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AMERICAN PASSIFLORACEAE 383
3.5 cm. wide, laciniate-fimbriate; flowers up to 8 cm. wide; calyx
tube campanulate; sepals oblong-lanceolate, 3 to 3.5 cm. long, 1 to
1.5 cm. wide, cucullate, long-awned dorsally just below apex, green
without, light blue or violet within; petals linear-lanceolate, as long
as the sepals, obtuse, light blue or violet; corona filaments purple,
with paler bands, in several series, the outermost narrowly ligulate,
1 to 2 cm. long, about 1 mm. wide, transversely banded with purple
and white, those of the second series slightly longer, dilated to 2 mm.
wide below middle, crispate at apex, those of the succeeding series
capillary, 1 to 1.5 mm. long; operculum membranous, incurved, the
margin erect, densely fimbriate; limen cupuliform, about 4 mm.
long, denticulate; ovary ovoid, tomentellous; fruit globose, about 4
cm. in diameter, yellow; seeds obovoid, about 4 mm. long, 3 mm.
wide, and 2 mm. thick, coarsely reticulate.
TYPE LOCALITY: "Dominica" (near Miragoan, Haiti; type collected
by Plumier).
ILLUSTRATIONS: Amoen. Acad. 1: pi. 10, f. 22; Plum. PI. Amer.
pi 81; Descourtilz, Fl. Pitt. MeU Antill. 5: pi. 351.
DISTRIBUTION: Cuba, Hispaniola, Trinidad, Surinam, British
Guiana, and northernmost Brazil.
CUBA: De la Sagra 8 (P), 74 (P), 314 (Gen), 566 (Gen); Read (B);
Wright 2600 (B, Bo, G, HA, S, Y). Santa Elena, Poeppig m 1823
(V). Habana: Jacquin (Ma). Pinar del Rio: Puerto Aldente, De
la Sagra in 1836 (N, P). Pinar del Rio, Baker & Abarca 8700 (B,
HV). Los Palacios, Shafer 11682 (Y). Santa Clara: La Sierra,
Jack 7729 (N, Y).
HAITI: Massif de la Hotte, Ekman H9033 (N); Eyerdam 855
(N, Y).
TRINIDAD: Thompson (Gen). Tetrons Bay, Trinidad Herb. 11901
(K, T, Y).
SURINAM: Hostmann(l} 633 (Ut).
BRITISH GUIANA: Schomburgk 339 (B, Bo), 633 (Brux, Gen, K, N,
Ut, V).
Rupununi River, Jenman 5538 (K).
(?)COLOMBIA: Mutis 2808 (Ma, N). The specimens in the Mutis
Herbarium were largely collected in Colombia, but a few have been
found that are obviously of West Indian or Ecuadorean origin.
BRAZIL: Amazonas: Rio Branco, Kuhlmann 3416 (N, S, Ut); Ule
7637 (B, Go, K).