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AMERICAN PASSIFLORACEAE 355
204. Passiflora Williamsii Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 12:
262. 1922.
Stem stout, terete, densely puberulent; stipules filiform, 6 to 7
mm. long; petioles 4.5 cm. long, densely puberulent, biglandular
about 1 cm. from base, the glands orbicular, appressed, 2 mm. in
diameter; leaves 3-lobed to middle, up to 10 cm. along midnerve, 9
cm. along lateral nerves, 10 cm. between apices of lateral lobes (lobes
acuminate, the middle lobe narrowed at base), serrulate, biglandular
in the sinuses between lobes, truncate or cordate at base, 3-nerved,
membranous, above glabrate, puberulent on the nerves, beneath
minutely puberulent; peduncles about 3 cm. long, densely pubescent;
bracts united at base, the free part 2 cm. long, 1.5 cm. wide, tomentulose
on both surfaces; flowers about 6 cm. wide; calyx tube 1.2 cm.
long; sepals oblong, 2.5 to 3.5 cm. long, 1.2 to 1.5 cm. wide, obtuse,
puberulent without, glabrate within, inconspicuously keeled, dorsally
awned about 2 mm. below apex, the awn 3 mm. long; petals oblongspatulate,
2 cm. long, 5 mm. wide, greenish without, white within,
spotted with dark pink; corona filaments in several series, the outermost
terete, 6 to 7 mm. long, white, transversely banded with blue,
those of the next series dilated at middle, 2 to 2.5 cm. long, the
succeeding series minute, tuberculate, 1.5 mm. long; operculum
arising close to the corona, membranous, horizontally spreading inward,
2 mm. long, entire; nectar ring annular, midway between
operculum and base of gynophore; limen fleshy, closely surrounding
and adnate to lower part of gynophore, 5 mm. high, the margin free,
erect; ovary narrowly ovoid, densely white-tomentose.
TYPE LOCALITY: Bismarck, above Penonome", Panama.
DISTRIBUTION: Panama.
PANAMA: Code": Bismarck, above Penonome", 600 to 925 meters,
R. S. Williams 585 (Y, type). Canal Zone: Between Empire and
Mandinga, Piper 5481 (N). Panama: Las Sabanas, Paul 308 (N).
This species is at once separated from near relatives by the
densely white-tomentose ovary. In the type specimen the leaves
are truncate at the base, but in the other specimens they are rather
deeply cordate.
205. Passiflora platyloba Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 12: 260.
1922.
Plant glabrous throughout, except the bracts; stem stout, terete,
striate, glabrous; stipules coriaceous, narrowly linear, 1 to 1.2 cm.
long, strongly 3-nerved, remotely and finely serrulate, orange-yellow,