TACSÒNIA pinnatistipula.
Pinnated Stipuled Tacsonia.
Class and Order. M O N A D E L P H IA P E N T A N D R IA .
Natural Order. P A S S IE L O R EÆ . D C . prodr. pars. 3. p . 321.
Tribus I I . P A S S IF L O R Æ V E R Æ . Petala nulla. Stamina (in uni-
câ 5.) Ovarium pedicellatum. Pedicelli sæpiùs nonnulli cirrhosi. Gaules
sæpiùs scandentes.
T A C SO N IA . Involucrum triphyllum aut tripartitum. Perianthium
coloratura : tubo longissimo cylindraceo ; limbo decempartito, patente : la-
laciniis quinqué interioribus minoribus petaloideis. Corona duplex; altera:
margo annuliformis, glandulosus, crenatus, summum tubum coronans ; altera
: membrana tenuis, integra, tubo supra basim adnata, columnam stami-
niferam cingens. Stamina 5, longissima, cum stipite ovarii connata, apice
libera, divergentia. Antheræ versatiles. Pistillum et Tructus Passifloræ.—
Frútices scandentes cirrosi, fa c ie Passifloræ; Pedunculis axillaribus, uni-
flo ris, solitariis aut geminis ; Floribus longissimis, sæpiùs roséis, basi cinctis
involucro calyciformi, e bracteis tribus connatis aut distinctis. Kunth
p. 439-440. char, parùm mut.
Sect. I . E u t a c s o n i a . Involucrum magnum, triphyllum, bracteis nunc
liberis, nunc inter se coalitis.—* * Foliis trilobatis.
T. pinnatistipula, ramis densè tomentosis tetragonis, foliis tripartitis subtùs
tomentosis penninerviis suprà glabris nitidis parcè hirsutis : lobis elliptico
lanceolatis autlanceolato-elongatis rugosiuscidis mucronatis incurvo-
serratis, petiolis 4-8-glandulosis, stipulis minimis pinnatis, cirrhis tomentosis,
coronâ filamentosâ limbo dimidio subæquali.
Tacsonia pinnatistipula. Juss. ann. mus. 6. p . 393. D C . prodr. par. I I I .
p . 334. Sivt. hort. brit. ed. 2. p. 218.
Passiflora pinnatistipula. Cavan.icon. 6. p . 16. î. 428. Pers. syn. 2. p . 221.
Spreng. syst. 3. p . 39.
Aim extending to a great length : branches quadrangular,
densely covered with wool, as are likewise the petioles or leafstalks,
the stipules, the flower-stalks, and the bractes. Leaves
on the old branches 5 inches in breadth, and 4 in length,varying
to 3 inches in length, and l o f an inch in breadth, on the flowering
stems, but seldom exceeding 2 and a half in breadth, smooth
and glossy on the upper side ; the under side clothed with
dense wool, as has been already observed, but bearing a few
straight hairs intermixed. The old leaves are very rugged and
uneven, the younger ones much less so ; but they have all
more or less a sort of rugged appearance. Leaf-stalks or petioles
on the flowering branches about three fourths of an inch
in length, each bearing from 4 to 8 glands. Stipules small,
deeply pinnatifid. Tendrils about 6 inches long. Peduncles,
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