PASSIFLORA NEUMANNII. 
(Mr. Neumann's Passion-Flower.) 
Class. Order. 
ONADELPHIA. PENT ANDRIA, 
Natural Order. 
PA SSIFLORIACEjE. 
(Passion-flowers, Veg. King.) 
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 sometimes with only four. Ovary 
pedicellate. Berry commonly pulpy, sometimes slightly 
membranous. 
Garden Hybrid. — Plant an evergreen shrub. Stem 
climbing, tendrilled, slender, round, smooth. Leaves 
three-lobed ; lobes slightly serrated, lateral ones 
narrowly ovate, middle one broader and larger, shining 
green above, glaucous beneath. Bracts leaf-like, pale 
green, broadly ovate, glandular. Sepals long, lanceo- 
late, greenish white, having a long protuberal horn 
on the under side near the extremity. Petals shorter, 
narrower, somewhat thinner in texture, of a greenish 
white like the sepals. Rays of the crown cerulean 
blue, spreading. Filaments and styles greenish white. 
A fine hybrid variety raised on the Continent, and named in honour of M. 
Neumann of the Jardin des Plantes, Paris. It will probably prove as hardy as 
P. ccerulea, to which its flowers bear some resemblance in habit. 
It bloomed profusely in the nursery of Messrs. Knight and Perry, King's Road, 
Chelsea; and our drawing was prepared in August, 1848. 
It appears to produce flowers freely, each being suspended on a long slender 
peduncle ; and the habit of the plant being very neat, will no doubt render this 
kind a favourite with cultivators. 
It will thrive in any common light soil ; but if grown in a pot. a mixture of 
sandy loam and peat is the best. Increase is effected by cuttings of the half- 
ripened wood, planted either in sand or soil, and placed in a gentle heat. 
