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column ; nectary round the column, is confined by the base ; the 

 column comes to the bottom of it. It is a native of the West India 

 Islands. 



If this does not equal the previous sorts in elegance, it exceeds them 

 in magnificence, in brilliancy of coloring, and in fragrance, the flow- 

 ers being highly odoriferous, and one of the most delightful of all 

 climbing plants. 



Passijlorn laurifolia. Laurel-leaved Passion-flower, or Water 

 Lemon. This species has a suffrutescent stem, with many divari- 

 cating, filiform branches ; the leaves are a little emarginate at the 

 base, nerved, and very smooth, on short petioles compressed a little, 

 having two glands under the base of the leaf ; the tendrils are very 

 long ; the peduncles the length of the petioles ; the three leaflets of 

 the involucre are roundish, concave, with blunt glandular toothlets 

 about the edge, and pale ; the five leaflets of the calyx are broad- 

 lanceolate, slightly membranaceous at the edge, horned with a point 

 or awn, smooth, variegated on the inside with blood-red dots ; petals 

 five, the length of the calyx, narrower, accuminate, with blood-red 

 dots scattered over them ; the flowers are very handsome and odor- 

 iferous, but the fruit is ovate and watery. It flowers in June and 

 July, and is a native of Jamaica. 



Passijiora mullijlora. Many-flowered Passion-flower. In this 

 species the stalks are very slender, .sending out many small branches, 

 and climbing to the height of twenty-five or thirty feet; by age they 

 become woody towards the bottom, and their joints are not far 

 apart ; the leaves are on slender, short petioles, three and a half 

 inches long and about two broad in the middle, rounded at the base, 

 but terminating in a point at the top, smooth, entire, and of a lively 

 green color ; the flowers are axillary, on long peduncles, having an 

 agreeable odor, but seldom continuing twenty-four hours open. 

 There is a succession of them from June to September, and the fruit 

 will sometimes ripen in this climate. It grows naturally in the 

 neighborhood of Vera Cruz. 



