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evidently all good. On February 7, 210 of these were sown. Their 
germination was very slow and unequal, there. being a considerable 
interval of time between the appearance of the first and the last of 
sixteen seedlings now above ground. The first to germinate died very 
soon, but another took the lead and grew far ahead of the rest, being at 
the time of writing 12 in. in height, with fifteen leaves, while the others 
vary from 4 in. to } in. in height, with only a few young leaves. 
The strongest plant is still too young to admit of comparative descrip- 
tion. The leaves, with the exception of two young oval ones, are three- 
lobed, a form which seems likely to persist. As a rule two glands occur 
close together, a little above the mid-length of the petiole. In P. edulis 
the leaves are three-lobed, with a pair of petiolar glands close to the leaf 
_ blade. 
Much golden variegation existed in the earlier leaves of this seedling, 
and is a striking feature in all the other seedlings. It may be recalled 
(p. 160) that this condition, indicating constitutional weakness, obtained 
in the hybrids of which P. St. Rule is the survivor, and which also had 
P. alba as their seed parent. 
PASSIFLORA CONSTANCE ELLIOT x P. ALBA. 
This cross was effected in the beginning of September 1898, and the 
ripe fruit was gathered in the end of November. The fruit was oval, 
13 in. long, orange in colour, and full of deep-red pulp. The good seeds, 
189 in number, were ; to ;°; in. long, black, and pitted. Besides these, 
forty undeveloped ones were counted. On February 1, 1899, 170 seeds 
were sown, and in six weeks it was found that 144 had germinated. 
The seedlings bore a most marked resemblance to each other; and in 
the limited number kept for cultivation the similarity continues to be so 
great as to defy distinction. ‘They have made very vigorous growth, but 
it is hardly to be expected that they will flower this season. 
The great majority of the very earliest leaves presented a three-lobed 
form. The adult form, having narrower lobes, was reached at about the 
twelfth leaf. Very soon five-lobed leaves appeared in an irregular fashion 
among the three-lobed ones ; and at the present time it is impossible to 
say which form will ultimately predominate. The former are derived 
from the latter by the lobing of the margin, and by the radiating veins, 
seen near the lower edge of the lateral lobes, becoming the mid-veins 
of the new lobes. Asymmetrical transition forms with four lobes occur 
here and there. 
The largest leaves at present are three-lobed ones (fig. 77). The 
petiole is cylindrical, 1} to 13 in. long, most commonly bearing one pair 
of stalked glands close together near its mid-length. The stalks of the 
glands measure |, in. in length. Three glands are often present, some- 
times four. The blade of the leaf is 2} to 3,°, in. long and 3} to 43 in. 
broad. Three conspicuous glands on short pedicels, directed backward, 
occur on each side of the middle lobe near its base, and two glands of a 
similar kind occur on the lateral lobes, and correspond in position to the 
lower two on the middle lobe. Other marginal glands in the leaves of 
this hybrid (as in other Passion-flowers) are indicated by the presence 
