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Water Lemon ; 9- P- multiflora, Many-flowered Passion-flower ; 

 10. P. rubra,- Red-fruited Passion-flower; 11. P.. Murucuja, Moon- 

 shaped-leaved Passion-flower; 12. P. Vespertilio, Bat-winged Pas- 

 sion-flower; 13. P. rotundifolia, Round-leaved Passion-flower; 14. P- 

 ciliata, Ciliated Passion-flower; 15. .P. suberosa, Cork-barked Pas- 

 sion-flower; 16'. P. holoscricea, Silky-leaved Passion-flower; 1*. P. 

 glauca, Glaucous-leaved Passion-flower; 18. P. minima, Dwarf Pas- 

 sion-flower. 



The first rises in a few years to a great height, with proper sup- 

 port: it may be trained up more than forly feet high: the stalks will 

 grow almost as large as a man's arm, and are covered with a purplish 

 bark, but do not become very woody: the shoots often grow to the 

 length of twelve or fifteen feet in one summer, and being very slen- 

 der, must be supported, otherwise they will hang to the ground' 

 intermix with each other, and appear very unsightly: at each joint 

 is one leaf composed of five smooth entire lobes; the middle one, 

 which is longest, almost four inches long, and one. inch broad in the 

 middle; the others are gradually shorter, and the two outer lobes are 

 frequently divided on their outer side into two smaller ones: their 

 foot stalks are near two inches long, and have two embracing stipules 

 at their base; and from the same point issues a long clasper Or ten- 

 dril; the flowers come out at the same joint with the leaves, on pe- 

 duncles almost three inches long; they are blue, have a faint scent, 

 and continue only one day: the fruit is egg-shaped, the size and 

 shape of the Mogul-plum, and when ripe of the same yellow colour. 

 It grows naturally in Brazil. 



There is a. variety with much narrower lobes, divided almost to 

 the bottom: the flowers come later in the summer: the petals are 

 narrower, and of a purer white colour. 



The second species has a perennial root: the stalks are annual, 

 slender, rising four or five feet high: at each joint one leaf, on a short 

 foot stalk, having mostly three oblong lobes, but the two side ones 

 are sometimes divided part of. their length into two narrow seg- 

 ments, and thus becoming five-lobed; they are thin, of a light green, 

 and slightly serrate: the flowers are produced from the joints of the 



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