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AMERICAN PASSIFLORACEAE 457<br />

TYPE LOCALITY: Surinam (type, Kegel 858).<br />

ILLUSTRATIONS: Gard. Chron. III. 22: /. 117; Pulle, Enum. PI.<br />

Surinam pi. 14, f. 1, 2, pi 15; Bot. Mag. 125: pi. 7643.<br />

DISTRIBUTION: Guianas.<br />

FRENCH GUIANA: Richard (P); Herb. Rohr (BM).<br />

SURINAM: Saramacca River, Pulle 223 (Ut, type of P. glaucophylla).<br />

Marowijne River, Wullschldgel 1476 (Brux). Brownsberg,<br />

B. W. 708 (Ut), 6294 (Ut).<br />

BRITISH GUIANA: Im Thurn (K, type of P. pruinosa). Demerara,<br />

Hancock (K). Potaro Road, A. W. Bartlett (British Guiana Herb.<br />

140; BG); Hitchcock 17405 (G, N, Y). Barima River, Ward (N);<br />

Jenman 7179 (BG). Moruka River, De la Cruz 973 (N, Y). Issorora,<br />

Abraham (British Guiana Herb. 138; BG). Upper Mazaruni River,<br />

De la Cruz 4249 (N, Y).<br />

This is readily distinguished from P. cyanea by larger, thicker<br />

leaves, the middle lobe having nearly straight sides and the lateral<br />

lobes being more widely divaricate, and by the much longer filaments<br />

of the outer corona.<br />

This plant was first described by Garcke; although the description<br />

is in much detail, the author assigned no specific name.<br />

Series 15.<br />

Menispermifoliae<br />

287. Passiflora menispermifolia HBK. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 137.<br />

1817.<br />

Passiflora menispermifolia var. cuellensis Tr. & Planch. Ann.<br />

Sci. Nat. V. Bot. 17: 154. 1873.<br />

Passiflora villosa Dombey ex Tr. & Planch. Ann. Sci. Nat. V.<br />

Bot. 17: 154. 1873, as synonym. Not P. villosa Veil.<br />

Plant densely hispid-hirsute nearly throughout with spreading,<br />

light brown hairs; stem terete or angulate upward, striate; stipules<br />

subreniform, 1.5 to 3.5 cm. long, 1 to 1.5 cm. wide, cuspidate at one<br />

end, rounded at the other, glandular-denticulate or subentire;<br />

petioles 3 to 4 cm. long, bearing 2 to 4 short-stipitate or subsessile<br />

glands; leaves broadly lanceolate or suborbicular in general outline,<br />

10 to 16 cm. long, 8 to 13 cm. wide, angulately 3-lobed (lobes acute<br />

or rounded, the middle lobe much larger, up to 10 cm. wide, broadly<br />

ovate-deltoid), cordate, 5-7-nerved, remotely glandular-denticulate<br />

to dentate, sparingly or densely appressed-pilose above, densely<br />

hispid-hirsute beneath; peduncles 4 to 6 cm. long; bracts narrowly

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