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PLATE CCVlI. 



PASSIFLORA MALI FORM IS. 



Apple-fruited Po[fton- Flowe?- . 



CLASS XX. ORDER IV. 

 GYNANDRIA PENTANDRIA. Chives on the Pointal. Five Chives. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx. Perianthinm quinquepartitum, pla- 

 num, coloratum, petalis contornie. 



Corolla. Petala quinque, femi-lanceolata, pla- 

 na, obtula, magnitudine et figura calycis. 

 Nectarium corona triplex; exterior longior, 

 intra petala llylum cingens, luperne magis 

 coar£tata. 



Stamina. Filamenta quinque, lubulata, ad 

 bafin germinis columrite atmc.va, patentia. 

 Anthera; incumbentts, oblongn;, obtul;e. 



PiSTiLLUM. Gernien fubrotunduni, apicl co- 

 lumnae cylindracese, xt&x inlidens. Styli 

 tres, fuperne craffiores, patuli. Stigmata 

 capitata. 



Pericakpium. Bacca carnofa, fubovata, uiii- 

 lociilaris, pedicellata. 



Semina plurima, ovata, arillata. 



Rcceptaculiun feminum triplex, cortici pe- 

 ricarpii longitudinaliter adnatuin. 



Empalement. Cup five-pnrted, flat, coloiwed, 

 like the -irtals. 



Blossom. Petals five, half lance-lhaped, flat, 

 blunt, of the lize and lliapc of the cup. 

 Honey-cup, a liiple crown ; the outer longer, 

 encircling the (haft within the petals, more 

 contrafted above. 



Chives. Five threads, awl-ihaped, fixed to the 

 bale of the column of the leecl-bud, fpread- 

 iiig. Tips fixed by their backs,. oblong, obtufe. 



Pointal. Seed-bud roundilh, falling ir.to tlie 

 end of a cylindrical, upright column. Three 

 fliafts, thicker above, fpreading. Summits 

 headed. 



Seed-vessel. A flefhy berry, nearly egg-fhaped, 

 one. celled, pcdicelled. 



Seeds many, egg-fliaped, covered by a feed-coat. 

 RiTi'ptarle of the feeds triple, fivcd longitu- 

 dinally to tl e rind of the berry. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



PalMora foliis indivifis, cordato-oblongis, inte- 

 gerriinis ; petiolis biglandalofis; involucro 

 triphyllo, flore majore; IruCtu maliformi. 



Paflion - Flower with undivided leaves, heart- 

 fliape-obloiig, quite entire; foot-llalks with 

 two glands, fence three-leaved, larger than 

 the flower; fruit like an apple. 



REFEUENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. A ripe fruit. 



2. A Flower cut perpendicularly tlirough the middle, to lliew its intcjior firuclute, 



with tiie p.irls of truotifn atiun complete. 



This fpecies of Paflion -Flower is faid to be a fojourner with us fince the vear 1731, and to have been 

 then cultivated by Miller. It is likewife laid to be a native of Dominica, but it is found in all the 

 Weft India iflands. It rarely flowers in tliis climate; and we fliould not now have been able to gra- 

 tify our friends with this figure, but for the particular ingenuity, in the treatment ot hot houfe plants, 

 by Mr. 2\nderfon, fuperintmdaiit of the rich coUeflion of plants in the gardens of J. V'ere, Elq. Ken- 

 lington Gore, who by a long experience in cultivation, added to a particular lo\e tor the profeflion, has 

 placed his knowledge in the treatment of exotica, in particular, much beyond molt cultivators of ih6 

 prefent day. Our figure was taken from a plant which continued in flower from July till November; 

 it was planted in a border of rich earth, clofe to the tan -pit, and trailed along the front rafter of the 

 houfe; the oitly method, we prefume, by which it can be induced to flower, as we have never feen it 

 elfewhere. It is propagated with cafe by cuttings. 



Much contention has arifen among Botar.ifts, fince the days of Linnseus, where to place this tribe 

 of plants. Swartz placed it to Monadelphia, who is lately followed by VVilldenow. Sclireber, Thun- 

 berg, &c. have thrown it to Pentandria. But our antiquated notions of the capability of that great 

 man, in claflifying to his own fyltem, thole plants which came under his actual review, has occa- 

 fioned our retaining it, under its old clafs, juft as he left it 



