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418 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY BOTANY, VOL. XIX
acuminate, subcordate at base, coriaceous or subcoriaceous, glabrous
above, pilose with long, appressed hairs and glaucous beneath;
peduncles 2 to 4 cm. long; bracts ovate, about 1 cm. long, acute,
borne at base of flower; calyx tube 6 mm. long, 9 mm. wide at
throat; sepals lanceolate, 2 cm. long, 8 mm. wide, 1-nerved (nerve
keeled dorsally, terminating in an awn 1.3 cm. long), reflexed, green
without, white within; petals linear-lanceolate, 2 cm. long, 5 mm.
wide, obtuse, white; corona filaments in 2 main groups, the outer
in a single series, filiform, 2 cm. long, reflexed at tips, white, banded
or densely mottled at base with red-violet, banded at middle with
dark purple, dark purple in upper third, the second group consisting
of a dense mass (i. e., not in definite series) of erect, capillary filaments,
6 mm. long, red-violet, white at apex; operculum membranous,
3 mm. long, erect, filamentose at margin with hyaline hairs;
nectar ring annular, horizontally spreading inward; limen cupuliform,
5 mm. high, closely adherent to gynophore, minutely denticulate
at margin, light yellow-green; gynophore and styles white,
spotted with red-violet; stigmas green, orbicular; ovary ellipsoidal,
glaucous.
TYPE LOCALITY: Near Frontino, Department of Antioquia,
Colombia.
DISTRIBUTION: Western Cordillera of Colombia and central
Ecuador, 1,500 to 2,000 meters altitude.
COLOMBIA: Antioquia: Frontino, Lehmann XI (Bo, type). El
La Cumbre, Pennell & Killip 5877 (G, N, Ph, Y); Kittip &
Valle:
Hazen 11120 (G, N, Ph, Y).
ECUADOR: Leon: Naranjal, Lehmann 5663 (K).
Closely related to P. Oerstedii, this species differs in its longer,
curved petiolar glands, thicker leaves, and larger flowers, and in the
arrangement of the corona filaments. Dimensions and color notes
of floral parts are based on field notes of Killip & Hazen 11120.
256. Passiflora Oerstedii Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1:
562. 1872.
Passiflora populifolia Triana & Planch. Ann. Sci. Nat. V. Bot.
17: 150. 1873.
Passiflora Purpusii Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 12: 261. 1922.
Passiflora dispar Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 12: 330. 1922.
Stem slender, glabrous, terete or the younger parts subangular;
stipules semi-ovate, 1 to 4 cm. long, 0.5 to 1.5 cm. wide, acuminate