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bearing three ovate bracts, 1/5 inch below the flower. 



Calyx-tube J^ to % inch wide by ^ to % inch deep 



(long) : sepals ^A ^Y Yd, inch, green imbricate, with a 



spur or horn, J4 inch long a little below the end. Petals 



hardly as long, oblong obtuse, pure white but for the 



greenish midrib. Corona, an outer set of slender 



filaments, white with purple base and blue tips; and 



an inner set of much shorter ones which fit closely 



round the central column and cover a honey-secreting 



circular channel formed by the dipping downwards of 



the calyx-tube. Ovary egg-shaped green with a slight 



bloom : stylar arms spreading upwards and outwards, 



and ending in large two-lobed stigmas. 1. 120. 



A garden escape. Nilgiris : near Ootacamund and Nadu- 

 vattum. Flowering March to May. Fyso?i 1695. 



A native of Madas;ascar belonging to the section granadilla of the 

 genus. 



Passiflora cdulis Sims. ; I 4 ; edible Passion fruit ; 

 a native of Brazil has gone wild below Kodaikanal and 

 near Ootacamund. t. 121. Bot Mag. t. 1989. 



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Melon J Marrow, Pumpkin, Bryony, etc. 

 Weak stemmed, often scabrid herbs, climbing by 

 tendrils, which may be simple or branched and usually 

 spring from a little to one side of a leaf-axil. Leaves 

 stalked, lobed but not compound. Flowers white or 

 yellow, unisexual, monoecious (both kinds on the same 

 plant) or dioecious. Petals often quite united. Stamens 

 typically five ; more often apparently only three, two 

 having two anthers each (i.e., a pair fused), one single : 

 anthers rigid on the filaments, straight or doubled in 

 an " S " curve. Ovary inferior, one-celled with three 

 parietal placentas. Fruit a berry with firm rind and 

 enlarged juicy placentas : seeds many, flat. 



