By Joseph Sabine, Esq. 267 



before existed in the parents as to give the flower quite a 

 new appearance. Novelties of character are observable 

 also in the third and fourth series of rays of the crown ; the 

 first of these are changed from stumps into elongated pro- 

 cesses, and the position of the second is altered from that 

 of convergence towards the shaft, to an upright direction. 

 The formation of the tube of the calyx in the hybrid is deser- 

 ving of attention, though the tube itself is shortened by the 

 influence of the male, yet all the parts within side of it 

 resemble those of the female, with slight variations, except 

 that the extension of the rays from the top of the conical 

 membrane, which add much to the effect of the flower, is 

 not derived from either the male or the female. The stipes 

 or shaft of the hybrid resembles that of the female. The 

 styles and stigmas, as well as the filaments and anthers, are 

 nearly alike in both parents and in the offspring, except in 

 colour, and in that point the two former follow the male and 

 the two latter the female. 



I have peculiar satisfaction in thus having laid before 

 the Society the account of this new plant,, both as it enables 

 me to give the due credit to the skill of its industrious and 

 intelligent producer, as well as to record, I believe, the first 

 authentic instance of a hybrid production in the genus 

 Passiflora. Had this plant been observed, without a know- 

 ledge of the manner by which it was obtained, it would 

 probably have been described as a new natural species ; 

 indeed it is not impossible that some of those which have 

 been established as such, may have originated in the same 

 way. The production of plants of a similar description 

 will probably be great hereafter ; with one, in a young 



