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AMERICAN PASSIFLORACEAE 537<br />
above the dilated portion, the inner 2 or 3 series unequal (the longest<br />
2 mm. long), dilated above the middle; operculum erect, 2 mm. high,<br />
fimbriate to the middle; ovary ovoid, sericeo-velutinous; fruit<br />
globose.<br />
TYPE LOCALITY: Between Matanza and Bucaramanga, Santander,<br />
Colombia.<br />
ILLUSTRATION: Mutis, Icon. PL Ined. 26: pi. 14.<br />
DISTRIBUTION: Eastern Cordillera of Colombia, 500 to 1,625<br />
meters altitude.<br />
COLOMBIA: Mutis 792 (Ma, N), 938 (Ma, N), 1932 (Ma, N),<br />
2889 (Ma, N). Santander: Between Matanza and Bucaramanga,<br />
1,624 meters, Schlim 285 (erroneously cited as 2985; Bo, Brux, Gen,<br />
K, P, type). Barriga, Kalbreyer 637 (B, K). Cundinamarca: La<br />
Bogota, Leh-<br />
Mesa, Triana 2939 (BM, Brux, Gen, HNC, K, P).<br />
mann XVI, in part (BM). Fusagasuga, Pennell 2718 (N, Y);<br />
Goudot in 1844 (P). El Penon, Goudot in 1844 (K). Tocaima,<br />
Goudot (Bo). Anapoima, Triana (BM, K).<br />
This is evidently the commonest species of Astrophea in the<br />
Eastern Cordillera of Colombia. The specimens cited above are<br />
quite uniform. The leaves are smaller than in its near relatives.<br />
325. Passiflora ocanensis Planch. & Linden, Ann. Sci. Nat. V. Bot.<br />
17: 183. 1873.<br />
A much branched tree, without tendrils, glabrous throughout<br />
(except the ovary), the bark of the younger branches reddish-brown;<br />
stipules triangular-ovate, 2.5 mm. long, acute; petioles up to 2 cm.<br />
long, canaliculate; leaves oblong or oblong-obovate, 7 to 15 cm. long,<br />
3.5 to 7 cm. wide, rounded and usually subemarginate at apex,<br />
rounded at base, penninerved (lateral nerves 10 to 14 on each side,<br />
ascending from base, the midnerve biglandular at base), coriaceous,<br />
dark green above, glaucescent beneath; peduncles solitary, bifurcate,<br />
the main portion 1<br />
to 1.5 cm. long, the branches 2 to 2.5 cm long;<br />
flowers white; calyx tube campanulate, about 8 mm. long,<br />
5 mm.<br />
wide; sepals oblong-spatulate, 2 cm. long, 7 mm. wide, obtuse; petals<br />
slightly shorter than the sepals; outer corona filaments about 1.5<br />
cm. long, dilated near middle, subdolabriform, the inner subclavate<br />
up to 1 mm. long, in 2 series; operculum erect, about 2 mm. high,<br />
attached 5 mm. below corona, lacerate-fimbriate to the middle;<br />
ovary subglobose, truncate, rufo-sericeo-tomentose.<br />
TYPE LOCALITY: "Province of Ocafia," Colombia.