14, 
PASSIFLORA quadrangularis. — ~ a 
Square-stemmed Passion-flower or Granadilla Vine. 
MONADELPHIA PENTANDRL4. 
-. PASSIFLORA. Supra fol. 13. 
1D. quadrangularis, foliis indivisis ovalibus subcordatis glabris, multi- 
nerviis, petiolis glandulosis, caule membranaceo-tetragono, stipulis 
ovali-oblougis. Iort. Kew. 3.306.° 
Passiflora quadrangularis. Lin. sp. pl. 2. 1356. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 
20. Jacq. amer. 231. t, 143. pict. 113. t. 218. Swartz. obs. 332. 
Sowerby in Lin. trans. 2.21. t. 3. fia. Cavan. diss. 10. 453. t. 
283. Willd. sp. pl. 3.608. Miss Lawr. passionfl. Hort. Kew. ed. 
2.4. 148. ! . 
» foliis amplioribus cordatis, petiolis glandulis sex, caule quadrigono 
alato. Browne. jam. 327. 
\ Caules fruticosi, superne virides, subsimplices, crassi, membranaceo-tetra- 
quetri, Folia subsemipedalia, cordato-oblonga, acuminata, ‘integra, nitida: 
Popo sepins utrinque 3-glandulosus : cirri Dead oah : stipulae ovato-lanceo- 
ate. Flos maximus, nutans, oblatus, patentissimus. Pedunc. triquetey. In- 
Yolucr, 3-phyllum ; fol, magna, ovalia, concava, basin versiis serrata, Pedic. 
teres, apice subattenuatus. . Cal. fol. 2 disco subspongioso extrorsiim extenuata, 
lata, lanceolato-elliptica, obtusa, mutica, intiis albo-rosea, Cor. pet. similia, 
sed tenuiora angustioraque. Corona 5-plex; radii exter. biseriati, suberectt, 
subexserti, tereti-subulati, flexuosi, albo-violaceo-variegati ; inter. parr, tun 
berculiformes, conici, in plano declivo sine ordine 4-5-seriati. Operculi rudi- 
mentum (pars speciei forte propria) horizontale, partim in radios ab apice 
contra portionem incrassatam columne accumbentes dissectum. Operculum 
horizontale, introrsiim @ margine biseriale & ine. ualiter denticulata column 
accumbens. Nect. in fundo cavo urceoli, a septo incompleto columnee contrario 
transversé subbicameratum. Bacca magnitudine ferme ovt olorini, oblonga, 
elliptica, luteo-virens. 
Much cultivated in the West Indies as an ornamental 
climber, especially for arbours and covered walks, for which 
it is eminently adapted by a rapid and extensive growth, 
beautiful and fragrant bloom, and broad deep green foliage. 
But as well as daurifolia of the preceding article, it is said to 
be peculiarly liable to be infested by the most noxious ser- 
pents, who haunt it for the sake of the mice and squirrels 
that feed upon the fruit, and are the favourite prey of these 
reptiles—Jacquin never saw our plant-but in a culti- 
vated state. Swartz makes it a native of the woods in the 
West Indies. Yet neither he nor any author expressly 
States the haying seen it, or even heard of its having been 
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