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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).

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