524 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Passiflora. 



Flowers hermaphrodite, usually large ; corona of corolla conspicuous ; 



fruit a large fleshy berry 1. Passiflora. 



Flowers unisexual, small ; corona small or none ; fruit a capsule 



2. Adenia. 



1. Passiflora, Linn. 



Twining herbaceous or shrubby plants, tendril-bearing. Leaves 

 simple or palmately lobed, usually glandular beneath at the base 

 or on the petiole ; stipules slender or leafy. Flower* hermaph- 

 rodite, solitary or cymose ; bracteoles 3. Calyx-tube fleshy ; 

 lobes 5. Petals 5, inserted on the throat of the calyx. Corona 

 of 1 to several rows of numerous usually filiform segments with 

 1 or more membranous folds lower down and a shallow cup 

 surrounding the gynandrophore. Stamens 5, from the gynandro- 

 phore ; anthers oblong, dorsifixed. Ovary 1-celled, many-ovuled ; 

 styles usually 3. Fruit a fleshy indehiscent berry. Seeds many, 

 arillate, often pitted ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons f oliaceous. 

 PASSIFLORA LESCHENAULTII, DC. ; F. B. I. ii. 599 ; W. & A. 

 352 ; Wt. Ic. t. 39. 



W. Ghats, in the Nilgiris and Pulneys, above 5,000 ft. 



A climbing shrub with curious semi-orbicular leaves, rounded 



at base, broadly truncate and 3-cuspidate above, white flowers 



and yellowish ovoid berry with pitted seeds. 

 Passiflora edulis, Sims, the Passion fruit from Brazil, is 

 sometimes cultivated in the hills and may occasionally be found 

 run wild. It has 3-lobed toothed leaves. P. calcarata, Mast., 

 is a Madagascar species with 3-lobed leaves and large prominent 

 stipules, run wild and now common on the Nilgiris. P. foetida, 

 Linn., is a tropical American species commonly run wild near 

 towns and along roadsides in many places in the plains and at 

 once recognised by the moss-like pectinate involucre of the 

 flowers. Several other species are also found in gardens. 



2. Adenia, Forsk. 



Twining herbs or uiidershrubs, tendril-bearing. Leaves entire, 

 palmately lobed or pinnatifid, usually with large glands on the 

 leaves and the top of the petiole; stipules or inconspicuous. 

 Flowers monoecious, usually small, in axillary cymes, the 



