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CLASSIFICATION 



environments are tropophytes, as, for instance, 

 shasha. 



The male flowers are larger than the female flowers, 

 so that the insects pay their first visits to the former. 

 Ants and flies. are active pollinators. 



Nat. Order 13. Passifloracece. — Closely allied to 



Fig. 193.— A kind of jhtimka {Passifiora suherosa, Linn.) showing: 

 a, axillary tendril; h, corona; c, grynandrophore. 



CucurbitacecB in habit, but differing from it in having 

 hermaphrodite flowers, superior ovary, i -celled, with 

 3 parietal placentas, and beautiful corona of filiform 

 appendages arising from the tube of the perianth. It 

 is represented in our gardens by the showy climber 

 jhumka-lata or Passion flower {Passiflora foetida, 

 Linn.), an American plant naturalized in India, and 

 P. suberosa, Linn. (fig. 193) ; the tendrils are axillary. 

 The Papaw or panpe {Carica Papaya) is also a native 



