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AMERICAN PASSIFLORACEAE 447
wide, terminating in a gland-tipped mucro about 3 mm. long;
petioles 3 to 4 cm. long, bearing 6 scattered, tuberculiform glands;
leaves 3-lobed to well beyond middle, 10 to 13 cm. along midnerve,
8 to 10 cm. along lateral nerves, 12 to 14 cm. at greatest width (lobes
acute or subobtuse, the middle lobe oblong-lanceolate, 3 to 3.5 cm.
wide, conspicuously narrowed at base, the lateral lobes lanceolate,
eglandular in the sinus), shallowly cordulate at base; peduncles
solitary, 3 to 4 cm. long; bracts borne about 8 mm. below the base
of the flower, lanceolate, 1.5 to 2.2 cm. long, 6 to 7 mm. wide, acute,
mucronulate; flowers about 5 cm. wide; calyx tube broadly campanulate;
sepals 2.5 to 2.7 cm. long, 7 to 8 mm. wide, dorsally awned
just below the apex, the awn foliaceous, 3 to 4 mm. long; petals
subequal to the sepals; corona filaments filiform, about 1 cm. long;
ovary ovoid.
TYPE LOCALITY: Rio Branco, State of Amazonas, Brazil.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality.
the smaller stipules, and
BRAZIL: Amazonas: Retire da Serra da Lua (Sua, in error),
Kuhlmann 3417 (B, type, N, Ut).
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The coronal structure is described only briefly by Harms and this
portion of the flower of the only specimen I have at hand has been
eaten by insects; so the exact position of the species in the present
treatment is not certain. The shape of the leaves suggests P. Pennellii,
but the reduced awns of the sepals,
elongate petiolar glands readily differentiate that species from
P. lonchophora.
278. Passiflora Giberti N. E. Brown, Trans. & Proc. Bot. Soc.
Edinb. 20: 58. 1896.
Plant glabrous throughout; stipules semi-ovate-lanceolate, 2 to
3 cm. long, 0.7 to 1 cm. wide, acute and mucronate at apex, rounded
at base, subentire, oblique; petioles 1 to 3 cm. long, slender, 2-6-
glandular, the glands subclavate, about 1 mm. long; leaves 5 to 7 cm.
long, 7 to 10 cm. wide (extremes up to 18 cm. long and 22 cm. wide),
3-lobed two-thirds to three-fourths their length, very rarely 5-lobed
(lobes oblong-lanceolate, 2 to 2.5 cm. wide, acutish, 1-2-glandular
in the sinuses), cordulate, membranous; peduncles 4 to 8 cm. long,
stouter than the petioles; bracts ovate, 2 to 2.5 cm. long, 1.5 to 2 cm.
wide, acute, mucronulate, serrate near base, borne near base of
flower; flowers 6 to 8 cm. wide; calyx tube short-campanulate;
sepals oblong-lanceolate, about 3 cm. long, 8 mm. wide, dorsally
awned near apex, the awn 1 to 1.5 cm. long, green without, bluish