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AMERICAN PASSIFLORACEAE 407
they are without awns, apparently an important difference in the
subgenus Granadilla; the principal or radiate corona filaments are in
a single series and concolorous in P. cuzcoensis, in two series and
alternately banded with blue and white in P. sidaefolia; the inner
corona consists of short filaments in P. cuzcoensis, of mere tubercles
in P. sidaefolia.
244. Passiflora sidaefolia M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 173. 1846.
Passiflora tetraden Veil. Fl. Flumin. 9: pi. 91. 1827 (figure only);
Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 611. pi. 122, f. 2. 1872.
Not P. tetradena Vand. (1828).
Plant essentially glabrous throughout; stem terete, slender, wiry;
stipules semi-ovate, 10 to 20 mm. long, 6 to 10 mm. wide, acute or
subacute at apex, aristate (awn 1 to 3 mm. long), rounded at base;
petioles 1 to 3 cm. long, biglandular near middle, usually with a pair
of glands near apex also; leaves suborbicular in general outline, 4 to
7 cm. long, nearly as broad, 3-lobed at apex (lobes rounded or subacute
at apex, the middle lobe prominent [young leaves often with
the middle lobe reduced, hence the leaves shallowly truncate-lobed],
the lateral lobes often much reduced), rounded at base, 3 (or pbsoletely
5) -nerved, subcoriaceous, lustrous above, green or glauescent
beneath; peduncles solitary, 1 to 1.5 cm. long; bracts cordate-orbiculate
or cordate-lanceolate, 2 to 4 cm. long, 2 to 3.5 cm. wide, rounded
or subacute at apex, sessile, thin-membranous, pinkish, imbricate,
one slightly smaller and borne just below the two others; flowers
about 8 cm. wide; sepals oblong-lanceolate, 2.5 to 3 cm. long, 1 to
1.3 cm. wide, obtuse, ecorniculate; petals similar to the sepals,
slightly narrower; corona filaments in 5 series, those of the 2 outer
ligulate, filiform at tips, 2.5 to 3 cm. long, white(?), banded with
purple, the inner filaments reduced to short, dentiform tubercles;
operculum membranous, about 5 mm. high, incurved, crenulate at
margin; limen cupuliform, closely surrounding base of gynophore;
ovary ovoid, glaucous; fruit globose, about 3 cm. in diameter, the
pericarp coriaceous; seeds obovate, about 5 mm. long, 3 mm. wide,
closely and finely reticulate.
TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil.
ILLUSTRATIONS: Veil. Fl. Flumin. 9: pi. 91; Mart. Fl. Bras. 13,
pt. 1: pi. 122, f. 2.
DISTRIBUTION: Brazil, Minas Geraes to Sao Paulo.
BRAZIL: Minas Geraes: Vicosa, 1,300 meters, Mexia 4659a (Cal).
Caldas, Hoehne 3818 (B). Rio de Janeiro: Cosmo Velho, Miers