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464 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY BOTANY, VOL. XIX
oblong, about 5.5 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, punctate with numerous
small depressions.
TYPE LOCALITY: Southern Brazil.
DISTRIBUTION: Southern Brazil.
BRAZIL: "Southern Brazil," Sello (B, type). Sao Paulo: Brade
7392 (B). Parana: Vista Velha, Jonsson 1071a (S); Dusen 7263
(S). Morungava, Dusen 16569 (S). Turma, Dusen in 1909 (S).
Capao Bonito, Dusen 16906 (S).
This is another one of the easily recognized species of Dysosmia.
The leaves are unusually small for the subgenus and are densely
covered beneath with round, peltate, yellowish scales, which Masters
likens to those of Rhododendron ferrugineum. The stipules are
narrowly triangular.
294. Passiflora Palmeri Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 1: 131.
pi 14. 1892.
Low, flat-topped, viscous shrub, 50 cm. high, the crown 80 to 120
cm. wide, with short branches lopping over the skeleton of the plant;
branches densely pilose with white or yellowish, unequal hairs; stipules
semi-annular about the stem, deeply cleft into filiform,
glandtipped
divisions; petioles 1 to 1.5 cm. long, pilose, bearing numerous
coarse, gland-tipped hairs; leaves 1 to 3 cm. long, 2 to 4 cm. wide,
3-lobed (lobes orbicular, rounded), cordate, 3-5-nerved, serrulate
and densely glandular-ciliate, densely brown-hirsute-tomentose,
glutinous on both surfaces; peduncles 4 to 5 cm. long; bracts 2 to 4
cm. long, 8 to 12 mm. wide, pilose, deeply bipinnatisect into capillary,
gland-tipped segments; flowers 5 to 7 cm. wide; sepals linear, 3.5 cm.
long, 4 mm. wide, 3-nerved, pilose and greenish without, glabrous
and white within, slender-awned dorsally just below apex; petals
linear, 2 to 3 cm. long, 3 mm. wide, white, 1-nerved; corona filaments
in several series, those of the 2 outer series erect, capillary, barely 2.5
mm. long, light blue to deep purple, the tips paler, the succeeding
series consisting of minute threads about 0.5 mm. long; operculum
membranous, nonplicate, minutely denticulate; limen erect, membranaceous,
about 3 mm. high, the margin recurved, minutely
crenulate; gynophore slender, 2 cm. long, glabrous, violet at base,
white above; ovary subglobose, sericeo-villous; fruit globose, 2.5 to
3 cm. in diameter, densely pilose; seeds oblong or narrowly cuneate,
6 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, 3-toothed at apex, reticulate with about 30
meshes to each face.
TYPE LOCALITY: Carmen Island, Lower California.