PASSIFLORE/E 



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the lamina ; petiole subterete, narrowly and shallowly grooved on 

 the upper side, pale green, shining, tapering upwards from a stoutish 

 base ; stipules small, subreniform, lacerated at the margin, glabrous, 

 transparent or hyaline except at the very base, seated on a short 

 pedestal. The glands are always on two small basal auricles, and 

 together form a small arch over the top of the petiole. 



No. 1. Ovate-cordate, strongly acuminate, irregularly and 

 coarsely dentate below the middle, often trilobed, five-nerved from 



. Fio. 379. Modecca trilobata. Half nat. size. 



the base, and alternately nerved upwards, reticulate. The two 

 basal nerves are always slender, while those next are always strong 

 and like those above them incurved, giving off branches only to the 

 teeth and to the higher nerves. 



Nos. 2 and 3. Deeply trilobed, subcordate and five-nerved at the 

 base; lowest pair of nerves slender; second pair strong, ascending 

 towards the margin of the leaf and partly into the base of the 

 lateral lobes, giving off lateral branches which form a series of 

 submarginal arches continuous with the lowest pair of nerves, 

 and continuing in the same manner to the apex of the strongly 



