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414 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY BOTANY, VOL. XIX
Plant glabrous throughout; stem terete, often purplish; stipules
semi-ovate (subreniform), 1 to 3 cm. long, 0.5 to 1 cm. wide, conspicuously
reticulate- veined, coriaceous; petioles up to 4 cm. long,
bearing 2 to 5 short-stipitate glands; leaves lanceolate, ovatelanceolate,
or oblong-lanceolate, up to 15 cm. long, 10 cm. wide,
acute, cordate and subpeltate at base, 5-nerved (midnerve prominent),
reticulate- veined, entire, usually hyaline-cartilaginous at
margin, thick-coriaceous; peduncles solitary, 5 to 6 cm. long, slender;
bracts cordate-ovate, about 1 cm. long and wide, rounded and
minutely apiculate at apex, subentire, thin-herbaceous, pinkish,
densely spotted with red; flowers 3 to 4 cm. wide, white, pink-tinged;
as long as the petals,
sepals oblong, about 1.5 cm. long and 7 mm. wide, obtuse, cucullate,
dorsally awned, the awn barely 1 mm. long; petals slightly narrower
than the sepals; corona filaments in 3 series, the outermost radiate,
the inner 2 much shorter; operculum membranous,
incurved, serrulate; limen cupuliform, closely surrounding
base of gynophore; ovary ovoid, stipitate, glabrous; fruit ovoid or
subglobose, about 3 cm. in diameter; seeds oblong-cuneate, about
5 mm. long, 3.5 mm. wide, reticulate.
TYPE LOCALITY: Corcovado, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
ILLUSTRATIONS: Bot. Ergebn. Reise Maxim, pi. 8; (?)Vell. Fl.
Flumin. 9: pi. 72.
DISTRIBUTION: Southeastern Brazil, Minas Geraes to Santa
Catharina.
BRAZIL: Sello 5960 (B). Minas Geraes: Fazenda de Grama,
Carangola, Mexia 4251 (N). Rio de Janeiro: Corcovado, Wawra &
Maly 530 (V, type). Rio de Janeiro, Ducke 21312 (K, N); Kuhlmann
2265 (Ut); St. Hilaire 719 (P); Miers (BM, K). Gavea,
Glaziou 6551 (Cop, Gen, P). Tijuca, Glaziou 3020 (Brux, Cop, P).
Mt. Itatiaia, L. B. Smith 1630 (N). Sao Paulo: Santos, Mosen 3175
(S). Parana: Porto Dom Pedro, Dusen 4418 (S). Rio Branco,
Dusen 13821 (BM, S). Alexandra, Dusen 11494 (Gen, N, S). Santa
Catharina: Beechey (K, type of P. colorata). Sao Francisco, Ule
369 (B).
The bracts, though smaller, resemble those of P. actinia in shape
and coloring. The outline of the leaves and the structure of the
corona of these two species are quite different, however. From
P. mucronata and P. Galbana this species is readily distinguished
by its slender peduncles.