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Fassi&ora continued. 



plaited, of a dusky purple colour ; another ciliated with capil- 

 lary, black hairs, with yellow tips, the outermost one having the 

 fila'mentous appendages twice as long as the others, dark purple 

 at base, and yellow from the middle to the tip ; pedicels twin. 

 July and August. 1. glabrous, glandless, five-nerved, trifid ; 

 lobes ovate, the middle one drawn out most ; petioles biglandular 

 at the apex. Tropical America, 1690. (B. R. 144.) 



P. &. pallida (pale-flowered). JL yello wish-green, small ; corona 

 short ; pedicels one to three together. August and September. 

 1. glabrous, ovate, acuminated, three-nerved ; petioles biglandular 

 above the middle. Florida and West Indies. (B. R. 660.) 



P. tinifolia (Laurestine-leaved). A synonym of P. laurifolia. 



P. trifasciata (three-banded). JL white, fragrant Summer. 

 L trilobate, evergreen, marked down the centre of each lobe by 

 a broad irregular band of reddish-purple, the back of the leaf 

 being of a dark sanguineous hue. Para, 1868. (I. H. 544.) 



P. tuberosa (tuberous-rooted), fl. greenish-white ; outer corona 

 green at the base, tipped with purple and white ; style purple ; 

 pedicels twin. June to October, L glabrous, glandular beneath, 

 rounded at the base, three-nerved, three-lobed at the apex ; the 

 lower ones usually painted with white on the upper surface ; 

 lobes oblong, acute, the middle one very small ; petioles gland- 

 less. Branches of root tuberous. South America, 1810. (B. R. 

 432.) SY.N. P. punctate (L. B. C. 101). 



P. tucumanensis (Tucuman). /. about 2in. in diameter ; petals 

 white ; corona doubly filamentous, the outer series white, barred 

 with purplish-blue, equalling the petals ; inner series white, 

 tipped with blue, Tery short ; bracts almost equalling the calyx 

 segments, loosely cordate, serrate ; pedrncles one-flowered, tri- 

 bracteate. July. L broadly cordate, petiolate, trilobed ; lobes 

 oblong, deeply glandulose-serrate, glaucous beneath. Brazil, Ac., 

 1836. Plant very glabrous. (R M. 3636.) 



P. vespertilio (bat-like). A synonym of P. Maximiliana. 



P. vitifolia (Vine-leaved). JL yellowish ; outer corona orange- 

 coloured ; inner corona white ; bracts glandularly toothed. July. 

 J. downy beneath, cordate, deeply three-lobed; lobes ovate, 

 acuminated, sharply toothed, with the sinuses biglandular; 

 petioles biglandular at the base, pubescent. South America, 



P. Weberlana (Weber's). .A. white, 2in. in diameter ; filaments 

 of corona banded with white ; ovary densely setose ; peduncles 

 axillary, solitary. Summer. I. large, 3in..to Sin. long, 4iin. 

 to 9in. broad, three-lobed ; lobes broadly ovate-oblong, acute, 

 sinuate - toothed, the base deeply cordate ; stipules leafy, 

 falcate-oblong. Stem covered with glandular hairs. Argentine 

 Republic, 1885. 



FASSIFLORE2G. An order of trees, shrubs, or 

 herbs, with watery juice, of variable habit, erect, climb- 

 ing or twining, natives of tropical and snb-tropical 

 regions, but most numerous in South America. Flowers 

 solitary, racemose, or cymose-paniculate, usually showy, 

 hermaphrodite or unisexual, usually regular ; calyx tube 

 short or elongated, coriaceous or herbaceous, persistent, 

 in two cases absent; lobes three to many, coriaceous, 

 valvate or imbricated; petals absent, or as many as the 

 calyx lobes, inserted at the throat, tube, or base of the 

 calyx, free, or connate in a campanulate corolla, in- 

 duplicately valvate or imbricated ; corona at the throat 

 or base of the calyx simple or duplex, tubular, or cut 

 into radiating or erect filaments, or rarely absent ; disk 

 nrceolate or annular, rarely absent ; stamens three to 

 five, or rarely many, in a few cases many-seriate, peri- 

 gynous, or inserted with the petals at the calyx throat, 

 the filaments subulate or filiform. Fruit a many-seeded, 

 dehiscent or indehiscent, berry or capsule. Leaves 

 alternate or rarely opposite, petiolate, simple, lobed, 

 palmately three to seven-foliolate, very rarely pinnate 

 or decompound, sometimes glandular ; stipules none or 

 twin, deciduous or persistent ; tendrils circinate or 

 spirally twisted. Several species of Passijlora are of 

 economic value, some of them having edible fruits. 

 The order comprises nineteen genera and about 250 

 species. Examples : Carica, Gynopleura, Pa&siflora, and 

 Tacsonia. 



PASSION-FLOWER. See Fassiflora. The term 

 is also applied to the species of Tacsonia. 



FASTINACA. Included under Fencedanum 

 (which see). 



FASTINACA OFOFONAX. A synonym of Mala- 

 baila Opoponaz (which see). 



FATAGONULA (from the name of the native 



country of the genus Patagonia). OKD. Boraginece. 



A genus comprising only a couple of species of green- 



house, glabrous or pubescent, South American shrubs. 



Flowers small, loosely corymbose, cymose at the tips of 



the branches; calyx broadly campanulate, five-fid above 



the middle ; corolla campanulate-sub-rotate, semi-five-fid, 



with imbricated (not folded) lobes. Leaves alternate or 



clustered at the apices of the branches, entire or 



serrate, pennireined, reticulated. P. americana, the 



only species introduced, grows well in an equal mixture 



of loam and peat. It may be increased by cuttings, 



inserted in the same kind of soil, under a glass. 



P. americana (American). JL white or greenish-white, smelling 



like those of the Elder. June to August. I. glabrous on both 



surfaces, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, taperinz into the short 



petioles, and sub-cuneated at the base, generally acute, rarely 



obtuse, at the apex ; younger ones cuneate-obovate, entire or 



serrated towards the top; largest ones 2Jin. long, margined. 



A. 10ft. to 12ft 1732. 



FATANA FALM. See (Eiiocarpus Batana. 



PATANIA. Included under Dicksonia. 



PATCHOULI PLANT. A common name of Pogo- 

 stemon Patchouli (which see). 



FATELLIFORM. Shaped like the patella or knee- 

 pan ; disk-shaped ; circular, with a rim. 



PATENS, PATENT. Spreading widely open, or 

 diverging widely from an axis. 



FATERSONIA (named after Col. W. Paterson, an 

 English traveller in South Africa of the last century). 

 STN. Genoriris. OED. Iridece. A genus comprising 

 nineteen species of handsome, greenhouse, perennial herbs, 

 with short rhizomes, all natives of extra-tropical or sub- 

 tropical Australia. Flowers two or several in a spathe, 

 rarely solitary, sessile or very shortly pedicellate ; 

 perianth blue, or very rarely yellow or white ; tube 

 slender, sometimes long ; three outer lobes broad and 

 spreading ; three inner ones small, erect, sometimes 

 minute or absent ; bracts membranous, more or less 

 scarious. Leaves radical, or clustered at the base of 

 the stems, distichous, narrow-linear, grass-like or rigid. 

 The best-known species are described below. They 

 thrive in a sandy-peat compost. Propagation may be 

 effected by division, or by seeds. 



P. glabrata (glabrous). JL purple ; perianth tube shortly exceed- 

 ing the bracts ; scapes or peduncles one or sometimes two to the 

 stem, rarely exceeding the leaves. June. L distichous ; lower 

 ones very short ; upper ones 6in. to 12in. long, rarely above two 

 lines broad. Stem slender, Sin. to 6in. high. 1814. SYN. 

 P. media. (L. B. C. 768.) 



P. glabrata (glabrous), of "Botanical Register." A form of 

 P. sericea. 



P. glanca (glaucous). /. blue ; perianth tube exceeding the bracts 

 by three to five lines ; spike with the two outer bracts liin. to 1 Jin. 

 long, each spikelet bearing three or four flowers ; scapes usually 

 much shorter than the leaves, but occasionally exceeding them. 

 June, i. rigid, erect, the longest from 6in. to 18in. long, and 

 nearly two lines broad. Stems very short, clustered on the 

 rhizome, with a few outer scales gradually passing into leaves. 

 1820. (B. M. 2677; L. B. C. 1182.) 



P. media (intermediate). A synonym of P. glabrata. 



P. occidentalis (Western). Jl. usually numerous, rarely only 

 three, in each spikelet ; perianth rich blue, the tube shortly ex- 

 ceeding the bracts ; outer bracts lin. or more long. May. 

 L rigid, the longest often above 1ft. long, usually two to three 

 lines broad. Stems very short 1824. (B. R. 1839, 60, under 

 name of /'. sapphirina.) 



P. sapphirina (sapphire - colour - flowered). A synonym of 

 P. occidentalis. 



P. 



outer segme 



ovate or lanceolate ; outer bracts Ijin. to 2in. long, at first silky- 

 woolly ; scapes usually about 1ft high. June. 1. radical, long, 



sericea (silky). JL deep violet-blue, in a stout and usually 

 many-flowered spike ; outer segments of limb broadly ovate ; inner 



erect, and rigid, rarely above two lines broad, the edges very 

 ing. Stems scarcely any. 1803. (B. M. 

 Ua (B'.R 

 a glabrous form of this species. 



woolly at base when young. Stems scarcely any. 1803. (B. 

 1041.) P. glabrata (B. R. 51) is regarded, by Bentham, as merely 



PATHS. Narrow walks intended for dividing up 

 vegetable quarters, &c., and affording facilities for 

 executing work more readily. They vary in width 



