encialis, viridis rubro-maculosus, inferné pentagonus, superne teres. Fil. pro 
longitudine antherarum discreta, recurvo-patentia, viridiuscula, ligulata, 
nervo medio intuis prominuloz anth. lineari-oblonge,  viridi-lutescentes. 
Germ. oblongum, obsoleté trilobum, viridescens, glabrum, opacum: styli 
viridiusculi, clavati, recurvati, primo sublongiores germine: stigmata subpul- 
vinato-orbicularia. ' 
This fine species blossomed, we believe, for the first : 
time in our country, at the nursery of Messrs. Loddiges, 
Hackney, and has been already figured in the “ Botanical 
Cabinet,” a work edited by those ingenious and industrious 
horticulturists to record the rare and curious plants which 
flower in that extensive collection. It was there that we 
had the opportunity of taking the present drawing from a 
sample cultivated in a hothouse where the use of tan has 
been discontinued, and its agency supplied by the introduc- 
tion of steam. 
The plant is indigenous of the Brasils, and was observed” 
by the late Mr. E. J. A. Woodford growing wild in the shade 
of the woods, near the shore, at the distance of about a 
league from the city of Rio Janeiro. By this gentleman it 
was brought to Lisbon, cultivated there, and through his 
means communicated to Professor Brotero, by whom a 
drawing and description of it were transmitted to the Lin- 
nean Society of London, both of which appear in the twelfth 
volume of the Transactions of that body. The species is 
distinguishable among the others by the long leafless racemes, 
that terminate the branches, and which have procured it 
the name of Martyrio cachudo (bunch-flowered Passionflower) 
among the Brasilian colonists. At some points it approaches 
to PassrrLora adiantifolia, of the 233d article of this publi- 
cation. In its own country it blossoms in November and 
December, producing usually two stems from the same 
stock, one of which proves fertile, and is without leaves while 
so; the other remains barren and in leaf, becoming fertile in 
its turn the ensuing season. 
Perennial. Stem round, smooth, dividing into slender 
high-climbing branches, flowerbearing ones pendulous and 
deprived of leaves for some distance below the inflorescence, 
having in their places only stipules and tendrils. Leaves 3-4 
inches - long, substantial and subcoriaceous, smooth, deep 
green, some of the lowermost and uppermost entire and ob- 
longly ovate, the rest oblately cordate and three-lobed, lobes. 
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