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AMERICAN PASSIFLORACEAE 403
8 mm. high, white, adnate to gynophore except at margin; ovary
ovoid, short-stipitate, glaucous-pruinose.
TYPE LOCALITY: Central or southern Brazil; described from a
plant cultivated in Kew Gardens.
ILLUSTRATIONS: Gard. Chron. n. ser. 26: 649. /. 127. 1886;
111. Hort. 36: pi. 74; Garden 33: 194.
DISTRIBUTION: Central or southern Brazil.
BRAZIL: Collector uncertain (K, type). From type(?) plant
cultivated at Kew Gardens, Killip 13072a (N). Sao Paulo: Campinas,
Campos Novaes 845 (N).
From P. kermesina this species is easily distinguished by the
color of its flowers, shorter peduncles, and finer bracts.
A plant, possibly that from which the type specimen was taken,
was flowering profusely at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, at the
time of my visit in 1925.
240. Passiflora Eggersii Harms, Bot. Jahrb. 18: Beibl. 46: 7. 1894.
Stem subangulate, softly pilosulous; stipules semi-ovate or subreniform,
8 to 10 mm. long, 4 to 5 mm. wide, cuspidate, rounded at
base, entire; petioles up to 3 cm. long, minutely 4-6-glandular above
middle; leaves ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, 8 to 12 cm. long, 4 to
7 cm. wide, acute or acuminate at apex, subtruncate or cordulate at
base, entire, 5-nerved, glabrescent above, softly pilosulous beneath;
peduncles 10 to 15 cm. long; bracts ovate-oblong, 3 to 4 mm. long,
1.5 to 2 mm. wide, acute, mucronulate, dissitate along upper half of
peduncle; flowers red, up to 10 cm. wide when expanded; calyx tube
broadly cylindric-campanulate, about 1 cm. long, 1.5 cm. wide, the
sepals and petals at first radiate, at length reflexed; sepals lanceolate,
4 to 5 cm. long, 1 to 1.3 cm. wide; petals slightly shorter than the
sepals; corona filaments ligulate, in 4 series, reddish purple, the outermost
4 to 5 mm. long, those of the succeeding series 2 to 3 mm. long,
pale at tips; operculum membranous, erect, about 2 mm. high,
slightly plicate, bearing a row of filaments about 4 mm. long on
outer surface just below the crenulate margin; limen short-tubular,
closely surrounding base of gynophore; gynophore slender; ovary
ovoid-ellipsoidal, glabrous.
TYPE LOCALITY: Bulao (Balao), Ecuador.
DISTRIBUTION: Western Ecuador. A note by Lehmann states
that this species occurs in the whole littoral region between Santa
Rosa and Naranjal.