PASSION-FLOWER of JAMAICA. 
Among all the various species of the Pas- 
sion-Flower, or Passinora of Linnseus, that 
which we have represented in the annexed 
print seems to be the grandest and most superb. 
Th's genus of plants is ranged in the fourth 
section of Lin nous's twentieth class, which 
includes those flowers whose male and female 
parts are joined together, and their flowers have 
five stamina. Tournefort, who calls it the 
Granadilla, places it in the second section of 
his sixth class, which includes the herbs with a 
Rose flower, whose pointal turns to. a fruit 
with one capsule. Granadilla, is the Spanish 
name of the Passion-Flower ; in French, it is 
I Fleur de la Passion. 
The genus of the Passion-Flower consists 
of at least twenty known species. They are, 
in general, natives of warm climates, and most 
of them are beautiful. Some of them are 
hardy enough, to thrive with us even in the 
open air, without being at all injured in mild 
j winters ; though very severe one* common! v 
kill the branches to the ground, and sometimes 
-destroy the roots. 
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