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458 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY BOTANY, VOL. XIX<br />
lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate,<br />
1 to 2 cm. long, 4 to 5 mm. wide,<br />
acuminate, cuspidate, acute to cordulate at base, glandular-denticulate;<br />
flowers up to 6 cm. wide, violet; sepals lance-oblong, 2 to<br />
2.5 cm. long, about 1 cm. wide, aristulate; petals linear-oblong, 2.5<br />
to 3 cm. long, about 0.8 cm. wide, obtuse; corona filaments in several<br />
series, those of the outermost filiform, about 2 cm. long, the succeeding<br />
filaments very dense, 5 to 7 mm. long; operculum membranous,<br />
divided above middle into numerous capillary filaments about 5 mm.<br />
long; limen membranous, closely surrounding base of gynophore,<br />
minutely serrulate; ovary ovoid, obtuse, glabrous; fruit narrowly<br />
ovoid, 6 cm. or more long, about 2 cm. in diameter; seeds obovate,<br />
about 5 mm. long, 3 mm. wide, coarsely reticulate.<br />
Peru.<br />
TYPE LOCALITY: Between Tomependa and Jaen de Bracamoras,<br />
ILLUSTRATION: Mutis, Icon. PL Ined. 26: pi. 17, 18.<br />
DISTRIBUTION: Nicaragua to eastern Colombia and south to<br />
southeastern Peru and Amazonian Brazil; sea level to 1,500 meters<br />
altitude.<br />
NICARAGUA: Chontales, R. Tate 111<br />
(K).<br />
COSTA RICA: Tilaran, Standley & Vakrio 4.4543 (N). Tsaki,<br />
Tonduz 9592 (EM, Bo, Brux, N).<br />
PANAMA: Canal Zone: Gatuncillo, Piper 5623<br />
(N).<br />
COLOMBIA: Santander: Between Nariiio and El Tambor, <strong>Killip</strong><br />
& Smith 14945 (A, G, N, Y). Boyaca: Chapon, Lawrance 401 (S).<br />
Cundinamarca: Pacho, Ariste Joseph B63 (N). Below Bogota,<br />
Tracey 64 (K). Tolima: Rio Cuello, Goudot (K, P, type of P.<br />
menispermifolia var. cuellensis).<br />
ECUADOR: Sodiro (N).<br />
PERU: Dombey (P, type of P. villosa Dombey); Mathews 2074<br />
(K). Cajamarca: Between Tomependa and Jaen de Bracamoras,<br />
Humboldt & Bonpland (B, type). Loreto: Yurimaguas, <strong>Killip</strong> &<br />
Smith 28705 (F, N, Y). Canchahuaya, Rio Ucayali, Huber 1408<br />
(Go). Balsapuerto, King 3091 (Gen, N). Huanuco: Chinchao,<br />
Ruiz & Pavdn (Ma). Ayacucho: Aina, <strong>Killip</strong> & Smith 22795<br />
(F, N, Y). Cuzco: Urubamba Valley, Cook & Gilbert 1085 (N).<br />
BRAZIL: Amazonas: Rio Embira, Krukoff 4897 (Gen, N, Ut, Y).<br />
This and the following three species are at once recognizable by<br />
the dense indument which clothes them throughout. Though of<br />
wide range, P. menispermifolia apparently is not common.