Pasdjtorete.] passiflorEjE. 123 



Albumen fleshy. Embi-yo straight, Eadicle next the hilum. Cotyledons 

 leafy. — CUmbers, or rarely erect herbs or.shnabs. Leaves alternate, entire or 

 divided, with stiptJes. Flowers henuaphrodite or Tinisexual. 



Besides Pasdjlora itself, the Order contains a few small genera dispersed over the tropical 

 regions of the Old as well as the New World. 



1. PASSIFLOBA, Linn. 



Calyx-tube short. One or several rings of coloured filaments within the 

 petals. Stamens as many as the sepals, so united with the ovary-stalk as to 

 appear to be inserted at its summit. Styles 3, with large capitate stigmas. 

 Fruit succulent, indehiscent.— Climbers with axillary tendrils. Flowers 

 usually hennaphrodite. Sepals usually colom-ed inside as much as the petals. 



A large genus, almost entirely American, with a very few somewhat anomalous species 

 from the Old World. 



1. P. foetida, Linn. ; BC. Prod. iii. 331 ; Bot. Reg. t. 331 ; Bot. Mag. 

 <. 2619. A herbaceous climber, usually very hairy. Leaves stalked, corda,te, 

 and mostly 3-lobed, 2 to 3 in, long, softly villous on both sides. Stipules 

 fringed with hair-bke lobes, tipped with a small gland. Peduncles axillary, 

 1 to 2 in. long, bearing a single flower, closely .surrounded and almost en- 

 closed in a moss-Hke involucre, consisting of 3 bracts very much divided into 

 hair-bke glandular lobes. Petals pale purplish-white, spreading to about 2 

 in. diameter. 



Common about habitations, Wilford. A native of S. America, where it has a very wide 

 range, and introduced from thence it has become a village and roadside weed over a great part 

 of East India. 



Oedee xly. CUCURBITACE^. 



Flowers usually unisexual.. Calyx superior (or adherent at the base and 

 produced above the ovary), usually , campanulate, 5 -toothed. Petals 5, or 

 united in a 5-lobed coroUa, apparently continuous with the calyx-tube, with 

 the c4y^-te.eth at the base of the lobes. Male, flowers : Stamens usually 

 5 or 3. Anthers visually linear and curved, forming a wavy line on the con- 

 nectivum. Female flowers : Ovary inferior, often 1-qelled wheji very young, 

 with 3 parietal placentas, which soon grow out so as to ^vide the ovary into 

 3 or 6 cells. Ovules many, or rarely 1 to each placenta. Fmit succulent, 

 indehiscent, or bursting irregularly. Seeds usually ovate and cpmpressed, in 

 a juicy or membranous ariUus. Albumen none. Embryo straight, with the 

 radicle next the hilum, and leafy cotyledons. — Climbers, usually herbaceous, 

 with lateral tendrils. Leaves alternate, pabnately veined or lobed. 



A considerable Order, dispersed over all hut the colder regions of the globe, but most 

 abundant in dry hot countries, especially in Africa. 



Stamens inserted at the base of the calyx. 

 ' Male flowers (very small) in racemes. Berries small, globular or oblong 1. Kakivia. 

 Male flowers solitary. Fruits large, globular ... . . . 4. Citeulltjs. 



Stamens inserted near the petals.. 



Connective of the anthers projecting beyond the cells. Fruit ohlong, 



indehiscent .... .• • 2. ^chmandra. 



Anther-cells sinuous, almost covering the connective. Fruit muncate, 



opening elastically ... ... 3. Momobdica.^ 



