PAS 



PAS 



a native of Virginia and Jamaica, flowering in 

 May and June. 



. The fourth species is perennial and shrubby : the 

 stems are round -, the younger ones very slightly 

 villose, and climbing very high : the stipules are 

 linear and acuminate : the footstalks of the leaves 

 furnished with two pairs of glandules : the leaves 

 ovate, smooth, and slightly serrated round their 

 w hole outline : the peduncles are one-flowered 

 and solitary : the flowers have an extremely 

 agreeable odour. It is a native of the West 

 Indies, flowering from May to October. 



The fifth has a thick stem, triangular, by 

 slender tendrils thrown out at every joint rising 

 to the height of fifteen or twenty feet: at each 

 joint is one leaf, six inches long, and four broad 

 in the middle, of a lively green and thin texture, 

 having a strong midrib, whence arise several 

 small nerves, diverging to the sides, and curving 

 np towards the top : petioles pretty long, having 

 two small glands in the middle : two large sti- 

 pules encompass the petioles, peduncles and ten- 

 drils at the base : the peduncles are pretty long, 

 having also two small glands in the middle : the 

 cover of the flower is comppsed of three soft 

 velvety leaves, of a pale red, with some stripes 

 of a lively red colour ; the petals are white, and 

 the rays blue : the flowers being large make a fine 

 appearance, but are of short duration ; there is 

 however a succession for some time : the fruit 

 is roundish, the size of a large apple, yellow when 

 vipe, having a thicker rind than any of the other 

 sorts. It grows naturally in the West Indies. 



In the sixth the stem is almost simple, thick, 

 membranaceous at the four corners, somewhat 

 hispid : the leaves are petioled, five or six inches 

 long, entire, somewhat rugged, but without any 

 pubescence: the tendrils very long, axillary : sti- 

 pules in pairs, ovate at the base of the petioles, 

 on which are six glands: the peduncles oppo- 

 site to the petioles, thicker: the flowers very 

 large, encompassed by a three-leaved involucre, 

 the leaves of which are roundish, concave, entire, 

 smooth, pale : the fruit is very large, oblong, 

 and fleshy: the liower is much larger, though 

 very like the above sort in colour. It is a native 

 of Jamaica. 



The seventh species is verv like the prccedin>'- 

 at first sight : the open flower has also a creneral 

 resemljlanee ; but the peduncle is cylindrical; 

 the three divisions of the involucre small, lan- 

 ceolate, with glandular serratures ; the pedicel 

 thickest at the insertion into the convex base 

 of the flower : the five or six outer petals are 

 oblong with an awn, the inner longer; the 

 ouicr principal ravs thinnest and shortest; ini- 

 |)erfcct rays in a double row, below antl distinct 

 from them a single row ; no impcricct opercu- 



lum ; operculum partly horizontal and partly 

 turning up to the column, then folding back 

 down again and embracing the column, with 

 which it is so connected that it appears inseparable, 

 but is not joined tothecolunm: nectary round 

 the colunui, confined by the base: the colunni 

 comes to the bottom of it. It is a native of the 

 West Indies. 



If this does not equal the first sort in elegance, 

 it exceeds it in magnificence, in brilliancy of co- 

 lour, and in fragrance, the flowers being highly 

 odi'>rifcrous. 



The eighth has a suflrutcscentstem, with very 

 divaricating, filiform branches: the leaves a lit- 

 tle emarginateat the base, nerved, and very smooth, 

 on short petioles compressed a little, having two 

 glands under the base of the leaf: the tendrils are 

 very long : the peduncles the length of the peti- 

 oles : the three leaflets of the involucre are round- 

 ish, concave, with blunt glandular toothlets about 

 the edge, and pale : the five leaflets of the calyx 

 are broad-lanceolate, slightly membranaceous at 

 the edge, horned with a point or awn, smooth, 

 variegated on the inside with blood-red dots : 

 petals five, the length of the calyx, narrower, 

 acuminate, with blood-red dots scattered over 

 them : the flowers are very handsome and odori- 

 ferous, but the fruit ovate and watery. It flovi'ers 

 in June and July, and is a native of Jamaica. 



The ninth species has slender stalks, sending 

 out many small branches, and climbing to the 

 height of twenty-five or thirty feet : by age they 

 become woody towards the bottom, and their 

 joints are not far asunder : the leaves are on short 

 slender petioles, three inches and a half long, 

 and two broad in the middle, rounded at the 

 base, but terminating in a point at top, smooth, 

 entire, and of a lively green colour : the flowers 

 are axillary, on long peduncles, having an agree- 

 able odour, but seldom coiUinuing twenty hours 

 open . There is a succession of them from June to 

 September, and the fruit will sometimes ripen in 

 this climate. It grows naturallv at La Vera Cruz. 



The tenth has an herbaceous stem, twining 

 round, grooved, hirsute, red: the lobes of the 

 leaves entire, nerved, somewhat hispid, soft: the 

 petioles round, red, villose, without glands : the 

 tendrils subaxillary : the llowers alternate, nod- 

 ding, on solitary one-flowered peduncles: the 

 fruit spherical, marked with six lines, scarlet 

 when ripe, hirsute. It is a native of the West 

 Indies, flowering in April and May. 



The eleventh species has an herbaceous, 

 grooved, smooth stem : the leaves ovale or 

 oblong, two-horned, with an intermcdiaie bristle, 

 three-nerved, veined, smooth, entire : dots on the 

 back hollowed, ixliucid : the petioles grooved, 

 smooth, destitute of iilands : the leiulriis sub- 



