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554 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY BOTANY, VOL. XIX<br />
343. Passiflora venosa Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 6: 42. 1896.<br />
Erect or subscandent shrub (?); branches terete, minutely puberulent;<br />
stipules setaceous, 1.5 mm. long, soon deciduous; petioles up to<br />
1.5 cm. long, biglandular at apex; leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate,<br />
6 to 12 cm. long, 4 to 7 cm. wide, sharp-acuminate at apex, rounded<br />
at base, penninerved (lateral nerves 5 or 6 to a side), conspicuously<br />
reticulate-veined, coriaceous, bright green and shining above, glaucous<br />
beneath, glabrous, puberulous on midnerve beneath; peduncles<br />
solitary or in pairs, up to 1.5 cm. long; calyx tube cylindric-campanulate,<br />
5 to 10 mm. long, about 6 mm. wide at throat; sepals oblonglanceolate,<br />
1.5 to 2 cm. long, 7 to 8 mm. wide, obtuse; petals linearoblanceolate,<br />
equaling or slightly longer than the sepals, obtuse,<br />
violet or light purple(?); corona filaments in 2 series, the outer about<br />
1.3 cm. long, subfalcate, laterally compressed, dilated above middle,<br />
the tips linear-attenuate, sinuate along inner margin, the inner<br />
filiform or narrowly linear, 2.5 mm. long; operculum about 2 mm.<br />
long, membranous below, fimbriate in upper third; ovary ovoid,<br />
pubemlent, about 10-ribbed.<br />
TYPE LOCALITY: Between Tipuani and Guanai, Bolivia.<br />
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality.<br />
BOLIVIA: La Paz: Between Tipuani and Guanai, Bang 1656<br />
(BM, CM, N, Ph, Y, type).<br />
Section 6.<br />
Botryastrophea<br />
344. Passiflora Quelchii N. E. Brown, Trans. Linn. Soc. II. 6:<br />
31. pi. 3. 1901.<br />
Shrub or tree, without tendrils, glabrous throughout; stipules<br />
subulate, soon deciduous; petioles 1 to 1.5 cm. long, biglandular at<br />
apex, the glands about 2 mm. in diameter, sessile;<br />
leaves cuneateoblong,<br />
8 to 12 cm. long, 2 to 4 cm. wide, obtuse or short-acute at<br />
apex, gradually tapering from the upper quarter in a slightly curved<br />
line to an acute base, strongly undulate, penninerved (lateral nerves<br />
12 to 15 on each side, spreading, anastomosing close to margin in a<br />
series of broad loops) ;<br />
flowers in short racemes or fascicles, the axis<br />
up to 2.5 cm. long, the pedicels 3 to 5 mm. long; calyx tube cylindric,<br />
about 2.5 cm. long, 4 to 5 mm. wide at throat; sepals oblong-lanceolate,<br />
2 to 2.5 cm. long, 5 to 7 mm. wide, obtuse or subacute; petals<br />
similar and nearly equal to the sepals; corona filaments in a single<br />
series, subdolabriform, 1.5 cm. long, the dilated portion minutely<br />
tuberculate; operculum borne near the base of the tube, filamentose,