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376 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY BOTANY, VOL. XIX
by differences in the corona and operculum. The specimens often
turn black in drying, a condition not noted in P. laurifolia.
LOCAL NAMES: "Bell-apple," "semito," "maricouia" (British
Guiana); "maracuja de cheiro" (Brazil).
221. Passiflora guazumaefolia Juss. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 6: 112.
pi. 39, /.
1. 1805.
(?) Passiflora theobromaefolia DC. Prodr. 3: 331. 1828.
Plant glabrous throughout; stipules setaceous, 5 to 6 mm. long;
petioles up to 3 cm. long, biglandular just above middle, the glands
sessile, 0.6 mm. in diameter; leaves oblong-lanceolate, 7 to 12 cm.
long, 3 to 4.5 cm. wide, abruptly acuminate at apex, rounded or
truncate at base, shallowly denticulate or subentire, membranous
or subcoriaceous; peduncles up to 4 cm. long; bracts ovate, 1.5 to 2
cm. long, 1.3 to 1.5 cm. wide, rounded at apex, narrowed at base,
minutely glandular-serrulate toward apex, more conspicuously so
toward base; flowers 5 to 7 cm. wide; sepals oblong, 2.5 to 3 cm. long,
about 1 cm. wide, obtuse, short-awned distally; petals linear-lanceolate,
subequal to the sepals, obtuse; corona filaments in several series,
the 2 outer subequal, filiform, 1.5 to 2 cm. long, those of the succeeding
series densely massed, 1 to 2 mm. long; operculum membranous,
about 2 mm. high, erect, minutely denticulate; nectar ring annular;
limen cylindric, closely surrounding base of gynophore; ovary ovoid,
glabrous; fruit globose, 4 cm. in diameter; seeds obcordate, 7 mm.
long, 5 mm. wide, apiculate, the axis slightly curved, the surface
faintly reticulate.
TYPE LOCALITY: Tenerife, lower Magdalena Valley, Colombia.
ILLUSTRATIONS: Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 6: pi 39, /. 1; Mutis, Icon.
PI. Ined. 26: pi. 13.
DISTRIBUTION: Valleys of the Magdalena River, Colombia, and
the Orinoco River, Venezuela.
VENEZUELA: Bolivar: Ciudad Bolivar, Lehmann 8773 (B, K);
Along Orinoco River, Chaffanjon 256 (P).
Holt & Blake 843 (N).
COLOMBIA: Magdalena: Tenerife, Humboldt & Bonpland (P,
type). Gamarra, Dawe 496 (K, N). Magdalena Valley, Dawe 960
(K). Bolivar: Lands of Loba, Curran 30 (N). Santander: Puerto
Wilches, Kittip & Smith 14800 (A, G, N, Y). Tolima: Honda,
Bonpland (B). Meta: Villavicencio, Andr6 1029 (K).
Related to P. nitida, this species is distinguished by proportionately
narrower leaves, glabrous bracts, smaller flowers, shorter and
much slenderer corona filaments, and a shorter operculum.