PASSIFLORA KERMESINA LEMICHEZIANA. 
(Lemichez's Crimson Passionflower.) 
Class. 
MON ADELPIII A . 
Order. 
PENTANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
PASSIFLORACEyE. 
Generic Character. — Calyx 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 pe- 
dicillate. Berry commonly pulpy, sometimes slightly 
membranous. 
Specific Character. — Stem climbing, round, shrubby, 
smooth, dark-green, shaded with purple, slender. Leaves 
three-lobed, cordate, shining, dark-green on the upper 
surface ; beneath pale green, shaded with purple, lobes 
serrated. Leaf-stalks round, with two small feathery 
glands about the middle. Stipules leafy, somewhat 
heart-shaped, terminating in slender tendrils ; toothed. 
Peduncles solitary, axillary, slender, much longer than 
the leaf-stalks. Calyx crimson, consisting of five 
linear-oblong, acute sepals. Corolla consisting of five 
crimson petals, at first spreading, but afterwards 
becoming reflexed. Filamentous crown deep purple, 
spreading. A stove climber of great beauty. 
Lemicheztana differs from the species in the follow- 
ing particulars.— It is altogether stronger in growth ; 
its leaves are much larger, and not coloured beneath. 
Sepals and petals oblong-lanceolate, very deep crimson. 
Segments of the crown purple, mottled with white. 
This very handsome hybrid is said to have been raised in Paris, by a nurseryman 
of the name of »Lemichez, whose name it bears. It was introduced by Messrs. 
Rollisson to this country, in whose collection it flowered in October, 1846, when 
our drawing was made. 
As a stove climber, it certainly is well deserving of extensive cultivation, being 
of a luxuriant habit, with moderately strong stems, beautiful, shining, dark-green 
foliage, and producing great abundance of fine, deep-crimson flowers, after the 
manner of P. kermesina. 
To those persons who have convenience for growing a number of tender climbers, 
few plants are so easily managed or are more beautiful than the various kinds of 
Passiflora. Some, in addition to splendid flowers and exquisite fragrance, bear a 
profusion of very pleasant, eatable fruit. Others, although destitute of the two last 
qualifications, are yet so highly ornamental, that they can scarcely be cultivated to 
too great an extent. 
Of those which bear edible fruit in addition to their other attractions, the 
following may serve as a selection : — 
P. alata. — An old species introduced from the West Indies in 1773, which will 
grow, flower, and fruit abundantly in almost any situation, either in some waste 
corner of the stove, or even under the floor. 
