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AMERICAN PASSIFLORACEAE 471
Type in the United States National Herbarium, No. 313,891,
collected at San Jos4 del Cabo, Lower California, in 1897, by A. W.
Anthony (No. 333}. Duplicates at Cal and G.
DISTRIBUTION: Lower California.
MEXICO: Lower California: San Jos6 del Cabo, Rose 16464 (N);
Brandegee 228 (Cal); Grabendorfer in 1899 (Cal).
The leaves of this variety differ greatly from those of typical
P. arida, but otherwise no important differences are discernible.
298. Passiflora pectinata Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. I. 294. 1859.
Plant glabrous throughout; stem subangular, striate, rather stout;
stipules deeply cleft into linear or subulate, gland-tipped segments;
petioles 1 to 2 cm. long, often bearing a few stiff, gland-tipped hairs;
leaves cordate-deltoid, 4 to 7 cm. long, 3 to 6 cm. wide, obscurely
hastate or not lobed, acute or obtusish at apex, deeply cordate at
base, repand-crenulate (often with minute glands in the sinuses of
the crenations at the tips of the nerves), 5-nerved, coriaceous, often
sublustrous; peduncles solitary, 2 to 3 cm. long; bracts 2 to 3 cm,, long
pectinate or once pinnatifid (segments gland-tipped, scarcely longer
than width of rachis), rarely bipinnatifid, but the rachis at least 2 mm.
wide; flowers 5 to 8 cm. wide, white; sepals linear or linear-lanceolate,
2.5 to 3.5 cm. long, 5 to 8 mm. wide at base, obtuse, corniculate
just below apex, the horn up to 7 mm. long, subfoliaceous; petals
linear, 2 to 3 cm. long, 4 to 6 mm. wide, obtuse, white; corona filaments
in several series, those of the 2 outer narrowly ligulate, the
outermost 1 to 1.5 cm. long, the second 6 to 8 mm. long, the succeeding
2 or 3 series consisting of filiform threads 2 to 3 mm. long;
operculum membranous, barely 1 mm. high, denticulate; ovary
ovoid, tapering at apex; fruit subglobose, 2 to 3 cm. in diameter,
deep pink; seeds oblong, about 5 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, tridentate
at apex, shallowly coarsely reticulate.
TYPE LOCALITY: Turk Island, Bahamas.
ILLUSTRATION: Britton, Fl. Bermuda, 252.
DISTRIBUTION: Bermuda, Bahamas, and northern Hispaniola.
BERMUDA: Brown, Britton & Seaver 1134 (B, BM, F, N, Ph, Y);
Brown & Britton 873 (B, BM, F, N, Ph, Y), 899 (F, Ph, Y), 974 (F,
Ph, Y).
BAHAMAS: Hjalmarson (K, type); Brace 455 (K, Y), 4090 (N, Y),
4609 (F, N, Y); Britton & Millspaugh 2825 (F, G, N, Y), 5665 (F,
Y), 5926 (F, N, Y), 5988 (F, N, Y); Millspaugh & Millspaugh 9033