PASSIFLORA KERMESINA LEMICHEZIANA. 
153 
set their fruit freely, unless the stigma be fertilized by the pollen of other species ; 
for this purpose no kind is so well adapted as P. edulis and P. ccerulea. 
Of those which are alone ornamental, and on that account deserve extensive 
cultivation, the following may be sufficient to notice : — • 
P. alato -ccerulea. — A hybrid raised in 1823, grows very freely in a cool part of 
the stove or a warm greenhouse. The flowers are rose colour and white, and the 
crown blue and white. 
P. ccerulea and its varieties are all nearly hardy, and grow freely in light soil 
trained against a wall in the open air. 
P. ccerulea-racemosa. — This is another valuable hybrid, raised betwixt the two 
species whose name it bears. The flowers are purple, and are produced in great 
abundance in a cool greenhouse. 
P. hermesina. — This brilliant species is a free flowerer, of very slender growth, 
and makes a fine appearance in the stove. 
P. hermesina Lemicheziana.—See Plate. 
P. Loudonii has much the habit of the last, but the leaves are larger, and are 
not coloured with purple beneath, like P. hermesina. It also requires a warm stove 
and a very moist temperature. 
P. Middletoniana (P. fragrans). — A fine species, native of the West Indies and 
South America. The flowers are purple ; the plant requires the cool stove. 
P. Mooreana. — Is a native of Buenos Ayres, and was introduced in 1837. The 
flowers are very fragrant, nearly the colour of P. ccerulea ; and the plant is almost 
hardy. 
P. picturata.- — A native of the Brazils, bearing rose-coloured flowers, and purple 
and white rays. It requires the heat of the stove. 
P. racemosa (princeps). — Flowers scarlet, exceedingly handsome. A native of 
Brazil. Bequires the heat of the stove. 
P. sanguinea. — A hybrid, with fine large deep-scarlet flowers, very handsome ; 
requires the heat of the stove. 
All the slender-growing species and varieties of Passiflora require a soil rendered 
light by the addition of heath-mould. Never sift the soil for any of them, but 
roughly break it, and always give a good drainage. All the species strike readily 
from cuttings, planted in sand and placed in a brisk heat. 
The generic name is derived from passio, passion ; and flos, a flower. 
VOL. XIV.— NO. CLXIII. 
X 
