GLEANINGS 
ORIGINAL 
MEMORANDA. 
132. Passiflora MedtjsjEa. 
mmre. 
A stove species of unknown 
and yellow flowers. 
Houtte. 
ongm, with 
Introduced 
(Fig. 59.) 
One of the slit-leaved species, with a slender 
habit, and pretty starry flowers, the rays of 
which are orange the first day, and lilac or 
rose the next. According to M. Lemaire, 
who named it on account of * quelque ressem- 
blance avec la tete de la fille de Phorcus, 
apres que ses cheveux eussent eti changes en 
serpents par Minerve," these flowers have a 
strong penetrating odour in which there is 
nothing disagreeable. But M. Planchon, 
whose nose seems to be differently constituted, 
asserts that this smell, which becomes percep- 
tible at the period of the change of colour, 
is most disgusting.— Flore des Sevres, 528. 
133. CUPHEA CINyABARINA. Pkm- 
don. A lialf-shrubb} 
Guatemala, belonging to the order of 
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