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AMERICAN PASSIFLORACEAE 377
Series 6.
Serratifoliae
222. Passiflora bahiensis Klotzsch, Linnaea 14: 293. 1840.
Passiflora parahybensis Barb. Rodr. PI. Nov. Jard. Bot. Rio de
Janeiro 5: 1. pi. 1. 1896.
Plant densely hirtellous nearly throughout; stipules linear, about
1 cm. long, glandular-denticulate, deciduous; petioles about 1 cm.
long, biglandular at apex, the glands sessile; leaves ovate or ovateoblong,
8 to 16 cm. long, 5 to 9 cm. wide, acute or acuminate at
apex, cordulate at base, irregularly dentate, subcoriaceous, glabrescent
above, densely pubescent, hirtellous on nerves, beneath;
peduncles 3 (rarely 2) to 6 to an axil, 1.5 to 2 cm. long, slender, articulate
near apex; bracts linear-lanceolate, 6 to 10 mm. long, 1.5 to 2
mm. wide, serrulate, soon deciduous; flowers 2 to 3 cm. wide; calyx
tube short-campanulate; sepals oblong, about 10 mm. long, 4 mm.
wide, obtuse, minutely mucronulate just below apex; petals subequal
to and narrower than sepals, white; corona filaments in 5 series,
those of the 2 outer series narrowly liguliform, 6 to 8 mm. long,
the inner capillary, about 1.5 mm. long; operculum membranous,
filamentose above; limen closely surrounding base of gynophore;
ovary globose, tomentellous or glabrous; fruit globose, about 2.5
cm. in diameter, glabrous; seeds obovate, 3.5 mm. long, 2.5 mm.
wide, reticulate.
TYPE LOCALITY: Bahia, Brazil.
ILLUSTRATION: PI. Nov. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 5: pi. 1.
DISTRIBUTION: States of Bahia and Pernambuco, eastern Brazil.
BRAZIL: Bahia: Bahia, Salzmann 290 (type collection; Gen, P);
Blanchet 147 (EM, Bo, Gen); Glocker 542 (BM, N, S). Cruz do
Cosme, LiLSchnath 199 (B, Bo, Brux). Pernambuco: Tapera, Picket
3099 (N).
The flowers and bracts of P. bahiensis are much smaller than in
most other species of Granadilla. The dense, brown indument covering
the stem and the under side of the leaves is like that of the well
known P. vitifolia.
223. Passiflora malacophylla Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1:
604. pi. 117, f. 2. 1872.
Plant ferruginous-tomentellous throughout; stem terete; stipules
setaceous, 3 to 4 mm. long, soon deciduous; petioles 0.5 to 1 cm. long,
biglandular at apex; leaves elliptic-lanceolate, 4 to 10 cm. long, 1.5
to 5 cm. wide, subacute, rounded at base, serrulate, 1-nerved (about