100 Account of the Purple-fruited Passion Flower. 



gularis, P. maliformis, and P. laurtfolia, all belonging to that 

 division of the genus, comprehending those species, which 

 have undivided leaves. They have all been, for many years, 

 inmates of our stoves, where their beautiful flowers will 

 always ensure them a place, in despite of that love of novelty, 

 which too often rejects that which has considerable merit, 

 solely because it is not new. 



The P. quadrangularis is the most magnificent of those I 

 have enumerated. It is called the Granadilla vine, and is 

 much cultivated in the gardens of Jamaica, and the other 

 islands. Its luxuriant perennial shoots are there formed into 

 arbours, furnishing a thick shade, rendered more grateful by 

 the beauty and odour of its flowers and fruit, which are both 

 produced at the same time, on different parts of the bran- 

 ches. The fruit is very large, of an oblong shape, about 

 six inches in diameter, from the stalk to the eye, and fif- 

 teen inches in circumference. It is greenish yellow, when 

 ripe, soft and leathery to the touch, and quite smooth ; the 

 rind is very thick, and contains a succulent pulp, (which is 

 the edible part,) mixed with the seeds, in a sort of sack, from 

 which it is readily separated. Wine and sugar are com- 

 monly added to it, when used. The flavour is sweet, and 

 slightly acid, and it is very grateful to the taste, and cooling, 

 in a hot climate. The plant has occasionally borne fruit 

 in this country, particularly in the gardens of Lord Hare- 

 wood, in Yorkshire. It is figured by Miss Lawraxce, 

 amongst her Passifloras, also by Jacquin, in his Icones 

 pic tee selectarum stirpium Americanarum, tab. 218, in which a 

 very imperfect delineation of the fruit is given. The best re- 

 presentation, both of the plant and fruit, is in a large single 



