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small, of a greenish yellow colour: the fruit egg-shaped, dark purple 

 wlien ripe. It is perennial, and a native of the West Indies, flower- 

 ing from June to September. 



In the sixteenth species the stalks rise twenty feet high, dividing 

 into many slender branches, covered with a soft hairy down: the 

 leaves are shaped like the point of a halbert, three inches long, and 

 an inch and half Avide at the base, light green, soft and silky to the 

 touch, standing obliquely to the foot-stalks: the flowers are not half 

 so large as those of the common or blue Passion-flower; the fruit 

 small, roundish, yellow when ripe, leaves ovale, tomentose on both 

 sides: lateral lol:)cs short; with an obsolete gland underneath behind 

 the sinus of the lobe. It grows naturally at La Vera Cruz, flowering 

 most part of the summer. 



In the seventeenth, the whole plant is very smooth and even: the 

 leaves glaucous underneath, undotled: the petioles furnished with 

 two or four glands below the middle: the stipules acute, quite en- 

 tire, more than half an inch in length: the flowers are sweet. It is 

 a native of Cayenne. - 



The eighteenth species has the stem twining, simple, becoming 

 corky at the base with age, round, smooth: the leaves suljpeltate, 

 subcordale : lateral lobes almost horizontal ; all acute, nerved, 

 snu)oth on both sides : the petioles short, round, reflex, smooth : 

 the glands two, opposite, small, sessile, concave, brown, in the mid- 

 dle of the petioles : the stipules two, opposite, awl-shaped, by 

 the side of the petioles: the tendrils long, between the petioles: 

 peduncles axillary, solitary, longer than the petioles, loose, one- 

 flowered : the flowers small, Avhilish : the berry small, blue, egg 

 shaped. 



Culture. — In all the sorts it is either by seeds, layers, or cuttings, 

 according to the kinds. 



The fust or hardy sort is capable of being raised either by seeds, 

 layers, or cuttings: the seed should be sown in the early spring, as 

 March, in large pots, half an inch deep, either plunging them in a 

 warm border, and as the weather becomes warm moving them to the 





