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Passiftora. Vertical section of flower. 



Patsijtora. 



Transverse section of seed 

 (mag.). 



I'assijiura. 

 Vertical section of ovary (mag.). 



Passiflora. Diagram. 



I'assijlora. 

 Embryo 

 (mag.). 



I'assijlora. 



Transverse section of 

 ovary (mag.). 



stipitate, with 3-5 parietal placentas. FRUIT a berry or capsule. EMBRYO albu- 

 minous. LEAVES alternate. 



STEM herbaceous or woody, generally climbing, very rarely arborescent (Ryania, 

 Smeathmannia) . LEAVES alternate, sometimes simple, entire, lobed or palmate, some- 

 times compound, imparipinnate ; stipules geminate at the base of the petioles, rarely 

 ; tendrils axillary, arising from sterile pedicels. FLOWERS $ , or imperfect through 

 arrest, regular ; peduncles usually 1-flowered, jointed at the flower, and [usually] 

 furnished at the joint with a 3-phyllous or -partite involucel. PERIANTH petaloid, 

 monophyllous ; tube urceolate or tubular, sometimes very short ; limb 4-5-partite or 

 8-10-partite and 2-seriate, the outer segments sometimes herbaceous, equivalent to 

 a calyx, the inner more coloured, equivalent to a corolla ; throat usually crowned by 

 one or many series of subulate filaments ; gynophore cylindric, more or less elon- 

 gating, supporting the pistil and stamens. STAMENS usually equal in number to 

 the [inner] perianth-segments, and opposite to them, or very rarely alternate, some- 

 times double the number, inserted either at the bottom of the perianth, or at the base 

 or top of the gynophore ; filaments subulate or filiform, free or monadelphous and 



