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AMERICAN PASSIFLORACEAE 553<br />
long, filiform below, broadly dilated and shallowly bifid at the<br />
apex; operculum borne just below middle of tube, erect, about<br />
2 mm. high, filamentose in upper third; ovary ovoid, strongly sulcate,<br />
tomentulous.<br />
TYPE LOCALITY: Cubatao, Minas Geraes, Brazil.<br />
DISTRIBUTION: States of Minas Geraes and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br />
BRAZIL: Minas Geraes: Cubatao, Sello 2125 (B), 2148 (B, type,<br />
N). Arapongo, Bailey & Bailey 1144- (N). Rio de Janeiro: Tijuca,<br />
Glaziou 17620 (B, Gen, K, P). Corcovado, Glaziou 3993 (Cop).<br />
This is closely related to P. pentagona, the erect flowers and<br />
larger, usually subacute leaves perhaps not being sufficiently important<br />
characters upon which to separate the two.<br />
342. Passiflora Tessmannii Harms, Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin<br />
9: 978. 1926.<br />
Scandent shrub; branches glabrous, the younger portions sometimes<br />
velutinous or puberulent; stipules early deciduous; petioles 0.5<br />
to 1.5 cm. long, biglandular at apex; leaves ovate, broadly oblong,<br />
or obovate, 5 to 9 cm. long, 2.5 to 6.5 cm. wide, acute or obtuse at<br />
apex, rounded at base, penninerved (lateral nerves about 6 to a side),<br />
membranous, glabrous above, very minutely puberulous beneath,<br />
concolorous; peduncles solitary or in pairs, 0.7 to 1.5 cm. long; calyx<br />
tube cylindric-campanulate, 0.8 to 1 cm. long, 5 to 7 mm. wide at<br />
throat; sepals narrowly oblong, 1.5 to 2 cm. long, 5 to 6 mm. wide,<br />
obtuse, green without, white within; petals similar to the sepals, 1 to<br />
1.5 cm. long, 3 to 4 mm. wide; corona filaments in 2 series, the outer<br />
falcate-dilated above middle, attenuate at tips,<br />
about 7 mm. long,<br />
mm. long; operculum borne at<br />
yellow, the inner subulate, about 1<br />
middle of tube, 2 mm. high, erect, fimbrillate in upper quarter;<br />
ovary ovoid, velutinous.<br />
TYPE LOCALITY: Mouth of Rio Santiago, Rio Maranon, Peru.<br />
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality,<br />
part of Peru.<br />
in northern<br />
PERU: Loreto: Rio Maranon, at mouth of Rio Santiago, Tessmann<br />
4385 (B, type, N).<br />
This has the general aspect of P. elliptica, but the leaves are of<br />
thinner texture, the flowers larger, and the outer corona filaments<br />
dilated above the middle.