72 Additional Account of the New Hybrid Passifloras. 



to the preceding, the lobes are constantly both larger and 

 broader, consequently the whole leaf seems superior in size ; 

 in this kind also there is less of glaucousness on the back of 

 its leaves. Its blossoms come from the alae of the leaves on 

 the young wood, but the old wood, in addition, seems dis- 

 posed more than in the other to throw out short racemes of 

 flowers in various parts of its extent. The general character 

 of the flower of this kind corresponds with that of the first 

 variety grown last year, but it is larger, and has the following 

 differences. Bractece flatter, more elongated, and tinged with 

 purple. . Calyx, when closed, red, but dull and not so light 

 as the female parent ; Tube similar, but more coloured ; of 

 the Segments when expanded, the inner surface is not purple, 

 but a fine rosy carmine. The colour of the inside of the 

 Petals is similar to the correspondent part of the calyx, but 

 rather more intense. Of the Crown, the first and second 

 series of rays, though spreading outwards, are slightly in- 

 curved ; they are longer and stronger than those of the five- 

 lobed plant, one third of them next the base is marked with 

 purple, the remainder is white, and not spotted ; the blunted 

 tips are white, not purple ; the third series of deep purple 

 elongated stumps is similar, and the fourth series is similar 

 in colour and direction ; in the inside of the tube the elevated 

 membrane is more conical than in that described last year. 

 On the whole, both from the grandeur of the foliage and the 

 finer colour of the calyx and petals, when expanded, this is 

 the preferable variety, though the flower of the first has the 

 advantage in the minute beauties of its crown. 



The racemose Hybrid Passion flower will not grow to the 

 extent of either of the others, but it is much more productive 



