LVI. PASSIFLOREiE. 
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each with several ovules. Style divided into as many branches as there are 
placentas, with terminal stigmas. Fruit indehiscent and succulent or opening in 
valves between the placentas. Seeds often arillate ; albumen fleshy. Embryo 
straight, with leafy cotyledons, the radicle next the hilum. — Climbers, or rarely, 
in genera not Australian, erect herbs or shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire or 
divided, with stipules. Flowers hermaphrodite or unisexual, solitary or in cymes 
or racemes, on axillary peduncles. Tendrils axillary, often accompanying or 
terminating the peduncles. 
The Order is dispersed over the tropical and subtropical regions of the New and the Old 
World. Of the 2 Australian genera, one is almost entirely American, the other is also in 
Africa and Asia. 
Tribe I. Passifloreae.— Flowers hermaphrodite. Petals distinct or wanting. Corona 
conspicuous , in one or more rows. Styles consolidated or distinct. 
Stamens hypogynous 1. Passielora. 
Tribe II. IVIodecceae. — Flowers unisexual, rarely hermaphrodite. Petals distinct, usually 
inconspicuous. Corona inconspicuous or wanting. 
Flowers unisexual. Stamens perigynous ; anthers 2-celled 2. Mohecca. 
Tribe III. Papayaceae. — Flowers unisexual or a few hermaphrodite in the panicles, Male 
and female perianths dissimilar. Calyx minute. Corolla, male tubular, female 5-petalous. 
Stamens 2-seriate, inserted in the corolla-tube. Trees small, erect ; sap milky . 3. *Carica. 
1. PASSIFLORA, Linn. 
(Passion Flower.) 
(Disemma, Labill.; Murucuja, Pers.j 
Calyx-tube short. Petals rarely wanting and often like the calyx lobes. One 
or several rings of coloured filaments or appendages forming a corona within the 
petals. Stamens as many as calyx-lobes, so united with the ovary-stalk as to 
appear to be inserted at or near its summit. Styles 3, with large capitate stigmas. 
Fruit succulent or pulpy, indehiscent, or opening obscurely in 3 valves. — Climbers 
with axillary tendrils. Leaves entire or palmately lobed or divided. Flowers 
usually hermaphrodite, the calyx-lobes coloured inside nearly or quite as much as 
the petals. 
The species are numerous in tropical or subtropical America, with a very few from Africa, 
Asia, and the Pacific Islands. 
Sect. I. Dysosmia. — Flowers 5-merous. Peduncles solitary, l glowered . Corona 3 to 5- 
seriate. Petioles with or without glands. Bracts 3, lacerated. 
Glandularly hairy. Leaves entire or 3-lobed. Petioles without glands. 
Stipules very much divided. Flowers white. Fruit inflated ... 1. P.foetida. 
Sect. II. Cicca. — Flowers 5-merous. Peduncles frequently solitary, 1- flowered. Corona 3 
rarely 2-seriate. Petals none. Bracts minute or none. Petioles 2-glandular. 
Nearly glabrous. Leaves 3-lobed. Petiole with dark glands. Flowers 
greenish. Fruit 4 to 6 lines diameter, very dark 2. P. suberosa. 
Sect. III. G-ranadilla. — Flowers 5-merous. Peduncles axillary, 1 -flowered. Petioles 
glanduliferous. Bracts 3, large. Corona 3 to 5-seriate. Stipules often foliuceous. 
Branches 4-angular. Petioles 6-glandular. Leaves roundish-ovate. 
Stipules large. Flowers large. Petals rosy. Corona violet ... 3. P. quadrangu laris. 
Glaucous. Leaves 3-lobed with a glandular serration at base of lobes. 
Petiole with 2 glands near the middle. Stipules cordate. Flowers white 4. P. alba. 
Leaves 3-lobed ; lobes serrated. Petiole glands 2, near the top. Flowers 
white. Fruit purple when ripe 5. P. edulis. 
Sect. IV. DiBeiMBa. — Flowers 5-merous. Petals 5. Corona '2-seriate, the inner one united 
in a crcnate or shortly-lobed ring or tube. 
Pubescent. Leaf-lobes rather acute. Inner ring of the corona connivent 
or contracted at the top 6. P. Herbertiana. 
Glabrous. Leaf-lobes usually obtuse. Inner ring of the corona erect 
and plicate, scarcely contracted at the top. 
Calyx 1J to 2in. long 
Calyx under lin. long 
7. P. aurantia. 
8. P. brachystephana. 
