LIIT. PASSIFLORES. 31i. 
F po or unisexual, solitary or in cymes or racemes, on ee — 
Së ften accompanying or terminating the pedun 
The Order is dispersed over a den ae nin en regions of the New and the Old 
| World. Of the two Australian merican, with the exception of a few Old 
1 World species, the other is Afri ican an Asi 
_ Flowers usually large, hermaphrodite. daba or several Wach of coloured 
filaments or appendages forming a corona within the petals id are es 
; ` Powers small, u nisexual. Petals small or none. Caras small ornone. 2. MODE 
1. PASSIFLORA, Linn. 
(Disemma, Labill. ; ahak Pers.) 
x stigmas. Fruit succulent or ee indehiscent, or ópenitig iem y 
it 3 valves.—Climbers with axillary tendrils. Leaves entire or palmately- 
-lobed or divided. Flowers usually hermaphrodite, the calyx-lobes coloured 
1 ep Eno or quite as much as the petals. 
E erous in tropical or Prom America, with a very few from Africa, 
: Er the Pacific i islands. The thre stralian ones are supposed to be endemic, and 
|" probably really so, another is Ge a variety only of a New Caledonia nian Gg 
a ird is as yet insufficiently known. es all belong to the section Disemma 
a Ra 48 a genus, distinguished by the number of rings of the corona—in Muru "y 
| taken ma 2, in other Pussifloras 3 Ge more; but this E proves too artificial A P» 
other m of more than sectional value ing ü paccompanied by any difference in habit o 
i in In e Aust iia (ch gr filaments ot the inner corona are uni ited 
aracters all th 
: ie 1 erenate or shortly lobed riff or 
: Pubescent -lobes rather Sata reli ring of the corona con- e 
S nivent or contracted at. at the top . 1. P. Herbertiana. 
es tp obes usually obtuse. Inner ring « of the ‘corona 
E scarcely contracted at th 
vam "D 11 x mS.. Ee 3. P. MR 
erbe ertiana, Lindi. Bot. Reg. t. 737. A tall robust climber, 
‘tore or li] pubescent. Teaved broad, truncate or slightly cordate at the. 
: larger than in P. Banksii, often 3 in. long or more, with 3 broad trian- 
ma Herbertiana, DC. Pro 
j, Priebene Se, Moreton Bay, Fraser . 
Port Jackson and e Tike Inlet, R. Brown; New England, C. 
"s Beggen 
