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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).

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