TREES AND SHRUBS 



cuttings of firm shoots 2-3 ins. long in sandy soil in cool greenhouse, June 

 or July ; seeds sown in sandy soil in little heat, autumn or spring. 



Floivers white, fragrant, solitary, pedicels about as long as leaves, bracteoles 

 linear ; Calyx 4-5-lobed, tube turbinate ; Petals 4-5, ovate, spreading ; Stamens 

 numerous ; Ovary inferior, style long, placentation axile ; Fruit a berry. 



Leaves opposite, exstipulate, ovate or lanceolate, sub-sessile, acute or 

 obtuse, entire, glabrous, dark glossy green above, paler beneath, full of 

 pellucid dots, fragrant. 



An evergreen shrub, 3-10 ft. ; Tivigs angled. 



Introduced from S. Europe, 1597. Generic name from 3Iyrtos, the old 

 Greek for Myrtle. 



Class I Dicotyledons 



Division II. ... Calyciflorce 

 Naturai. Order . . . Passiflorece 



Trees, shrubs, or herbs, with watery juice, usually climbing or twining 

 by means of tendrils; Leaves alternate or rarely opposite, simple or com- 

 pound, sometimes glandular; Calyx tubular below, lobed, usually with a 

 corona at throat, simple, duplex, tubular, or cut into radiating filaments ; 

 Petals as many as calyx-lobes, usually 5, inserted outside corona ; Stamens 

 usually 5, and the filaments united around the gynophore ; Ovary superior, 

 supported on a long gynophore, 1 -celled, 8 parietal placentas, 3 clavate, 

 spreading styles ; Fruit a many-seeded, dehiscent or indehiscent, berry or 

 capsule. 



BLUE PASSION-FLOWER, Passijlora ca:rulea. 



AValls. June — October. Best in turfy loam and peat. Propagated by 



cuttings in cold frame in summer ; layering young shoots in summer. 



Flowers blue, faintly scented, lasting but one day, solitary, bracts 3, ovate, 



entire ; Calyx-tube short, urccolate, lobes 5, linear oblong, pale greenish- 



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