260 Account of a newly produced Hybrid Passiflora. 



narrow lanceolate lobes, by which it is readily distinguished; 

 the flowers of the two are alike. 



The female parent of the Hybrid is only a recent intro- 

 duction ; it was brought from the Brazils to Lisbon by the 

 late Mr. Emperor Woodford, and having been cultivated 

 in his garden at that place, was communicated by him to 

 Professor Brotero of Coimbra, who in 1815 sent a descrip- 

 tion of it, with the name of P. racemosa, to the Linnean 

 Society : this (with a figure of the plant) was published in 

 their Transactions* and it is the first printed account which 

 exists of the plant. It first blossomed in this country in the 

 stove of Messrs. Loddiges and Sons, at Hackney, in 1817, 

 and it was then figured in their Botanical Cabinet^ under the 

 name of P. Princeps, but this name has given way to the one 

 previously assigned to the species by Professor Brotero. 

 It has been subsequently figured in the Botanical Register,% 

 and in the Botanical Magazine.^ There is a variety of it, in 

 which the outer double series of the rays of the nectary are 

 entirely white, instead of being stained in part with purple ; 

 this variation is noted by Professor Brotero, in his account 

 in the Transactions of the Linnean Society The first men- 

 tioned plant was the one used by Mr. Milne in the produc- 

 tion of his hybridized seeds. 



In conformity with the judicious suggestion of Mr. Her- 

 bert^ as to the proper plan of naming these artificial occu- 

 pants of our gardens, I propose to call this new production 



* Transactions of the Linnean Society, vol. xii. p. 71, plate 6. 

 f Vol. i. plate 84. % Plate 285. § Plate 2001. 



}] See Horticultural Transactions, vol. iii. p. 195. 



