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AMERICAN PASSIFLORACEAE 451<br />
lobes ovate or suborbicular, subequal, 2.5 to 3 cm. long, 2 to 2.5 cm.<br />
wide, rounded or obtuse), truncate and subpeltate at base, 5-nerved;<br />
peduncles slender, 7 to 8.5 cm. long; bracts lanceolate, about 2 cm.<br />
long, and 8 mm. wide, acute, borne close to flower; flowers about<br />
5 cm. wide; sepals oblong-lanceolate, foliaceous-awned; petals linearlanceolate,<br />
obtuse; corona filaments in several series, the 2 outer<br />
one-third as long as the petals, the succeeding series gradually shorter;<br />
operculum membranous at base, filamentose(?) ; ovary ellipsoidal,<br />
pruinose; fruit ellipsoidal, 5 cm. in diameter; seeds flattened, eroselobed<br />
at margin.<br />
TYPE LOCALITY: San Florencio, Mt. Corazon, Ecuador.<br />
DISTRIBUTION: Central and Western Cordilleras of Colombia to<br />
Ecuador, 1,500 to 2,500 meters.<br />
COLOMBIA: Tolima: Rio Azufral, Quindio Trail, <strong>Killip</strong> & Hazen<br />
9596 (N, Ph). Quebrada Cajamarca, New Quindio Trail, <strong>Killip</strong><br />
9756 (N). El Valle: Rio Dagua, Lehmann 4838 (B, K); Andre 2534<br />
(K). El Cauca: San Jose", Pennell 7625 (N, Y). Quebrada de<br />
Armada, Andre 3904bis (K).<br />
ECUADOR: Canoa, Eggers 15469 (B). Rio Pilaton, Sodiro (NJ.<br />
Pichincha: Mt. Corazon, Andre 2568 (K, type), 3738 (K). Leon:<br />
Naranjal, Lehmann (K).<br />
This species is recognized among its Colombian and Ecuadorean<br />
relatives by its shallowly lobed leaves.<br />
Detailed information as to<br />
the structure of the operculum was not given by Masters, and the<br />
sheets here cited,<br />
immature flowers.<br />
except the type, are either barren or have very<br />
282. Passiflora Pennellii <strong>Killip</strong>, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 14: 114.<br />
1924.<br />
Plant glabrous throughout; stem slender, terete,<br />
or subangulate<br />
above; stipules subreniform, 9 to 10 mm. long, 4 to 5 mm. wide,<br />
aristate, coriaceous, reticulate-veined; petioles up to 2.5 cm. long,<br />
6-8-glandular (glands stipitate, 1.5 mm. long) ;<br />
leaves 5 to 7 cm. long,<br />
7 to 10 cm. wide, 3-lobed to 1 or 1.5 cm. from base (lobes narrowly<br />
lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, 1 to 2 cm. wide, acute or obtusish,<br />
glandular in the sinuses, the middle lobe narrowed at base), subpeltate<br />
and subtruncate or subcordate at base, 5-nerved, reticulateveined,<br />
coriaceous, green on both surfaces, lustrous above; peduncles<br />
up to 5 cm. long; bracts ovate-lanceolate, 8 to 10 mm. long, 3.5 to<br />
5 mm. wide, acute, slightly narrowed at base, borne about 8 mm.<br />
below base of flower; flowers 5 to 6 cm. wide; sepals oblong-lanceolate,