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394 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY BOTANY, VOL. XIX
wide, obtuse or acute at apex, sharply serrate,
pectinate, or almost
lacerate, often marginally glandular; flowers up to 7 cm. wide;
sepals oblong, 3 to 3.5 cm. long, about 1 cm. wide, corniculate,
green without, white within; petals oblong, 2.5 to 3 cm. long,
5 to 7 mm. wide, obtuse, white; corona filaments in 4 or 5 series,
those of the 2 outer series filiform or narrowly liguliform, 1.5 to 2.5
cm. long (or as short as 0.5 mm.), crispate toward apex, white,
purple at base, those of the succeeding series 2 to 2.5 mm. long,
linear-falcate, or reduced to minute dentiform processes; interior of
tube between corona and operculum smooth or minutely tuberculate;
operculum membranous, incurved, entire, or short-fimbrillate;
limen cupuliform, entire or crenulate; ovary ovoid or globose,
sericeo-tomentose or glabrous; fruit ovoid or globose, 4 to 5 cm.
in diameter, yellow, greenish yellow, or purplish; seeds oval, 5 to 6
mm. long, 3 to 4 mm. wide, reticulate, the reticulations minute.
TYPE LOCALITY: Type from a plant cultivated in Europe, probably
originally from Brazil.
ILLUSTRATIONS: Amoen. Acad. 1: pi 10, f. 19; Bot. Mag. 45:
pi 1989; Bot. Reg. 2: pi 152; Veil. Fl. Flumin. 9: pi 89, pi 90?;
Rev. Hort. IV. 6: pi 224; 1867: 390; 1883: 489; Mart. Fl. Bras.
13, pt. 1: pi 122; Nicholson, Illustr. Diet. Gard. 3: pi 30; Gard.
Chron. III. 23: 101; 36: 202; Bailey, Cycl. Amer. Hort. 1222, /. 1652;
Stand. Cycl. Hort. 2483, /. 2771; Contr. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro
3: pi 9A; Popenoe, Man. Trop. Fr. pi 10; Fawc. & Rendle, Fl.
Jamaica 5, pt. 3: 234, /. 93; Garden 66: 427; Paxton, Mag. 9: pi 51;
Ochse, Fruit & Fruitcult. in Dutch E. Ind. pi 39. 1931.
DISTRIBUTION: Throughout Brazil, where apparently native,
entering Paraguay and northern Argentina. Common as an escape
in Jamaica and known from a few other islands of the West Indies
and from Central America, northern Venezuela, and Ecuador.
Extensively cultivated in Australia and Hawaii.
GUATEMALA: Guatemala City, cultivated, Ruano 1278 (N).
COSTA RICA: Jardin del Museo, San Jose", Tonduz 17459 (G).
BERMUDA: Brown, Britton & Worthley 1774 (Y); Brown, Britton
6 Bisset 2065 (Y).
CUBA: Habana: Santiago de Las Vegas, cultivated, Baker 93
(Cop, G, N, Y).
JAMAICA: Hansen in 1897 (Cop); Hart 595 (N). Blue Mountains,
1,500 to 1,750 meters, Rothrock 52 (F); Maxon 10244 (N, Y); Maxon