Volume 10 — PLATE DCLVII. PASSIFLORA LUNATA. Crescent-leaved Passion-flower.

CLASS XX. ORDER V.

GYNANDRIA PENTANDRIA. Chives on the Pointals. Five Chives.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Trigynia. Calyx 5-phyllus. Petala 5. Nectarium coroniforme. Bacca pedicellata.

Three styles. Cup 5-leaved. Petals 5. Honey-cup forming a crown. Berry standing on a footstalk.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Passiflora floribus axillaribus, binis: foliis lunatis: flore parvo, albo: fructu succulento, ovato.

Passiflora. Flowers axillary, by twos: leaves crescent-formed; flower small and white: fruit oval and succulent.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

This Passiflora is (like every one of the genus) a graceful meandering plant, and calculated to make an ugly wall look beautiful. It bears an abundant succession of delicate small flowers, which are fragrant, and open early in the day, and during the summer and autumnal months is a great ornament to the hot stove. Our drawing was made from the collection of the Countess de Vandes at Bayswater.