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CV. PASSIFLORE^E. 



lobes, shortly clawed, equal, contorted in bud, deciduous. STAMENS 5, inserted 

 at the bottom of the calyx-tube and opposite to its lobes; filaments free, piano- 

 subulate; anthers introrse, 2-celled, erect, dehiscence longitudinal. OVARY free, 

 1-celled, with 3 nerviform placentas alternating with the sutures of the carpels ; 

 styles 3, terminal, opposite to the placentas ; stigmas 3 or 6, fan-shaped ; ovules 

 numerous, ascending, anatropous. CAPSULE with 3 semi-placentiferous valves. 

 SEEDS numerous, 2-seriate, ascending, cylindric, curved ; testa crustaceous ; hilum 

 basilar ; raphe filiform ; chalaza projecting ; strophiolus membranous, appressed to 

 the base of the seed on the side of the raphe. EMBRYO straight, in the axis of a 

 fleshy albumen ; cotyledons sub-elliptic, plano-convex ; radicle reaching to the hilum, 



inferior. 



GENERA. 



* Turners. Erblichia. Wormskioldia. 



This small family is near Loase<e (which see). It has many affinities with Malesherbiacea ; but 

 these differ in their stamens, which are hypogynous as in Pas^i/foirte, their dorsal styles alternating with 

 the placentas, their undivided stigmas, and their non-strophiolate and pendulous seeds. [Turnera is a large 

 American genus with one Cape species; Erblichia is also American, and Wonnskioldia Asiatic.] 



Turw'racete possess little-used tonic properties, due to astringent and mucous principles, with a 

 small quantity of volatile oil. 



CV. PASSIFLORE^E, Juss'ien. 



PERIANTH free, petaloid. STAMENS sometimes inserted at the base, or on the 

 throat of the perianth, sometimes hypogynous, united with the gynophore. OVARY usually 



Passion-flower. (Patsiftora ccerulea.) 



