PASSIFLORA. 
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mostly 1-fl. and often involucrate at top. Fr. often esculent 
with a hard fleshy rind, somewhat between a gourd and berry ; 
occasionally dry and membranous. 
tfl. Passiflora. Cal. -tube very short with several rings 
of filaments in the throat. Sep. pet. and stam. 5. Styles 3. 
Ov. stalked. Fr. indehiscent baccate mostly pulpy or juicy, 
rarely dry or subcapsular. — Shr. climbing; 1. stipulate, 
with glands on petioles. Sep. shortly horned ’or hooded. 
Seeds arillate. 
ffl. Passiflora L. 
Passion Flower. 
Granadilla. Maracujd. 
§ Granadilla DC. A 3-leaved involucre close under the fi. 
Ped. 1-fl. ; a simple tendril from the same axil. 
tt 1- P. cjerulea L. Flor da Paixao. 
L. smooth 5-partite, lobes oblong-lanceolate entire, petioles 
with 4 glands at top ; stip. falcate ; involucral bracts ovate en- 
tire ; crown of fil. shorter than sep. — BM. t. 28 ; Desf. ii. 323 ; 
Brot. i. 477 ; DC. iii. 330. — Shr. per. Mad. reg. 1, 2, c. Waste 
or uncultivated spots amongst vineyards and cottages in the 
neighbourhood of Funchal, at the Mount, &c., quite naturalized. 
FI. at most seasons; fr. Sum. Aut. — Branches slender but 
tough and woody, climbing and interlacing tenaciously by the 
branched axillary tendrils, and soon becoming thickly matted. 
Foliage dull dark smoky or lurid gr. subglaucescent, the young 
1. and shoots dark violet or purple. L. often 7-9-partite with 
fine narrow lobes. FI. handsome about 2 in. in diam. ; pet. pale 
bluish or greenish, the rings or crown of fil. blue. Fr. pendu- 
lous about 2 in. long and an in. in diam., narrow-oval or elliptic 
sometimes clavate, of a beautiful bright orange or red-lead col. ; 
pulpv, but with an intolerably nauseous taste and quite un- 
eatable. 
P. quadrangular is L. BM. t. 2041, with simple stiff coriaceous 
shining ovate-oblong or elliptic parallel-ribbed 1., large hand- 
some scarlet and blue fl., and fr. (called Maracujd) the size of 
a turkey’s egg, pale yellowish-gr. when ripe, with the pulp 
pale greenish w. like a gooseberry, and a honey-like smell and 
taste, is often seen growing over arbours in Funchal, for w r hich 
purpose it is well suited, forming with its matted branches a 
thick close perennial shade. P. edidis Sims BM. 1. 1989, with 
3-lobed shining serrate 1., and P. Lowei Ileer, with large broad 
simple entire cordate subglaucescent 1., are also common in 
gardens : the fr. of the former ( granadilla ) about the size of 
a small hen’s egg, shortly and globosely oval, having a hard 
thick corky-coriaceous violet or pimple rind and orange-col. 
