512 BENGAL PLANTS. (Passiflora. 
— hermaphrodite ; corona of corolla conspicuous ; tendril-bearing 
erbs Passiflora. 
— unisexual ; corona of corolla small or none: 
Male and female corollas similar ; ; tendril-bearing fi or ahrabs 
odecca, 
Male and female corollas dissimilar ; erect trees with soft stems Carica. 
357. Passiflora Linn. . 
Twining shrubs, with usually am simple tendrils ; leaves q 
simple or padaistely lobed, usually glands on under-s 
and petiole; stipules slender or eae Flowers solitary 4 
ole 
springing from throat of calyx and from one or more membranous 
folds lower down, and with a basilar, membranous cup surround: 
ing the base of a distinct gynandrophore. Stamens 5, arising 
from apex of gynandrophore; filaments flat; anthers oblong 
dorsifixed. Carpels 3, connate in a one-celled ovary, crowning : 
€ gynandrophore ; ovules numerous; styles 3; stigmas reniform, 
capitate. Fruit a fleshy berry. Seeds many, rarely few, arillate. 
Flowers small, without Reve bracts none, or if present not mess aD J 
inyolucre under the fower ,.... °°... ee e nied 
gist cee, showy ; bradks 3, forming an involucre mr 4 
flow: 
eaticld of the involucre finely pinnatifid, the ultimate cngmetia 
sected, setaceous fe 
Leaflets of the involucre entire or toothed :— hylla 
Branches terete; stipules large, foliaceOus.......---+++++++° adenop’ 
Branches quadrangular, faintl nage aise the corners 
3 : quadra angular 
weccceereserres 
eee meee 
853. PassirLora suBERosa Linn. ; F. B.I. ii. 599. 
C. and E. Bengal ; ‘Sundribuns ; ; Chittagong. ative of 
A herb slachine in hedges and thickets; 4” 
America, but quite naturalised. 
854. Passtrtora Feria Linn. ; F. B. I. ii. 599. 
C. Bengal; Chit 
tagong. 
A climbing slender shrub in hedges near egie 
native of America, but fairly naturalised. 
