144. 
PASSIFLORA minima. 
Curassoa Passionflower. 
MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Passirtorem. Jussieu in Annales du Muséum. 6. 102. 
PASSIFLORA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 13. 
P. minima, foliis trilobis glabris, lobis lanceolatis intermedio longiore, 
petiolis biglandulosis, pedunculis geminis longitudine petioli, floribus 
apetalis, caule basi suberoso. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 616. 
Passiflora minima. Linn. sp. pl. 2. 1359. Amun. acad. 1. 229. t. 10. 
Jig. 19. Swartz obs. 338. Jacq. hort. t.20. Cavan. diss. 10 144. 
t. 266. Hort. Kew. 3. 309. ed. 2. 4. 151. Miss Lawr. passionfl. 
Passiflora hederzefolia. 8. Lamarck encyc. 8. 38. n. 22; (sub Grena- 
dille), 
R: Folig nitidis trilobis, medio angusto longiori, lateralibus quandoque 
auritis, fructu minore nitido baccato. Browne jam. 328. 
Caulis teres, glaber, 10-pedalis v. ultra, suffruticosus, deorsim suberoso- 
corticatus. Folia alterné distantia, saturaté viridia, subcordato-triloba, 
5-nervia, maximum 2 uncias cum dimidio longa, lobis integris acutis medio 
oblongo-lanceolato majore, lateralibus divaricatis, basi petiolo et margine vil- 
losula : petiolus semuncialis v. ultra pauld infra laminam purpureo-biglandu- 
losus. Stipule parve, subulate. Cirri intrapetiolares. Pedicelli aaillares, 
sepits pemini, uniflori, equales petiolo at plurimim graciliores, subpubes- 
centes, laxi, supra medium crassiores et articulati. Involucrum 0. Flores 
parvuli, luteo-virentes, fragrantes, nutantes. Cal. viridis, firmulus, 5-fidus, 
patens, eatits atro-purpurascens subdecemradiatus, tuberculo prominulo acutula 
ad pedem singule divisure posito, fundus externé convexus brevis et non in- 
trusus, lacinice ovato-oblonge, obtusule. Cor. 0. Corona duplex, bis brevior 
calyce ; radii extimi filiformes, obtusi, plurimi, proxime sed non contigut, 
infra erectiusculi indé recurvt, virides apice flavt, intimi zzsdem subalterni, 
duplo breviores et graciliores capitato-dilatati vel clavati, virides: operculum 
violaceum planum plicatum. Columna calycem subexcedens. Vil. subulata s 
anth. breves, oblongo-rotunde, polline flavo. Germ. globosum, glabrum, 
viride: styli cum stigmatibus capitato-clavati, divaricatz. Bacca spherica, 
violacea, glabra parva, vix piso major. 
The present species is among the oldest which inhabit 
our hothouses; having been introduced by Mr. Bentinck 
(afterwards Lord Portland) in 1690. Native of the dutch 
West India Island, Curacao, and according to Swartz of 
Jamaica. Very nearly akin to swberosa, but has a foliage 
more distinctly lobed, with the two narrower lobes divari- 
cately elongated; a suffrutescent stem, which is corky and 
cracked in stripes at the base only, and a smaller blossom; 
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