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PASSIFLORA* ligularis. 



Strapped Passion-flower. 



MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Passifloue^. 

 PASSIFLORA. — Supra, vol. 1. fol. 13. 



Sect. 6. Granadilla. Dec. mem. soc. gen. 1. part 2. p. 435. Prodr, 

 3. 327. — Anthactinia. Bory de St. Vincent ann. gen. 2. 138. 



Involucrum sub flore triphyllum, foliolis integris dentatisve non laciniatis. 

 Calyx 10-lobus. Pedicelli uniflori et cirrhi simplices ex iisdem axillis. Dec. 



* Foliis integris. 

 P. ligularis; involucro sub flore triphyllo : foliolis ovatis serratis, foliis glabris 



cordatis integerrimis, petiolis glandulas subsex filiformi-clavatas gerenti- 



bus, stipulis ovato-acuminatis, pedunculis solitariis unifloris. Hooker in 



hot. mag. 2967. 

 P. ligularis. Juss. ann. mus. 6. t. 40. Humb. Bonpl. et Kunth nov. gen. 



et sp. 2. 12S. Kunth synopsis 2. 433. Decand. prodr. 3. 328. 



This fine species belongs to a tribe of Passion-flowers, 

 known in America by the name of Granadillas, which 

 they acquired from the Spaniards in consequence of 

 the resemblance borne by their fruit to the Grenade or 

 Pomegranate. The three that are most commonly culti- 

 vated for the sake of this fruit, which is a kind of melon 

 filled with numerous seeds, immersed in a quantity of 

 pleasant subacid pulp, are P. quadrangularis, edulis, and 

 alata ; Passif. laurifolia and maliformis are also sometimes 

 grown, but they are less esteemed. This kind is nearly 

 related to the two first, from which it is known both by 

 the absence of angles or wings from its stem, and by the 



* The ingenuity of some of the old Botanists discovered in these beautiful 

 flowers an emblem of the passion of our Saviour ; the filamentous pro- 

 cesses were the crown of thorns dripping with blood, and the stamens were 

 the cross. 



