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AMERICAN PASSIFLORACEAE 577<br />

ILLUSTRATIONS: Vellosia 3, pt. 1: pi. 10; (?)Comm. Linh. Tel.<br />

Matto Grosso, Annexe 5, Bot. pt. 5: pi. 111.<br />

DISTRIBUTION: Middle Amazon basin, Brazil.<br />

BRAZIL: Amazonas: Manaos, Ule5381a (B, type of D. Ulei, Go);<br />

Ducke 500 (N). Campina- de Tanacoera, lower Rio Negro, Ducke<br />

11535 (Gen, Go). Para: Faro, Ducke 3718 (Go), 8460 (Gen, N, P),<br />

8692 (Gen, Go). Obidos, Ducke 12040 (Go).<br />

LOCAL NAMES: "Akuti-kaa," "paka-rupia."<br />

Ducke has observed that the leaves of D. Johannesii are quite<br />

variable, even in an individual plant.<br />

Hoehne's variety parvifolia may well represent another species.<br />

The illustration shows leaves narrowly oblong or narrowly oblanceolate,<br />

8 to 12 cm. long and not more than 2 cm. wide, their lateral<br />

nerves strongly ascending and not at all anastomosing near the<br />

margin.<br />

4. Dilkea acuminata Mast. Trans. Linn. Soc. 27: 628. 1871; in<br />

Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 535. pi. 106, f. 2. 1872.<br />

Scandent shrub, glabrous throughout; petioles 1 to 1.5 cm. long,<br />

glandless; leaves oblong-oblanceolate, 15 to 35 cm. long, 4 to 14 cm.<br />

wide, abruptly acuminate, attenuate at base, coriaceous, lustrous,<br />

cartilaginous at margin, the lateral nerves divaricate or ascending;<br />

peduncles apparently solitary, 4 to 6 cm. long; flowers white; sepals<br />

4 (or 5?), oblong, about 3 cm. long, obtuse; petals 4 (or 5?), subequal<br />

to the sepals; corona, stamens, and style similar to those of D. retusa;<br />

fruit globose, about 5 cm. in diameter, coriaceous.<br />

TYPE LOCALITY: Manaos, Brazil.<br />

ILLUSTRATION: Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: pi. 106, f. 2.<br />

DISTRIBUTION: Amazonian basin of Brazil.<br />

BRAZIL: Amazonas: Manaos, Spruce 1320-3 (K, type).<br />

There are many points of uncertainty regarding this species. It<br />

was first described in the Transactions of the Linnean Society in a<br />

resum by Masters of his treatment of Passifloraceae for the Flora<br />

Brasiliensis, in press at the time this resum was published. The<br />

descriptions of both D. acuminata and D. retusa in the Transactions<br />

are much briefer than in the later publication, and do not mention<br />

the fruit, though there is a description of fruit in the generic diagnosis.<br />

In the Transactions two specimens are cited under D. retusa,<br />

Spruce 1320-5, Barra (i.e., from Manaos), and a Martius plant from

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