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PASSIFLORA Vespertilio. 
Night-hlowing Passtonflower. 
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MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. PASSIFLOREX. Jussieu in ann. du mus. 6. 102. 
PASSIFLORA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 13; et fol. 574 vol. presentis, 
: Div. Foliis bilobis. 
P. Vespertilio, foliis cuneiformibus bilobis acuminatis divaricatis basi biglan 
dulosis, ‘petiolis eglandulosis, involucro nullo. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 613. 
Passiflora Vespertilio. Linn. am. acad. 1. 223. n. 11. t. 10. fig. 11; itertm 
8. 262. n.119. Ejusd. sp. pl..ed. 2. 2. 1857. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 11. 
Cavan. diss. 10. 437, t. 271. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4.150. Smith in Rees’s 
cyclop. in loco. ; 
Passiflora discolor. Link abbild. auserl. gew. kon. bot. gart. zu berl. 13. t. 5, 
Granadilla bicornis, flore candido: filamentis intortis. Dzll. elth. 164. _ 
Frutex alté scandens, ramis compresso-ancipitibus glabris foliisque ob- 
scure virentibus. Fol. latissima, divaricato-biloba, cum forméa feré arcis tensi 
in transversum elongata, uncias 2-Gve lata, altitudine bis sexiésve breviora, 
infra cordata convexiuscula, supra subrectilineari-repanda vel concaviuscula, 
nervosa nervis principibus 3, subtis lanugine minutd vix sensibilitér pubes- 
‘centia ibidemque punctis ustulato-fuscis glandulam secernentem continentibus 
(geminis conspicuioribus intra nervos 2 laterales ad marginem baseos po- 
sitis, ceteris vagis paucis) ocellata: lobi laterales oblongi acuminati obtust 
mucronati, medius omnino obliteratus mucronulo tantiim superstite vel 
rudimentum breve rotundatum: petiolus semi-sesquiuncialis, filiformis, 
supra obsolete canaliculatus, flexilis: folia juniora subtus sepe plus minis 
‘ rubedine tincta: stipule subulate parvule: cirrhi junctim cum flore axil- 
lares. Pedune. solitarti, 1-flori, breviores folio, rubicundi, plurimim 
‘graciliores petiolo, jfiliformes, elastico-rigentes, ebracteati. Involucr. 0. 
Flos ‘nocturnus, unciam diametro pauld excedens, extis virescens, intus al- 
bicans, involuto-emarcescens : ‘cal. urceolato-rotatus, urceolo oblato ventri- 
coso exsulco 8-plo breviore segmentis oblongo-attenuatis obtusis muticis — 
planis ecarinatis: cor. tenera, alba, limbo calycino conformis sed plurimim 
“minor. Corona ‘radiata, alba, numerosa, biseriata, radiis exterioribus fili- 
formibus, patentissimis, flexuosis, obtusis, calyct equalibus v. sublongioribus, 
interiaribus conformibus erectiusculis duplo brevioribus et ultra rectisque apice 
_glochidiformi: operculum album profunde denseque plicatum, septo brevi car- 
‘noso parietali nectarit ad margine interiori fornicato-incumbens. Nectar. 
‘albicans septo simplici. Columna pauld calyce brevior, stipite subrubente 
‘tereti: glabro longiore germine: germ. ovale, viride, glabrum, opacum: styli 
pallidi, stigmate saturatiis viridi pileato-capitati: fil. ligulata, virentia, 
stipitt equalia; anth. oblonge, pallide. beh 
Perhaps the only plant of the species in the country, for 
though cultivated near a century ago by Dr. Sherard, in 
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