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Water Lemon ; 9- i*. multifiora. Many-flowered Passion-flower ; 

 10. P. rubra, Ivcd-friiiled Passion-flower; 11. i*. Munintja, Moon- 

 shaped-Ieaved Passion-flower; 12. P. Fesperti/io, IJal-winged Pas- 

 sion-flower; 13. P.iviuii(/ifol/a, Uound-leaved Passion-flower; 14. P- 

 ciliata. Ciliated Passion-flower; 1.5. F. subvrosa, Cork-l)arked Pas- 

 sion-flower; l6. P. holosericea. Silky-leaved Passion-flower; 17. P. 

 glattca, Glaucous-leaved Passion-flower; 18. P. ininiiiw, Tiwiu-f Pas- 

 sion-flower. 



The first rises in a few years to a great height, witii proper sup- 

 port: it may be trained up more than forty feet high: the stalks will 

 grow almost as large as a man's arm, and arc covered with a purplish 

 bark, but do not become very woody: the shoots often grow to the 

 length of twelve or fifteen feet in one summer, and being very slen- 

 der, must be supported, otherwise they will hang to the ground* 

 intermix with each other, and appear very unsightly: at each joint 

 is one leaf composed of five smooth entire lobes; the middle one, 

 which is longest, almost four inches long, and one inch broad in the 

 middle; the others are gradually shorter, and the two outer lobes are 

 frequently divided on their outer side into two smaller ones: their 

 foot-stalks are near two inches long, and have two embracing stipules 

 at their base; and from the same point issues a long elasper or ten- 

 dril; the flowers come out at the same joint with the leaves, on pe- 

 duncles almost three inches long; they arc blue, have a faint scent, 

 and continue only one day: the fruit is egg-shaped, the size and 

 shape of the Mogul-plum, and when ripe of the same yellow colour. 

 It grows naturally in Brazil. 



There is a variety with much narrower lobes, divided almost lo 

 the bottom: the flowers come later in the summer: the petals are 

 narrower, and of a purer white colour. 



The second species has a perennial root: the stalks are annual, 

 slender, rising four or five feet high: at eacli joint one leaf, on a short 

 foot stalk, having mostly three oblong lobes, but the two side ones 

 are sometimes divided part of their length into two narrow seg- 

 ments, and thus becoming five-lobed; they are thin, of a light green, 

 and slightly serrate: the flowers are produced from the joints of the. 



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