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AMERICAN PASSIFLORACEAE 359<br />
attenuate at apex, the succeeding series tuberculate; operculum<br />
membranous, erect, denticulate; limen annular; the ovary ellipticobovoid,<br />
glabrous.<br />
TYPE LOCALITY: Caracas, Venezuela.<br />
ILLUSTRATIONS: Jacq. Fragm. pi. 67, f. 1; Eclog. PI. 2: pi. 121.<br />
DISTRIBUTION: Probably confined to the Federal District, northcentral<br />
Venezuela.<br />
VENEZUELA: Federal District: Between La Guaira and Rio<br />
Grande, Curran & Haman 1035 (G, type of P. physocalymma, N).<br />
Caracas, collector? (BW, type of P. caracasana); Jacquin (Gen, V,<br />
type); Ernst 11 86 (EM).<br />
Though closely related to P. serrulata, this species seems sufficiently<br />
distinct to justify recognition. The lateral leaf lobes are<br />
proportionately longer and the bracts are long-tapering at the apex.<br />
Series^ Marginatae<br />
208. Passiflora marginata Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1:<br />
603. 1872.<br />
Passiflora Uleana Duse"n, Archiv. Mus. Nac. Rio de Janeiro 13:<br />
50. 1905.<br />
Passiflora Uleana f. ovalifolia Duse"n, Arkiv Bot. 8, No. 7:<br />
5. 1909.<br />
Plant glabrous throughout; stem very slender,<br />
almost filiform,<br />
terete; stipules setaceous, 3 to 5 mm. long; petioles 5 to 10 mm. long,<br />
terete, glandless; leaves lanceolate, 3.5 to 5 cm. long, 1.5 to 2.3 cm.<br />
wide, acute at apex, rounded (or slightly emarginate) and subpeltate<br />
at base, 1-nerved (principal lateral nerves about 10 pairs), entire,<br />
thick-coriaceous,<br />
cartilaginous-thickened at margin; peduncles solitary,<br />
1 to 2 cm. long, slender; bracts cordate-lanceolate, 5 to 7 mm.<br />
long, 4 to 5 mm. wide, acute, mucronulate, serrulate at base,<br />
1-nerved, strongly reticulate-veined, borne about 1 mm. below base<br />
of flower; flowers 1<br />
to 3 cm. wide; calyx tube broadly campanulate;<br />
sepals oblong, about 6 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, obtuse, corniculate<br />
just below apex, green without, white within; petals slightly smaller<br />
than sepals, white; corona filamentose, the filaments slightly shorter<br />
than the sepals; ovary subglobose.<br />
TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil, "in silvulis c. 2200 m.," Serra do Itatiaia.<br />
Type collected by Ule.<br />
ILLUSTRATION: Arkiv Bot. 8, No. 7: 6.