surrounded by a pulpy arillus. Embryo straight, in the centre o f a
thin fleshy albumen.—Usually climbing herbaceous or shrubby
plants, with alternate mostly stipulate leaves. Flowers showy,
often involucrate.
The i"ner s,eriea of floral envelopes, which we, following Lindlev, consider as
the corolla, is by most botanists termed a second series of sepals, and thus Passiflora
is deemed apetalous.
1. PASSIFLORA. Linn.; Juss. gen. p. 397.
Calyx urceolate or campanulate at the base, 5- (rarely 4-) cleft; the throat
with a conspicuous often double or triple filamentous crown (transformed petals
?); the inner portion often a membranous disk. Petals 5 (rarely 4),
sometimes none. Stamens 5 (rarely 4), connate with the stipe of the ovary,
free or diverging at the summit. Anthers large, elongated, at length, reversed
and turned outwards. Stigmas 3 (sometimes 4), large, clavate-capitate.
Berry pulpy, rarely somewhat membranaceous— Herbs or shrubby plants,
climbing by tendrils. Leaves undivided or variously lobed : petiole often
bearing glands. Stipules occasionally wanting or minute. Peduncles axillary,
solitary or sometimes several together, mostly 1-flowered, articulated
above.—Passion-flower.
§ 1. Pedicels 1-flowered, with a 3-bracteolate involucre near the flower: tendrils
simple, from the same axils__Granadilla, DC.
1. P. incarnata (Linn.): leaves deeply 3-lobed, membranaceous, glabrous,
or somewhat pubescent beneath, serrate; the lobes ovate-lanceolate,
mostly acuminate; petioles with 2 glands near the summit; stipules minutemvoiucral
bracts obovate, glandular; ovary villous-canescent__Linn. ! spec.
H.p. 995 ,- Mtchx.l fl. 2. p. 37 ,- Ell. sic. 1. p. 154 ; DC. ! prodr. 3. p. 329.
in dry soil, Virginia! to Florida! and Arkansas ! May-July.— U Root
sometimes tuberiferous. Stem often climbing to the height of 20 or 30 feet
P lowers large, on long pedicels. Segments of the calyx cuspidate below
the summit. Petals oval-oblong, white. Crown triple; the 2 outer series
composed of long radiating filaments, purple, with a nearly white band ; the
inner of short erect flesh-colored rays. Berry as large as a hen’s e^g, oval,
glabrous, with a leathery coat, pale-yellow when ripe, eatable ; sometimes
with 4 placentae and as many styles.
§ 2. Pedicels 1-flowered; with a simple tendril from the same axils : involucre
none, or minute__Cieca, DC.
o (-L™-): leaves broad, somewhat cordate at the base, obtusely
3-lobed at the summit, entire, glabrous, not glandular; the lobes short and
rounded, mucronulate; petiole glandless; stipules minute ; pedicels mostly
geminate ; petals much narrower than the sepals.—Linn.! spec. 2. v. 958 •
Walt. ! Car. p. 223; Michx. ! 1. c .; Dot. reg. t. 79 ,- Ell. 1. c .; D C .' l c
Thickets, m damp soil, Ohio ! and Virginia! to Florida! and Arkansas '
JVIay-July.— y Stem slender, 3-10 feet long. Leaves pale green. Flowers
small, greenish-yellow. Fruit scarcely half an inch in diameter, dark
purple. Styles sometimes 4. Crown consisting of a single row of slender
radiating filaments, a second of short clavate erect filaments, and within this
a membranous many-cleft disk. Seeds horizontally grooved, and with fine
longitudinal ridges.
3. P. angustifolia (Swartz) : low, suffrutescent; leaves glabrous, not
glandular, slightly peltate; the lowermost ovate, somewhat cordate, 3-lobed;
the upper lanceolate, sometimes 2-3-lobed; petioles short, with 2 glands
above the middle ; stipules very small; pedicels short, solitary or geminate;
petals none.—Swartz, prodr. p. 97 ; Willd. ! spec. 3. p. 616 ,- DC. 1. c.
P. heterophylla, A it.; Jacq. hort. Schcenb. 2. t. 181. P. longifolia, Lam.
Key West, Mr. Bennett!—Flowers small, yellowish.
4. P. Warei (Nutt.): leaves on short biglandular petioles; the lower ones
3-lobed, acute ; the upper ovate, undivided; stipules none ; peduncles commonly
geminate, about the length of the petioles; flowers very small; segments
of the crown few, filiform, shorter than the calyx. Nutt, in Sill. jour.
5. p. 297.
East Florida, Mr. A. Ware.—Lower part of the stem suberose. Leaves
smooth and shining, thin. Berries about the size of a pea, purple. Nutt.—
This species is wholly unknown to us.
P. peltata (Cav.) is doubtless not a native of the United States.
Or d e r LX. CUCURBITACE^]. Juss.
Calyx 5- (rarely 6-) toothed; the limb sometimes obsolete. Petals 5
(rarely 6), distinct, or commonly more or less united with each other
and coherent with the calyx, very cellular and often marked with
reticulated veins. Stamens 5, sometimes distinct, commonly united
in 3 parcels (two and two, and one separate) so as to appear like 3
stamens only, rarely 3 and diadelphous : filaments of each set sometimes
connate: anthers usually long and sinuous, or variously contorted
or folded, 2- celled, adnate, extrorse, commonly more or less
connate. Ovary coherent with the tube of the calyx, usually of 3
(rarely of 2 or 4) united carpels, sometimes 1 -celled by the obliteration
of the partitions, or often with each carpel spuriously 2- celled
by the introflexion of the placentae from the axis until it reaches the
dorsal suture. Fruit fleshy or juicy, rarely membranous, usually a
pepo.* Seeds anatropous, compressed, often enveloped by a juicy or
* A pepo is doubtless correctly defined by Arnott to be “ a fleshy inferior fruit,
either indehiscent or bursting irregularly, and consisting of about 3 carpels, each
of which is divided into two cells by its placentiferous margin being so introflexed
as to reach the dorsal suture. The sides of the carpel [the dissepiments], and
even sometimes the introflexed portion, usually become extremely thick and fleshy,
forming the great mass of the ripe fruit, so that by losing the general character of
dissepiments, they might almost be said to disappear; and thus at first sight a
pepo would be said to be, and has been so described, a 1-celled, fleshy, indehiscent