PASSIFLORA MIDDLETONIANA. 
(Mr. Middleton's Passion-flower.) 
Class. 
MONADELPHIA. 
Order. 
PBNTANDRIA. 
Natural Order- 
PASSIFLORACE^. 
Generic Character.— C'a;?/x with a five- parted limb ; 
tube short, having the throat ornamented with a fila- 
mentous crown. Petals five, or wanting. Stamens 
usually five, though rarely with only four. Ovary pedi- 
cellate. Berry commonly pulpy ; sometimes slightly 
membranous. 
Specific Character. — PZani an evergreen shrub. 
Stems climbing, tendrilled, vigorous, round, smooth. 
Leaves three-lobed ; lobes serrated, lateral ones nar- 
rowly ovate, acute, middle one broader and longer, also 
acute ; dark shining green above, paler beneath ; petioles 
and minuter veins covered with minute brownish 
glandular hairs. Bracts leaf-like, pale green, broadly- 
ovate, acute, irregularly cut, and having several large 
green glands at the margins. Sepals long-lanceolate, 
pale green, profusely spotted with pinkish purple, hav- 
ing a long protuberant horn on the under side near the 
extremity. Petals shorter, narrower, much thinner, 
pinkish white, and spotted similarly to the sepals. 
Segments of the crown in two equal rows, pale purple, 
mottled with white. Filaments and styles spotted with 
purple. 
When this species was first brought beneath our notice, knowing nothing of its 
history, we had proposed calling it P. fragrans^ on account of the very agreeable 
perfume of its flowers. And we perceive that it has been announced under that 
title by Messrs. Marnock and Manley, nurserymen, of Hackney, who possess part 
of the original stock. 
On being made acquainted, however, with the circumstances connected with its 
introdaction, and requested to name the plant after the gentleman who brought it 
to this country^ we willingly altered our original intention, and have now much 
pleasure in bestowing the compliment on those to whom it is justly due. 
Our figure of this beautiful Passion-flower was obtained from Mr. Upright, 
gardener to G. S. Ridge, Esq., of Morden, Surrey, in one of whose forcing-houses 
it blossomed in fine perfection throughout the summer of 1841. It was also 
exhibited from this place at the rooms of the Horticultural Society in Regent Street. 
The merit, however, of introducing the plant is, we find, due to H. Middleton, 
Esq., who collected seeds of it and many other plants, in South America or the 
West Indies (it being uncertain from which of these countries the present species 
was derived), and presented them to his relative, Mrs. Beckford, late of the Firs, 
Mitcham, Surrey, by whose gardener, Mr. Swabey, they were raised five or six 
years back, and blossomed about the year 1838. One of the seedling plants was 
