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AMERICAN PASSIFLORACEAE 353<br />

3 cm. long and 5 mm. wide, green, densely mottled with dark redpurple<br />

within; corona in several ranks, the 2 outer rows of filaments<br />

white, banded with Chinese-violet above middle and with rosolanepurple<br />

near base, the outermost terete, 1.5 cm. long, the second<br />

ligulate, 3 cm. long, the succeeding ranks consisting of minute<br />

tubercles,<br />

green tipped with deep purple; operculum membranous,<br />

horizontal, pale green, the margin recurved, denticulate; nectar ring<br />

horizontal, margin entire; operculum cupuliform, 6 mm. high; ovary<br />

oblong or subglobose, glabrous; fruit globose, 3.5 to 4 cm. in diameter,<br />

green or orange-green, pericarp very hard; seeds oblong-obcordate,<br />

5 to 6 mm. long, about 4 mm. wide, finely reticulate, metallic-gray.<br />

TYPE LOCALITY: "Dominica" (Hispaniola).<br />

ILLUSTRATIONS: Mutis, Icon. PI. Ined. 26: pi. 8; Amoen. Acad.<br />

I: pi. 10, f. 5; Plum. PI. Amer. pi. 82; Jacq. Hort. Schonbr. 2: pi. 180;<br />

Andr. Bot. Repos. 4: pi. 217; Lawrance, <strong>Passion</strong> Fl. pi. 16; Bot.<br />

Reg. 2: pi. 94; Kerner, Hort. Sempervir. pi. 845.<br />

DISTRIBUTION: West Indies, Venezuela, Colombia, and northern<br />

Ecuador; tropical zone, up to 1,700 meters altitude.<br />

CUBA: Oriente: Wright 199 (Bo, Brux, G, Gen).<br />

Baracoa, Le6n<br />

11922 (HS). Guantanamo, Hioram 4257 (HS). Sierra del Cobre,<br />

Ekman 7844 (S).<br />

HAITI: Tortue Island, Leonard & Leonard 11610 (N), 12441<br />

(N),<br />

14005 (N), 15591 (N); Ekman H9796 (N), Port au Prince, Ekman<br />

2203 (B, S). Pe"tionville, Leonard 4979 (N, Y). Port a Piment,<br />

Ekman H701 (S).<br />

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Duchemin (P); Poiteau in 1802 (Gen).<br />

Barahona, Fuertes 445 (Cop, F, G, Gen, Minn, N, P, S). Las<br />

Canitas, Abbott 2719 (N). Jovero, Abbott 2669 (N), 2836 (N). La<br />

Romana, Ekman Hi 2075 (N). Jicome", Valeur 627 (Gen, N).<br />

JAMAICA: Mandeville, Crawford 802 (CM, Ph). Balaclava,<br />

Harris 9430 (J).<br />

PUERTO Rico: Bayamon, Sintenis 1166 (B, G, N, S). San<br />

Andre's, Sintenis 6560 (B, Bo, Cop, F, G, Gen, HV, N, P, S, V).<br />

Catano, Britton, Britton & Brown 6973 (Y).<br />

ST. THOMAS: Riedle (P); Friedrichsthal 399 (V).<br />

GUADELOUPE: Diiss 599 (P), 2229 (N); Duchassaing (B); Fairchild<br />

3769 (N).

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