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AMERICAN PASSIFLORACEAE 545<br />
or 4 irregular rows at middle of tube; operculum erect,<br />
below middle of tube, about 3 mm. high,<br />
borne just<br />
cleft in upper third into<br />
broadly clavate segments; ovary ovoid, hexagonal, puberulent;<br />
fruit subglobose, 2 cm. in diameter sparingly puberulent; seeds<br />
obovate, 5 mm. long, 3 mm. wide, coarsely reticulate.<br />
TYPE LOCALITY: Campina do Jupiry, near Lago de Faro, State<br />
of Para, Brazil.<br />
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality, in lower<br />
Amazonian Brazil.<br />
BRAZIL: Para: Campina de Jupiry, near Lago de Faro, Ducke 825<br />
(B, type, K, N). Campos de Tigre, Faro, Ducke 675 (B, Bo, K, P, N).<br />
Excellent material deposited in the United States National<br />
Herbarium by Ducke permits a more detailed diagnosis of the<br />
flowers and fruit than that given by Harms. Although the foliage<br />
is suggestive of P. sclerophylla and P. phaeocaula, the multiple<br />
corona indicates probably that it is more closely related to P. costata.<br />
333. Passiflora sclerophylla Harms, Notizbl. Bot. Gart Berlin<br />
6: 347. 1917.<br />
Scandent shrub, 1 to 2 meters high, the branches glabrous or the<br />
younger puberulent; petioles 5 to 10 mm. long, biglandular at apex;<br />
leaves suborbicular, oval, obovate, or oblong, 4 to 7 cm. long, 3 to 7<br />
cm. wide, rounded, emarginate, or subacute at apex, rounded at base,<br />
reticulate-veined (veins elevated beneath), thick-coriaceous, glabrous<br />
and shining above, short-villosulous beneath; peduncles solitary in<br />
the axils or in 2's or in 3's, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, appressed-pubescent;<br />
calyx tube broadly funnel-shaped, nearly 1 cm. long, 1 cm. in diameter<br />
at the throat; sepals narrowly oblong, 2.3 to 2.5 cm. long, obtuse;<br />
petals lanceolate, 1.8 to 2 cm. long; corona filaments in 2 series, the<br />
outer about 2 cm. long, laterally compressed, geniculate at middle,<br />
the upper half narrowly linear-attenuate, verrucose along margin,<br />
the inner filaments filiform, about 3 mm. long; operculum cleft<br />
nearly to the base into linear-clavate segments about 3 mm. long;<br />
ovary narrowly oblong, densely ferruginous-tomentose.<br />
TYPE LOCALITY: "Guyana, Venezuela: Roraima."<br />
DISTRIBUTION: Southern Venezuela and southern British Guiana.<br />
BRITISH GUIANA: Mt. Roraima, Uk 8667 (B, type, Go, Ut)-<br />
Im Thurn 110 (EG, EM, K, N); Schomburgk 986 (B); G. H H<br />
Tale 323 (Y).