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“@ENUS XIIL GYMNOPETALUM. 
Mon@ela Monadelphia, Sex: Syst: 
Deriv, From Gymnos, naked, and Petalon, a petal. 
Grn. Cyan. Calyx ooistricted at the mouth : éoxolla 5-parted 
segments quite entire : anthers clasely ovhering. 
(1) G. Wienru. (din). 
‘Ydent. “Wight's Hl. I. p. at. 
Sexc, CyAr. Climbing; leaves 3-5-angled, lobed: perianth 
“hairy ; ‘fruit ovate, beaked, few-seeded : seeds large, roundish 
flowers yellaw, 
Courtallum. 
ORDER LXIX. PASSIFLORACEZ. 
Sepals 5, leafy, united below into a tube, the sides and throat 
of “whith are! lined’ with a corona, composed of’ filaniontous or: 
‘annular processes :, petals perigynous, inserted between: the- co- 
ona and the calyx-segments, with which last they are equal in 
‘number and alternate, very rarely larger than them, sometimes 
wanting; stamens 5, monadelphous, usually with processes from 
the disk Retiesin een and ‘the petals: ‘anthers inserted by their 
base, 2-celled, bursting longitudinally on the inner side, ‘but 
from being often reflexed, apparently « opening outwardly; ovary 
‘free, 1-celled; avule indefinite, attached to 3 parietal placentee : 
#tyles 3 or wanting; fruit: naked ‘or surrounded by the calyx, . 
tE-celled, ustally 3-valved, “dehiscent and with cells, ‘or fleshy 
“and indehiscent ; seeds compressed, with an aril: testa brittle, 
sculptured ; embrya atraight, in the centre of thin fleshy 
slbumen, . 
GENUS I. ‘ PASSIFLORA, 
Monadelphia Petitandria. Ser: Syst: 
Deriv. The Passion-flower is so named from a fancied resem- 
“lance between the flowérs and a crown of thorns, in “alfuaion’ to the 
“passion “of our Saviour, 
