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PASSIFLORA peltata. 
Peltate Passionflower. 
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MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. PAsstvLorEm. Jussieu in ann. mus. 6. 102. 
PASSIFLORA. | Supra vol. 1. fol. 18. 
Div. (Ebracteate: apetale). Foliis trilobis. 
P. peltata foliis peltatis profunde trilobis glabris, lobis lineari-lanceolatis di- 
varicatis, petiolis biglandulosis, floribus apetalis. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 
152. 
Passiflora peltata. Cavan. diss. 10. 447. t.274. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 617. 
Passiflora hederacea; y. Lamarck encyc. 3. 38. n. 22. 
Grenadilla folio angusto tricuspidi, fructi oliveeformi. Tournef. inst. 240. 
Clematis indica, folio angusto trifido, fructd oliveformi. Plum. amer. 70. t. 
85. oe 
Fruticosa, depilis, caule inferné suberoso-corticato indé ramisque fusco- 
rubentibus subque lente puncticulis flavis crebré aspersis. Fol. peltata, sub- 
cortacea, obscuro-viridia, 3-nervia, nitida, margine subdeflexa linedque fusct 
tenui circumscripta; superiora majora palmato-triloba, lobis distantibus ad pe- 
tiolum feré usque discretis elongato-lanceolatis, medio submajore 3-4-unciali ; 
inferiora minora, brevids divisa lobis ovato-acuminatis: pet. leves subunciales, 
ad medium circa urceolato-biglandulosi: stipule erecte, plano-subulate: 
cirthi axillares, nunc flores intercipientes. Flores apetali absque omni bracted 
vel involucro, chloroleuci, inodort, gemini, axillares, nutantes, diametro ferme 
biunciali: pedunc. fusco-purpureus, jiliformis, duplo fere brevior gracilior- 
que petiolo, pauld suprd medium articulatus indéque crassior. Invol. 0. 
Cal. stellato-partitus disco plano subtis subintruso atque decem-toroso: seg- 
menta distantia, recurvo-patentia, @ bast laté lineari-attenuata, firmula, 
obtusula. Cor. 0. Corona duplex bis ferme brevior limbo calycis; radii nu- 
merost, exteriores viridt-lutescentes lineolis fuscis paucis maculati, elongato- 
teretes, obtusi: interiores alternt capillares, longitudine tantim operculi, 
Jusco-purpurei, albo variegati obtusi: operculum plicatum purpuré varium; 
nectarium simplex planum: septo interiort brevi erecto, crasso, margine prui- 
noso, nigroque-maculato. Pist. calycem equans: stipes teres coronam subexce- 
dens pallidus lineolis interruptis fuscis punctatus: fil. ligulata, pallida, antheris 
oblongis viridibus longiora. Germ. ellipticum glabrum viride: styli cum 
stigmatibus clavatt, virides, longiores germine ; stig. subgloboso-convera. 
This pretty species is seldom seen in flower in our col- 
lections; nor has it been figured in any of the popular 
publications. It comes near to suberosa, and, like that, has 
neither involucre or bractes, nor petals, but differs, besides 
in having the upper leaves more deeply divided, by all the 
leaves being peltate, that is, with petioles inserted within 
the disk and not at the edge as there, and by flowers with 
twice the circumference of those of the other. But it comes 
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