Native of the island of St. Domingo, where the species 
was originally seen by Plumier, and from whence the seed 
came that produced the present plant at the Physic Garden, 
Chelsea. We find no traces of its having been introduced 
into Europe till now. ‘wii 
Drawn at the Nursery ef Messrs. Colvill, in the King’s 
Road, where the plant was grown in the hothouse, and has 
attained the length of twenty feet or more and produced 
a few branches at the upper part, on which the flowers 
appeared late in the summer. ‘These were succeeded by 
ripe fruit, one of which is represented in our plate. 
Pallida belongs to a division of the genus with pale 
greenish flowers without inyolucre or corolla. The ar- 
rangement of the genus in sections assorted by the foliage 
proves inconveniently artificial, separating the nearest and 
approximating the most distant species. 
The sample marked Passrrtora pallida, in the Banksian 
Herbarium, is certainly the same as Passrrtora serrata, and 
has nothing to do with Plumier’s plant. We have never 
found a sample of pallida in any Herbarium. 
In Plumier’s figure the peduncles are solitary; in our 
plant they were generally in pairs. 
