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PASSIFLORA foctida. - 
Stinking Passionflower. 
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MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. PAsstrLorem. Jussieu in Annales du Muséum. 6. 102. 
PASSIFLORA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 13. 
P. fetida, foliis trilobis cordatis pilosis, involucris multifido-capillaribus. 
Lin. ameen. acad. 1. 228. t. 10. f. 17. , 
Passiflora feetida. » Lin. sp. pl. 2.1359. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n.'7.__ Gieseck. tc. 
Jfasc. 1. t. 20. Cavan. diss, 10. 458. t.289. Miss Lawr. passionfl. Hort. 
Kew. 3. 10. ed. 2. 4. 153. : 
Passiflora hirsuta. Loddiges’s botan. cabinet. (nec aliorum ). 
Passiflora vesicaria, florum involucris triphyllis multifido-capillaribus. 
Browne jam. 327. 
Flos passionis albus reticulatus. Herm. par. 173. t. 173. 
Clematis indica hirsuta foetida. Plum. amer. 71. t. 86. 
Perennis, herbacea, suborgyalis, tota pilis erectis hirsuta. Fol. distantia, 
longiora intervallis, mollia, flavo-virentia, triloba, cordato-hastata, subtri-— 
uncialia repando-subdentata, dentibus setula v. mucronulo herbaceo Pree, 
i eglan- 
 dulosi, crassiusculi, subteretes, nervast, duplo feré breviores lamina: stipule 
lato-semisagittate, herbacee, breves, ciliqto-multifide. Flores axillares, sub- 
lobis acuminatis, 5-nervia, subtus pubescentiam translucentia: petio 
Solitarii, graveolentes, tenerrimi, fugacissimi, diametro 2 unciarum: pedunculi 
eglandulosi, filiformes, strictt, triplo graciliores at longiores petiolo, breviores 
olio, patentes. Inyolucrum flore majus, 3-phyllum, herbaceum, flavo-virens, 
calyci. subcontiguum, patentissimum, lineart-multifidum. Cal. teneriusculus, — 
basi intrusus, brevissimé urceolatus, externé virescens, interné albus, seg- 
mentis oblongis, obtusis, subtis 3-nervibus, nervo medio carinato-prominente 
piloso cornuto-mucronato. Pet. alba, tenerrima, ore tubi calycis imposita, 
equalia et conformia segmentis calycis. Corona radiato-patentissima, albo et 
violaceo variegata; radii exteriores biseriati, longiores, filiformes, flexuosts 
interiores ad eorum pede positi, brevissimi, pluriseriati, subulati, compactt. 
Nect. subbicameratum: septum exterius pede columne enatum, subcoloratum, 
profundiusculum, integerrimum cum operculo: brevi albo denticulato opposito 
inclinato-connivens. chat Slavo-virens, purpureo-punctata. Styli albi- 
cantes, patentissimi, clavati: stig. subglobosa, viridia, nutantia. Germ. 
ovatum, viride, glaberrimum, pauld majus stigmatibus. 
Native of the West Indies, cultivated by Miller at the 
Chelsea Physic garden in 1731. Generally accounted 
annual; but we are assured by Messrs. Whitley and Co. 
at whose nursery the drawing was taken in July last, that it 
is perennial. Requires to be kept in the stove. The whole 
plant, when touched, emits a rank herbaceous scent, resem- 
bling that of the Common Dead Nettle. Miller describes 
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