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PASSIFLORA BELOTTII. 
I^^at. Order, 'Passifi.oiia.ce2e. Passion "Worts. [Lindleifs Vcg. Kiiigcl.jm.) 
Gkneric Cuahacter.— Calj-x five-sepalled, tube very short, 
tliroat ornamented with a multiple filamentous coronet. Petals 
five or -wanting. Stamens five {or four). Ovarium stallicd. 
Berrij usually pulp5', rarely membranous. 
Passiflora Brlottii, — Belotti's Passion-flower. — A garden 
hybrid, apparently raised between P. edittis and P. quodrantfii- 
laris, or P. Buonajjartca. 
BESCRIPTION. — A very robust-gro-wiug climbing sknib. Stems round tendrilled. Leaves 
large, alternate, glabrou.?, deeply three-lobed, tbe lobes actmiinate, or ovato-acuminate, 
entire. Flowers large and showy ; sepals flesb- coloured, tinged with green ; petals delicate 
light rose colour ; raj's of the coronet blue with indistinct piu-ple transverse bars. 
HiSTOKT, &c.^This fine hybrid Passion-flower was received, about three years ago, from 
the Jardin des Plantes at Paris, by Messrs. Knight and Perry, Exotic Nm-sery, Chelsea. We 
have no exact information of its origin, but it is obviously a hybrid production, and most 
probably originated fi-om one or other of the species mentioned above. It is a very handsome 
plant, deserving of general cultivation ; a vigorous grower, blooming freely during the summer 
months. It has some resemblance to P. quadrangularis in its habit of flowering, and in some 
respects in its foliage, which has the pecidiarity of being sometimes simple, imdivided, and 
sometimes deeply lobed. The foliage is indeed very variable in character — sometimes with- 
out division — sometimes deeply di^aded into three acuminate lobes — and occasionally sporting 
into intermediate forras, one or other of the lobes being more or less suppressed. 
CuLTUKE. — It is said to grow freely in a warm greenhouse, but probably a cool stove or 
intermediate house would be a more suitable ^iermanent situation for it. Like the other 
vigorous gro•^^^ng kinds, it requires ample scope for its roots, in a rough, open, rich, loamy com- 
post, to encourage strong gTowth preparatory to its blossoming, which takes place when the 
growth becomes somewhat arrested fr-om the roots having partially exhausted the feeding 
properties of the soil. It is propagated readily by cuttings, planted in sandy soil, and kept 
close, with a slight bottom heat. 
The generic name, Passiflora, has been applied to this family of plants, on account of the 
appendages of the flowers ha^'ing some supposed resemblance to the symbols of the passion of 
our Saviour. 
MAURANDYA BARCLAYANA, Vae. Rosea. 
Nat. Order, Scrophulariace-e, 5 Antiruhine-i^. Lin^vbi^uis. {Lindlei/'s CEconom. Bot.) 
Generic Character. — Calyx five-parted. Corolla personate, 
tube obscurely teti-agonal ; saccate at the base ; venti'icose 
downwards ; upper lip erect, lower spreading', lobes roundish 
or ovate ; palate closing- the throat, or filled by two plicee. 
Stamens four fertile, didynamous, with a rudiment of a fifth ; 
filaments villous at the base and dilated. Ocarii/m ovoid ; style 
subulate; stigma obtuse emarginate. Capsule ovate globose, 
oblique at the base, compressed membranous, dehiseijig by ten 
teeth at the apex. 
Mattrandta Barclayana, Lindley. — Barclay's Maurandj'a. 
— Leaves cordate-acuminate, young ones somewhat hastate ; 
segments calycine linear lanceolate, very acute, clothed with 
glandular hairs. 
M. Barclayana var. rosea : flowers bright rose coloured. 
BESCRIPTION. — A very elegant clfmbmg perennial herb ; stems slender, and, as well as 
the leaves, glabrons, branched, climbing by means of the petioles of the leaves, which act as 
tendrils. Leaves, alternate cordate-acuminate, bright green ; lower and middle leaves, ob- 
scurely flve-lobed, the lobes acuminate. Flowers two inches long, the tube pale red ; limb, 
of a bright rose colour, paler in the throat, the lobes ovate roundish emarginate. 
HisTOHY, &c. — A very showy variety of the piirple Maurandya Barclayana, which is readily 
distinguished from the other species by the glandular hairy calyx. It is a seedling variation, 
which has been known in gardens for some few years past, but has not been so generally culti- 
vated as its merits deserve. It is sometimes called Maurandya lucida, but is nowbetter known 
by the name we have adopted. 
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