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» PASSIFLORA. maliformis. 
a ; Apple-fruited Passionflower. 
MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. 
PASSIPLORA.. Supra vol. 1. fol. 13. 
Did. folits indivisis. 
P. maliformis, foliis oblongo-ovatis: cordatis triplinerviis _ venosis . inte~’ 
gerrimis, petiolis biglandulosis, | inyolucro triphyllo; flore :majore. 
Willd. sp. pl. 3. 608. day Sgzagy-t , 
Passiflora maliformis. Amen. acad. 1. 220. fig. 5. Linn. sp. pl, 2. 
1355, Hort. Kew. 3. 306. ed. 2.4, 148. Jacq. hort. schanb. 2. 27. 
| t. 180. Andrews’s reposit. 217 (in texté 207 sed male.) Miss Lawr. 
passionfl. ~ ae es 
Passiflora 4. foliis cordatis'productis, petiolis biglandulis, fructu spherico; 
-pericarpio duriore. . Browne jam. 328. ta 4 Son 
Clematitis indica latifolia, flore clavato, fructu maliformi. Plum. amer. 
67. t. 82. ce te | 
» Lota: glabra.» Caulis teres, fruticosus, 12-20-pédalis, pollicem crassus, 
suberoso-corticatus, ramosus, scandens, pallido-fuscus. Folia ovato-oblonga, 
bast subcordata, dcuta, integerrima, 3-nervia, firmula, supra nitida, subtrs 
reticulato-venosa, 4-6 uncias longa: petioli biglandulosi (Jacq.), unciales : 
stipule lanceolate, parabolice. Pedunculi petiolo duplo longiores, azillares, 
uniflori, solitarit, deflext., Flores pendulo-cernui, patentissimi, inde. reflexi, 
Sragrantes. Inyolucrum 3-phyllum, positum prota? pone calycem et sub- 
Tongius, herbaceum, rubro-nervosum, foliolis lato-ovatis, aculis, sesquiuncia- 
libus, eglandulosis, integerrimis. Cal: herbaceus, diametro Sermé triunciali; 
Sundo pro % parte urceolato-arctatus, intiis superne sanguineo-punctatus, ‘Seg 
mentis oblongo-lanceolatis, dorso medio carinatis, externé seta nervi principis 
continua sub apice prefixis. Cor. imposita tubo calycis : similis calyct forma 
colore, atque directione,, sed brevior. 2-3-plo angustior tenerior insignis puncs 
tata et mutica. Corona 3-plex, rubro violaceo et albo punctata atque annulata; 
exteriores radii duplo breviores proximis interioribus, subulato-j liformes reflexi 
et retorti in cincinnos ; interiores e@quantes calycem, lineart-subulati, cuspi- 
‘dati, compressi, numerosi, a parte compressd collaterales, erecti, patuli ; in 
timi parvi, tuberculiformes, conici, parictem colli cavitatis calyciné sine ordine 
obvestientes. Operculum horizontale, accumbens annulo prominulo inferiori 
incrassat@ baseos columne. Septum album, parti clevatum, cavum calyci- 
num circinans. Columna duplo v. ultra brevior calyce, teres, glabra, rubro- 
punctata, supra basin incrassata cinctaque annulis duobus carnosis pariim ‘dis- 
tantibus, inferiore marginato-extenuato, superiore obtuso. Anth. lute. 
Stigmata viridia, anticé reniformi-obtusata. Germ. elli tico-oblongum, gla- 
brum. Bacca (Pepo) oblongo-v. oblato-rotunda, Hanis hierar tectus cor- 
tice crasso solido subputamineo-indurato : pulpd seminum flavicante subacida. 
A climbing shrub, natural to many parts of the West 
Indies. In Jamaica it is frequent in the woods, where the 
