PASSIFLORE^E 



587 



Cotyledons foliaceous, petiolate, glabrous; lamina oblong-oval, 

 obtuse, trinerved, 13'5 mm. long, 8'5 mm. wide ; petiole chan- 

 nelled above, 7'5 mm. 

 long. 



Stem erect, terete, ulti- 

 mately climbing, suffru- 

 tescent, marked with lines 

 of small tubercular bodies, 

 glabrous, green, becoming 

 stained with red ; 1st in - 

 ternode 1/6 cm. long ; 2nd 

 9 mm. ; 3rd 9 mm. ; 4th 

 1 cm. ; 5th 1-5 cm. ; 6th 

 2-5 cm. ; 7th 2-25 cm. ; 

 8th 3-35 cm.; 9th 5'85 

 cm. ; 10th 6'4 cm. 



Leaves simple, cauline, 

 alternate, stipulate, petio- 

 late, glabrous, dark green 

 above, pale beneath, red 

 or violet at the margin; 

 petioles subterete, taper- 

 ing upwards, pale green, 

 suffused with red, often 

 bearing capitate, stalked 

 glands on the upper side 

 which secrete a viscid, 

 transparent liquid ; sti- 



FIG. 375. Passiflora ccerulea. 

 One-third nat. size. 



pules on the lower part of the stem, subulate, acute, attenuate, 

 reddish, on the upper part of the stem, half cordate, acuminate, 

 foliaceous, green, reticulate with a reddish margin. 



Nos. 1 and 2. Small, broadly ovate, obtuse. 



Nos. 3 to 5. Ovate, obtuse, mucronate. 



Nos. 6 and 7. Ovate, attenuate, obtuse, mucronate, serrulate at 

 the base. 



No. 8. Lanceolate, attenuate, obtuse, mucronate or rather 

 apiculate, serrulate at the very base, with ascending subincurved 

 nerves as have all those below it. 



Nos. 9-11. Palmately tri-partite and -nerved, or five-nerved at 

 the base ; lobes linear, attenuate, obtuse, apiculate, reticulate. 



Cirrhous tendrils equivalent to branches are given off in the 

 axils of the eleventh, twelfth and succeeding leaves. 



