Chives. Five threads, awl-shaped, fixed to the base of the column of the seed-bud, spreading. Tips fixed by their backs, oblong, obtuse.
Pointal. Seed-bud roundish, falling into the end of a cylindrical, upright column. Three shafts, thicker above, spreading. Summits headed.
Seed-vessel. A fleshy berry, nearly egg-shaped, one-celled, pedicelled.
Seeds many, egg-shaped, covered by a seed-coat.
Receptacle of the seeds triple, fixed longitudinally to the rind of the berry.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Passiflora foliis indivisis, cordato-oblongis, integerrimis; petiolis biglandulosis; involucro triphyllo, flore majore; fructu maliformi.
Passion-Flower with undivided leaves, heart-shape-oblong, quite entire; foot-stalks with two glands, fence three-leaved, larger than the flower; fruit like an apple.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A ripe fruit.