NAT. ORDER. PASSIFLORE^. 
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slender branches^ corered with a soft hairy down ; the leaves are 
shaped like the point of a halbert, three inches long and an inch and 
a half wide at the base, light green, soft and silky to the touch, 
standing obliquely to the foot-stalks ; the flowers are not half so 
long as those of the common or blue Passion-flower ; the fruit small, 
roundish, yellow when ripe ; leaves ovate, tomentose on both sides: 
lateral lobes short, with an absolete gland underneath, behind the 
sinus of the lobe. It grows naturally at Vera Cruz, flowering 
nearly all the summer months. 
Passijiora glauca. Glauceous-leaved Passion-flower. In this 
species tiie whole plant is very smooth and even ; the leaves glau- 
ceous underneath, and undotted ; the petioles furnished with two or 
four glands below the middle ; the stipules acute, quite entire, more 
than half an inch in length ; the flowers are sweet. This sort is a 
native of Cayenne. 
Passijiora minima. Dwarf Passion-flower. This species has the 
stem twining, simple, becoming corky at the base with age, round 
and smooth ; the leaves subpeltate, subcordate ; lateral lobes almost 
horizontal, all acute, nerved, smooth on both sides; ^the petioles 
short, round, reflex, and smooth ; the glands two, opposite, small, 
sessile, concave, brown, and in the middle of the petioles ; the sti- 
pules two, opposite, awl-shaped, by the side of the petioles ; the 
tendrils long, between the petioles ; peduncles axillary, solitary, 
longer than the petioles, loose, one-flowered ; the flowers small, 
whitish ; the berry small, blue, and egg-shaped. Native of Louis- 
iana. 
We have thus given a brief description of some of the most orna- 
mental and valuable species of the Passion-flower tribe, and it is 
much regret that we are compelled to delay a farther descrip- 
tion of this most beautiful and enchanting genus for want of room. 
There is yet one hundred and thirty-five species of this curious plant 
undescribed in this work, some of which are valuable for their fruit 
and as an ornament. The remaining ones undescribed are of a 
