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AMERICAN PASSIFLORACEAE 423<br />

Series 14. Lobatae<br />

259. Passiflora Gardner! Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 614.<br />

1872.<br />

Stem subterete, villous; stipules semi-ovate, 4 to 6 mm. long,<br />

4 to 5 mm. wide, aristate, rounded at base, subfalcate; petioles up<br />

to 2.5 cm. long, villous, biglandular at apex and at middle, the glands<br />

orbicular, sessile; leaves 5 to 8 cm. long, 6 to 9.5 cm. wide, 3-lobed<br />

to middle (lobes ovate-lanceolate, 1.5 to 2.5 cm. wide, obtuse,<br />

eglandular in sinuses), cordate, entire, 5-nerved, membranous, villous<br />

above, tomentose beneath; peduncles up to 4 cm. long, slender;<br />

bracts lanceolate, about 2 cm. long, 5 to 7 mm. wide, borne at base<br />

of flower; flowers 5 to 6 cm. wide, light blue; calyx tube campanulate;<br />

corona filaments in 4 or 5 series, the outermost filiform, 7 to 9 mm.<br />

long, those of the succeeding series 1 to 2 mm. long; operculum erect,<br />

filamentose nearly to base; ovary subglobose, glabrous, glaucouspruinose.<br />

TYPE LOCALITY: Almas, State of Piauhy, Brazil.<br />

DISTRIBUTION: East-central Brazil. /<br />

BRAZIL: Vilha Boa, Pohl 2484 (V). Piauhy: Almas, Gardner<br />

3193 (Kew, type).<br />

This species is at once distinguished from its near relatives of<br />

this group by the character of its indument. The leaves are strikingly<br />

similar in outline and pubescence to those of P. setacea, but<br />

the foliaceous stipules and much shorter peduncles, as well as a<br />

wholly dissimilar coronal structure,<br />

260. Passiflora caerulea L. Sp. PI. 959. 1753.<br />

clearly differentiate it.<br />

Granadilla caerulea Medic. Malvenfam. 96. 1787.<br />

(?) Passiflora Selloi Dehnhardt, Riv. Napolitan. I, 3: 180; Walp.<br />

Repert. 2: 220. 1843.<br />

Passiflora caerulea var. angustifolia G. Don, Hist. PI. Dichl. 3:<br />

53. 1834.<br />

Passiflora caerulea var. glaucophylla G. Don, Hist. PI. Dichl. 3:<br />

53. 1834.<br />

Passiflora caerulea var. Regnellii Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13,<br />

pt. 1: 617. 1872.<br />

Passiflora caerulea var. glauca Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1:<br />

617. 1872.<br />

Passiflora caerulea var. imbricata Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13,<br />

pt. 1: 617. 1872.

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