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Passijlora rubra. Red-fruitccl Passion-flower. This spec'es has 

 an herbaceous stem, twining round, grooved, hirsute, and red ; the 

 lobes of the leaves entire, nerved, somewhat hispid and soft; the 

 petioles are round, red, villose, and without glands ; the tendrils sub- 

 axillary ; the flowers alternate, nodding, on solitary, one-flowered 

 peduncles; the fruit spherical, marked with six lines, scarlet, when 

 ripe hirsute. It is a native of the West Indies, flowering in April 

 and iMay. 



Passijlora murucuza. Moon-shaped-leav-ed Passion-flower. This 

 species has an herbaceous, grooved, smooth stem ; the leaves ovate 

 or oblong, two-horned, with an intermediate bristle, three-nerved, 

 veined, smooth, entire; dots on the back hollowed, pellucid ; the 

 petioles grooved, smooth, destitute of glands ; the tendrils sub-axil- 

 lary, filiform, and long; the flowers stand in pairs, they are axillary, 

 large, and of a scarlet color ; the berry is ovate^ about the size of a 

 pigeon's egg, and pedicelled. It is a native of the West Indies. 



Passijlora vcspcrtUio. Bat-winged Passion-flower. This species 

 has several striated, roundish stalks, somewhat less than a straw in 

 size, of the same tliickness from top to bottom, and of a brownish 

 red color, dividing into many slender branches; the leaves shaped 

 like the wings of a bat when extended, about seven inches in length, 

 or rather breadth, from the base to the top not more than two inches 

 and a half, tiie upper ones smaller, the middle wider, and the lower 

 narrow^er, smooth and somewhat shining — the color in the upper ones 

 pale, in the middle deeper, in the lower darker green, with two purple 

 tubercles or glands towards the base, where they are connected with 

 the petiole, which is set half an incli from the base of the leaf, thret 

 nerves springing from it, two extending each way to the narrow 

 points of the leaf, the other rising upright to the top, where there is 

 the greatest length of the leaf ; the flowers are on short round pe- 

 duncles from the axils of the middle and upper leaves, white and of 

 a middling size, and about three inches in diameter when expanded ; 

 they are without scent, open in the evening or during the night, in 



