. PLATE CCXCV. 
PASSIFLORA AURANTIA. 
Norfolk Ifand Paffion-Flower. 
CLASS..3% .OR2 DER - iy 
GYNANDRIA PENTANDRIA. Chives on the Pointal. Five Chives. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
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| Taree ftyles. Cup 5-leaved. Petals 5. Honey- 
cup forming acrown. Berry ftanding on a 
H foot-ftalk. 
See Pl. CCVII. Passtrtora marirormis. Vol.1V. 
Tricyna. Calyx 5-phyllus. Petdla 5. Nec- 
tarium corona. Bacca pedicellata. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Paffiflora foliis trilobis, lobis oblongis obtufis, | Paffion-Flower with three-lobed leaves; lobes 
medio longiore ;_ petiolis biglandulofis ; | oblong, obtufe, the middle one the longeft ; 
nectario cylindraceo, denticulato; corolla | foot-ftalks with two glands ; honey-cup cy- 
aurantia, | lindrical and toothletted; bloffom orange- 
i coloured 
* REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
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. Exhibits the half of a flower as cut perpendicularly through the middle, with the whole of the 
Pointal and Chives in their place. 
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Tuts fpecies of Paflion Flower, from Norfolk Ifland, was introduced to Britain in the year 1792, and 
was firft raited, from feeds, at the Hammerfmith Nurfery. It is a greenhoufe plant, loving heat and 
drought, thrives in a light fandy foil, and is readily increafed by cuttings; which fhould be placed 
in the heat of the bark-bed in the hothoufe, or cucumber hot-bed, in the month of April. 
‘Tn the young ftate of the plant, the leaves are lefs harth, appear rather fcolloped than lobed, and 
much refemble in fhape thofe of the Maiden-hair Fern, or Adiantum Capillus-veneris; whence the 
trivial name, adiantifolia, which it bears in moft colletions. But, as there can be no doubt of our 
prefent plant being that defigned by Forfter, in his Prod. flor. inful. auftral. No. 326; of Cavanilles 
_ia his Differtationes claffis Monadelphiz, Diff. 10. p. 457; and as laftly quoted by Willdenow, in 
his new Sp. Plant. Tom.3, Part 1, p.620; we have, without hefitation, adopted the {pecific title it 
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sre bears. As an addition to the very few handfome climbing plants fit to decorate the trellis- 
work of our modern greenhoufes, or confervatories, this plant muft be confidered as a great acqui- 
fition ; as the growth is rapid, the foliage of a fine green, and the flowering abundant. 
a 2 “common. 
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Our figure was taken from a plant in the confervatory of the Hibbertian colleGion, Clapham 
