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OR, BOTANICAL DICTIONARY. 



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14. Passiflora Normafis. Leaves emarginate at the base; 

 lobes linear, blunt, divaricate, the middle ones obsolete, 

 mucronate. This has slender angular stalks, which rise 

 twenty feet high, sending out many branches ; the flowers 

 and tendrils come out from the same joints : the former are 

 of a pale colour, and small; fruit egg-shaped, ovate, purple, 

 the size of small grapes. The root of this plant is much 

 extolled by Hernandes, as a counter-poison and diuretic, for 

 easing pain and creating appetite. Native of South America. 

 See the first species. 



15. Passiflora Murucuja; Titbulcur-croivned Passion Flower. 

 Leaves ovate, undivided at the base, dotted underneath ; 

 nectary one-leafed ; stem herbaceous, grooved, smooth ; flow- 

 ers in pairs, axillary, scarlet, large. The fruit, according 

 to Browne, is of an oblong oval form, about the size of a 

 large Olive, and flesh-coloured when ripe. Both the syrup 

 and decoction of the plant, is much used in the leeward parts 

 of Jamaica, where it is frequent; and it is said to answer 

 effectually all the purposes for which syrup of poppies, and 

 liquid laudanum, are generally administered. The flowers 

 are most in use: they are commonly infused in, or pounded 

 and mixed immediately with, wine or spirits ; and the com- 

 position is generally thought a very easy and effectual nar- 

 cotic. Browne calls it Bull-hoof, or Dutchman's Laudanum, 

 which are probably the vulgar name of the country. Native 

 of the West Indies. See the first species. 



16. Passiflora Vespertilio ; Bat-winged Passion Flower. 

 Leaves rounded at the base, and glandular ; lobes acute, 

 divaricate, dotted underneath. This has slender, striated, 

 roundish stalks, less than a straw, and of the same thickness 

 from top to bottom, of a brownish-red colour, dividing into 

 many branches; flowers on short round peduncles, from the 

 axils of the middle and upper leaves, white, and of a middle 

 size, about three inches in diameter when expanded. They 

 are scentless, opening in the evening or during the night, 

 in the month of July, and finally close about eight or nine 

 o'clock in the morning. Native of the West Indies, and near 

 Carthagena in New Spain. See the first species. 



17. Passiflora Lunata; Crescent-leaved Passion Flower. 

 Leaves dotted at the base, slightly cordate, and having two 

 glands; outer rays of the nectary club-shaped, compressed, 

 obtuse. Stems several, above thirty feet high in a cultivated 

 state, roundish and woody at the base: in the upper part 

 acutely angular, striated, almost herbaceous, nearly smooth, 

 alternately branched ; flowers axillary, two together, droop- 

 ing, opening early in the day, and smelling like honey; petals 

 white ; peduncles twice as long as the petioles, round, swell- 

 ing at the top, slightly downy, each bearing a single flower. 

 Native of Vera Cruz. See the first species. 



18. Passiflora Capsularis. Leaves cordate, oblong, peti- 

 oled. Stalks slender, rising to twenty feet hjgh when support- 

 ed, and divided into many weak branches ; peduncles -very 

 slender, an inch and half long, purplish ; flowers when 

 expanded not more than an inch and half in diameter, of a 

 soft red colour, with'little scent ; fruit small, oval when ripe, 

 purple. Native of Jamaica. See the first species. 



*** With three-lobed Leaves. 



19. Passiflora Rotundifolia ; Round-leaved Passion Flower. 

 Leaves roundish, three-lobed only at top, dotted underneath; 

 nectary simple. Stem suftrutescent at bottom, subdivided, 

 angular, grooved ; .flowers nodding, pale green, rather large. 

 Jacquin observes, that the glandular dots' on the under 

 side of the leaf are sit or seven in a longitudinal row, along 

 the inner side of the two lateral nerves ; that the stipules are 

 acuminate, shining, embracing, and resembling bull's horns : 

 that the peduncles' are. the same length with the leaves; that 



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the flowers are middle-sized, and void of scent; that there is 

 a three-leaved involucre ; the leaflets ovate, concave, small, 

 firm, shining, smooth, yeljowish, with a tinge of green ; that 

 the petals are white, and twice as long as the. calix ; the nec- 

 tary multifid and yellow; that the berry is roundish, small, 

 and juiceless ; and that in most of the leaves the middle lobe 

 is scarcely to be observed. He says it is very common in 

 the woods about Carthagena in New Spain ; while Swartz 

 found it in the coppices on the southern side of Jamaica. 

 See the first species. 



20. Passiflora Oblongata. Leaves elliptic, subtrilobate in 

 front, dotted underneath; lobes sharpish, the middle one 

 shorter. Native of the island of Jamaica. 



21. Passiflora Punctate; Dotted-leaved Passion Flower. 

 Leaves oblong, dotted underneath, the middle one smaller; 

 flowers solitary, with a flattish expanded calix, whitish, ovate 

 petals, and violet rays tipped with bright yellow. Native of 

 Peru. 



22. Passiflora Lutea; Yellow Passion Flower. Leaves 

 cordate, smooth; lobes ovate; petioles without glands. Root 

 creeping, sending up many weak stalks three or four feet 

 high ; peduncle slender, an inch and half long ; flowers 

 greenish-yellow, not larger than a sixpence when expanded. 

 It flowers from June to August. Native of Virginia and 

 Jamaica. This may be propagated by its creeping roots, 

 parted in April, and planted where they are to remain. It 

 requires the same treatment as the 32d species. 



23. Passiflora Parviflora; Smatl-jlowered Passion Flower. 

 Leaves smooth; lobes ovate, entire, the middle one more 

 produced; petioles biglandular; stem herbaceous. Native 

 of Jamaica. 



24. Passiflora Glauca; Glaucous-leaved Passion Flower. 

 Leaves cordate, smooth ; lobes ovate, equal ; petioles glan- 

 dular ; stipules semi-ovate. The whole plant is very smooth 

 and even ; nectary shorter by half than the petals ; rays 

 violet, white at the tip ; flowers sweet. Native of Cayenne. 



25. Passiflora Minima; Dwarf Passion Flower. Leaves 

 deeply three-lobed, rather downy; lobes lanceolate, quite 

 entire, the middle one more produced ; petioles biglandular. 

 Stem even, suberose at bottom ; flowers small, whitish ; berry 

 small, blue, egg-shaped. Mr. Sowerby remarks, that though 

 this has its name from its smallness, there are others nearly, 

 if not quite, as small, and not well distinguished; that 

 several of them have no involucre, though there is a joint 

 on the peduncle, or, as he has it, between the peduncle and 

 pedicel ; and that they have but five petals, consequently 

 nothing that serves as a calix. It flowers in July. Native 

 of Curaqao and Jamaica; flowering in our stoves in July. 



26. Passiflora Heterophylla ; Narrow-leaved Passion 

 Flower. Leaves undivided, linear, oblong, and thrue-lobed, 

 smooth, quite entire ; petioles biglandular. Native of the 

 West Indies, and flowering from June to September. 



27. Passiflora Suberosa ; Cork-barked Passion Flower. 

 Leaves subpeltate ; lobes ovate, entire; petioles biglandular; 

 stem wifh corky angles. As fhe stalks grow old, they have 

 a thick fungous bark, like that of the Cork-tree, which cracks 

 and splits, 'fhe smaller branches are covered with a smooth 

 bat*; the flowers are small, of a greenish yellow colour; 

 fruit egg-shaped, dark purple when ripe. Native of the 

 West Indies, flowering from June to September. 



28. Passiflora Holosericea ; Silky-leaved Passion Flower. 

 Leaves with a reflex toothlet on each side at the base. The 

 stalks rise twenty feet high, dividing into many slender 

 branches, covered with a soft hairy down; flowers not half 

 so large as those of the Common or Blue Passion Flower ; 

 petals white; rays purple, with a mixture of yellow; fruit 



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