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stunted and shrubby. There is a fine tree at Vicar's Hill, Lymington, which 

 frequently bears fruit, as does another across the Solent in Osborne gardens. 

 Doubtless there are others, and the numbers will increase as the years go by ; 

 but Parrotia persica is not so plentiful as its charm and interest entitle it to be. 



PASS I FLORA CCERULEA, Linruzus. PASSION-FLOWER. 

 PASSIFLORACE.E. 



(Bot. Mag., t. 28.) 



A climbing plant of great vigour and more or less evergreen, attaching 

 itself to its supports by tendrils ; devoid of down in all its parts. Leaves 

 palmate, five- or seven-lobed, 4 to 7 ins. across ; lobes oblong with 

 rounded ends ; green above, somewhat glaucous beneath. Flowers borne 

 on long, slender stalks from the leaf-axils of the young growing shoots; 

 flat and open, fragrant, 3 to 4 ins. across, the five sepals and five petals 

 blue. Between the petals and the stamens is a conspicuous ring of 

 thread-like, purplish growths 2 ins. across, known as the "corona." Fruit 

 of the shape and size of a bantam's egg, with a tough, orange-coloured 

 rind and numerous seeds inside, embedded in pulp. 



Native of S. Brazil; introduced, according to Aiton, in 1699. It is 

 not genuinely hardy near London, but will often survive several winters 

 on a sheltered wall. As it grows very rapidly and is easily propagated 

 from seeds or cuttings, it is worth growing for its beautiful and remarkably 

 constructed flowers, which commence to appear in June, and continue 

 until the end of September. 



Var. " CONSTANCE ELLIOTT," first shown by Messrs Lucombe, Pince, 

 & Co., of Exeter, in 1884, has ivory-white flowers (see Gard. Chron., 

 1884, i., p. 701). 



The name of "passion-flower" by which this and all the Passifloras are 

 known was given originally by the Spanish priests in S. America, because 

 of the resemblance their piety led them to detect between the various 

 parts of the flower and the instruments of Christ's Passion. The late 

 Dr Masters, the historian of the family, has pointed these out to be as 

 follows : The three stigmas represent the three nails, two for the hands 

 and one for the feet; the five anthers represent the five wounds; the 

 corona represents the crown of thorns or the halo of glory ; the five sepals 

 and five petals stand for ten apostles Peter and Judas being, absent; 

 the hand-like leaves and whip-like tendrils represent the hands and 

 scourges of His persecutors. 



PAULOWNIA IMPERIALIS, Siebold. SCROPHULARIACE^:. 

 (Bot. Mag., t. 3853 ; Garden. 1892, April 2 ; P. tomentosa, Koch.") 



A round-topped, deciduous tree 30 to 50 ft. high, with thick, stiff 

 branches and rather open habit; all the parts more or less downy. 

 Leaves opposite, the small ones ovate, the larger ones three- to five- 

 lobed, the lobes pointed but shallow, the base deeply notched; the 



