By Joseph Sabine, E,sq. 



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plate published by Mr. Sowerby ; it is also figured in the 

 Botanical Register, plate 14. It is to the fruit of this species, 

 that the name of Granadilla is more particularly applied. 



The P. maliformis is also formed into arbours, in the gar- 

 dens of the West Indies, and produces flowers scarcely in- 

 ferior, in beauty and fragrance, to those of the preceding. 

 Its fruit, however, is much smaller ; it is nearly round, smooth, 

 and about two inches in diameter, of a dingy yellow colour, 

 when ripe ; the coat is hard and strong, nearly a quarter 

 of an inch in thickness, full of a very agreeable, sweet, gela- 

 tinous, pale yellow pulp, in which many oblong black seeds 

 are lodged : this pulp is eaten in the same manner as that of 

 the Granadilla, and is in much estimation. The plant is said 

 to have borne fruit in the garden of the Bishop of Durham, 

 at Mongewell, in Oxfordshire, as well as in Mr. Veres 

 garden, at Kensington Gore ; but I apprehend, in both cases, 

 very imperfectly. Good figures have been published of it, by 

 Miss Lawrance, in her Passifloras ; by Andrews, in his 

 Botanist's Repository, plate 217 ; by Jacquin, in his Hortus 

 Schoenbrunnensis, vol. 2, tab 180, and in the Botanical Re- 

 gister, plate 94. It is called, in Jamaica, the S weet Calabash, 

 in reference to the coat of the fruit, which in its substance, 

 resembles that of a bottle gourd. Miller contends, that the 

 name of Granadilla should belong exclusively to this, and 

 not to the preceding species ; it is probable, that it is indis- 

 criminately given to both, in common usage. 



The P. laurifolia grows wild in the woods of Jamaica, and 

 is also cultivated there, and in the other islands. The flowers 

 of this are, like the others, sweet-scented and handsome. 

 The fruit is of the size of a hen's egg, but rather more 



