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XXII. Some Account of the Purple-fruited Passion Flower, 

 of late cultivated in England, and of the other known Sjje- 

 cies, ivhich hear edible Fruit ; with Observations on the 

 Passiflora incarnata of Linnaeus, and on the first Plant of 

 the Genus, which was introduced into Europe. By Joseph 

 Sabine, Esq. F.R.S. fyc. Secretary. 



Read March 3, 1818. 



In the autumn of the two last years, the fruit of a Passion 

 Flower, which was considered by many, who tasted it, as 

 peculiarly agreeable, was exhibited at the meetings of the 

 Horticultural Society. The plant bears abundantly in a 

 stove, and as the management of it is not attended with any 

 peculiar difficulty, it is very probable that, when it is more 

 known, it will be more extensively cultivated; for which 

 reason I have been induced to collect some particulars rela- 

 ting to its origin and treatment, and other matters connected 

 with it, the details of which, I hope, will not be without 

 interest. 



This fruit, when first spoken of, was conjectured to be one 

 of those usually called Granadilla in the West Indies; but 

 this was a mistake, as will be evident, on a comparison of the 

 description of the plants producing those fruits, with that 

 which is the subject of the present inquiry. 



Three distinct species of Passiflora yield edible fruit in 

 abundance, in the West Indies : these are, the P. quadran- 



