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base, the sepals are 3 -nerved, and spread horizontally. 
The membranous corona is slightly plicated, and the 
threads immediately above it are more slender than in the 
original specimen. The ovary is longitudinally ribbed. 
By a misprint the leaves are described as tri-lobed in the 
Plora Brasiliensis. The plant is very curious, and its 
position in the genus not free from doubt. It is nearly 
allied to P. reflexiflora. 
Subgenus 4. GRANADILLA, DC. — Climbing herbs or shrubs 
provided with tendrils. Bracts 3, large, leafy or coloured ; 
flower-tube bell-shaped, fleshy ; petals 5, filamentous corona 
in many rows ; membranous corona springing from near the 
middle of the tube. 
Section 1 . — Bracts united at the base. 
42. P. maliformis, Linn.^ Amoen. Acad., i., 220, t. 10, f. 5; 
Mast, in Flor. BrasiL, I.e.; Jacq., Eclog., ii., t. 121 ; Bot. 
Reg., t. 94 ; Triana & Planch., I.e., 149. 
P. ornata, H.B.K., Nov. Gen. et 8p., ii., 129. " Sweet 
Calabash." 
Brazil, West Indies. 
43. P. ligularis, Juss.^ in Ann. Mus., vi., tab. 40; Mast, in Fl.; 
BrasiL, I.e., 560 ; Bot. Mag., t. 2967. 
P. Zowet, Heer in Kegel Garten Flora, 1852, p. 69, t. 9. 
f P. serratistipula, DC, Prodr., iii., 328. — Central America, 
New Granada, Mexico. 
44. P. triloba, Rui% et Pav., Mast, in PI. BrasiL, 560. 
P. colulrinay Poepp. et Endlich., Nov. Gen., ii., 58. 
Peru. 
This is in the list of species cultivated in the St. Peters- 
burg garden, and forwarded me by Dr. Kegel. 
45. P. serrata, Linn.^ Amoen. Acad., L, 232, f. 10 ; Cav. Diss., 
X., 449, t. 296 ; Mast, in Plor. BrasiL, Lc, 595, tab. 113. 
? P, Sellowii^ Dehnhart, Rivista NapoL, i., 3, p. 180. 
"West Indies, Guiana, Peru, Brazil. 
Section 2. — Bracts free. 
46. P. quadrangularis. Linn., Jacq., Am., 231, t. 143 ; Trans. 
Linn. Soc, ii., 3; Bot. Reg., t. 14; Cav. Diss., x., 283; 
Bot. Mag., t. 2041 ; Mast, in Plor. BrasiL, I.e., 595. 
Tropics of the "Western Hemisphere ; generally cultivated. 
