40. 



PASSIFLORA C^RULEA-RACEMOSA. 



Whitley's Hybrid Passion-Flower. 



MONADELPHIA. PeNTANDRIA. 



Class 16. Order 2. 



Passiflora ; formerly called Flos Fassionis, from a fancy that all tlie 

 instruments of our Saviour's Passion were displayed in the flower, 



Linn. gen. n. 1021. Hort. Soc. Trans. 



GENERIC CHARACTER, 



Cal. Perianth five-parted_, flat, coloured. Cor. Petals five, semi-lan- 

 ceolate, flat, blunt, of the same size and form with the calyx, 

 Stam. Filaments five, awl-shaped, fastened to a column at the base 

 of the germ, and united at the bottom, spreading. Anthers incum- 

 bent, oblong, blunt. Fist. Germ roundish, placed on the apex of 

 a straight cylindrical column. Styles three, thicker above, spread- 

 ing. Stigmas capitate. Fer. Berry fleshy, subovate, one-celled, 

 pedicelled. Seeds very many, ovate, arilled. Recept. of the seeds 

 triple, growing longitudinally to the rind of the pericarp. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 



Leaves 3 — 5 -parted. Segments thinly lanceolate, leathery, sharp at 

 the point. Cabjx of lanceolate segments, loose and keeled. 



Steini flexuose, climbing, round, and of a bright green with 

 a partial tinge of red : it throws out tendrils, by which it 

 attaches itself to whatever it reaches. Leaves three-lobed, of 

 a dark green above, but paler underneath, and strongly marked 



