PAS 



THE UNIVERSAL HERBAL; 



PAS 



small, roundish, yellow when ripe. It flowers most part of 

 the summer. Native of La Vera Cruz. 



29. Passiflora Hirsuta; Hairy Passion Flower. Leaves 

 villose, the lower smooth above ; lobes oblong, quite entire, 

 the middle one more produced ; petioles biglandular. It 

 flowers in September. Native of the West Indies. 



30. Passiflora Foetida; Stinking Passion Flower. Leaves 

 cordate, hairy ; involucres capillary, multifid. Root annual, 

 or rather biennial ; the stalks rise five or six feet high when 

 supported, they are channelled or hairy ; flowers on strong 

 hairy peduncles, two inches long, they are white, and of a 

 short duration ; calix composed of slender hairy filamenta, 

 wrought like a net, longer than the petals, and turning up 

 round them; fruit roundish, ovate, about the size of a Golden 

 Pippin, of a yellowish-green colour, inclosed in the nettled 

 calix. The whole plant has a disagreeable scent when 

 touched. It grows naturally in most of the islands of the 

 British West Indies, where the inhabitants call it Love in a 

 Mist, because it resembles Nigella Damascenam the involucre. 

 It is propagated by seeds sown upon a hot-bed early in the 

 spring. When the plants are fit to be removed, transplant 

 each into a small pot filled with light kitchen-garden earth ; 

 plunge them into a hot-bed again, and shade them from the 

 sun till they have taken new root. Shift them into larger 

 pots as the roots increase ; and when the plants are too tall 

 to remain in the hot-bed, remove them into an airy glass- 

 case, admitting air in warm weather, but screening them 

 from cold. In this situation the plants will flower in July, 

 and the seeds ripen in autumn. 



31. Passiflora Ciliata; Fringe-leaved Passion Flower. 

 Leaves smooth, ciliate-serrate, the middle one very long ; 

 petioles not glandular. The leaves of this species vary occa- 

 sionally ; they are dark-green and glossy : the involucrum is 

 composed of three leaves divided into capillary segments, 

 each terminating in a viscid globule ; the pillar supporting 

 the germen is bright purple, with darker spots ; the petals 

 are greenish on the outside, arid red within. Native of 

 Jamaica. 



32. Passiflora Incarnata; Flesh-coloured Passion Flower, 

 or Maycock. Leaves deeply three-lobed, serrated, acute, 

 three-ribbed, with two glands at the base ; bractes distinct, 

 lanceolate, with glandular teeth; calix flat ; rays as long as 

 the petals. This is one of the first species known in Europe, 

 being cultivated in the days of Gerarde arid Parkinson, though 

 now seldom met with, as it will scarcely ever survive the 

 English winter, or rathtr spring. The leaves are finely 

 downy on both sides, paler beneath ; flowers rather large, 

 riesh-coloured, or pale purple, the long slender rays ele- 

 gantly speckled with crimson and white. Native of North 

 America. It is usually propagated in England by seeds, 

 which are brought from North America, for the seeds do not 

 often ripen in England, though they have been known to 

 ripen perfectly on plants which were plunged in a tan-bed, 

 under a deep frame ; but those plants which are exposed 

 to the open air, do not produce fruit here. The seeds should 

 be sown upon a moderate hot-bed, which will bring up the 

 plants much sooner than when they are sown in the open 

 air, so that they will have more time to acquire streijgjji 

 before winter. When the plants are come up two or three 

 inches high, they should be carefully taken up, and each 

 planted in a separate small pot filled with good kitchen-gar- 

 den earth, and plunged into a moderate hot-bed, to forward 

 their taking root: after which they should be gradually 

 inured to bear the open air, to which they should be exposed 

 in summer, but in the autumn they must be placed under a 

 garden-frame to screen them from the frost ; but they should 



have the free air at all times in mild weather. The spring 

 following, some of these plants may be turned out of the 

 pots, and planted in a warm border, where, if they be covered 

 with tanner's bark every winter to keep out the frost, tliey 

 will live several years, their stalks decaying in the autumn, 

 and new ones arising in the spring, which in Warm seasons 

 will flower very well. If those plants which are continued 

 in pots are plunged into a tan-bed, some of them may pro- 

 duce fruit; and if the stalks of these are laid down in the 

 beginning of June, into pots of earth plunged near them, 

 they will take root by the end of August. 



33. Passiflora Aurantia; Orange Passion Flower. Leaves 

 three-lobed ; lobes parabolical, distant, the middle one more 

 produced. Flowers orange ; the tube of the nectary green, 

 longer than the purple upright rays which surround it. 

 Native of New Caledonia. 



34. Passiflora Mixta. Leaves trifid, serrate; flowers tubu- 

 lar ; calices one-leafed. Stem angular, smooth ; flowers 

 solitary, peduncled, nodding, red, on round pubescent pe- 

 duncles. Native of New Granada. 



**** With multifid Leaves. 



35. Passiflora Coerulea ; Common or Blue Passion Flower. 

 Leaves d-euply palmate, in five entire smooth segments. This, 

 in a few years, with proper support, rises to a great height; 

 it may be trained to upwards of forty feet. The stalks will 

 grow almost as large as a man's arm, and are covered with a 

 purplish bark, but do not become very woody. The shoots 

 often grow to the length of twelve or fifteen feet in one sum- 

 mer, and being very slendef, must be supported, otherwise 

 they will hang to the ground, intermix \yith each other, ;uu! 

 appear very unsightly. The flowers have a faint scent, and 

 continue but one day; fruit egg-shaped, the size aijd form 

 of the Mogul Plurn, and when ripe of the same yellow colour, 

 inclosing a sweetish disagreeable pulp, in which oblong seeds 

 are lodged. There is a variety with much narrower lobes, 

 divided almost to the bottom ; die flowers come later in the 

 summer; the petals are narrower, and of a purer white. 

 The Blue Passion Flower grows naturally in Brazil ; and, 

 being hardy enough to thrive in the open air, is now become 

 the most common species in England. It may be propagated 

 by seeds, which should be sown iu the same manner as those 

 of the thirty-second sort, and the plants treated in the same 

 way till the following spring, when they should be turned 

 out of the pots, and planted against a good-aspected wall, 

 where they may have height for their shoots to extend, other- 

 wise they will hang about and entangle each other, so as to 

 make but an indifferent appearance; but where buildings 

 are to be covered, this plant is very proper for the purpose. 

 After they have taken good root in their new quarters, the 

 only care they will require is to train their shoots up against 

 the wall, as they extend in length, to prevent their hanging 

 about ; and if the winter prove severe, the surface of the 

 ground about their roots should be covered with mulch, to 

 keep the frost from penetrating the ground ; and if the stalks 

 and branches are covered with mats, pease-haulm, straw, or 

 any such light qovering, it will protect them in winter against 

 severe frosts ; but this covering must' be removed in mild 

 weather, or it will produce mouldiness in the branches, which 

 would be more injurious than the cold. In the spring the 

 plants should be trimmed, when all the small weak shoots 

 should be entirely cut off, and the strong ones shortened to 

 about four or five feet long, which will enable them to put 

 out strong shoots for flowering the following year. This 

 plant is also propagated by laying down the branches, which 

 in one year will be well rooted, may be taken off from the 

 old plant*, and transplanted where they are designed to 



