642 DR. M. T. MASTERS ON THE PASSIFLORACEA. 
South Brazil, as far south as the Rio Grande, also contains a large number of Grana- 
dillas, but few of which are peculiar to the district. 
The Argentine Provinces contain but few species ; but a large proportion are peculiar, 
those from Tucuman in particular. 
Asia. A few species of Passiflora are found in Central India, one in Nepal, a few in 
the Malayan peninsula, others in the Malayan islands; and one new species (see «nte, 
p. 632, n. 42), very interesting from its isolation, was found by Mr. C. Wright in a small 
island off Hong Kong*. These Asiatic species belong almost exclusively to the sub- 
section Polyanthea; and some of them were included in the so-called genus Distemma, 
which, however, for reasons previously stated, I cannot concur in retaining. P. 
Walkerie, a so-called species from Ceylon, I believe to be a form of P. minima, pro- 
bably introduced to Ceylon. P. nepalensis occurs as far north as Nepaul I have 
reason to believe that there are a few undescribed species in Cochin China; I infer 
this from a cursory glance at some species in the Paris herbarium, but which time did 
not allow me to examine, In addition to Passiflora, the genus Paropsia is represented 
in Malacca. as 
Oceanic species. Under this head I include species found in the Fiji Islands, New 
Caledonia, and Norfolk Island. These are for the most part peculiar species of Passiflora, 
belonging to the group Polyanthea, and forming, as it were, a transition from the Indian 
species just referred to to the next or 
Australian group, which comprises a small number of forms of the same general aspect 
as those just mentioned. 
West Tropical Africa. Here we have no truly wild Passiflora, but a number of di- 
stinct and peculiar paucitypic genera, such as Barteria, Smeathmannia, Crossostemma, 
and Paropsia in the north, and Basananthe, Atheranthera, and Machadoa in the south. 
Paropsia is remarkable for having species in Western Africa, Madagascar, and the 
Malay archipelago, Tryphostemma is peculiar to East Africa, unless, as I believe is the 
case, the western genus Basananthe forms a a of it, in which case the em has 
representatives on both sides of the continent. 
South Africa has the very peculiar genera Acharia, Ceratiosicyos, and Tryphostemma. 
Madagascar, so far as known at present, contains some peculiar genera, such as Dei- 
damia, Physena (of which we know little), a Paropsia, and a new species of Passiflora 
* Mr. Wright has favoured me with the following note referring to this species :—** Mr. Stimpon (the zoologist) 
and qe hired a Chinaman and his boat for a short excursion of two or three days among the islets of the coast 
eastward of Hong Kong. On one of the smallest which we examined, overgrown with rank grass, perhaps uninha- 
bited at some time of the year, and grazed upon by goats carried there for the sake of the grass, I found the Passiflora, 
to all appearance, indigenous. I had the i impression on my mind then that all the Passifloras were American; hence 
the vividness of my recollections about it. The name of the islet was written in accordance with the pronunciation 
of the boatman. It was a very small one, and would hardly appear in any thing like a gazetteer, and only on a chart 
of large scale, “ CHARLES WRIGHT. 
“P.S.—We know the queer mistakes made by travellers among peoples whose language they know but imperfectly 
or not at all, in the application of names or utterances to objects for which they were not intended. Hence some 
very odd trivial names have originated. Now it is quite possible that Dn paeis not the name of the island, 
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