July 4, 1894.] 



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perianth. The fruit is egg-shaped, about an inch and a 

 half long, deep yellow-green, and hangs on a slender stipe ; 

 it is covered with a thick skin and contains numerous large 

 seeds surrounded by thin watery pulp. 



A flowering branch and a fruit of Passiflora manicata is 

 reproduced from a drawing made by Mr. Faxon in our 



publishing a portrait of a young plant of the California 

 Fan Palm, Washingtonia filifera (see vol. vi., page 535). 



The manner in which Passiflora manicata reached Cali- 

 fornia appears to be unknown, but whoever it was who 

 first had the happy inspiration of planting it there certainly 

 deserves well of the state. 



Fiji;. 44. — Passiflora manicata. — See page 264. 



illustration on this page. The habit of the plant as it 

 grows in California is displayed in the illustration on 

 page 267, which represents a young specimen cover- 

 ing an observatory in the garden of Mr. Hugh D. Vail, 

 one of the pioneers of Santa Barbara horticulture, whose 

 garden has already furnished us with an opportunity of 



Rosa gigantea. — None of (he plants of this species which 

 we have seen in the United States have yet borne flowers, 

 but Mr. E. D. Sturtevant writes that a plant llowered in his 

 garden near Los Angeles, California, in March and April. 

 The plant was received from Kew three years ago, and has 

 made several shoots twenty feet long. The flowers, which 



