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550 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY BOTANY, VOL. XIX<br />
TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil: Upper Rio Negro.<br />
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality, in western<br />
Amazonian Brazil.<br />
BRAZIL: Amazonas: Upper Rio Negro, Weiss & Schmidt in 1907<br />
or 1908 (Y, type).<br />
338. Passiflora elliptica Gardn. in Hook. London Journ. Bot. 1:<br />
173. 1842.<br />
Scandent or subscandent shrub; branches minutely puberulent;<br />
stipules linear-subulate, about 1.5 mm. long, deciduous; petioles 1.5<br />
to 2 cm. long, biglandular at apex; leaves elliptic, 6 to 8 cm. long,<br />
4 to 5.5 cm. wide, obtuse and often emarginate at apex, rounded at<br />
base, penninerved (lateral nerves about 7 to a side),<br />
conspicuously<br />
reticulate-veined, subcoriaceous, glabrous and lustrous above, finely<br />
pilosulous beneath, concolorous; peduncles 1 to 1.5 cm. long; bracts<br />
linear-subulate, 1 mm. long, borne near base of peduncle; flowers<br />
white; calyx tube campanulate, 4 to 7 mm. long, 3 to 4 mm. wide;<br />
sepals oblong, 1.5 to 2 cm. long, 3 to 4 mm. wide, obtuse; petals<br />
similar and subequal to the sepals; corona filaments in 2 series, the<br />
outer liguliform,<br />
7 to 8 mm. long, the inner minute, barely 1 mm.<br />
long; operculum borne near middle of tube, membranous, about 3<br />
mm. high, fimbrillate, the fringe 0.5 to 1 mm. long; gynophore hirsutulous<br />
at middle, otherwise glabrous; ovary ovoid, cano-sericeotomentose;<br />
fruit globose, about 2 cm. in diameter, the exocarp<br />
brittle, orange-color; seeds broadly ovoid, about 7 mm. long, 6 mm.<br />
wide, coarsely reticulate.<br />
TYPE LOCALITY: Rio Comprido, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br />
DISTRIBUTION: Known positively only from the State of Rio de<br />
Janeiro, Brazil.<br />
BRAZIL: Sello 584 (BM); St. Hilaire 135 (P). Rio de Janeiro:<br />
Rio Comprido, Gardner 46 (BM, type, Gen, K, P, V, Y); Selliers<br />
3039 (Gen)<br />
.<br />
Corcovado, Burchell 1 838 (K) ;<br />
Miers (BM, K) Larangeiras,<br />
Glaziou 18258 (B, Brux, Cop, G, Gen, K, P). Mundo . Novo,<br />
Kuhlmann 1726 (S, Ut).<br />
The flowers of P. elliptica are smaller than in near relatives and<br />
the venation of the leaves is more evident. The outer corona filaments<br />
are not dilated as in the case of all other relatives except<br />
P. Candida, w r hich differs in many details.<br />
Kuhlmann 1726 is one of the few specimens of Pseudoastrophea<br />
that has been collected in fruit.