NAT. ORDER. PASSIFLORE^. 
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Passiflora 7\ihra. Red-fruited Passion-flower. This spec'es has 
an herbaceous stem, twining round, grooved, hirsute, and red; the 
lobes of the leaves entire, nerved, somewhat hispid and soft; the 
petioles are round, red, villose, and without glands ; the tendrils sub- 
axillary ; the flowers alternate, nodding, on solitary, one-flowered 
peduncles ; the fruit spherical, marked with six lines, scarlet, w^hen 
ripe hirsute. It is a native of the West Indies, flowering in April 
and May. 
Passiflora murucuza. Moon-shaped-leaved Passion-flower. This 
species has an herbaceous, grooved, smooth stem ; the leaves ovate 
or oblong, two-horned, with an intermediate bristle, three-nerved, 
veined, smooth, entire ; dots on the back hollowed, pellucid ; the 
petioles grooved, smooth, destitute of glands ; the tendrils sub-axil- 
lary, filiform, and long ; the flowers stand in pairs, they are axillary, 
large, and of a scarlet color ; the berry is ovate, about the size of a 
pigeon's egg, and pedicelled. It is a native of the West Indies. 
• Passiflora vespertilio. Bat- winged Passion-flower. This species 
has several striated, roundish stalks, somewhat less than a straw in 
size, of the same thickness from top to bottom, and of a brownish 
red color, dividing into many slender branches ; the leaves shaped 
like the wings of a bat when extended, about seven inches in length, 
or rather breadth, from the base to the top not more than two inches 
and a half, the upper ones smaller, the middle wider, and the lower 
narrower, smooth and somewhat shining — the color in the upper ones 
pale, in the middle deeper, in the lower darker green, with two purple 
tubercles or glands towards the base, where they are connected with 
the petiole, which is set half an inch from the base of the leaf, three 
nerves springing from it, two extending each way to the narrow 
points of the leaf, the other rising upright to the top, where there is 
the greatest length of the leaf ; the flowers are on short round pe- 
duncles from the axils of the middle and upper leaves, white and of 
a middling size, and about three inches in diameter when expanded ; 
they are without scent, open in the evening or during the night, in 
