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AMERICAN PASSIFLORACEAE 415
252. Passiflora retipetala Mast. Kew Bull. Misc. Inf. 1893: 12.
1893.
Plant glabrous throughout; stem terete or subangulate; stipules
semi-ovate, 10 to 20 mm. long (including a filiform awn 6 to
7 mm. long), 6 to 10 mm. wide, midnerve excentric; petioles
2 to 5 cm. long, 6-8-glandular, glands sessile, about 0.7 mm. in
diameter; leaves subcordate-ovate, 6 to 10 cm. long, 4 to 7 cm. wide,
acute or acuminate, subtruncate or cordulate at base, 5-nerved,
membranous or subcoriaceous; peduncles 2.5 to 3 cm. long; bracts
cordate-ovate, 2 to 2.5 cm. long, 1 to 1.5 cm. wide, acute, mucronate;
flowers 5 to 7 cm. wide; sepals oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 2 to 3 cm.
long, 1 cm. wide, obtuse, white within; petals narrowly lanceolate
or slightly spatulate, 2.5 to 3.2 cm. long, 8 to 10 mm. wide, obtuse,
1-nerved, white, conspicuously reticulate with arcuate veins; corona
filaments filiform, in about 5 series, the outermost radiate, 1.5 to 2.5
cm. long, the others erect, 2 to 4 mm. long, slightly thickened toward
apex; operculum membranous at base, filamentose above, the filaments
about 5 mm. long; limen cupuliform; ovary ovoid or subglobose,
glaucous-pruinose. /
TYPE LOCALITY: Mazaruni River, British Guiana.
DISTRIBUTION: British Guiana and northern Brazil.
BRITISH GUIANA: Taylor in 1916 (Y). Mazaruni River, Jenman
5791 (K, type). Junction of Mazaruni and Cuyuni rivers, Graham
126 (CM).
BRAZIL: Amazonas: Manaos, Ducke 24045 (N).
This is most easily recognized among species of this relationship
by the length of the awns of the stipules and the conspicuously veined
petals, which are longer than the sepals.
253. Passiflora actinia Hook. Bot. Mag. 69: pi 4009. 1843.
Passiflora paulensis Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 17: 428. 1927.
Plant glabrous throughout; stem sub terete, slender, wiry; stipules
semi-ovate, 1 to 4 cm. long, 0.5 to 2 cm. wide, rounded or acuminate
and aristulate at apex, rounded at base, attached laterally (hence
subreniform), entire or slightly crenulate, 1-nerved (nerve strongly
excentric), reticulate-veined, subcoriaceous; petioles 0.5 to 5 cm.
long, slender, 4-glandular, the glands sessile or subsessile, usually one
pair near apex and one pair near base of petiole; leaves broadly oval
or suborbicular, 3 to 10 cm. long, 2 to 8 cm. wide, entire, subpeltate,
rounded or slightly narrowed at base, quintuplinerved or septupli-