PASSIFLOR ACE^. 1 63 



or acuminate, tapering to the base, thick, dotted with 

 translucent dots and streaks ; petiole % inch, blade 2 to 

 3^^ inches by l to 2 inches. Flowers in the axils of the 

 present or fallen leaves pedicels ^ inch. Calyx i/io inch, 

 glabrous, with four to five round, concave lobes. Stamens 

 eight, with minute, round anthers ; mixed with shorter 

 oblong staminodes, villous at the top. Ovary one-celled, 

 with one very short style : ovules many on parietal pla- 

 centas. Fruit orange-yellow, glabrous, their i/s inch 

 stalks jointed near the base and marked there by a raised 

 ring ; at first fleshy, but opening when dry in three thick 

 valves. Seeds many, covered by a large red fleshy and 

 lacerate aril. 



Kodaikanal downs in Gundattu shola probably planted. 

 Bourne 937. 



Gen. Dist. On the Western Ghats from Bombay southwards, Ceylon, 

 and the Malaya peninsula. 



Vernacular name, Vella Kunnan^ Malayalam ; Mori Mar. 



PASSIFLORACE/E. 



A family of some 300 species the greater number 

 belonging to the genus. 



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Passion-flower, 

 Shrubs or herbs, twiners or tendril-climbers. Leaves 

 simple, entire or lobed, stipulate, stalked. Flowers soli- 

 tary or in cymes peduncled in the leaf-axils, with three 

 bracteoles. Sepals, petals and stamens five. Ovary and 

 stamens borne on a stalk well above the rest, and this 

 stalk surrounded at the base by a single or double corona, 

 composed of a membranous cup and a ring or rings 

 of slender filaments. Anthers oblong, unusually large* 

 versatile. Ovary one-celled, with three parietal placen- 

 tas : style with three branches- Fruit a berry. 



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