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AMERICAN PASSIFLORACEAE 523
which respect it resembles the subgenera Tryphostemmatoides,
Deidamioides, and Polyanthea.
Section 3. Euastrophea
311. Passiflora macrophylla Spruce ex Mast. Journ. Linn. Soc.
20: 31. 1883.
Tree, 3 to 4 meters high, without tendrils; petioles up to 3.5 cm.
long; leaves ovate-lanceolate or oblong-ovate, 30 to 75 cm. long, 10
to 25 cm. wide, or larger, acuminate, rounded at base, glabrous, the
midrib biglandular at base; peduncles once or twice dichotomous, 8
to 10 cm. long including the branches; flowers white without, yellow
within(?); calyx tube cylindric,
1.2 to 1.8 cm. long, 4 to 5 mm. in
diameter; sepals oblong, 2 to 2.5 cm. long, 3 to 5 mm. wide, obtuse;
petals oblong, subequal to the sepals; corona filaments in 2 series,
the outer slender, liguliform, not dilated, slightly shorter than the
petals, the inner falciform, flat, 1 to 3 mm. long; operculum arising
near base of tube, membranous, erect, short-filamentose; gynophore
slender, 3 cm. long; ovary ovoid, finely tomentulous.
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TYPE LOCALITY: Near Mt. Chimborazo, Ecuador.
DISTRIBUTION: Western Ecuador; also in western Colombia.
COLOMBIA: Antioquia: Kalbreyer in 1879 (K).
and Nare, Kalbreyer 1453a (B).
Between Medellin
ECUADOR: Manabi: Peripa, Rio Daule, 200 meters, Andre 4227
(K, ?Y, excluding flowers). Chimborazo: Base of Mt. Chimborazo,
900 meters, Spruce 6144 (K). Rio San Antonio, near Mt. Chimborazo,
Spruce 6203 (BM, type, V).
"PERU," but probably Ecuador: Ruiz & Pavdn (Bo, K, Ma).
Passiflora macrophylla apparently is separated from the other
species of this immediate relationship by the slender, liguliform
threads of the outer corona. The leaves attain a greater size than in
any other species of the group, except P. gigantifolia, and the calyx
tube is more elongate than in most other species of Euastrophea.
At the original place of publication of this species Masters cites
three specimens, Spruce 6144 ("In Peruvia?"), Spruce 6203, and
Andre 4227, and makes the following comment: "In the Flora
Brasiliensis I have treated this as a form of P. arborea. M. Andrews
specimens, however, having afforded ample means of examining the
flowers, I am disposed to consider the present, as Spruce did, a distinct
species, and to adopt the characteristic name indicated by that
traveller."
The locality given for Spruce 6144 in Flora Brasiliensis