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AMERICAN PASSIFLORACEAE 455
The Poeppig sheets are labeled "P. pallens Poepp. diar.," and
the one at the Boissier Herbarium had evidently been lent to Masters.
From it Masters apparently derived the name "P. pallens Poepp."
for a Cuban plant, which, though of this general relationship, is
specifically distinct from the Poeppig Peruvian material. Masters
cited no Poeppig specimen under P. pallens, and his illustration
depicts the Cuban species. The Poeppig specimen is probably the
one he cited as P. alba (P. subpeltata).
285. Passiflora cyanea Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 570.
1872.
Passiflora monticola J. R. Johnston, Proc. Amer. Acad. 40: 692.
1905.
Plant glabrous throughout; stem subterete or angulate; stipules
semi-oblong-lanceolate, 2 to 4.5 cm. long, 1 to 2 cm. wide, mucronate,
subentire or slightly serrulate, reticulate-veined; petioles up to 3
cm. long, 2-4-glandular near middle, the glands minute, sessile;
leaves 6 to 10 cm. long, 7 to 15 cm. wide, 3-lobed to below middle
or occasionally asymmetrically 4-lobed (lobes oblong or 6vateoblong,
obtuse or acute, bearing 1 or 2 glands in sinuses, the middle
lobe usually much narrowed at base), subentire or finely serrulate,
subpeltate and truncate or rarely subcordate at base, 5-nerved,
coriaceous or subcoriaceous; peduncles up to 5 cm. long; bracts
ovate-lanceolate, 4 to 5 mm. long, 2 to 3 mm. wide, acute, narrowed
at base, borne 8 to 10 mm. from base of flower; flowers up to 5 cm.
wide, blue or purplish; calyx tube turbinate-campanulate; sepals
oblong, 2 to 2.5 cm. long, 6 to 8 mm. wide, green without, dorsally
awned, the awn up to 5 mm. long; petals oblong, 2 to 2.5 cm. long,
5 to 7 mm. wide; corona filaments in several series, those of the
outer 2 or 3 series filiform,
1 to 1.3 cm. long, radiate, those of the
succeeding series capillary, 2 mm. long, capitellate; operculum
membranous and deflexed below, the upper two-thirds filamentose
and erect, the filaments 5 to 6 mm. long; limen cupuliform, closely
surrounding gynophore; ovary ovoid, stipitate, glaucous; fruit
globose, 2.5 to 3 cm. in diameter; seeds obovate, 5 to 6 mm. long,
3 to 4 mm. wide, 3-toothed at apex, coarsely reticulate.
TYPE LOCALITY: Near Caracas, Venezuela.
DISTRIBUTION: Trinidad and northern Venezuela.
TRINIDAD and TOBAGO: Britton 2456 (G, N, T, Y), 2631 (G,
N, Y); Coker & Rowland 674 (G, N, Y); Fendler 374 (BM, N);
Eggers 5583 (B) ; Broadway 2574 (B, Cop, F, Y), 3117 (B), 3591 (B);