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“ PASSIFLORA adiantifolia. 
Norfolk Island Passionflower. 
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MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. PAsstriorex. Jussieu in Annales du Muséum. 6. 102. 
PASSIFLORA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 13. 
P. adiantifolia, foliis basi rotundato-truncatis, levitér 3-5-lobis, lobis obtusis, 
petiole eglandulosis, petualis calyce brevioribus. Willd. enum. 698 ; (sub 
P. Adiantum). ‘ 
Passiflora adiantifolia. Miss Lawr. passionfi. 
Passiflora glabra. Wendland collect. 1. 55. tab. 17. 
Passiflora Adiantum. Willd. enum. 698. 
Passiflora aurantia. Andrews's reposit. 295. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4s 153; 
aon tamen Forsteri, Cavanillesii, aut Willdenovii ). 
rutex alté scandens, caule glabro ramoso ; ramis gracilibus subanguloso- 
striatis virtdantibus. Folia alterna, transverse latiora, rotundaté 3-loba v. 
sepé ob lobos iteriim incisos 5- ». pluriés lobata, trinervia subtis tenuissimd 
reticulata et sepé nodulis glandulosis vagis notata, basi rotundata, juniora 
subrhombea ; petiolus feré duplo brevior, eglandulosus flecus : stipule minuté 
subulatee caduce. Cirrhi azillares spirales longissimi. Pedunculi_ solitarit, 
azillares, 1-flori, longitudine Jeré petioli at plurimiim crassiores, duriusculi, 
flexi, teretes, glabri, parm supra medium articulati, bracteis 3 sparsis mini« 
mis subulatis rubidis caducis stipatt. Flores sesquiunciam profundi, putentes, 
inodori, primd ochroleuci, indd laleritio-rubentes. Calyx crasstusculus, ine 
JSerné brevé urceolatus, toroso-angulatus ; segmenta angustiis oblongata, 
elevato-carinata, margine reflexo, apice obtuso breve inflexo. Core. pet. sum- 
mo tubo calycis imposita, segmentis calycinis § parte v. circa breviora, feré 
duplo angustiora, anceolato-oblonga, tenuia, obtusa, tenera, patentia. Corona 
duplex, duplo brevior corolla, @qualis ; exterior erecto-radiata, basi corolle 
inserta, radiis setaceis rigidis obtusis numerosis luteo-viridantibus intertort 
adstantibus : interior (v. operculum) ovato-tubulosa, plicato-rugosa, eroso- 
dentata, viridis, 8-plo brevior columnd: nectarium in Jundo calycis, septo 
nullo divisum, luteo-virens. Columnex stipes equalis calyci, rotundal? tri- 
queter, viridis, 3-plo vel ultra longior filamentis, strictus: fil. Jiliformia, 
viridia, e@qualia stylis, divergentia: ‘anth. verticali-appense, vibratiles 
virides, sagittato-lineares, breviores Jilamentis. Germ. oblongum, ovale, 
viride, glabrum, obsoleté trigonum : styli filiformes, virides, patentes : stig. 
obliqué capitata, viridia. . 
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Referred to the aurantia of Forster in the late edi- 
tion of the Hortus Kewensis. But that Species is native of 
New Caledonia, and has two distinct and prominent glands 
on the upper part of the petioles, conspicuous even in the 
dried specimen deposited by Forster in the Banksian 
Herbarium. The present is native of Norfolk Island, and 
has no glands on the petioles. The leaves in awrantia have 
