— Turnera.} PASSIFLORE. 611 
teoles 2 or 0. Sepals 5, connate in a a or narrow 
talyx-tube ; lobes of limb oblong or linear, imbricate. Petals 5, 
inserted in calyx-throat. Stamens 5, ‘eaticn on eons calyx below 
the petals, or sometimes quite hypogynous; filaments free, 
flattened; anthers oblong. Carpels 3, pet: fia free, sessile, 
oblong, 1-celled ovary; ovules many, 2-seriate on 3 parietal 
placentas ; | 8, quite free or occasionally connate at the base ; 
stigmas flabellately 3-5- or more-fid. Frwit an ovoid or oblong, 
many- oy or rarely 3-seeded capsule, opening completely by 3 
valves, Seeds confined to centre of placentas, oblong or cylindric, 
a& membranous arillus; albumen fleshy; embryo 
axial, cylindric. é 
852. TuRNERA uLMIFoLra Linn. 
In most of the provinces; an escape from gardens. 
An undershrub. 
Order LX. PASSIFLOREZ. 
Herbs or shrubs, almost always twining or climbing. Leaves 
alternate, simple or lobed, penninerved or palminerved, often 
glandular beneath; petiole often glandular ; — 2, deciduous 
or persistent, sometimes 0; tendrils Flowers regu- 
br, hermaphrodite or 1- sexual; usually 3- haps: with brac- 
teoles small and scattered or large and forming a leafy epicalyx, 
; ose, with sometimes one or more of the 
Sepals 5, connate in a calyx with tubular base, fleshy or subcori- 
aeous, less often membranous, imbricate. Petals 0, or 5 attached 
to calyx-tube, membranous or fleshy, imbricate, marcescent ; 
*tona above the disk usually soot Stamens 5, adnate to a 
= Fiore or free at the base, perigynous; anthers oblong, 
» basifixed or versatile ; dehiscence longitudinal, lateral or 
tary or erent ; styles 1 or 3; stigmas reniform, capitate or 
Rec’; ovules numerous, anatropous, pendulous. — * 
berry or sang Seeds many, ovoid or flattened, with a fleshy 
Aen often pitted ; albumen fleshy, rarely scanty ; embryo 
