PASSIFLORACÉES. 485 
GENERA 
[. PASSIFLORÆ. 
1. Passiflora L.— Flores hermaphroditi v. rarius 1-sexuales, regu- 
lares, 4-5-meri; receptaculo cupulari v. rarius (Tucsonia) tubuloso. 
Sepala oblonga v. linearia, nunc extus sub apice apiculata, sæpe intus 
colorata, imbricata. Petala totidem v. 0, alterna, imbricata. Stamina 
4, 5, alternipetala, summo gynophoro v. paulo demissius (Tetrastylis) 
inserta ; filamentis demum patulis acutatis ; antheris dorsifixis, introrsis, 
2-rimosis, versatilibus. Gynophorum basi urceolo crasso discisque colo- 
ratis (coronis) 1-3, membranaceo-tubulosis v. sæpius in filamenta 
linearia numerosa divisis, cinctum. Germen summo gynophoro insi- 
dens, 1-loculare, apice perforatum circaque acropylen plus minus dite 
papillosum ; stylis 3, 4, sæpins clavatis apiceque capitato papillosis. 
Placentæ parietales 3, 4; ovulis paucis v. c, anatropis. Fructus 
baccatus, pulposus v. subsiccus, indehiscens v. ægre 3-valvis. Se- 
mina c, arillata, sæpe extus scrobiculata; albumine carnoso ; embryo- 
nis recti cotyledonibus foliaceis. — Herbæ v. sæpius frutices, erecti v. 
plerumque scandentes ; foliis alternis v. raro oppositis, integris, den- 
talis, lobatis v. partitis; petiolo sæpe glanduloso; cirrhis axillaribus 
V. lateralibus indivisis v. 0; stipulis variis v. 0. Flores axillares v. ad 
basin cirrhi solitarii v. 2-nati, nune, ob folia ad bracteas reducta, ra- 
cemosi; pedunculis articulatis, sæpius 3-bracteatis; bracteis liberis 
V. Connatis, (America trop., Asia, Africa or. ins., Oceania.) — Vid. 
2. Deidamia Dur.-Tn.! — Flores hermaphroditi; receptaculo bre- 
Viter cupulari. Sepala 4, 5, imbricata. Petala 4, 5, alterna, tenuiora, 
1. Hist. vég. ist. Afr. austr., 61,t.20.— DC.,  —B.H.,Gen.,1,811,n. 5. — Thompsonia R. Br. 
Prodr , WU, 387. — or Gen., 124 (90). — in Trans. Linn. Soc., XHI, 221. — Enpe., Gen., 
ENDL., Gen., n. 5097. — PAYER, Fam. nat., 89. n,. 5096. 
