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NAT. ORDER PASSIFLOREiE. 
column ; nectary round the column, is confined by the base ; the 
column comes to the bottom of it. It is a native of the West India 
Islands. 
If this does not equal the previous sorts in elegance, it exceeds them 
in magnificence, in brilliancy of coloring, and in fragrance, the flow^- 
ers being highly odoriferous, and one of the most delightful of all 
climbing plants. 
Passijlora laurifolia. Laurel-leaved Passion-flower, or Water 
Lemon. This species has a sufFrutescent stem, with many divari- 
cating, filiform branches ; the leaves are a little emarginate at the 
base, nerved, and very smooth, on short petioles compressed a little, 
having two glands under the base of the leaf ; the tendrils are very 
long ; the peduncles the length of the petioles ; the three leaflets of 
the involucre are roundish, concave, with blunt glandular toothlets 
about the edge, and pale ; the five leaflets of the calyx are broad- 
lanceolate, slightly membranaceous at the edge, horned with a point 
or awn, smooth, variegated on the inside with blood-red dots ; petals 
five, the length of the calyx, narrower, accuminate, with blood-red 
dots scattered over them ; the flowers are very handsome and odor- 
iferous, but the fruit is ovate and watery. It flowers in June and 
July, and is a native of Jamaica. 
Passijlora multifiora, Many-flowered Passion-flower. In this 
species the stalks are very slender, sending out many small branches, 
and climbing to the height of twenty-five or thirty feet; by age they 
become woody towards the bottom, and their joints are not far 
apart ; the leaves are on slender, short petioles, three and a half 
inches long and about two broad in the middle, rounded at the base, 
but terminating in a point at the top, smooth, entire, and of a lively 
green color; the flowers are axillary, on long peduncles, having an 
agreeable odor, but seldom continuing twenty-four hours open. 
There is a succession of them from June to September, and the fruit 
will sometimes ripen in this climate. It grows naturally in the 
neighborhood of Vera Cruz. 
