No, ۰ 
PASSIFLORA PUNCTATA. - 
Order. 
MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. 
| ese seen 
ra Nu of Linnæus has 
been considered a doubtful species, he hav- 
ing arranged it with the three-lobed sorts. 
From the imperfect materials he was fur- 
nished with, it is no wonder if obscurity 
attend some of his specific characters: we 
see little reason, however, to doubt this being 
the plant which he intended. The leaves 
vary much, and we have seen them with three 
almost equal lobes. | 
The root is fleshy and yellowish. The stem, 
which is slender, angular, and with few side 
branches, grows to the height of twenty feet. 
The painting on the leaves is observed to 
decrease toward the upper part of the plant, 
and at the top to disappear entirely. There 
are several rather large punctures, chiefly 
disposed along the inside of the lobes ; viewed 
through a microscope, these appear like rings 
enclosing a kind of transparency of a pen- 
tagonal form. The — are very small, 
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