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438 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY BOTANY, VOL. XIX
CUBA: Cultivated, M. T. Cook in 1906 (Y).
de Las Vegas, cultivated, Baker 7282 (B).
Habana: Santiago
HAITI: Port au Prince, Christ 2226 (B).
VENEZUELA: San Sebastian, Ernst in 1887 (S). Lomas de Turiamo,
Pittier 13859 (N). Federal District: La Guayra, Otto 410 (B).
Aragua: Colonia Tovar, Fendler 2327 (B). Ocumare del Tuy,
Pittier 7808 (N). Zulia: Maracaibo, Moritz 1319 (BM). Me"rida:
Mdrida, Moritz 1317 (BM).
COLOMBIA: Magdalena: Bonda, H. H. Smith 1528 (A, B, BM,
Brux, CM, F, G, Gen, Ma, N, Ph, S, Ut, Y). Bolivar: Turbaco,
Killip & Smith 14398 (A, G, N, Y). Cundinamarca: Triana 2946
(BM, K, type of P. atomaria, P), 2947, in part (Gen, HNC). La
Esperanza, Cuatrecasas 3244 (Ma). Tolima: Ibague*, Goudot 6 (P).
El Valle: Cali, Lehmann 3409 (Bo, N).
Passiflora subpeltata apparently occurs naturally only from
Mexico to Venezuela and Colombia. Masters cites Gardner 4690
from Brazil, and a Peruvian plant of Poeppig's as this. The first
of these is P. Eichleriana and the second is P. aristulata. Many
of the specimens from Brazil and Argentina are labeled P. alba in
European herbaria, but in every case in which I was able to dissect
flowers they proved to be P. naviculata, P. Eichleriana, or closely
related species other than P. subpeltata. The illustrations of Passiflora
alba in Lemaire, Jard. Fleuriste (3: Misc. 86. 1853) and Paxton's
Flower Garden (3: 71. 1852-1853) appear to represent P. Eichleriana,
P. tucumanensis, or P. naviculata, though they are not sufficiently
detailed to indicate which one; certainly they do not represent
P. subpeltata.
There can be little doubt that the description of P. subpeltata
applies to the Mexican plant long passing as P. alba. Ortega's
description is in great detail except in regard to the coronal structure,
and agrees excellently with the material here listed. It was based
upon a plant grown from seeds sent from Mexico by Sess6, and
very likely Sesse & Mocino 4464 represents the actual plant from
which the seeds were obtained.
In Triana 2946, the type of P. atomaria, the sepals and petals
are purple-dotted within. Apparently it does not differ otherwise
from typical P. subpeltata, and probably is merely a color form of
this species.
LOCAL NAMES: "Granadina," "granada de zorra" (Mexico).