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424 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY BOTANY, VOL. XIX
Plant glabrous and often glaucous throughout; stem subangular,
striate, grooved; stipules semi-ovate, attached near middle of side
(hence, subreniform), 1 to 2 cm. long, 0.5 to 1 cm. wide, aristate or
mucronulate, remotely dentate or denticulate or subentire; petioles
1.5 to 4 cm. long, bearing 2 to 4 (rarely up to 6) stipitate glands;
leaves palmately 5 (occasionally 3, 7, or 9) -lobed two-thirds their
length or usually nearly to base (lobes linear-oblong to broadly ovateoblong,
up to 10 cm. long, 0.5 to 2.5 cm. wide, obtuse or emarginate,
occasionally acutish, mucronulate, entire, 2-4-glandular in the
sinuses, sometimes overlapping), cordate, membranous; peduncles
3 to 7 cm. long, slender or more usually stout; bracts broadly ovate
to ovate-oblong, 1.5 to 2.5 cm. long, 1 to 1.5 cm. wide, rounded at
apex, borne close to flower base, thin-membranous, pale green;
flowers up to 10 cm. wide; calyx tube cup-shaped; sepals lanceoblong
or oblong, 1.5 to 2 cm. long, 1 to 1.5 cm. wide, obtuse, subcoriaceous,
green without, white or pinkish within, faintly keeled
dorsally,
the keel terminating in a slender awn up to 5 mm. long;
petals oblong, 1.5 to 2.5 cm. long, 1 to 1.5 cm. wide, obtuse, membranous,
white or pinkish; corona filaments in 4 series, those of the
outer 2 varying from scarcely half as long (about 6 mm. and very
slender) to fully as long as the petals, filiform (those of second series
slightly the coarser), radiate, blue at apex, white at middle, purple
at base, those of the inner 2 series 1 to 2 mm. long, capitellate, erect,
white, purplish at apex; operculum membranous up to one-third its
length, white, filamentose above, the filaments 3 to 4 mm. long, erect,
dark purple; nectar ring a fleshy, dark purple ridge; limen cupshaped,
white, closely surrounding base of gynophore, crenulate;
ovary ovoid or subglobose, pruinose; fruit ovoid or subglobose, about
6 cm. long, 4 cm. in diameter, orange-color or yellow; seeds obcordate
or cuneate, about 5 mm. long, 3.5 to 4 mm. wide, coarsely reticulate.
TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil, the type seen in the Linnean Herbarium.
ILLUSTRATIONS: Amoen. Acad. 1: pi. 10, f. 20; Bot. Mag. I: pi. 28;
Cav. Diss. 10: pi. 295; Lam. Tab. Encycl. pi. 732; Bot. Reg. 6: pi.
488; Card. Chron. n. ser. 21: 701. /. 133. 1884; III. 43: 186. /. 77;
Bailey, Cycl. Amer. Hort. 1223. /. 1653; Stand. Cycl. Hort. 2484.
/. 2772; L'Hort. Franc. II. Q:pl.l.
DISTRIBUTION: Brazil south to Argentina; also cultivated in
Mexico, British Guiana, western South America, and other parts
of the world.
CALIFORNIA: Pacific Beach, cultivated, Kumm in 1928 (N).