GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL 

 MEMORANDA. 



Passiflora Medus^ea. Le- 

 maire. A stove species of unknown 

 origin, with red and yellow flowers. 

 Introduced by M. Van Houtte. 

 (Fig. 57.) 



One of the slit-leaved species, with a slender 

 habit, and pretty starry flowers, the rays of 

 which are orange the first day, and lilac or 

 rose the next. According to M. Lemaire, 

 who named it on account of " quelque ressera- 

 blance avec la tete de la fille de Phorcus, 

 apres que ses cheveux eussent ete changes en 

 serpents par Miner ve," these flowers have a 

 strong penetrating odour in which there is 

 nothing disagreeable. But M. Planchon, 

 whose nose seems to be differently constituted, 

 asserts that this smell, which becomes percep- 

 tible at the period of the change of colour, 

 is most disgusting. — Flore des Serves, 528. 



ClJPHEA CINNABARINA. Vlmi- 



chon. A half-shrubby plant from 

 Guatemala, belonging to the order of 



