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350 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY BOTANY, VOL. XIX<br />

L. Williams 4980 (N); Poeppig 2171 (V, type of P. colubrina}.<br />

Rio Ucayali, Tessmann 3155 (B). Junin: San Ramon, cultivated,<br />

Kittip & Smith 24092 (F, N, Y).<br />

BOLIVIA: Beni: Junction of Beni and Madre de Dios rivers,<br />

Rusby 490 (B, BM, Bo, G, K, N, Ph, Y). Bopi River, Mulford<br />

Biol Expl. 739 (Y). La Paz: Mapiri, Buchtien 1676 (N). Coroico,<br />

Buchtien 3851 (N). Santa Cruz: Santa Cruz, Herzog 1507 (B, S).<br />

Rio Surutu, Steinbach 7220 (BM, G, Gen, Ph, S, Ut).<br />

The leaves of P. triloba are usually 3-lobed, minutely serrulatedenticulate,<br />

and generally larger than in its near relatives. The<br />

species is sometimes confused with P. ligularis and P. tiliaefolia.<br />

discussion of the differences between these three species<br />

found under P. tiliaefolia.<br />

202. Passiflora tiliaefolia L. Sp. PI. 956. 1753.<br />

A<br />

will be<br />

Plant glabrous throughout; stem terete; stipules ovate-lanceolate<br />

to oblong-lanceolate, 1 to 2 cm. long, 0.5 to 1.5 cm. wide, or the<br />

upper linear-lanceolate and barely 2 mm. wide, acute or acuminate,<br />

oblique at base, entire or serrulate,<br />

green, often turning reddish in<br />

drying; petioles 2.5 to 7 cm. long, 2^i-glandular, the glands saucershaped,<br />

all borne at apex or 1 pair near middle, subsessile or shortstipitate,<br />

1 to 2 mm. wide; leaves cordate-ovate, 10 to 25 cm. long,<br />

8 to 18 cm. wide, abruptly acuminate, shallowly or deeply cordate<br />

at base (basal lobes not overlapping), entire, membranous, often<br />

lustrous on both surfaces; peduncles 2 to 3 cm. long; bracts ovate,<br />

about 2 cm. long, 1.5 cm. wide (perhaps larger), obtuse or acute at<br />

apex, united one-fifth to one-third their length, reddish when dry,<br />

glabrous except for a narrow band of tomentum along the margin<br />

within; flowers about 8 cm. wide; sepals oblong, 5 to 7 mm. wide,<br />

obtuse, concave, slightly carinate on outside, the keel terminating<br />

in a slender awn; petals oblong, subequal to sepals; corona about<br />

5-ranked, the two outer rows of filaments terete, about half as long as<br />

petals, the three inner rows barely 3 mm. long; operculum membranous,<br />

incurved, entire at margin; limen adnate to gynophore;<br />

ovary ovoid; fruit ovoid, about 6 cm. in diameter, "deep violet to<br />

blackish proximally, greenish distally."<br />

TYPE LOCALITY: Lima, Peru.<br />

ILLUSTRATIONS: Journ. Obs. Phys. Math. Bot. Peruv. 2: pi. 121.<br />

1714; Amoen. Acad. 1: pi. 10, /. 4; Cav. Diss. 10: pi. 285; G. Don,<br />

Hist. Dichl. PI. 3: 51. /. 4; Mutis, Icon. PI. Ined. 26: pi. 6.

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