NAT. ORDER. 
Passijioreai. 
PASSIFLORA KERMESINA. CRIMSON PASSION-FLOWER, 
Class XVI. MoNADELPHiA. Order II. Pentandria. 
Gen. Char. Tube of the Calyx short. Tliroat none. Berry pulpy. 
Spe. Char. Calyx on both sides crimson-red. Petioles slender. 
Segments ten. Stigmas club-shaped. Filaments of a dark 
purple. , 
The stems are slender, branched, climbing, and rise, when sup- 
ported, from ten to thirty feet in height ; the petioles are cordate, 
three-lobed, glabrous, and also every other part of the plant ; lobes 
nearly equal, oval, obtuse, here and there glandulosa-dentate, green 
above and purple beneath ; the petioles are also slender, bearing two 
or three elongated, dark-purple glands ; from the axil a simple ten- 
dril arises, and from each side at the base, a large, semi-cordate, 
obtuse stipule^ of the same color and texture as the leaves ; the calyx^ 
which is on both sides, is of a crimson-red ; the segments ten, uni- 
form, narrow-oblong, at first horizontal, afterwards reflexed, and 
whitish at their base ; they are combined below into a short tube, 
swollen at the base ; at the mouth of this tube is a filamentous 
crown of several series of nearly erect, dark-purple filaments, the 
outer ones paler at the extremity — within this is another and smaller 
circle of white filaments, united for the greater part of their length 
into a conicle tube ; column much elongated : stigmas club-shaped. 
The real name of the floral envelopes of this remarkable order, is 
a question upon which botanists entertain very different opinions : 
Vol. iv.— 136. 
