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PASSIFLORA alato-czerulea. 
Masters’s Hybrid Passiflora. 
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MONADELPHIA PENTANDRI4d. 
Nat. ord. PASssIFLOREZ. ere i 
PASSIFLORA, V. supra vol. 1. fol.13. _ 
P. alato-cerulea, 
J ‘P. crerulea. 
; 9. P. alata. FOG t + oes f See ctew fawkes 
Caulis fruticosus, ramosus, scandens, utplurimiim quadrangularis, viri- 
dis: angulis sepits rubicundis. Folia sempervirentia, triloba, cordata, sub- 
quinquenervia, pallide viridia, subundulata, lobis ovato-lanceolatis; inter- 
medio longiore, petiolis supra canaliculatis subtus teretibus glandulas 2-4ve, 
marginales viridi-fuscas circa medium gerentibus. Stipule auriculate, acu- 
minate, eH) mutud trajicientibus. Flores solitarii, geminive, fo- 
liis breviores. Involucrum triphyllum, sepalis brevius, foliolis membranaceis, 
venosis, ovatis, obtusis, bast cordatis. \ Calyx coriaceus, extus virescens, intus: 
albidus, sepalis angustis-oblongis, carinatis, ad margines revolutis. Petala 5, 
oblonga, concava, sepalis longiora et latiora, extus albido-viridia, nitida, 
intis pulcherrimé rubra. Corona triplex, exterior & processubus con- 
stans regularibus, subulatis, calycis longitudine basi atro-fascis, (medio 
ceruleis purpuro maculatis, apice albis; media brevis erecta apicibus pro- 
cessuum reflexis ; interior annularis, incurva. WNectarium apice yimbriatum, 
basi solidum, Columna sursim attenuata, corone exterioris longitudine. 
Filamenta compressa, obtusa, emarginata. Anthere ovate, sulcate, loculis 
sepe sepius inanibus.. Ovarium ovale, obsoleté trigonum, viride.—Obs. Flores 
odorem gratum spirant. 53, ‘ 
Many are the attempts which have been made to accli: 
matize the vegetable productions of countries watmer than 
our own, and universal has been the want of success in the 
experiment. What was denied to philosophy and perse-. 
verance, appears, however, to have been granted to acci- 
dent, in the unexpected discovery, that by the admixture 
of the pollen of two distinct species, one being hardy, a 
hybrid offspring may be obtained possessing the beauty of 
the one parent and the robust constitution of the other. 
This was first, observed in the curious hardy mule Passion- 
flower, raised a few years since by Mr: Milne, of Fulham, 
between P. cwrulea and P. racemosa, of which a figure and 
account have been published, in the Transactions of the Hor- 
_ticultural Society, by Mr. Sabine. The fact seems to be now 
established by the production of ne beautiful variety figured 
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