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542 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY BOTANY, VOL. XIX<br />

330. Passiflora deficiens Mast. Journ. Bot. Brit. & For. 21: 34.<br />

1883.<br />

Scandent shrub (?); tendrils few or none; branches terete, finely<br />

puberulent, glaucescent; petioles 1 to 3 cm. long, glandless, finely<br />

puberulent; leaves narrowly oblong, 10 to 20 cm. long, 4 to 7 cm.<br />

wide, short-acuminate, rounded or slightly narrowed at base, entire,<br />

penninerved (principal lateral nerves 10 to 15 to a side, rather prominent,<br />

the intermediate secondary nerves fainter, the midnerve<br />

biglandular near base), reticulate-veined, subcoriaceous, light green,<br />

sublustrous, glabrous; peduncles solitary, 3 to 4 cm. long, slender,<br />

articulate above middle, puberulent; bracts setaceous, 1 to 1.5 mm.<br />

long, deciduous, borne at point of articulation; calyx tube shortcampanulate,<br />

2 to 4 mm. long, 5 to 7 mm. wide at throat, introrse;<br />

sepals oblong, 2 to 2.5 cm. long, 0.8 to 1 cm. wide, obtuse; petals<br />

similar to the sepals; outer corona filaments 2 to 2.5 cm. long, falcatedolabriform<br />

(dilated portion shallowly lobed or deeply cleft at inner<br />

margin), smooth at margin, the inner filaments in 4 or 5 series,<br />

to about 4 mm. (lower),<br />

decreasing in length from 7 mm. (upper)<br />

capillary, capitellate, erect; operculum arising about 3 mm. above<br />

base of tube, about 1 mm. long, dependent, crenulate; ovary oblong,<br />

rufo-tomentellous; styles hirsutulous.<br />

TYPE LOCALITY: Essequibo River, British Guiana.<br />

DISTRIBUTION: British Guiana.<br />

BRITISH GUIANA: Essequibo River, Jenman 1169 (BG, K, type).<br />

Upper Demerara River, Jenman 3999 (BG). Potaro Landing,<br />

Jenman 7501 (Ut).<br />

In describing this interesting species Masters comments on the<br />

deep tubular "basal corona" and on the absence of a "middle corona."<br />

As mentioned elsewhere, the use of the terms "middle" and "basal"<br />

for the two interior corona-like processes of Passiflora was not wholly<br />

satisfactory. In the case of P. deficiens the interior membrane is<br />

borne very close to the floor of the calyx tube, much below its middle.<br />

However, from its structure it is far more like the operculum of other<br />

species of Astrophea than like the true limen (basal corona) in Plectostemma,<br />

Dysosmia, and Granadilla.<br />

331. Passiflora costata Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 573. 1872.<br />

Passiflora eminula Mast. Journ. Linn. Soc. 20: 32. pi. 20, f. 1-3.<br />

1883.<br />

Passiflora hydrophila Barb. Rodr. Vellosia 1: 26. 1891: 3, pt. 1:<br />

pi. IS. 1891.

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