CV. PASSIFLOEE^. 



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Passifiora. 

 Transverse section of seed 

 (mag.). 



PassiJitM'a. 

 Vertical section ol ovary (mag.)- 



Passifiora. Diagram. 



Passifiora. 



Transverse section of 



ovai-y (mag.). 



stipitate,.with 3-5 parietal placentas. Feuit a herry or capsule. Embeto albu- 

 minous. — Leaves alternate. 



Stem herbaceous or woodj, generally climbing, very rarely arborescent {Ryania, 

 Smeathmannia). Leaves alternate, sometimes simple, entire, lobed or palmate, some- 

 times compound, imparipinnate ; stipules geminate at the base of the petioles, rarely 

 ; tendrils axillary, arising from sterile pedicels. Elowees 5 , or imperfect through 

 arrest, regular ; peduncles usually 1-flowered, jointed at the flower, and [usually] 

 furnished at the joint with a 3-phyllous or -partite involucel. Pbeianth petaloid, 

 monophyllous ; tube urceolate or tubular, sometimes very short ; limb 4-6-partite or 

 8-10-partite and 2-seriate, the outer segments sometimes herbaceous, equivalent to 

 a calyx, the inner more coloured, equivalent to a corolla ; throat usually crowned by 

 one or many series of subulate filaments ; gynophore cylindric, more or less elon- 

 gating, supporting the pistil and stamens. Stamens usually equal in number to 

 the [inner] perianth-segments, and opposite to them, or very rarely alternate, some- 

 times double the number, inserted either at the bottom of the perianth, or at the base 

 or top of the gynophore ; filaments subulate or filiform, free or monadelphous and 



