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PASSIFLORA Murucuja. 
Lubulur-crowned Passionflower. Murucuja. 
MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. PASSIFLOREE. Jussieu in ann. du musée. 6. 102. 
' PASSIFLORA, Supra*vol. 1. fol. 13. ubi conjungt potest character 
sequens MURUCUJ® a Jussieuto separatus. ‘ Corolla PASSIFLOR| colorata, 
urceolo, preterea subtis suleato. Corona interior non multipartita’ et triplex, 
Sed simplex indivisa erecta tubuloso-conica truncata circa ;germinis sti- 
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pitem connivens. Cztera omnind ut in PAssIFLoRA.” Jussieu gen. 398. 
P. Murucuja, foliis bilobis obtusis, petiolis eglandulosis corona campanulata. 
truncata integerrima. Willd. sp. pl. 3.612. 
Passiflora Murucuja. Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2. 2.1357. Amen. acad. 1. 223. tab. 
10. fig. 10. Cavan. diss. 10. 456. t. 282. — Swartz obs. 336. Hort. Kew. 
ed. 2. 4. 150. 
Murucuja ocellata. Persoon syn. 2. 222. ° 
urucuja. Jussieu gen. 398. ; 
Passiflora foliis tenuioribus trinerviis bicornibus lunatis, sinu anteriori obtuso. 
_ Browne jam. 328. 12. 
Murucuja folio lunato. Tournef. inst. 241. tab. 125 ( optime ). 
Clematis indica, flore puniceo: folio lunato. Plum. amer. 72. t. 87. 
Fruticosa, ramis sulcato-angulosis glubris. Fol. transverse oblongata, 
divaricato-biloba, obsolete lunata, venosa, sesquiunciam latitudine semunciam 
profunditate parim excedentia, apiece emarginata setdque minuté prefixa, 
‘bast curvo lent rotundata, 3-nervia, scrobiculis paucis glandulosis vagis ma- 
dentibus subtus punctata, lobis apice votundatis: pet. eglandulosus brevior 
pedunculis ; stipule parve, subulate. Flores punicei, sub-unicolores, recurvo- 
Stellati; uncid profundiores cum columné 3-unciali, solitarii, avillares: ped. 
sublongior robustiorque petiolis semunciam vix excedens, medio v. circa articula- 
tus, bracteolis 2-3 minutis subulatis vagis appressis infra articulum. Cal. 
firmior ; urceolus brevi-cupulatus, extius decies toroso-sulcatus, limbus recurvo- 
divaricaius segmentis ligulato-attenuatis concavis acutulis, apice virentibus, 
Petala istis } parte feré breviora, paulo angustiora, teneriora, unicolora, 
lineari-oblonga, obtusa, explanato-patentia, summo urceolo inserta. Corona 
Simplex, concolor, tubuloso-conica, duplo feré calyce brevior erecta, plicis 
5 obsoletius impressa, ore explicato eroso abrupto. Operculum pallide rubens, 
membranosum, totum secundiim partetem urceoli deflexum, margine dentato- 
Jissili recurvo. Nect. albicans, urceolo calycino conforme, per septa 10 car- 
nosa parallela longitudinalitér in cellulas totidem divisum. Columna exserta, 
glabra; stipes longitudine calycis, gracilis, strictus, rubescens, germine pluries 
longior: fil. stipitis concolora, glabra, divaricato-recurva, subulata; anth. @ 
medio dorso appense, cernue, versatiles, lineari-oblonge, viridiuscule, polline 
luteo, Germ. viridissimum, glabrum, ovali-oblongum obsolete subtrigonum: 
Styli germine longiores, punicet, compresso-filiformes, graciliores; stigmata 
sub-capitato-ovata, atro-rubentia, obliqué truncata cum disco depresso. 
tae RTSERID Oe aE ol 
It is the first time that we meet this handsome Species 
in flower, though it is stated in the Hortus Kewensis to 
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