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

at base, penninerved (lateral nerves 4 or 5 to a side), coriaceous,<br />

lustrous and glabrous above, glabrous beneath, or the younger<br />

minutely puberulent; peduncles solitary, 1-flowered, 1 to 2 cm. long,<br />

reflexed, articulate near base; calyx tube campanulate-funnelform,<br />

5 to 10 mm. long, 6-angled; sepals and petals linear-oblong, 1.5 to 2<br />

cm. long, 5 mm. wide, obtuse, white; corona filaments in 2 series, the<br />

outer 1 to 1.3 cm. long, ligulate below, dilated just below apex, corrugate<br />

along inner margin at the point of dilation, the inner 4 to 5 mm.<br />

long, narrowly ligulate, capitellate and bifid at apex; operculum<br />

borne at middle of tube, erect, 2.5 mm. high, filamentose in upper<br />

quarter; ovary ovoid, sulcate, densely puberulous or glabrous(?);<br />

fruit ovoid, 5 cm. long, 2.5 cm. in diameter, 6-angled, puberulent or<br />

glabrous(?), yellow; seeds ovate, reticulate.<br />

TYPE LOCALITY: Botanical Garden, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br />

ILLUSTRATION: Contr. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 3: pi. 7.<br />

Brazil.<br />

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the State of<br />

Rio de Janeiro,<br />

BRAZIL: Rio de Janeiro: Leblon, Chase 8^59 (N).<br />

Perhaps the maintenance of this species as distinct from P.<br />

pentagona is not justified. The fruit is ovoid rather than globose,<br />

and distinctly 6-angled. The inner corona filaments are deeply bifid,<br />

whereas in P. pentagona they are flat at the dilated apex.<br />

Barbosa states that the foliage and fruit are strongly aromatic,<br />

suggesting the odor of Allium. The local name is given as maracuja<br />

de alho.<br />

341. Passiflora rhamnifolia Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1:<br />

575. 1872.<br />

Scandent shrub, with usually well developed, slender or stout<br />

tendrils; stem subterete, glabrous or very minutely puberulent;<br />

stipules setaceous, soon deciduous; petioles 1 to 2.5 cm. long, obscurely<br />

biglandular at apex; leaves ovate-oblong to ovate-elliptic,<br />

5 to 10 cm. long, 4 to 6 cm. wide, subacute at apex, rounded at base,<br />

submembranous, glabrous above, minutely puberulent or glabrous<br />

beneath; peduncles 1 to 1.5 cm. long, solitary, articulate near base,<br />

ascending; bracts setaceous, deciduous; calyx tube cylindric-campanulate,<br />

about 1 cm. long, 6 mm. wide at throat; sepals oblonglanceolate,<br />

about 1.5 cm. long, 5 mm. wide, obtuse; petals similar to<br />

the sepals; corona filaments in 2 series, the outer subdolabriform,<br />

1 cm. long, broadly linear below, dilated near apex, the inner 3 mm.

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