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AMERICAN PASSIFLORACEAE 555<br />

the filaments linear-falcate, about 2 mm. long, erect; ovary oblong,<br />

9-grooved.<br />

TYPE LOCALITY: Ireng River Valley, British Guiana.<br />

ILLUSTRATION: Trans. Linn. Soc. II. 6: pi. 8. 1901.<br />

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality.<br />

BRITISH GUIANA: Ireng River Valley, McConnell & Quekh 207<br />

(K, type).<br />

This species, known apparently only from this single collection, is<br />

readily distinguished by the cuneate-oblong leaves with an undulate<br />

margin. This and P. spicata are the only nonscandent representatives<br />

of Botryastrophea.<br />

345. Passiflora fuchsiiflora Hemsl. in Hook. Icon. PL 26: pi. 2553.<br />

1898.<br />

Woody vine with well developed tendrils,<br />

glabrous throughout;<br />

stipules linear, 7 to 9 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, acuminate; petioles up<br />

to 8 cm. long, biglandular at apex; leaves broadly ovate or suborbicular,<br />

10 to 12 cm. long, 8 to 10 cm. wide (or larger?), obtuse or emarginate<br />

at apex, truncate at base, penninerved (lateral nerves arcuate,<br />

5 to 7 to a side), thick-coriaceous, lustrous above, bluish glaucous<br />

beneath; flowers borne in dense clusters or short racemes on the old<br />

wood (10 to 30 flowers to a cluster, the rachis up to 2.5 cm. long,<br />

bracteolate), orange-yellow, fragrant, the pedicels about 1 cm. long;<br />

calyx tube cylindric, 3 to 5 cm. long, 6 to 9 mm. wide, slightly<br />

narrowed toward base; sepals lanceolate, about 2 cm. long and 6 mm.<br />

wide, obtusish; petals similar and subequal to the sepals; corona<br />

filaments in 3 series, the outermost subdolabriform, about 1 cm.<br />

long, those of the 2 succeeding series tuberculiform, 0.5 mm. long or<br />

less; operculum borne near the base of the tube, erect, about 8 mm.<br />

high, membranous, fimbrillate; gynophore very slender, sulcate in<br />

upper third ; ovary narrowly obovoid, glabrous.<br />

TYPE LOCALITY: Demerara River, British Guiana.<br />

ILLUSTRATION: Hook. Icon. PI. 26: pi. 2553.<br />

DISTRIBUTION: Surinam and British Guiana.<br />

SURINAM: Upper Surinam River, B. W. 5365 (Ut).<br />

Gonggrijp 64, in part (Ut).<br />

Gonini River,<br />

BRITISH GUIANA: Demerara River, Jenman 6540 (B, BG, K,<br />

type, Y); Abraham 232 (Y).

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