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s'ender branches, corered with a soft hairy down ; the leaves are 

 shaped like the point of a halbert, three inches long and an inch and 

 a half wide at the base, light green, soft and silky to the touch, 

 standing obliquely to the foot-stalks ; the flowers are not half so 

 long as those of the common or blue Passion-flower ; the fruit small, 

 roundish, yellow w^hen ripe ; leaves ovate, tomentose on both sides: 

 lateral lobes short, with an absolete gland underneath, behind the 

 sinus of the lobe. It grows naturally at Vera Cruz, flowering 

 nearly all the summer months. 



Passiflora glauca. Glauceous-leaved Passion-flower. In this 

 species the whole plant is very smooth and even ; the leaves glau- 

 ceous underneath, and undotted ; the petioles furnished with two or 

 four glands below the middle ; the stipules acute, quite entire, more 

 than half an inch in length ; the flowers are sweet. This sort is a 

 native of Cayenne. 



Passiflora minima. Dwarf Passion-flower. This species has the 

 stem twining, simple, becoming corky at the base with age, round 

 and smooth ; the leaves subpeltate, subcordate; lateral lobes almost 

 horizontal, all acute, nerved, smooth on both sides ; "the petioles 

 short, round, reflex, and smooth ; the glands two, opposite, small, 

 sessile, concave, brown, and in the middle of the petioles ; the sti- 

 pules two, opposite, awl-shaped, by the side of the petioles ; the 

 tendrils long, between tlie petioles ; peduncles axillary, solitary, 

 longer than the petioles, loose, one-flowered ; the flowers small, 

 whitish ; the berry small, blue, and egg-shaped. Native of Louis- 

 iana. 



We have thus given a brief description of some of the most orna- 

 mental and valuable species of the Passion-flower tribe, and it is 

 with much regret that we are compelled to delay a farther descrip- 

 tion of this most beautiful and enchanting genus for want of room. 

 Tiiere is yet one hundred and thirty-five species of this curious plant 

 undescribed in this work, some of which are valuable for their fruit 

 and as an ornament. The remaining ones undescribed are of a 



