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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).