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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

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