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AMERICAN PASSIFLORACEAE 525<br />
200 to 600 meters, Lehmann 4837 (B, type, K). Between Quevado<br />
and Mocache, Canton Vinces, 60 meters, Mexia 6680 (N).<br />
Mrs. Mexia's beautifully prepared material consists of numerous<br />
flowers, longitudinally split when fresh so that the corona filaments<br />
and the operculum are easily studied in a dried state. In every<br />
detail these specimens agree with Harms' careful diagnosis. The<br />
flowers correspond also with those figured by Masters as P. lorifera.<br />
That species was based on Andre 4447bis, from Peripa, Ecuador,<br />
and the specimen from which the description was drawn was apparently<br />
a mixture of the foliage of P. reflexiflora and the flowers of<br />
P. gigantifolia. The elements on this sheet now at Kew are wholly<br />
of P. reflexiflora, and Andrews field notes apply to that species. At<br />
the same locality Andr collected, as No. 4227, material of a "tree<br />
passionflower." The sheet of this at Kew is P. macrophylla, as to<br />
both flowers and foliage, but the one at the New York Botanical<br />
Garden consists of several flowers of P. gigantifolia and a large leaf<br />
that may be either of these two species.<br />
An explanation for this involved situation may be this: Masters<br />
studied unmounted material of Andrews. With No. 4447bis, wnich<br />
mostly represented P. reflexiflora, there was a flower of P. gigantifolia.<br />
Later someone, Andre" perhaps, realized that the flower did<br />
not belong with the foliage, and transferred it to No. 4227, which was<br />
distributed to the New York Botanical Garden. Other material of<br />
No. 4227, the P. macrophylla element, was mounted for the Kew<br />
Herbarium.<br />
313. Passiflora arborea Spreng. Syst. Veg. 3: 42. 1826.<br />
Passiflora glauca Humb. & Bonpl. PL Aequinoct. 1: 76. pi. 22.<br />
1813. Not P. glauca Ait. (1789).<br />
Astrophea glauca M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 151. 1846.<br />
Tree 6 to 10 meters high, the cortex smooth, green, the branches<br />
alternate, terete, glabrous, the younger reddish brown; petioles 2 to 3<br />
cm. long; leaves oblong or obovate-oblong, 10 to 30 cm. long, 5 to<br />
15 cm. wide, acute or abruptly acuminate at apex, rounded or subcuneate<br />
at base, penninerved (nerves prominent beneath, the midnerve<br />
biglandular on under surface near base, the glands spreading<br />
over the surface of blade; lateral nerves 10 to 15 to a side, at first<br />
straight, arcuate toward extremity or arcuate from origin), membranous<br />
or subcoriaceous, glabrous, rarely hirsutulous on the nerves<br />
and veins beneath, bright green above, often glaucous beneath; peduncles<br />
up to 6 cm. long, simple or 1-2-furcate, bracteolate; calyx