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lanceolate, and pointed, ttin in texture, dark green above, 

 paler and pubescent below. The flowers, which are pro' 

 duced in terminal corymbs, have a tube an inch long, and 

 fine-lobed limb, which is bright j'ellow, with an orange centre ; 

 and the enlarged calyx leaf is about three-quarters of an inch 

 long, and pure white. It blooms during autumn and winter, 

 and lasts a long time in flower. Native of Africa, about the 

 White Nile country. 



Passifloea. 



The Passion Flowers are magnificent stove climbers, mostly 

 natives of South America and the West Indies, where they 

 climb from tree to tree, forming festoons of the richest beauty. 

 Many of them, moreover, produce fruits of great size, which 

 are considered delicious adjuncts to the dessert. They 

 are plants of quick growth and very free-flowering. The soil 

 best suited for them is a mixture of light loam and fibrous 

 peat, with a good addition of silver sand. They all require 

 plenty of room, both for roots and also for their branches, 

 and they make beautiful objects in our stoves and conserva- 

 tories ; many of them, indeed, succeed well in the cool house. 

 We here give a few of the best stove kinds. 



P. alata. — This fine climber has a four-angled stem and 

 winged branches, and produces large, somewhat cordate, 

 entire, glabrous leaves. The flowers are deliciously sweet, of 

 a deep crimson colour, having the rays prettily variegated 

 with crimson, purple, and green, It continues blooming 

 from May to September. A very handsome species from 

 Peru. 



P. amahilis. — A fine slender-growing plant, of free growth, 

 having ovate-acute, entire, deep green leaves, of thinnish 

 texture, and very abundant flowers, of which the petals are of 

 a rich scarlet, with a white coronal ray. It commences to 



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