152 PASSIFLORA KERMESINA LEMICHEZIANA. 
P. Buonapartea. — This kind is much less known than it deserves to be : the 
flowers are deep red, with a purple and white crown, and fine fragrance : it does not 
thrive well unless the roots come in contact with bottom-heat, and have plenty of 
room to spread ; it then flowers freely, and bears large orange pear-shaped fruit, 
full of watery pulp, of a pleasant flavour. 
P. coccinea. — This handsome scarlet flowering species was introduced from 
Guiana in 1820 ; the fruit is about the size of a small apple, and contains a very 
sweet pulp. 
P. edulis is too well known to need much description : it is nearly hardy enough 
to endure the greenhouse, but will not ripen its fruit in any situation except the 
stove ; the fruit is purple, acid, with a rather peculiar flavour, and is stated to make 
a most delicious preserve. 
P. incarnata, or May Apple. — A greenhouse plant, which has been introduced 
since 1629, but is far from being common in collections. It very commonly dies 
down to the roots in autumn, and regerminates again in spring ; it has therefore 
been considered an herbaceous plant : the flowers are pink, and very fragrant, and 
the fruit grows to about the size, and is the colour of an orange. 
P. laurifolia, or Water Lemon. — A native of the West Indies and South 
America, whence it was introduced in 1690. The flowers emit a pleasant fragrance, 
and the fruit is yellow, rather larger than a hen's egg, and contains an eatable pulp. 
P. maliformis, or Siveet Calabash. — Although introduced in 1731 it is fully 
equal to many fine ones of a much later introduction. The flowers are large and 
dull red, with blue rays, and very sweet scented. The fruit is yellow, and about 
the size of a large apple. 
P. plmnicea. — A species introduced in 1831 ; the flowers are dull crimson, and 
the fruit about the size of a hen's egg. 
P. quadrangularis, to do well should always be planted where it receives bottom- 
heat. Cut in well every autumn, after it has done flowering, renew the soil, either 
wholly or in part every spring, just before it starts to grow, and when in flower give 
a great supply of water. 
P. serratistipula. — -A native of Mexico : the flowers are not very showy, but the 
fruit is very sweet and palatable. 
P. tilicefolia. — A native of Peru, and introduced in 1823. It has beautiful red 
flowers, and the fruit is very handsome, and the flavour pleasant. 
All the above, with the exception of P. incarnata, are natives of the tropics, and 
consequently require the stove, and thrive best in a strong moist heat, with a good 
supply of water when in a growing state. They are all robust growers, and should 
be planted in a good rich loam with one-fourth rotten dung. 
It must be remembered that excepting P. edulis none of the above species will 
