By some it has been considered as a variety only of the Passiflora quadrangularis, others, with whom we agree in opinion, have no doubt of its being a very distinct species; it differs from the quadrangularis, in having leaves more perfectly heart-shaped, and less veiny; in having four glands on the foot-stalks of the leaves, instead of six; and in not producing fruit with us, which the quadrangularis has been known frequently to do.
The Nursery-men report, that this species was first raised in this country, by a gentleman in Hertfordshire, from West-India seeds.
The usual mode of propogating it here, is by cuttings.
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Mesembryanthemum pinnatifidum. Jagged-leaved Fig-Marigold.
Class and Order.
Icosandria Pentagynia.
Generic Character.