Passiflora.l, txiv. passifloeej!. (M. T. Masters.) 599' 



capitate or flattened. OtnUei numeroua, pendulous, anatropous ; funicle ex- 

 panded into a cup-shaped arUlus, IVuit baccate or capsular. Seeds numerous, 

 ovoid or flattened, often pitted, covered with a fleshy arillus, albumen fleshy, 

 rarely scanty ; embryo straight, cotyledons flat leafy, radicle short terete.— 

 DiSTBlB. Chiefly tropical ; most numerous in South America. Genera about 

 20 ; species about 300. 



Carica Papaya, L. The Papaw is commonly cultivated, and is more or less natu- 

 ralized in various parts of India. 



Tribe I. Fasslfloreae. Flowers hermaphrodite, Statnens hypogynous. 



Twining herbs or shrubs 1. Passiflora. 



Jlreet shrubs 2. Pabopsia. 



Tbib£ II. nXodecceae. Flowers unisexual. Stamens perigynous. 



3. MODECCA. 



1. PASSIFZiORA, lAnn. 



Twining shrubs. Leaves simple or palmilobed, usually with glands on the 

 under surface and on the petiole ; stipules thread-like or leafy. Flowers pedun- 

 culate ; peduncles simple or cymose. Bracteoles 3, small, scattered. Calyx-tube 

 fleshy, limb 6-lobed. Petals 5, springing from the throat of the calyx. Corona 

 of one or more rows of fine threads springing from the throat of the calyx-tube 

 and of one or more membranous folds arising lower down. Oyno^hore sur- 

 rounded at the base by a shallow membranous cup or basilar corona ; filaments 

 5, flat ; anthers oblong, 2-eelled, dorsifixed ; pollen grains reticulate on the sur- 

 face. Ovary l-ceUed ; styles 3, stigmas reniformi-capitate. Fruit baccate. 

 Seeds arillate. — Dibikib. A large genus most abundant in tropical and sub- 

 tropical America. A few are Malayan and two Chinese. 



In addition to the following species, several others are cultivated in Indian gar^ 

 dens, and some have become more or less naturalized, as indeed in all hotter coun- 

 tries. Among these may be mentioned varieties of P. fatida and suberosa. A form of 

 the latter species was described by Wight as indigenous to Ceylon under the name of 

 P. Wal&eria, 39 111. ii. (t. 108), but there is no reason to suppose it indigenous. 



1. P. Xiesclienaultli, DC. Prodr. iii. 326 ; leaves semiorbicular trun- 

 cate palminerved shortly 3-lobed glandless pubescent especially beneath. Wall. 

 Cat. 1231 ; W. Sf A. Prodr. 352 ; Hook. Ic. PI. t. 353 ; Wight Ic. t. 39. 



Khasfa, PniKBT and Nilghibi Mts. 



A climbing shrub. Branches slender, angular. Leaves broader than long, more or 

 less pubescent, especially on the under surface and along the 3 nerves, rarely 

 entirely glabrous, base rounded or cordate, apex truncately 3-lobed, lateral lobes 

 spreading lanceolate, central lobe very small : petiole 1 in., with 2 sessile glands 

 below the middle. Pedmcles in pairs in the axils of the leaves, simple, longer than 

 the petiole; bracteoles 3, remote, linear. Flowers 2 in. diam. ; tvibe short, saucer- 

 shaped. Sepals oblong, obtuse. Petals white, equalling the sepals in length but 

 narrower. Outer corona near the base of the tube, of two rows of linear filaments, the 

 outer rather shorter than the petals, the inner much shorter ; inner corona short, 

 tubular, membranous, plicated, margin incurved and crisped ; basilar corona small, 

 cup-shaped, surrounding the base of the gynophore. _ Anthers lineal. Ovary elongate- 

 oblong. Frait 1^ by 1 in., ovoid, glabi:ous, yellowish ; rind leathery. 



