis sulcato. Corona interior non 
multipartita et triplex, sed simplex indivisa erecta tubuloso-conica truncata circa germinis stipitem connivens. 
Cetera omnino ut in Passifloréd. Juss. gen. plant. 398. 
Murucuja foliis trilobis subtts sparsim glandulosis: lobis oblongis retusis medio productiore, bracteis stipulisque 
setaceis, radiis filiformibus corona plicata longioribus, disco 5-lobo. 
Descr. Caulis volubilis, subangulatus, glaber. Stipule setacee. Folia triloba, retusa, venosa, lobis oblongis, subundu- 
latis: medio productiore, subtts glandulis sparsis ; pedunculi graciles apice glandula 1, reniformi, v. nulla. Flores solitarii, 
axillares, primtm pallidi, albi, demim aurantiaci. Bractee setacer. Calycis tubus urceolatus, pentagonus ; lacinie carinate, 
inequales, subundulate, apice obtuse, extis virides margine aurantiaco. Petala qualia, patentia, plana, subundulata. 
#adius multipartitus, sanguineus, serie simplici, corona longior. Corona conica, plicata, apice fimbriata. Discus 5-lobus, ad 
basin stipitis. Fructus sanguinei, ovati, carnosi, uniloculares, polyspermi. Semina oblonga, cristata, foveata, arillo carnoso 
luteo inclusa. 
The drawing from which we have been permitted by the Council of the Horticultural Society to copy our repre- 
sentation of this fine plant, forms part of a magnificent illustration of the order Passifloree, of which Mr. Ferdinand 
Bauer has commenced the execution. It was found by himself in Norfolk Island, during the expedition under 
Captain Flinders, sent by the Government of this country to examine the coasts of New Holland. We feel great 
satisfaction in honouring it with the name of a botanist who is not less distinguished by his scientific acquirements, 
than by the consummate skill he possesses in the art of botanical drawing; of which the Flora Greca of 
Dr. Sibthorp, the figures appended to the Atlas of Captain Flinders’s Voyage, his own Illustrationes Flore Nove 
Hollandie, and our Digitalium Monographia, afford the most abundant proofs. 
There are two species of Murucwa already published under the names of Passiflora adiantifolia and P. aurantia, 
which have considerable resemblance to this species; and there are said to be several undescribed ones from the 
same quarter of the world with nearly similar features. From Murucuja adiantifolia, its leaves without side lobes, 
its corona with numerous plicatures, the length of the radial divisions, &c. distinguish it. From Murucuja aurantia, 
it appears from specimens in the Banksian Herbarium, and from Forster’s unpublished drawings in the same col- 
fection, to be distinguished by the shortness of the rays of that species, and the less degree of bluntness of its leaves: 
it also seems that the segments of the calyx are more winged towards their base. 
We have no hesitation in adopting the genus Murucwa of Tournefort and Jussieu ; and we are confirmed in our 
opinion of the propriety of doing so, by finding that our friend M. De Candolle intends to preserve it in his Mono- 
graph of the order which will appear in the next volume of his elaborate Regni vegetabilis Systema naturale. We 
are ourselves disposed to think. that Passzlora, as it at present stands, is susceptible of being divided into several 
genera, or, atleast, that the structure of those curious modifications of petals which, under the form of rays, 
corona, operculum, &c. contribute the greater part of its beauty to the flower, will afford much better characters for 
division than those from the leaves, which have hitherto been generally adopted. Passiflora perfoliata is certainly a 
very strong genus, distinguished by its abbreviated ray and corona bent downwards, so as to line the sides of the 
interior of the tube of the calyx. In fact, it 1s more nearly related to Tacsonia than either to Murucwa or to 
Passiflora. 
EIXPLANATION OF THE PLATE, 
1. Section ofa flower. 2. The corona laid open, showing the discus. 3,4. Stigma. 5, Transverse section of the fruit. 
6. Seed in the arillus. 7. Seed deprived of its arillus. 8. Section of the latter. 
