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LXIV. PAS SI FLO RACEME. 
[Passiflora. 
P. LAURIFOLIA Lilllt. 
A long slender slightly woody climber, not 4-angled. Leaves 
sub-coriaceous oblong, dark green. Flowers violet 3 in. across. 
Fruit egg-shaped and as big as an egg, yellow with 2 persistent 
green leafy bracts at the base. Native name: Buah Susu. The 
best eating passion-fruit. It is cultivated and has run wild in 
Singapore and Malacca. 
P. suberosa Linn. 
A very small species with lobed leaves, small, green flowers 
£ in. across and sub-globose; purple fruit, -5 in. long. Occurs 
as an escape in Tanglin, Singapore. 
P. edulis Sims. 
With trilobed serrate leaves, given by King, l.c., as the Grana- 
dilla, and as an alien here, has often been planted in gardens, where 
it rarely, if ever, flowers, and has never been known by me to fruit. 
It cannot be counted even as an alien escape. 
2 . ADENIA, Forsk. 
Long slender climbers, sometimes woody at base. Leaves 
entire (lobed in other countries) with circular glands on the petiole. 
Cymes axillary on long peduncles. Flowers tubular, green, uni¬ 
sexual. Male flowers, calyx tubular or campanulate, 5-lobed. 
Petals 5 from the tube. Corona a ring of threads from near the 
base of the tube or absent. Disc-glands 5, opposite the calyx- 
lobes, strap-shaped or capitate. Stamens 5. connate in a ring at 
the base of the tube; anthers linear. Females as in males with 
staminodes connate at base, no anthers. Ovary globose, sessile 
or stalked. Stigmas 3. Fruit capsular, 3-valved, red. Seeds 
black, pitted or warted, suspended by long white funicles. Species 
40, Old World tropics. 
Leaves lanceolate acuminate, minutely peltate . (1) A. nicobarica 
Leaves ovate, base cordate . . . . . (2) A. populifolia 
Leaves shortly narrowed at base, not cordate oblong. 
Leaves thin; peduncles 2 to 4 in. long . . (3) A. acuminata 
Leaves rigid, pale beneath . . . . {4) A. singaporeana 
Leaves 4 to 6 in. long, sub-coriaceous; panicle 
1-5 in. long.(5) A. grandifolia 
(1) A. nicobarica King, l.c. 52. Modecca nicobarica Kurz, 
Journ. Bot. 1875, p. 327; Masters, in Hook. fil. F.B.I. ii. 603. 
Very slender, wiry climber. Leaves membranous, elliptic- 
oblong or lanceolate, base round peltate, acuminate at tip; nerves 
4 pairs inarching, 2-5 to 4*5 in. long, -6 to i-8 in. wide; petioles 
■4 to *8 in. long; peduncles 1-5 in. long with a tendril and 1 to 2 
flowers. Flowers -4 in. long, green. Males, calyx campanulate, 
deeply 5-lobed; lobes linear acute. Petals shorter oblanceolate 
truncate; anthers as large, oblong, blunt cordate, tube of filaments 
