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AMERICAN PASSIFLORACEAE 369
subequal, 3 to 4 cm. long, narrowly linear, filiform toward the tips,
those of the next 2 series few, setaceous, barely 1 mm. long, the
innermost filaments subulate, 5 to 6 mm. long, conspicuously banded
with violet and white; operculum membranous, 4 to 5 mm. high,
slightly incurved, minutely fimbrillate; limen tubular, closely surrounding
base of gynophore; ovary ovoid, minutely puberulent.
TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil.
DISTRIBUTION: Along the lower Amazon River, Brazil.
BRAZIL: Collector uncertain (P, type). Para: Obidos, Swallen
5095 (N). Faro, Ducke 10528 (Go). Santarem, Spruce 760 (K, P).
Para, Hoffmannsegg (Brux, BW); Burchell 9504 (G, K, P), 9988 (K);
Kittip & Smith 30272 (N, Y). Ilha do Mosqueiro, Kittip & Smith
30572 (N, Y).
Passiflora acuminata was treated by Masters as a variant of P.
laurifolia with narrower leaves. The type at Paris is well preserved,
but I did not make a dissection of the interior of the flowers; however,
the two outer rows of corona filaments are clearly visible, and these
are far slenderer than in P. laurifolia. Swallen 5095 obviously
represents P. acuminata, and from it part of the above diagnosis has
been drawn. The very slender filaments are suggestive of P. Gleasoni,
but that species differs in having much smaller, reddish bracts
and a wholly different operculum, and the innermost filaments are
very short.
215. Passiflora Gleasoni Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 14: 112.
1924.
Plant glabrous throughout, except the bracts and ovary; stipules
setaceous, 8 mm. long,
early deciduous; petioles up to 2 cm. long,
biglandular about 5 mm. below apex, the glands sessile, 2 mm. in
diameter; leaves oblong, up to 16 cm. long and 9 cm. wide, abruptly
acuminate at apex, truncate at base, remotely and shallowly
glandular-serrulate, or subentire, subcoriaceous, lustrous above;
peduncles up to 5 cm. long; bracts oblong-elliptic, about 2 cm. long,
4 to 5 mm. wide, cuspidate-acuminate, glandular-serrate at apex,
finely . puberulent on both surfaces, reddish (when dry); flowers
about 8 cm. wide; sepals lanceolate, 3 to 3.5 cm. long, about 1 cm.
wide, obtuse, not awned at apex; petals linear, about 2 cm. long and
5 mm. wide, obtuse, much thinner than sepals; corona filaments in
3 series, those of the 2 outer subequal, capillary, 4 to 5 cm. long,
those of the third series narrowly linear, 1 mm. long; operculum
membranous, 7 to 8 mm. high, cleft to the base into linear segments