Passiflora.] lxiv. passiflorace^. 839 



It is a native of South America. (King, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 Ixxi. (2). p. 49.) 



Climbing plants. 



Flowers bisexual, spreading ; fruit a berry . . . i. Passiflora 



Flowers unisexual ; fruit a capsule . . . .2. Adenia 



Tree, bisexual; petals and stamens 5 ; fruit a capsule . 3. Paropsia 



1. PASSIFLORA, Linn. 



Twining herbs or half shrubby plants. Leaves simple or lobed. 

 Stipules filiform or leafy. Flowers solitary or in cymes, peduncled 

 often showy. Calyx-tube fleshy, 5-lobed. Petals 5 from throat 

 of calyx-tube. Corona of one or more rows of filaments. Gyno- 

 phore surrounded at base by a shallow cup. Stamens 5 ; anthers 

 oblong. Ovary i-celled ; styles 3. Stigmas reniform, capitate. 

 Fruit, a berry with numerous arillate seeds. Species about 250, 

 chiefly South American. Only one species is native here and 

 another thoroughly established as an alien. Several South American 

 species are in cultivation here, and some have more or less established 

 themselves as garden escapes. 



(i) P. Horsfieldii Blume, Rtimphia i. 170, t. 52 ; Kinq, I.e. 50. 



Slender climber. Leaves membranous oval or oblong ovate 

 sub-acute, base rounded and minutely emarginate, glabrous; 

 nerves 5 pairs, 4 to 6 in. long, 2-5 to 3-25 in. wide ; petioles -6 to 

 •9 in. long, with two oval glands near middle. Inflorescence 2 in. 

 long, axillary 5-flowered. Flowers white 1-25 to 1-5 in. wide; 

 pedicels -4 in. long. Fruit sub-globular, -75 in. through. Hab. 

 Forests, not common. Pahang, Kwala Lipis (Machado). Perak, 

 Goping; Larut (Kunstler). Distrih. Java. 



(2) P. foetida Linn. Sp. PI. 959. 



Slender climber, hairy. Leaves thin, trilobed hairy, 2-5 to 

 3-5 in. long, 1-5 to 3 in. wide, base cordate; petioles hairy i in. 

 long. Flower solitary, axillary, 1-25 in. across, white with a 

 fimbriate sticky involucre of 3 leaves. Fruit globose, -75 in. 

 through, orange enclosed in the green involucre. Native of South 

 America, now thoroughly established all over the peninsula in open 

 country. Singapore, Selangor, Pahang, Perak. First record 

 Malacca, Cuming 1841. The plant was extensively used at one 

 time for killing Lalang grass by climbing over and smothering it. 

 Native names : Lang Buluh ; K'rang Kraut ; Letop-Letop ; Timun 

 Dindang; Timun Padang. 



Occasional Escapes 



P. quadrangularis Linn. 



A large plant with soft 4-angled stems and large entire light 

 green leaves. Flowers 3 to 5 in. across, purple banded with white. 

 Fruit pale green, oblong, 8 in. long. The Granadilla. 



