No. 138. 
PASSIFLORA HIRSUTA. ig 
Class, Order. 
MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. 
A native of the West Indies, which has 
been long since introduced. It grows very 
freely in the stove, often running twenty feet 
in the course of a summer. The flowers are 
very pretty, although not so conspicuous as 
many of this genus; being small, they re- 
quire to be more closely examined: they 
generally open in the morning, and remain 
only about five or six hours before they begin 
to fade; yet they are produced in such 
abundance, that our plant was, for two or 
three months, hardly a day without a consi- 
derable number. It is very readily propa- 
gated by cuttings: any kind of loamy soil is 
perfectly suitable for it. 
