840 Lxiv. PASSIFLORACE.E. [Passiflora. 



p. LAURIFOLIA Liun. 



A long slender slightly woody climber, not 4-angled. Leaves 

 sub-coriaceous oblong, dark green. Flowers violet 3 in. across. 

 Fruit egg-shaped and as big as an egg, yellow with 2 persistent 

 green leafy bracts at the base. Native name : Buah Susu. The 

 best eating passion-fruit. It is cultivated and has run wild in 

 Singapore and Malacca. 



P. SUBEROSA Lviii. 



A very small species with lobed leaves, small, green flowers 

 ^ in. across and sub-globose ; purple fruit, -5 in. long. Occurs 

 as an escape in Tanglin, Singapore. 



P. EDULis Sims. 



With trilobed serrate leaves, given by King, I.e., as the Grana- 

 dilla, and as an alien here, has often been planted in gardens, where 

 it rarely, if ever, flowers, and has never been known by me to fruit. 

 It cannot be counted even as an alien escape. 



2. ADENIA, Forsk. 



Long slender climbers, sometimes woody at base. Leaves 

 entire (lobed in other countries) with circular glands on the petiole. 

 Cymes axillary on long peduncles. Flowers tubular, green, uni- 

 sexual. Male flowers, calyx tubular or campanulate, 5-lobed. 

 Petals 5 from the tube. Corona a ring of threads from near the 

 base of the tube or absent. Disc-glands 5, opposite the calyx- 

 lobes, strap-shaped or capitate. Stamens 5, connate in a ring at 

 the base of the tube ; anthers linear. Females as in males with 

 staminodes connate at base, no anthers. Ovary globose, sessile 

 or stalked. Stigmas 3. Fruit capsular, 3-valved, red. Seeds 

 black, pitted or warted, suspended by long white funicles. Species 

 40, Old World tropics. 



Leaves lanceolate acuminate, minutely peltate . (i) A. nicobarica 



Leaves ovate, base cordate . . . . . (2) A. populifolia 



Leaves shortly narrowed at base, not cordate oblong. 



Leaves thin; peduncles 2 to 4 in. long . . (3) A. acuminata 



Leaves rigid, pale beneath . . . . (4) A. singaporeana 



Leaves 4 to 6 in. long, sub-coriaceous; panicle 



1-5 in. long (5) A. grandifolia 



(i) A. nicobarica King, I.e. 52. Modecca nicobarica Kurz, 

 Joiirn. Bot. 1875, p. 327; Masters, in Hook. fil. F.B.I, ii. 603. 



Very slender, wiry climber. Leaves membranous, elliptic- 

 oblong or lanceolate, base round peltate, acuminate at tip ; nerves 

 4 pairs inarching, 2-5 to 4-5 in. long, -6 to i-8 in. wide; petioles 

 •4 to -8 in. long; peduncles 1-5 in. long with a tendril and i to 2 

 flowers. Flowers -4 in. long, green. Males, calyx campanulate, 

 deeply 5-lobed; lobes hnear acute. Petals shorter oblanceolate 

 truncate ; anthers as large, oblong, blunt cordate, tube of filaments 



