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CV. PASSIFLOEEiE. 



slieatlLing the gynoptore ; anthers introrse, 2-celled, usually versatile, dehiscence 

 longitudinal. Ovary more or less stipitate, very rarely sessile, 1-celled; styles equal 

 in number to the placentas, cohering at the base, distinct at the top. 



Malesheriia. 

 One sepal and two petals (ma?.). 



MaUsherhia. 

 Andi-oecmm and pistil. 



MaUsh&'hia. 



Seed, entire and cut vertically 



(mag.). 



Malesherbia, 



Transverse section of 



ovary (mag.). 



spreading ; stigmas clavate or peltate, some- 

 times sub-2-lobed ; ovules numerous, ana- 

 tropous, 1-2-seriate, attached to 3-5 parietal 

 linear placentas by longer or shorter funicles, 

 enlarged into a cupule at the umbilicus. 

 Fettit 1-celled, an indehiscent berry, or a 

 capsule with 3-5 semi-placentiferous valves. 

 Seeds numerous ; funicle dilated into a 

 pulpy cupuliform or saccate aril ; testa crustaceous, foveolate, easily separable from 

 the membranous endopleura, which bears a longitudinal raphe. Embeto straight, 

 occupying the axis of a fleshy dotted albumen ; cotyledons foliaceous, flat ; radicle 

 cylindric, near the hilum, centrifugal. 



[The following is the classification of Passijlorece made for the ' Genera Plan- 

 tarum ' : — 



Teibb I. MALESBEEBiKJi. — Flowers § ■ Calyx-tube elongate, lobes triangular-subulate. 

 Corona and corolla membranous. Stamens 6, adnate to the gynophore. Styles 3, remote at 

 the base. Seeds oblong. (South America.) Malesheriia, Gynopleura. 



Tribe II. Passifloeb^. — Flowers § . Corona simple or double. Petals herbaceous. 

 Styles 1 or 3—5, connate at the base. Seeds flattish, *Passiflora, *Tacsonia, Paropsia, 

 SmeatJimamiia, &o. 



Teibe III. M0DECCE.1;. — Flowers § i or if unisexual perianths of the sexes alike. Corona 

 small or 0. Petals usually included in the calyx-tube. Connective of the anthers usually 

 prod-uced. (Old World.) *Modecea, Opliiocaulon, Machadoa. 



Teibe IV. AscHAKiEai. — Flowers unisexual, perianth of the sexes alike. Calyx very short. 

 Corolla campanulate, 3-5-fid. Stamens inserted on the throat or base of the corolla. (South 

 Africa.) Ceratosicrjos, Ascharia. 



Teibe V. Papatacej?.' — Flowers unisexual, or 5 and unisexual in the same inflorescence, 

 perianths of the sexes dissimilar. Corona 0. Stamens 2-seriate, inserted on the corolla-tube. 

 Carlca, Jacaratia.'] 



