266 Account of a newly produced Hybrid Passiflora. 



On a comparison of these descriptions it appears that 

 though on the whole the offspring has much of character 

 intermediate between both its parents, yet the resemblance 

 to the female generally preponderates; there are a few 

 points in which the male has stamped its likeness distinctly, 

 and those are striking ones ; it is also to be observed that 

 in the flower there are appearances different from that of 

 either parent, and it is singular that these should be what 

 constitute the peculiar beauty of the new plant, as if nature 

 had lent her aid in giving this artificial production, created 

 with the hope of its being an ornament to the garden, a 

 superiority in that part which above all others attracts most 

 of the notice of the cultivator. 



The stronger resemblance to the female will be found in 

 the stem, the stipules, the substance and general character 

 of the leaves, the bracteae (except that they are persistent, 

 as in the male, not caducous, as in the female), and the 

 calyx. The male has had some influence in the shape of 

 the leaves, and in the mode of insertion of the petiole into 

 the leaf ; it has quite removed the peculiar inflorescence of 

 the female, substituting its own ; and the first and second 

 series of the rays of the crown are almost exact resem- 

 blances of the corresponding parts of the male in every 

 point except the colour, which has more of richness and 

 beauty than is to be found in either male or female. This 

 richness of colour is one of the points which I have alluded 

 to as not being derived from either parent, it is not only 

 observable in the hue of all the different series of rays but 

 in the inner surface of the segments of the calyx and of the 

 petals, the. colour of both which are so entirey unlike what 



