102 Account of the Purple-fruited Passion Flower. 



elongated, and tapering equally at both ends ; when ripe, 

 it is yellow, and dotted over with little white spots: it 

 contains a whitish watery pulp, which is usually sucked 

 through a small hole made in the rind ; the rind is tough, 

 soft, and thin ; the juice has a peculiar aromatic flavour, 

 is delicately acid, and allays thirst agreeably. I do not 

 find, that it has ever borne fruit in the English gardens. 

 Good figures of the plant are in Miss Lawrance's Passi- 

 floras ; in Jacquin's Hortus Vindobonensis, vol. 2, tab. 162, 

 which is copied in Jacquin's Icones pictte selectarum stir- 

 pium Americanarum, tab. 219 ; in Schneevooghfs Icones, tab. 

 38, and in the Botanical Register, plate 13. It is called 

 by the French Pomme de Liane ; by the English, Water 

 Lemon, and Honeysuckles, though this latter name is given 

 by Browne, in his History of Jamaica, to the fruit of the 

 P. maliformis. 



I now return to the history of the Purple-fruiting Passi- 

 flora. About eight years ago, Edmund Boehm, Esq., 

 of Ottershaw, in Surrey, received from a Portuguese 

 gentleman seeds of this plant, which was stated to 

 be a native of South America, introduced some years 

 since into Portugal, where it is trained, as a creeper, on 

 the verandahs of the houses. By the obliging attention 

 of John Jeffery, Esq., his Majesty's Consul General at 

 Lisbon, I have received living specimens of the leaves 

 and fruit from Portugal, where, he informs me, it grows 

 in an open garden, trained to a wall. It may fairly be 

 conjectured to have been brought to Lisbon from the 

 Brazils, rather than from any other part of South Ame- 

 rica. One of the seedlings, raised at Mr. Boehm's, was 



