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440 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY BOTANY, VOL. XIX
The principal differ-
This species is very close to P. subpeltata.
ence lies in the much coarser outer corona filaments. The leaves
are less deeply lobed and the lobes are proportionately broader than
in typical P. subpeltata. Forms of the latter, however, very closely
approximate P. pollens in leaf shape.
Wright 2599 is listed in Grisebach's catalog of the Wright collection
as Passiflora (Granadilla) stipulata Benth., and in Sauvalle's
Flora Cubana as Passiflora stipulata Aubl.?. The attributing of
this species to Bentham was clearly an inadvertent error on Grisebach's
part, as there is no record of Bentham's having used this
name. In proposing P. pattens, Masters says, "P. pattens Poepp.
MSS. (=P. stipulata Benth. ex Griseb. PI. Wright Cub. 2599, nee
Aublet). Habitat in Cuba et in Venezuela: Burchell!, Fendler
2327!." No Poeppig specimen is listed, and I have seen none of
his Cuban collections which can possibly be P. pattens. There are
at the Boissier Herbarium specimens of Wright 2599 and of a Peruvian
collection of Poeppig's, both of which had evidently been examined
by Masters. The Peruvian specimen, annotated by Poeppig "P.
pallens Poepp. diar.," belongs to a different species. The two
Venezuelan specimens cited by Masters as P. pallens represent
P. cyanea.
271. Passiflora elegans Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 621.
1872.
Plant glabrous throughout; stem terete (younger portions angulate),
very slender; stipules semi-ovate-lanceolate, 1 to 1.5 cm. long,
0.4 to 0.6 cm. wide, aristate, rounded at base, oblique; petioles up
to 3.5 cm. long, very slender, minutely biglandular near middle,
the glands short-stipitate; leaves 2.5 to 5 cm. long, 3.5 to 6 cm.
wide, 3-lobed in upper third (lobes suborbicular, subequal, 1.5 to
2 cm. wide, rounded and emarginate at apex, biglandular in sinuses),
truncate at base, 3-5-nerved, membranous, glaucous beneath;
peduncles 2.5 to 4 cm. long, slender; bracts ovate-lanceolate, 10 to
13 mm. long, 6 mm. wide, acute, narrowed at base, sessile, thinmembranous,
glaucous, borne 6 to 10 mm. below base of flower;
flowers 3.5 to 4 cm. wide; calyx tube short-campanulate; sepals
oblong-lanceolate, about 2 cm. long, 1 cm. wide, obtuse, ecorniculate,
white(?); petals subequal to the sepals, about 6 mm. wide, obtuse,
white(?) corona filaments in 4
;
series, those of the outer 2 subulate,
about 1.5 cm. long, apparently white, banded with blue, those of the
third series about 1 mm. long, those of the inner series reduced to