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PASSIFLORA CINCINNATA. 



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illustration is borrowed from the account of the plant given a short time since 

 in the Gardeners' Chronicle. 



We have here a valuable addition to our greenhouse climbers. The plant has 

 smooth, cylindrical stems, furnished with stalked, digitate, or palmatisect, deep 

 green leaves, cut into five smooth, coriaceous, oblong obtuse lobes, and bearing 

 solitary flowers, in its leaf axils. The involucel consists of three broadly ovate, 

 concave, green, softly pubescent bracts, and the expanded flower measures about 

 four inches in diameter, the calyx lobes and petals being whitish, sprinkled with 



violet-coloured spots, and the corona consisting of several rows of thread-like 

 processes, the outermost longer than the sepals, twisted and curling like ringlets, 

 whence the name, and marked at the base with alternating concentric bands 

 of purple and white, but of a uniform violet hue elsewhere. The beauty of the 

 deep glossy leaves, and the rich purple of the singularly twisted rays of the 

 coronet recommend it for general cultivation, and deservedly secured for it a 

 first-class certificate when exhibited before the Floral Committee. Under Mr. 

 Frost's care the plant thrives in a cool greenhouse, and for the decoration of such 

 structures we heartily recommend it. M. 



