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AMERICAN PASSIFLORACEAE 373
slender, 6 to 8 cm. long; bracts ovate-oblong to oblong, 3 to 3.5
cm. long, about 2 cm. wide, concave, rounded and apiculate at apex,
reddish brown when dry; flowers rose; calyx tube campanulate,
7 to 8 mm. long, about 1 cm. wide; sepals oblong-lanceolate, 2.5 to
3 cm. long, 1 cm. wide, obtuse, terminating in a foliaceous awn
about 2 mm. long; petals lanceolate, about 2 cm. long and 5 mm.
wide; corona in several series, the outermost filaments about 1.5
cm. long, those of the second rank about 5 mm. long, the succeeding
rows 0.3 to 0.4 mm. long; operculum membranous, fimbriate; nectar
ring small; limen membranous, cupuliform, closely surrounding base
of gynophore; ovary subglobose, glabrous.
Brazil.
Brazil.
TYPE LOCALITY: Alto Macace de Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro,
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the State of
Rio de Janeiro,
BRAZIL: Rio de Janeiro: Alto Macace de Nova Friburgo,
Glaziou 20833 (B, type, Cop, K, P); Ule 4906 (B).
Closely allied to P. nitida, this species differs in having 3-
5-nerved, more deeply toothed, thinner leaves, and much slenderer
petioles and peduncles.
219. Passiflora ischnoclada Harms, Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin
10: 812. 1929.
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Plant glabrous throughout; stem slender; stipules filiform, 3 to 4
mm. long; petioles 0.5 to 1.5 cm. long, glandular at or above middle,
the glands short-stipitate; leaves oblong, ovate-lanceolate, or ovateoblong,
2 to 6 cm. long, 1 to 3 cm. wide, acute at apex, shortmucronulate,
rounded and subpeltate at base, membranous, lustrous,
conspicuously veined; peduncles solitary, 7 to 11 cm. long, slender;
bracts broadly ovate, 2 to 2.5 cm. or more long, obtuse at apex,
mucronulate, rounded or cordulate at base, membranous, violetrose^);
calyx tube campanulate, about 4 mm. long, ventricose;
sepals 2.5 cm. long, or more, dorsally winged-carinate toward apex,
the keel terminating in a short awn.
Brazil.
TYPE LOCALITY: Rio Claro, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality,
BRAZIL: Sao Paulo: Rio Claro, Lofgren 5754 (B, type).
in southern
This is known only from the type specimen, the condition of
whose flowers does not permit a satisfactory diagnosis. Although