PLATE DCLVII. 



PASSIFLORA LUNATA. 



Crescent-leaved Passion-Jiower. 



CLASS XX. ORDER V. 

 GYN ANURIA PENTANDRIA. Chives on the Pointals. Five Chives. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Tkigvnia. Calyx 5-phyllus. Petala 5. Nec- 

 tarium coroniforme. Bacca peditellata. 



Three styles. Cup 5-leaved, Petals 5. Honey- 

 cup forming a crown. Berry standing on a 

 footstalk. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Passiflora floribus axillaribus, binis : foliis lu- 

 natis : flore parvo^ albo : fructu succulento, 

 ovato. 



Passiflora. Flowers axillary, by twos : leaves 

 crescen t- formed ; flower small and white: 

 fruit oval and succulent. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 

 1. A flower spread open. 



This Passiflora is (like every one of the genus) a graceful meandering plant, and calculated to make 

 an ugly wall look beautiful It bears an abundant succession of delicate small flowers, which are fra- 

 grant, and open early in the day, and during the summer and autumnal months is agreat ornament to the 

 hot stove. Our drawing was made from the collection of the Countess de Vandes at Bayswater. 



