PASSIFLOKACE.®. 
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Order XL. PASSIFLORACEiE. 
Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or dioicous. Calyx-tube in ours short ; 
lobes mostly 5. Petals the same number and shape as the calyx-lobes 
or absent. Stamens isomerous ; anthers linear-oblong, versatile, slit 
down the side. Ovary free, stalked, one-celled ; placentas 3, parietal ; 
ovules indefinite ; styles or stigmas free when they leave the ovary. 
Fruit baccate or capsular. Seeds albuminous, with a fleshy arillus or 
testa. — Herbs or shrubs with alternate stipulate leaves, axillary flowers 
and copious axillary spiral tendrils. Distrib. Pound the world in the 
tropics, mostly American. Species 250. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, with a crown of barren filaments 
between the petals and stamens * Passiflora. 
Flowers dioicous, without any crown . 1 . Ophiocaulon. 
* PASSIFLORA. Linn. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, regular. Calyx-tube campanulate; lobes usually 
5, similar to the petals in size and shape. Petals 5, lanceolate or oblong- 
lanceolate sometimes absent. Crown simple or double, the outer of nume- 
rous spreading filaments often as long as the flower-wrappers. Stamens 
the filaments adnate, except at the tip, to a long gynophore ; anthers 
large, versatile, linear-oblong. Ovary long-stalked, 1-celled ; placentas 3, 
parietal ; styles 3, spreading, thickest at the tip ; stigmas capitate. 
Fruit usually baccate. — Climbing herbs or shrubs with copious spiral 
axillary tendrils. Distrib. Species above 100, nearly all American 
none truly wild within our bounds. 
Section Ciccn. Petals none * P. suberosa. 
Section Dysosmia. Petals present. Bracts and stipules cut 
up into filiform lobes * P. f(etida. 
Section Granadilla. Petals present ; flowers large and showy. 
Bracts and stipules entire, foliaceous. 
Leaf entire * P. alata. 
Leaf 3-lobed, with broad segments * P. stipulata. 
Leaf deeply 5-7-lobed, with narrow segments * P. oerulea. 
* P. suberosa , Linn. ; DC. Prod. iii. 325 ; Jacq. Yind. t. 163, spread 
through tropical America, is now a troublesome weed in Mauritius in 
plantations. It is a climber, with very slender naked or pilose stems, 
minute subulate stipules, short petioles with a pair of small glands, shal- 
lowly or deeply three-lobed leaves with a deltoid base, minute apetalous 
flowers with a crown not more than half as long as the calyx, and a 
glaucous purple baccate fruit as large as a cherry. 
* F.foetida, Linn. ; DC. Prod. iii. 331 ; Bot. Mag. t. 2619, a native of 
tropical America, now widely spread in the old world, is occasionally ' 
subspontaneous in Mauritius. It is a slender herbaceous climber, with 
a foetid scent, branches and leaves clothed with fine spreading hairs, 
stipules and bracts cut up into innumerable gland-tipped filiform seg- 
ments, a solitary middle-sized very fugacious whitish flower, and a nearly 
dry fruit as large as a plum. 
