NAT. ORDER: 

 Passiflorecb. 



PASSIFLORA KERMESINA. CRIMSON PASSION-FLOWER, 



Class XVL MoNADELPHiA. Order II. Pentandria. 



Gen. Cliar. Tube of the Calyx short. Tliroat none. Berry pulpy. 



Spc. Char. Calyx on both sides crimson-red. Petioles slender. 

 Segments ten. Stigmas club-shaped. Filaments of a dark 

 purple. 



The stems are slender, branched, climbing, and rise, when sup- 

 ported, from ten to thirty feet in fieight ; the petioles are cordate, 

 three-lobed, glabrous, and also every other part of the plant ; lobes 

 nearly equal, oval, obtuse, here and there glandulosa-dentate, green 

 above and purple beneath ; thejietioles are also slender, bearing tvs'o 

 or three elongated, dark-purple glands ; from the axil a simple ten- 

 dril arises, and from each side at the base, a large, semi-cordate, 

 obtuse stipule, of the same color and texture as the leaves ; the calyx, 

 which is on both sides, is of a crimson-red ; the segments ten, uni- 

 form, narrow-oblong, at first horizontal, afterwards reflexed, and 

 whitish at their base ; they are combined below into a short tube, 

 swollen at the base ; at tiie mouth of this tube is a filamentous 

 croim of several series of nearly erect, dark-purple filaments, the 

 outer ones paler at the extremity — within this is another and smaller 

 circle of white filaments, united for the greater part of their length 

 into a conicle tube ; column much elongated : stigmas club-shaped. 



The real name of the floral envelopes of this remarkable order, is 

 a question upon which botanists entertain very different opinions : 



Vol. iv.— 13G. 



