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434 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY BOTANY, VOL. XIX<br />

ring annular, fleshy; limen about 5 mm. high, adnate to the gynophore;<br />

ovary ovoid, pruinose; fruit globose, 3 to 3.5 cm. in diameter;<br />

seeds obovate, 4 to 5 mm. long and 2 to 3 mm. wide, coarsely<br />

reticulate.<br />

TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil, the type from a plant cultivated in<br />

England.<br />

ILLUSTRATIONS: Bot. Reg. 8: pi. 673; Bot. Cab. 11: pi. 1050.<br />

DISTRIBUTION: Surinam to Para, Brazil.<br />

SURINAM: Hering (Leid, N, Ph); Berthoud-Coulon 512 (EM).<br />

Paramaribo, Kappler 1595 (BM, P, S, Ut, type of P. guianensis) ;<br />

Wullschlagel 212 (Brux, V).<br />

BRAZIL: Para: Belem, Jobert 69 (P). Aramanahy, Monteiro da<br />

Costa (F, N).<br />

Distinctly stalked bracts separate this species from its near<br />

relatives. There appears to be much variation in the length of the<br />

outer corona filaments. Passiflora guianensis was doubtfully referred<br />

to P. quadriglandulosa by Masters.<br />

267. Passiflora rubrotincta <strong>Killip</strong>, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 17:<br />

429. 1927.<br />

Plant glabrous throughout; stem terete,<br />

wiry, drying yellowish;<br />

stipules subreniform, 1.5 to 2 cm. long, 0.5 to 0.8 cm. wide, minutely<br />

mucronulate at one end, rounded at the other, remotely crenulate<br />

or subentire, coriaceous; petioles about 2 cm. long, glandless; leaves<br />

4.5 to 8 cm. long and wide, angulately 3-lobed (middle lobe ovatedeltoid,<br />

3 to 4 cm. long, 4 to 5 cm. wide at base, obtusish, the lateral<br />

lobes less than half as long), distinctly peltate, truncate at lower<br />

margin, 5-nerved, coriaceous, dark green and lustrous above, dull<br />

and reddish beneath; peduncles 4 to 7 cm. long, slender, articulate<br />

about 2 mm. from apex; bracts cordate-ovate, about 1 cm. long and<br />

7 mm. wide, acute, mucronulate, reddish; flowers 4 to 5 em. wide;<br />

calyx tube campanulate; sepals oblong-lanceolate, about 5 mm.<br />

wide at base, coriaceous, dorsally awned just below apex, the awn<br />

foliaceous, about 1 cm. long; petals linear-spatulate, slightly shorter<br />

and narrower than the sepals; corona filaments filiform, in 3 (or 4?)<br />

series, the inner barely 2.5 mm. long; operculum membranous and<br />

nonplicate below, filamentose above, the filaments about 3 mm.<br />

long; limen tubular, closely surrounding base of gynophore; ovary<br />

ovoid.<br />

TYPE LOCALITY: Bolivia.

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