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AMERICAN PASSIFLORACEAE 439<br />

270. Passiflora pallens Poepp. ex Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt.<br />

1: 567. pi. 128, f. 4- 1872.<br />

Passiflora stipulata Benth. ex Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 113. 1866.<br />

Not P. stipulata Aubl.<br />

Plant glabrous throughout; stem terete or subangular, glaucescent;<br />

stipules semi-oblong or subreniform, 1 to 3 cm. long, 0.5 to<br />

1.2 cm. wide, obtuse and minutely mucronulate at apex, rounded<br />

at base, obscurely crenulate, glaucous; petioles up to 6 cm. long, very<br />

slender, 2-4-glandular above middle, the glands short-stipitate,<br />

up to 1 mm. long; leaves 4 to 6 cm. long, 6 to 9 cm. wide, 3-lobed<br />

about two-fifths their length (lobes broadly ovate or suborbicular,<br />

2 to 4 cm. wide, widest at base, rounded at apex, eglandular in<br />

sinuses), shallowly cordate at base, not peltate, membranous, strongly<br />

glaucous beneath; peduncles about 2 cm. long; bracts ovate-oblong,<br />

1 to 2 cm. long, 0.8 to 1.5 cm. wide, rounded and mucronulate at<br />

apex, cordulate at base, crenulate, glaucous, borne at base of flower;<br />

flowers up to 6 cm. wide, white; calyx tube campanulate; sepals<br />

oblong-lanceolate, about 3 cm. long and 7 mm. wide, obtuse, dorsally<br />

awned, the awn foliaceous, about 1 cm. long, green; petals slightly<br />

shorter and narrower than the sepals; corona filaments in 4 series,<br />

those of the outer 2 narrowly liguliform, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, white,<br />

banded with purple, those of the inner 2 narrowly linear, about 1.5<br />

mm. long, capitellate, shallowly bifid; operculum membranous, about<br />

2 mm. high, minutely erose at margin; nectar ring a fleshy ridge;<br />

limen tubular, 3 mm. high, closely surrounding gynophore, denticulate;<br />

ovary subglobose, glaucous-pruinose; fruit globose, about 5cm.<br />

in diameter, the pericarp coriaceous, orange-yellow; seeds cuneateoblong,<br />

about 4 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, reticulate.<br />

TYPE LOCALITY: Cuba.<br />

ILLUSTRATION: Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: pi. 128, f. 4.<br />

DISTRIBUTION: Southern Florida, Cuba, and Haiti.<br />

FLORIDA: Madeira Bay, Dade County, Small 7799 (S, Y).<br />

Cutler, Small, De Winkeler & Hosier in 1924 (Y). Cape Sable,<br />

Small & De Winkeler in 1920 (Y).<br />

CUBA: Pinar del Rio: San Gabriel, Shafer 11829 (F, N, Y).<br />

San<br />

Miguel, Le6n & Ekman 9091 (HS, Y); Ekman 10911 (B, S); Roig 8<br />

(J), 7550 (HV). Habana: Batabano, Leon 14150 (HS). Santa<br />

Clara: Habanilla, Cuesta 218 (Y). Oriente: Wright 2599 (B, Bo,<br />

type, G, Gen, HA, P).<br />

Manzanillo, Ekman 5686 (S).<br />

HAITI: Massif de la Hotte, Ekman Hi 0768 (N).

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