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GLEANINGS AND OKIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
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East they are preserved without sugar, being merely JrieJ in the sun, wlien they are exported from one part of t!ie 
Archipelago to another, and cured in salt when sent to Europe. " In the West Indies," says the lamented Dr. MTadyon, 
^* the pulp is usually packed in small kegs between layers of sugar, and hot syrup is poured on the whole. In order to 
enable them to keep without fermentation for a length of time, the first sjTUp, which is very acid, is poured off, an.1 a 
second is added. A very excellent preserve is imported from Curayoaj made from the unripe pods, preserved in sugar 
with the addition of spices,*' The seeds are eaten in India in times of scarcity, by the poorer classes, the very astringent 
Bot. Mag,, t. 4563. 
taste 
294, Passiflora penduliflora. Bertero. A green-flowered climber^ of no beauty, from 
Jamaica. Blossoms at Kew iu Spring and Summer. , 
Though destitute of the varied colouring of many of the species of the genus, there is a grace and elegance in this 
plant that render it an object well worthy of cultivation : the flowers are very copious, and hang downwards from 
peduncles much longer than the leaves, 
and tlwse leaves are very singular in 
shape. We received our plants from 
the island of Jamaica, where, indeed, , it 
would appear to he very common. A 
climbing smooth shrub, with the young 
branches herbaceous and striated. Leaves 
numerous, close together, on very short 
petioles, varying a good deal in shape; but 
the general form is that of half an ellipsis 
approaching to cuneate, truncate, but 
more or less distinctly three-iobed, with 
three setae, three-uerved, with a row of 
five or six glands on each side the muirib. 
Peduncles single-flowered, pendulous, 
jointed, and with two minute bi-acteoles 
above the base. Flower drooping, pale 
yellow-green. Calyx-tube hemispherical, 
ten-lobed : the five lobes of the limb 
oblong, very acute. Petals resembling 
the calyx-lobes, but a little longer, Nec- 
tai'iferous crown, deep orange, of from 
twelve to fourteen, short, nearly erect, 
club-shaped rays.— i?u^. Mag.^ i. 4565. 
295. PoxERA STRIATA. LiudL 
A grassy-leaved Epipli}ie of no 
beauty. 
Flowers pale green 
Belongs to Orcluds. Kative of 
Guatemala. (Fig. 149*) 
This little-known plant has never been 
figured, although not uncommon in gar- 
dens. It has long grassy leaves upon a 
stem about two feet high; and, when old, 
tlu-ows out its flowers chiefly from the old 
leafless branches. The flowers are pale 
watery green, not unlike those of some 
Maxillaria, especially in the extended 
column -base with which the 
lip 
IS 
jointed ; but the pollen-masses have the 
pulverulent caudicles of an Epidendrum, 
The lip is truncate as it were, and two- 
lobed, the one lobe^ over-lapping the, 
other. Two other species are known 
