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AMERICAN PASSIFLORACEAE 463
hirsutulous without, 3-nerved, the middle nerve carinate toward
apex and terminating in a short horn; petals linear, slightly shorter
than the sepals, lavender; corona filaments in 5 series, those of the
2 outer filiform, about 1.3 cm. long, violet at base, radiate, those of
the inner series almost capillary, about 2 mm. long, erect; operculum
membranous, erect, about 1 mm. high, minutely denticulate; limen
similar to the operculum, about 2 mm. high; ovary subglobose,
densely white-villous-tomentose; fruit globose, about 3.5 cm. in
diameter, villous; seeds oblong-cuneate, about 4 mm. long and 3 mm.
wide, shallowly tridentate, finely reticulate.
TYPE LOCALITY: Santiago de Las Vegas, Province of Habana,
Cuba, where cultivated.
DISTRIBUTION: British Honduras; cultivated in Cuba.
BRITISH HONDURAS: Churchyard Pine Ridge, Sibun River,
Gentle 1826 (Mich).
CUBA: Habana: Santiago de Las Vegas, cultivated, Baker 2588
(B, Cal, HV, N, type, P, Ph, Y); Luna 409 (HS).
This species was based upon specimens of a plant grown in Cuba
from seeds said to have been brought from British Honduras. It was
not collected in its native country, however, until 1936. Its relationship
is with the Brazilian P. clathrata.
293. Passiflora lepidota Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 581.
1872.
Plant glabrous throughout; stem slender, terete, wiry; stipules
soon deciduous; petioles up to 1 cm. long, glandless; leaves angulately
3-lobed or subentire and nearly reniform, 1.5 to 3 cm. along midnerve,
3 to 5 cm. at greatest width (lobes orbicular or orbicular-ovate,
rounded at apex), deeply cordate, 3-5-nerved, membranous, green
and lustrous above, purplish and covered with numerous yellowish,
suborbicular, peltate scales beneath; peduncles solitary, 2 to 3 cm.
long; bracts 1 to 1.8 cm. long, 3-5-cleft on each side to below middle,
bearing at margin and at tips of segments scales similar to those on
leaves; flowers 2 to 2.5 cm. wide; calyx tube campanulate; sepals
lance-oblong, about 1.5 cm. long, 0.4 cm. wide; petals similar to the
sepals; corona filaments in 4 series, those of the 2 outer filiform,
about 8 mm. long, radiate, those of the 2 inner series capillary, 1
mm. long; operculum membranous, denticulate, recurved at margin;
ovary subglobose, glabrous; fruit globose, about 2.5 cm. in diameter,
the exocarp coriaceous, orange, reddish-maculate; seeds narrowly