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AMERICAN PASSIFLORACEAE 515
427 (BM, type, K); Bailey & Bailey 1257 (N); Miers 4457 (K).
Cantagallo, Peckolt 209 (V).
Gardner described P. Vellozii as being without petals.
Although
I have made no dissection of the flowers of the type specimen, Bailey
1257, which corresponds excellently with it in other details, has
petals present. The petals are of a very thin texture, and in bud
stage, when closely appressed to the sepals, they may well have been
overlooked. Passi flora Vellozii clearly is related to P. villosa, differing
in the shape of the leaves and bracts, and in having a less dense
indument. The description of the fruit is drawn from a specimen in
the Stockholm herbarium, without data, which undoubtedly belongs
to this species.
Gardner cites Velloso's plate 86 as this, but it surely is not the
same as Gardner 427, the original of the description of P. Vellozii
Gardn. As already noted, Velloso's plate 86 represents P. foetida
var. fluminensis.
304. Passiflora setulosa Killip, sp. nov.
Caulis hirtellus; stipulae semi-oblongae, lacerato-dentatae; petioli
2-4-glandulosi; folia profunde trilobata, lobis angustis, serrulata,
cordulata, setulosa; bracteae lanceolatae, lacerato-dentatae, ad
marginem dense setulosae; coronae filamenta triseriata; operculum
breviter filamentosum; ovarium glabrum.
Stem slender, wiry, hirtellous; stipules semi-oblong, 5 to 7 mm.
long, 1.5 to 3 mm. wide, lacerate-dentate, glabrous; petioles about
1 cm. long, setulose, bearing 2 to 4 stipitate glands above middle;
leaves 3-lobed five-sixths their length (lobes narrowly lanceolate or
narrowly oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 1 to 1.5 cm. wide, the middle
lobe 4 to 6 cm. long, the lateral lobes 3.5 to 4 cm. long), cordulate,
irregularly serrulate, 5-nerved (nerves yellowish), light green above,
slightly paler beneath, sparingly setulose above with white hairs,
setulose on the nerves beneath; peduncles about 1 cm. long (undeveloped);
bracts lanceolate, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, 0.5 to 1 cm. wide,
acuminate, lacerate-dentate, densely setulose at margin, otherwise
essentially glabrous; calyx tube campanulate; sepals oblong-lanceolate,
obtuse, dorsally minutely awned; petals linear-lanceolate;
corona filaments in 3 series, those of the 2 outer series about as long
as the petals, with the inner ones much shorter; operculum shortfilamentose;
ovary glabrous.
Type in the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm, collected at
Jaguariahyva, Parana, Brazil, April, 1915, by P. Duse"n (No. 16964}-