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AMERICAN PASSIFLORACEAE 513
long; leaves broadly ovate-lanceolate, 6 to 9 cm. long, 5 to 8 cm.
wide, 3-lobed (middle lobe lance-ovate, up to 4 cm. wide at base,
produced, the lateral lobes rarely more than 1 cm. long, all lobes
aristulate), shallowly cordate at base, glandular-ciliate, membranous,
densely appressed-villous on both surfaces; peduncles solitary, 1 cm.
long or less, villous; bracts ovate-lanceolate, 3 to 4 cm. long, 1 to
2.5 cm. wide, deeply lacerate-dentate, the teeth aristate, glandtipped,
the glands narrowly clavate; calyx tube obconic; sepals
oblong, about 1.5 cm. long and 8 mm. wide, white, villous without,
aristate dorsally just below apex; petals oblong, slightly shorter than
the sepals, membranous, white; corona filaments in 3 series, those of
the 2 outer series liguliform, about 1 cm. long, 1-nerved, white,
banded with red-purple, the inner ones filiform, about 2 mm. long;
operculum membranous, erect, short-fimbriate at margin; limen
cupuliform; ovary subglobose, glabrous; fruit globose, glabrous,
yellowish, the pericarp coriaceous; seeds oblong, retuse, apiculate,
reticulate.
TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil.
ILLUSTRATIONS: Veil. Fl. Flumin. 9: pi. 87; Mart. Fl. Bras. 13,
pt. 1: pi. 110, f. 2; Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 21: 478. /. 19.
DISTRIBUTION: Eastern Brazil, from Minas Geraes to Santa
Catharina.
BRAZIL: Sello 1115 (B), 5079 (B), 5769 (B). Minas Geraes:
Ule 2570 (N). Ouro Preto, Schwacke 9385 (B). Serra de Piedade,
Warming 1168 (Cop). Lagoa Santa, Warming 1174 (Cop). Rio de
Janeiro: Widgren 575 (S). Barreto, Glaziou 18255 (Cop, K, P).
Sao Paulo: Itapetiningo, Lofgren 348 (Cop). Sao Paulo, Burchell
3989 (K), 4143 (Y), 4316 (G, K). Santa Anna, Erode 5524 (S).
Butantan, Hoehne 78 (B). Parana: Jaguariahyva, Dusen 15111
(Gen, Ph, S), in 1915 (BM, K, N, S). Tibagy, Dus6n 7583 (S).
Capao Grande, Dus6n in 1904 (S). Villa Velha, Jonssen 1267a (B,
Gen, S). Itatare", Dus6n 11325 (S). Serrinha, Dusin 2679 (S), in
1911 (S).
Of the five species here placed in the subgenus Dysosmioides two,
P. villosa and P. Vellozii, were classed by Masters with P. foetida
in Dysosmia, and two, P. hypoglauca and P. campanulata, were
described as Granadilla.
Clearly these four, together with one here
proposed as new, are closely related, and appear to constitute a small
group intermediate between Dysosmia and Granadilla. The stipules
and bracts, though cleft more deeply than in species of Granadilla,
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