PAS 



PAS 



axillary, filifomi, long: Ibc iTowcrs In pairs, 

 axillary, scarlet, large : the berry ovate, the 

 size, of a pigeon's egg, and pedicelleil. It is a 

 native of life West Indies. 



The twelfth has slender, striated, roundish 

 stalks, less than a straw, of the same thick- 

 ness from top to bottom, and of a brownish 

 red colour, dividing into many slender branches: 

 the leaves shaped Tike the wings of a bat when 

 extended, about seven inches in length, or rather 

 breadth, from the base to the top not more than 

 two inches and a half, the upper ones smaller, 

 the middle wider, and the losver narrower, 

 smooth and somewhat shining; the colour in 

 the upper ones pale, in the middle deeper, in 

 the lower darker green, with two purple tuber- 

 cles or glands towards the base, where they are 

 Connected with the petiole; which is set half 

 an inch from the base of the leaf,. three nerves 

 sprintring from it, two extending each way to 

 the narrow points of the leaf, ilie other rismg 

 upright to the top, where is the greatest length 

 of the leaf: the Howers are on short romid pe- 

 duncles from the axils of the middle and upper 

 leaves, white and of a middle size, about three 

 inches in diameter when expanded : they are 

 without scent, open in the evening or during the 

 nif^ht, in the month of July, and finally close 

 about eight or nine o'clock in the morning. It 

 is a native of the West Indies. 



The thirteenth species has the stem sufTrutes- 

 cent at bottom, subdivided, angular, grooved : 

 the leaves semiovatc, three-nerved, veined, 

 smooth on both sides, marked behind longitu- 

 dinally with pellucid dots : lobes terminated by 

 very small bristles ; the middle one a little 

 larger than the others : the petioles short, with- 

 ourelands: the tendrils filiform, very long: the 

 stipules two, opposite, awl-shaped : the pedun- 

 cles axillary, filiform, an inch long : the flowers 

 nodding, pale green, rather large : the berry egg- 

 shaped. It is distinguished from the other sorts 

 by its rounded leaves slightly three-lobed at top 

 only. It is a native of Jamaica. 



The fonrteenth runs to a great height, and has 

 dark-creen glossy leaves: the involucrum is com- 

 posed°of three leaves divided into capillary seg- 

 ments, each terminating in a viscid globule : the 

 pillar supporting the ger~men is bright purple with 

 darker spots : the petals are greenish on the out- 

 side, and red within : the crown consists uf four 

 rows of radii, which are varied with white and 

 purple. It is a native of Jamaica. 



The fifteenth species rises with a weak stalk to 

 the height of twenty feet : as the stalks grow 

 oldj they have a thick fungous bark like that of 

 the Cork-tree, which cracks and splits : the 

 smaller branches are covered w ilh a smooth bark : 

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the leaves ars smooth, on very short petioles : 

 the middle lobe is much longer than the lateral 

 ones, so that the whole leaf is halbcrt-shaped : 

 the flowers are small, of a greenish yellow co- 

 lour : the fruit egg-shaped, dark purple when 

 ripe. It is perennial, and a native of the West 

 Indies, fiowering from June to September. 



In the sixteenth species the stalks rise twenty 

 feet high, dividing into many slender branches, 

 covered with a soft hairy down : the leaves are 

 shaped like the point of a halbert, three inches 

 long, and an inch and half wide at the base, light 

 green, soft and silkv to the touch, standing ob- 

 liquely to the foot-stalks : the flowers are not 

 half so large as those of the common or blue 

 Passion-flower: the fiuit small, roundish, yel- 

 low when ripe, leaves ovate, tomentose on 

 both sides: lateral lobes short; with an obsolete 

 gland underneath behind the sinus of the lobe.. 

 It grows naturally at La Vera Cruz, fiowering 

 most part of the summer. 



In the seventeenth, the whole plant Is very 

 smooth and even : the leaves glaucous underneath,. 

 undotted : the petioles furnished with two or four 

 glands below the middle : the stipules acute, quite 

 entire, more than half an inch in length : the 

 flowers are sweet. It is a native of Cayenne. 



The eighteenth species has the stem twining,, 

 simple, becoming corky at the base with age, 

 ro-nd, smooth: the leaves subpeltate, subcor- 

 date; lateral lobes almost horizontal; all acute, 

 nerved, smooth on both sides : the petioles short, 

 round, reflex, smooth : the glands two, opposite, 

 small, sessile, concave, brown, in the middle of 

 the petioles: the stipules two, opposite, awl- 

 shapcd, by the side of the petioles : the tendrils 

 long, between the petioles : peduncles axillary, 

 solitary, longer than the petioles, loose, one- 

 flowered : the flowers small, whitish : the berry 

 small, blue, egg-shaped. 



Culture. — fn all the sorts It Is either by seeds, 

 layers, or cuttings, according to the kinds. 



The first or hardy sort Is capable of being 

 raised either by seeds, layers, or cuttings : the 

 seed should be sown In the early spring, as 

 March, in large pots, half an inch deep, either 

 plunging them in a warm border, and as the wea- 

 ther becomes warm moving them to the shade; or 

 in a hot-bed, which will forward the germination 

 of the seed more fully, and the plants will rise 

 sooner; which should afterwards be h.ardened 

 o-raduallv to the open air till the autumn, and 

 then placed under a garden-frame for the win- 

 ter, to have shelter" from frosts,, and in the 

 spring planted out In pots, or some in the nur- 

 sery ; and In a year or two they may be trans- 

 planted w here they are to remain^ against some 

 warm south wall. 



