﻿Inventory 53, Seeds and Plants Imported. 



PLATE IV. 



The Sweet Granadilla of Guatemala. (Passiflora ligularis Juss., 



S. P. I. No. 45614). 



One of the best of the granadillas. According to Mr. Wilson Popenoe, this plant grows in parts of 

 Guatemala apparently too cold for the avocado. It is strikingly different from the common species 

 (P. edulis), which is grown in California and cultivated extensively in Australia, being orange- 

 yellow instead of dull purple in color, with a rind so hard that it does not wrinkle but protects the 

 fruit, so that it is transported as much as a hundred miles over the mountains by native carriers. 

 It brings relatively high prices on the markets. The aroma of the fruit is delightful, and the flavor 

 is not so acid as that of other species. It deserves to be grown and crossed with P. edulis and with the 

 sour maypop (P. incarnata), which is hardy as far north as Washington, D. C. (Photographed by 

 Wilson Popenoe, San Lorenzo del Cubo, Guatemala, October 19, 1916; P16825FS.) 



