Modecca.~\ LXIV. PASSIFLOREJE. (M. T. Masters.) 603 



into a membranous cup. Gynophore short. Ovary elongate, ovoid; style short, 

 stigma large capitate 3-lobed. Fruit scarlet, oblong, 2 by l in. 



6. XH. palmata, Lam. Encycl. iv. 209 ; leaves membranous glabrous 

 glandular palnaately lobed or entire, anthers obtuse muticous, fruit globose. 

 Watt. Cat. 6762 A and B ; Wight Ic. t. 201 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 353 ; Tkwaites 

 Enum. 128 : Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 104 ; Miq. Fl. 2nd. Bat. i. 703. M. tu- 

 berosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 134. M. integrifolia, Lam. I. c. (not of Wall. Cat. 

 6765).Rheede Hort. Mai. viii. t. 20-23. 



WESTERN PENINSULA and CEYLON. 



Glabrous. Branches sulcate. Leaves remote, broader than long, 4-5 by 6-7 in., 

 roundish, cordate, usually 3-5-lobed nearly to the base with a single circular flat 

 gland beneath the sinus, sometimes entire, cordate, ovate, acuminate ; lobes oblong- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, tapering to the base ; petiole 2 in., with a gland on either side 

 at the apex. Male flower : Calyx about in., campanulate, 5-lobed, dilated at the 

 base, lobes ovate-acute. Petals linear-oblong, 3-nerved, ciliate, springing from the 

 base of the calyx-tube. Corona a ring of threads from the tube of the calyx, just 

 above the dilated portion. Filaments subulate, united at the base ; anthers linear- 

 oblong. Female flower : Calyx in., campanulate ; lobes ovate acute. Petals linear, 

 acute, ciliated, springing from the base of the tube. Corona a membranous fold 

 fringed with white hairs, arising from near the base of the flower tube. Glands of 

 disc oblong, opposite the sepals. Staminodes 5, forming a membranous cup surround- 

 ing the base of the ovary and above divided into flat strap-shaped filaments nearly as 

 long as the glabrous subglobose ovary. Style nearly as long as the ovary, dividing 

 into 3 branches ; stigmas large capitate. Fruit the size of a small apple, subglobose. 

 Seeds large, pitted, ribbed at the edges. Root said to be poisonous, used as medicine 

 by the Cingalese (Thwaites 1. c.). M. integrifolia, Wall. Cat. 6765, is a garden spe- 

 cimen of uncertain identity not referable to the present species. 



IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 



M. ALIENA, Wall. Cat. 6766, from Silhet, is an Asclepiad, the flowers of which are 

 too imperfect for determination. There is no specimen in Wallich's herbarium. 



M. APICULATA, Mast. ; leaves membranous cordate roundish deeply 5-sect, seg- 

 ments lanceolate narrow at the base with a gland beneath the sinus on the under 

 surface, anthers apiculate, fruit ovoid. Burma, Pegu, McClelland. 



Glabrous. Branches sulcate. Petiole 2 in. Tendrils very long. Anthers linear 

 with a long slender apiculus. Fruit l\ in., ovoid, acute. Seeds subglobose slightly 

 flattened. Imperfect specimens only exist in the Kew herbaria, Sir Joseph Hooker 

 who analysed the flower states in a note that it differs from M. trilobata by the api- 

 culate anther. Possibly it may be the M.furfuracea of Wallich (see below). 



M. FURFURACEA, Wall. Cat. 1235. Prome, Wallich. There is no specimen of 

 this in Wallich's herbarium. 



M. NICOBARICA, Kurz in Trimen Journ. Bot. 1875, 327; Journ. As. Soc. 1876, 

 ii. 132 ; leaves subcoriaceous oblong-acuminate rounded at the base and subpeltate. 

 Passiflora penangiana, Wall. Cat. 1233. Penang, Wallich. Malacca, Griffith. 



Glabrous. Stems very slender, sulcate. Leaves 4 by 1-2 in., oblong or oblong- 

 lanceolate, 1 -nerved, secondary nerves remote, arched ; petiole eglandular, | in. at- 

 tached to the blade just within the base. Tendrils about 2 in. branched, thickened 

 at the ends. Fruit 1^-2 in. long, glabrous, oblong, acute, 3-valved. Seeds discoid. 

 The specimens of Wallich and of Maingay are imperfect, but evidently belong to the 

 game species. 



M. POPULIFOLIA, Blume Rumphia, i. t. 50. To this I refer with doubt Maingay 

 n. 668 with cordate ovate-acute leaves, petioles with two large apical glands, fruits 

 about 3 in. long tapering to both ends. 



