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538 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY BOTANY, VOL. XIX<br />
DISTRIBUTION: Northern part of the Eastern Cordillera of<br />
Colombia.<br />
COLOMBIA: Norte de Santander: Ocana, 1,625 meters, Schlim<br />
693 (Bo, Gen, K, P, type), 1148 (Bo, Brux, Gen, K, N).<br />
This is distinguished from P. Lindeniana by thicker leaves,<br />
smaller flowers, relatively shorter inner corona threads, and a less<br />
deeply cut operculum.<br />
Section 4. Leptopoda<br />
326. Passiflora leptopoda Harms, Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 6:<br />
347. 1917.<br />
Astrophea glaberrima Klotzsch in Schomb. Reise Brit. Guiana<br />
1168. 1848, name only.<br />
Scandent shrub, without tendrils (?), glabrous throughout except<br />
the ovary; petioles up to 2 cm. long; leaves oblong or broadly lanceolate,<br />
10 to 18 cm. long, 5 to 8 cm. wide, obtuse or obtusely acuminate,<br />
rounded at base, subcoriaceous, penninerved, the principal lateral<br />
nerves about 8 to a side, the midnerve biglandular at base beneath;<br />
inflorescence racemose, the rachis 4 to 5 cm. long, the pedicels very<br />
slender, 4 to 5 cm. long, widely divaricate or pendulous, articulate<br />
near base, the portion below the point of articulation somewhat<br />
stouter; bracts setaceous, 3 to 4 mm. long, the bractlets setaceous, 1<br />
to 1.5 mm. long, borne at the point of articulation of the pedicels;<br />
calyx tube short-cylindric, about 1.2 cm. long, 4 to 5 mm. in diameter,<br />
enlarged at base; sepals linear-lanceolate, 4 to 5 cm. long, 3 to 4 mm.<br />
wide, acute or subobtuse, white; petals similar to the sepals, slightly<br />
shorter and narrower; corona filaments in several series, the outermost<br />
about 3 cm. long, liguliform in lower half, very slender, almost<br />
capillary in upper half, the succeeding indefinite series consisting of a<br />
mass of plumose, reflexed, white filaments 3 to 4 mm. long; operculum<br />
membranous, erect, entire; gynophore slender, about 3.5 cm. long;<br />
ovary narrowly ovoid, sericeo-tomentose; fruit globose, about 2.5 cm.<br />
in diameter, subquinquangular, glabrous.<br />
TYPE LOCALITY: Rio Branco, Brazil, near Serra de Carauma.<br />
Brazil.<br />
DISTRIBUTION: Surinam, southern British Guiana, and northern<br />
SURINAM: Corantijne River, near Wonotobo Falls, Stahel &<br />
Gonggrijp 59 (Ut).<br />
BRITISH GUIANA: Savanna, Schomburgk 424.<br />
(B, type of "Astrophea<br />
glaberrima").<br />
BRAZIL: Amazonas: Rio Branco, Ule 7708 (B, type, K, N).