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P L A T E CCXCV.
P A S S I F L O R A AURANTIA.
Norfolk Ißand Paßon-Flower.
C L A S S XX. ORDER IV.
GVNANDRIA PENTANDRIA. Chives on the Pointal. Five Chives.
E S S E N T I A L GENERIC CHARACTER.
TKIGVNA. Calyx 5-pbyllus. Petala 5. Nect
a r i um corona. Bacca pedicellata.
THREK ftyles. Cup 5-leaved. Petals 5. Honey^
cup forming a crown. Berry ftanding on a
foot-ftalk.
SeePl. CCVI I . PASSIFLORA MALIFORMIS. Vol.lV.
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S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
Paffiflora foliis trllobis, lobis oblongis obtufis,
medio longiore ; petiolis biglandulofis ;
n e t t a r i o cylindraceo, denticulato ; corolla
aurantia.
Paffion-Flower with three-lobed leaves; lobes
oblong, obtufe, the middle one tlie longeft;
foot-ftalks wi t h two glands; honey-cup cylindrical
and toothletted; bloiTora orangecoloured.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
J. Exhibits the half of a flower as cut perpendicularly through the middle, with the whole of the
Pointal and Chives in their place.
THIS fpecies of Paflion Flower, from Nor fol k Ifland, was introduced to Britain in the year 1792, and
was firft railed from feeds, at the Hammerfmith Nurfery. It is a greenhoufe plant, loving heat and
drou<.ht, thrives in a light fandy foil, and is readily increafed by cuttings; which fliould be placed
in the heat of the bark-bed in the hothoufe, or cucumber hot-bed, in the month of April.
In the young ftate of the plant, the leaves are lefs har f t , appear rather fcolloped than lobed, and
much refemble in fliape thofe of the Maiden-hair Fern, or Adiantum Capillus-veneris; whence the
trivial name, adiantifoUa, which it bears in moft colleaions. But, as there can be no doubt of our
prefent plant being that defigned by Forfter, in his Prod. flor. inful. auftral. No. 326; of Cavanilles
in his Diflertationes claffis MonadeIphia=, DiiT. 10. p. 457 ; and as laftly quoted by Willdenow m
his new Sp Plant. Tom. 3, Part i , p. 6 2 0 ; we have, without hefitation, adopted the ipecific title it
there bears. As an addition to the very few handfome climbing plants fit to decorate the trelliswork
of our modern greenhoufe.s, or confervatories, this plant muft be confidered as a great acquifition
; as the growth is rapid, the foliage of a fine green, and the flowering abundant.
Our figure was taken from a plant in the confervatory of the Hibbertiao colleaion, Clapham
common.
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