312 LIII. PASSIFLOREX. [ Passiflora. 
. P. Banksii, Benth. Quite glabrous. Leaves broad, usually under 
Sin in. long, with 3 "broad obtuse lobes rarely divided to the middle of the 
leaf, and each lobe occasionally sinuate or more or less distinctly 2- or 3- 
lobed, the petiole with 2 glands very near r the summit, very rarely obscure or 
altogether AR Flowers rather large, sometimes pale when they first 
open but soon assuming a brick-red or dull scarlet colour, on pedice 
shorter Zeg the leaves, with 2 or 3 scattered setaceous bracteoles at or below 
the middle. Calyx x-lobes about 33 in. long or rather more. Petals narrow, 
scarcely more than half as long as the calyx-lobes. pee corona broadly 
tale, slightly contracted, plicate and shortly lobed at the orifice; outer 
corona about the same length, of a single row of filaments. Ovary-stalk 
ach than the petals, shorter than the calyx-lobes.—P. ge Soland. in 
Herb. Banks, not of Aubl.; Disemma coccinea, DC. Prod. iii. 333. 
Que stan ns Endeavour river, Banks and Solander, A. Cunni See: Keppel Bay, 
R. Bro irap, H, river, apt Bay; 4. Cunningham and others. Islands of the 
coast, Ar Gilli ne. : 
The s "^ Go con resembles the original P. aurantia, Forst., or Disemma aurantia, 
Labill. Sert. Austr. Caled. t. 79, from New Caledonia, as well as P. adiantifolia, indl 
Bot. Reg, t. 233 (Murucuja Baueri, Lindl. Collect. Bot. t. 36, Disemma adiantifolia, DC 
E 33), from Norfolk Island, the former differing only in the petiolar gla urther 
from the limb the eoles nearer the flower, and the latter in e E of petiolar 
glan ope it seems doubtful whether the petiolar glands are consta for in 
nA 
a specimen of Macarthur’s, communicated by Backhouse, without the Kc station, bat 
stated to be from Australia, they are certainly entirely wanting. 
3. P. brachystephana, P Muell. Glabrous, like P. Banksii, Leaves 
smaller but otherwise precisely the same. Flowers also differing only in size. 
Calyx under 1 in. long. Petals less than half as long. Corona very short, — 
but otherwise like that of P. Banksii.— Disemma drachysteplama, F. F. Muell d 
i. 66. de 
ensland. b on the quee F. Muel not 
ere was but a wei expanded flower on the sat mens, and in that the petals =? : 
w, but on examining a bud, I found the viech pen asin P. Banksit. The sp : 
wil require verifying on better specimen 
2. MODECCA, Lam. 
Flowers unisexual. Calyx-tube short, — or elongated. Petals 
small, especially iu the females. Stamens as many a ein usually 
with a small scale opposite to each, free or united at the base, reduced H 
the females to small staminodia, or wanting. Ovary rudimentary ch the males, 
more or less stalked in the female 
or nearly so, or on a 3-fid style. Capsule inflated, coriaceous Or thin, 
or less dehiscent in 3 valves. Seeds with a small cup-shaped aril.—T 
climbers. ad es ` or roe or pinnately lobed or divided; [ 
often inconspicuo Flowers usually very small, white or green, ID o 
or racemes, on exilbary peduncles, the rhachis produced into a simple -— 
The genus extends over tropical Africa and Asia. The uy Australian species 
be gie, although very nearly r E one from Khas 
n DO. Prod. ii. 337. 
1. M. australis, A. climber extending 
greatly amongst Vs ERA (4. DEM. quite ER Leaves 
