DR. MASTEES*8 CLXSSTFIED LIST OF PASSIFLOREJE. 137 
The plant grown in most gardens under this name has 
fruit of the size and form of a swan's egg, and differs in 
the corona from P. alata and P. macrocarpa. 
47. P. alata, Aiton^ Hort. Kew., iii., 306 ; Linn. Trans., ii., 3 ; 
Bot. Hag., t. 66 ; Lodd., Bot. Cab., t. 246 ; Mast, in Flor. 
BrasiL, I.e., 596, tab. 114. 
f P. tetradena, Yand., ex DC. Prodr., iii., 331. 
? P. pyriformia, DC. Prodr., iii., 381. 
P. pedunculata, Hort. 
P. angulata, Hort. 
Var. 1. BRAsiLiANA, Desf., Cat. PL Hort. Paris., ed. iii., 
411. 
P. phcenicea, Lindl., Bot. Reg., t. 1603. 
P. maltformisj Yell., Mor. Flum., ix., t. 73 ; not of 
Linnseus. 
P. oviformu^ Roemer, Synops. Monogr., ii., 167. 
Var. 2. LATIFOLIA. 
? p. latifoUa, DC. Prodr., iii., 328. 
Var. 3. MAURITIANA. 
p. mauritiana, Du Petit Thenars, in Ann. Mus., vi., 
t. 65. 
P. masoarensts, Presl., Bot. Bemerk., 72. 
Brazil ; var. 2, Peru ; var. 3, Mauritius. 
The synonym P. lattfolia, DC, may belong to P. 
macrocarpa. 
P. alata may be known by its narrowly-winged 
stems, distant secondary nerves, small stipules, and 
pyriform or obovoid fruit in addition to the characters 
of the corona, which are very distinct. 
48. P. macrocarpa. Mast., in Gard. Chron., 1869, 1012 ; and 
in Plor. Brasil., I.e., 598, tab. 115. 
P. HuUetti, of some gardens. 
North Brazil, Peru. 
This is the large-fruited Passion-flower rendered so famous 
some years since from the exaggerated accounts published 
of it by a notorious impostor. Messrs. Triana & Planchon 
(Ann. Sc. I^"at., 1873, tom. xvii., p. 147) are of opinion that 
my P. macrocarpa is the same as the large-fruited variety of 
P. quadrangularis mentioned by Jacquin. I have already 
given my reasons for dissenting from this view, and can 
only now repeat my conviction formed after the repeated 
examination of dried 'and living forms, including one of 
