Transactions of the Linnean Society of London/Volume 12/Descriptions of a new Genus of Plants named Araujia, and of a new Species of Passiflora

by Félix Avelar Brotero

X. Descriptions of a new Genus of Plants named Araujia, and of a new Species of Passifiora.⁠By Felix de Avellar Brotero, Professor of Botany in the University of Coimbra, F.M.L.S.

Read November 7, 1815.

ARAUJIA
Character Genericus.

Calyx magnus, profundè quinquepartitus, persistens. Corolla campanulata, basi subglobosa, quinquegibba, tubo infra medium coarctato, limbo quinquefido. Nectaria sacculi quinque gibbosi, in fundo corollæ inter antherarum filamenta decurrentia, in quorum decursu squama horizontalis et auricula terminalis. Styli duo brevissimi; Stigma utrisque commune ovatum, apice bicorni. Folliculi duo oppositi, deorsum flexi, coriaceofungosi, subovales, semi-biloculares: dissepimento eorum ad centrum, seu medium, protenso, utrinque multilamellato. Semina numerosa, lamellis dissepimenti adhærentia, comâ longâ sericiformi coronata.

Araujia sericofera.

A. caule fruticoso, scandente; foliis cordatis, integerrimis, glabris, ad petioli apicem glandulosis; racemis paucifloris.

Radix perennis, ramosa, serpens.

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Passiflora racemosa.

quinqueglandulosis, nee quadriglandulosis ; 2°. Calyce et corollâ plùs minùsve puniceis, nee coccineis; 3°. Nectarii filis albidis, infernfe virescentibus, nec cæruleis.

EXPLICATIO.
Tab. VI.

Fig. 1. Unius rami nondum florentis pars extrema cum foliis, stipulis et cirrhis.

⁠(a.) Folii petiolus cum glandulis quatuor.

⁠(b.) Stipulæ.

⁠(c.) Cirrhus.

Fig. 2. Alterius rami pars extrema nuda, racemosa.

(A.) Racemi ex arbore vicinâ penduli pedunculus communis.

{aaaaa.) Floris primarii aperti calycinæ laciniæ, dorso acinaciformes, apice bicornes.

{bbbbb.) Corollæ petala.

(B.) Staminum antheræ, et filamenta stipiti summo inserta.

(C.) Stigmata et styli cum germine apici stipitis insidente.

(DD.) Nectarii corona triplex.

(EE.) Pedunculi partiales, alternè bini, cum cirrho inter ipsos spiralitèr torto.

(c.) Pedunculi articulatio.

{d.) Calycis pars inferior tubulosa.

(e.) Calycis pars superior inaperti quinquangula.

(F.) Unus ex floribus extremis involucratus.

(G.) Racemi pars extrema cum stipulis, et nonnullis floribus involucro penitùs tectis.

Fig. 3. Unius floris recentèr è gemmâ evoluti involucrum triphyllum: (a.) ejusdem foliolum separatum.

Fig. 4. Bacca matura.