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AMERICAN PASSIFLORACEAE 445
obtuse, green without, lilac, rose-purple, or violet within, carinate,
the keel terminating in an awn 5 to 7 mm. long; petals lanceolate,
subequal to sepals, lilac, rose-purple, or violet; corona filaments in
several series, those of the outer 2 filiform, about two-thirds as long
as the petals, transversely banded with lilac and purple, those of
the succeeding 4 or 5 series 2 to 3 mm. long, erect; operculum erect,
membranous in lower quarter, above filamentose, the filaments up
to 1 cm. long, banded with lilac and purple; nectar ring a low ridge;
limen tubular, about 5 mm. high, crenulate, erect, closely surrounding
gynophore; ovary narrowly ellipsoidal.
TYPE LOCALITY : Rio de Ventana, near Guayaquil, Ecuador.
DISTRIBUTION: Coastal region, Ecuador, extending to 2,000
meters altitude, according to Lehmann.
ECUADOR: "In tropical forests." Sodiro (N). Guayas: Rio de
Ventana, near Guayaquil, Spruce 6459 (BM, K, type). Balao,
Eggers 14436 (B, N). San Ignacio, Heilborn 117 (S). Chimborazo:
Between Huigra and Naranjapata, 600 meters, Hitchcock 20636
(N). Leon: Naranjal, Spruce 8014 (K). Loja: Las Juntas, 1,800-
2,000 meters, Lehmann 4834 (N).
276. Passiflora tenuifila Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 17: 430.
1927.
Plant glabrous throughout; stem terete or the younger parts
subangular; stipules semi-oblong or subreniform, 1 to 4 cm. long,
0.5 to 2 cm. wide, obtuse or acutish, mucronulate at apex, rounded
at base, subentire, glaucescent beneath; petioles 2 to 5 cm. long
(extremes up to 11 cm.), 2-6-glandular, the glands up to 2 mm.
long, thickened at base, scattered or subopposite; leaves 3.5 to 9 cm.
along midnerve, 3 to 8 cm. along lateral nerves, 5 to 14 cm. between
apices of lateral lobes, 3-lobed from two-thirds to three-quarters
their length (lobes oblong or obovate-oblong, 1 to 3.5 cm. wide,
rounded or obtuse, mucronulate at apex, glandular-serrulate in the
acutish sinuses, the middle lobe narrowed at base), cordate, 5-nerved,
subpeltate, membranous, glaucescent beneath; peduncles 3 to 8 cm.
long, slender, articulate less than 2 mm. from apex; bracts cordateovate,
1 to 1.5 cm. long, 0.6 to 1.2 cm. wide, abruptly acute and
mucronate at apex, glandular-serrulate at base, glaucous, borne at
point of articulation, persistent; flowers up to 4.5 cm. wide, the tube
patelliform, introrse at base; sepals linear-oblong, 10 to 15 mm. long,
5 to 7 mm. wide, obtuse, carinate, bright green along the keel, white
at margin and within, the keel terminating in a foliaceous awn 4 to 6