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490 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY BOTANY, VOL. XIX<br />

Plant densely cano-villous throughout; leaves eglandular, palmately<br />

5-lobed, the lobes sinuate, the middle lobe broadest near base;<br />

bracts bipinnatisect, the segments divaricate at nearly right angles,<br />

numerous; ovary densely villous; fruit about 2.5 cm. in diameter,<br />

yellowish.<br />

Type in the United States National Herbarium, No. 229,235,<br />

collected at San Geronimo, Oaxaca, Mexico, altitude 60 meters,<br />

July, 1895, by E. W. Nelson (No. 2762). Duplicate at G.<br />

DISTRIBUTION: Oaxaca, southeastern Mexico.<br />

MEXICO: Oaxaca: Puerto Angel, Morton & Makrinius 2616 (N).<br />

This has a general resemblance to var. arizonica, the principal<br />

differences being in the shape of the middle leaf lobe and the absence<br />

of teeth at the margin of the leaves. The outline of the foliage is<br />

like that of var. hibiscifolia, and the indument like that of var.<br />

nigelliflora. In the second collection cited the leaves are less pronouncedly<br />

5-lobed.<br />

301g. Passiflora foetida var. arizonica <strong>Killip</strong>, var. nov.<br />

Ubique cano-villosa; folia palmatim 5-lobata, lobis sinuatis vel<br />

sublobatis, denticulatis, lobo medio ad basin angusto; bracteae<br />

bipinnatisectae, laciniis paucis, divaricatis; ovarium pilosum.<br />

Plant densely grayish-villous throughout; leaves palmately 5-<br />

lobed, the lobes sinuate or sublobate, denticulate, ciliate, the middle<br />

lobe narrowed at base; bracts once pinnatisect, the segments divaricate<br />

at nearly right angles, relatively few; ovary pilose; fruit about<br />

3 cm. in diameter, yellowish, pilose.<br />

Type in the United States National Herbarium, No. 1,365,002,<br />

collected in Fresnal Canyon, Baboquivari Mountains, Arizona, September<br />

26, 1927, by G. J. Harrison (No. 4774).<br />

DISTRIBUTION: Southern Arizona and northern Mexico.<br />

ARIZONA: Baboquivari Mountains, Peebles 8806 (N); Oilman<br />

B78 (N).<br />

MEXICO: Los Promontorios, Russell & Souviron 10 (N).<br />

The nearest relative of this is the Argentine variety, vitacea, both<br />

being characterized by a much deeper lobation of the leaves than in<br />

other varieties of P. foetida.<br />

301h. Passiflora foetida var. vitacea Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras.<br />

13, pt. 1: 583. 1872.<br />

Stem hispid-hirsute with yellowish hairs; stipules semi-annular<br />

about the stem, cleft into unequal, gland-tipped segments, one of

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