the middle into three ovate pointed spreading lobes, the lobes entire 
except two or three small glandular teeth at the base of each of them, 
and several small serratures near the base of the leaf, the upper side of 
the leaf green and veined, the under surface often more or less purplish. 
FOOTSTALKS one to two inches long, bearing one, two, or three stipitate 
glands. Sriputes oblique, broadly semiovate, blunt with a thread- 
like point, entire or irregularly toothed. TeNnprits axillary, simple. 
PEDUNCLEs axillary, six or eight inches long or even longer, spread- 
ing, one-flowered, smooth, jointed under the flower, but without any 
bracts. Catyx tube three or three-and-a-half lines long, broad, thick, 
of a reddish green, divisions spreading, oblong, linear, an inch-and-a- 
half at least in length, blunt, scarcely keeled at the top, and without 
any dorsal point. PeTats oblong, flat, nearly as long as the divisions of 
the calyx, and like them of a rich crimson colour. Crown consisting 
of two or three rows of very short purple filaments placed at the top of 
the tube of the corolla and free, and of an inner row inserted much 
lower down, and composed of a series of connate filaments of a pale 
colour, connivent round the staminal tube, and slightly free at the top. 
There is also near the base of the genital column a short ring or 
sheath, with five blunt teeth alternating with the stamina. STAMINAL 
TUBE and ovary green. 
Poputar anp GeocrapHicat Notice. The beautiful tribe of 
Passion-flowers, inhabitants of the warm regions of both hemispheres, 
‘but more especially of the South American continent, are eminently 
adapted for the ornament of our stoves and greenhouses. Being of 
rapid growth they flower young, and many of the species, especially 
the one now figured, the Passiflora racemosa, and some others, remain 
for many months covered with a profusion of flowers. The Passiflora 
ermesina is a native of Brazil, from whence wild specimens have 
been transmitted by Sellow, Gardner, and others, gathered in the 
neighbourhood of Rio Janeiro, the treasures of which district, notwith- 
standing the long continued labours of native, as well as dther collectors, 
seem to be as yet far from exhausted. G. B. 
INTRODUCTION ; WHERE GROWN; Cutture. The Passiflora ker- 
_ mesina was first raised at Berlin, from Sellow’s seeds, and oo thence 
brought to the garden of the Horticultural Society, in ur 
drawing was made at the Messrs. Loddiges. It should = planted { in 
peat, loam, and sand ; and cuttings should be struck in sand. 
DERIVATION OF THE NAMEs. 
PassrFLora or Passion-flower, from some resemblance supposed to exist in the 
floral appendages to the old He sper of our Saviour’s Passion. Ker- 
MESINA cochineal-coloure 
SyNonyMeE. 
Passirtora KeRMESINA. Link and Otto: oe > Botanical Register, 
t. 1633. Botanical Magazine, t. ¢ 
