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AMERICAN PASSIFLORACEAE 421<br />

Mocca, H. Johnson 98 (N). Chama, H. Johnson 471 (N), 511 (N).<br />

Baja Verapaz: Panzal, Turckheim 11.1725 (N).<br />

HONDURAS: Lancetilla Valley, Standley 52914 (N). Rio Esperanza,<br />

Wilson 445 (Y). Cuyamel, Carleton 436 (N).<br />

BRITISH HONDURAS: Toledo, Peck 663 (G, Y).<br />

1215 (Gen, Mich).<br />

Machaca, Schipp<br />

COSTA RICA: Villa Colon, M. Valerio 1818 (F).<br />

Standley & Valerio 48672 (N).<br />

Cairo, Limon,<br />

257. Passiflora loretensis <strong>Killip</strong>, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 21: 349.<br />

1931.<br />

Plant essentially glabrous throughout; stem terete, striate;<br />

stipules semi-oblong, 13 to 18 mm. long, 6 to 7 mm. wide, oblique,<br />

obtuse and mucronulate at apex, the midnerve slightly excentric;<br />

petioles 1.5 to 2 cm. long, bearing 2 pairs of subulate glands, one<br />

pair near apex, the other near middle, the glands 1.5 mm. long;<br />

leaves lanceolate, 10 to 12 cm. long, 5.5 to 6 cm. wide, acuminate<br />

at apex, cordulate and subpeltate at base, entire, 7-nerved, reticulateveined<br />

(nerves and veins strongly elevated beneath), coriaceous,<br />

sparsely pilosulous on nerves beneath, concolorous; peduncles 1.5<br />

to 3.5 cm. long, articulate about 5 mm. from apex; bracts cordateovate,<br />

2 to 2.5 cm. long, 1 to 1.5 cm. wide, acuminate or abruptly<br />

acute, mucronulate, membranous, light green, persistent; flowers<br />

about 5 cm. wide, pink(?); calyx tube broadly campanulate, about<br />

6 mm. long, 10 to 15 mm. wide at throat; sepals oblong, 1.8 to<br />

2 cm. long, 6 to 8 mm. wide, obtuse, cucullate toward apex, carinate,<br />

the keel terminating in an awn 4 to 5 mm. long; petals slightly<br />

shorter than sepals; corona filaments in 5 series, filiform, those of<br />

the 2 outer series radiate, about 1.5 cm. long, pale pink, the inner<br />

ones compact, 4 mm. long, deep pink; operculum membranous,<br />

5 mm. long, fimbriate to middle, deep pink; nectar ring a low ridge;<br />

limen tubular, 4 mm. long, closely surrounding base of gynophore,<br />

crenulate; ovary broadly ovoid; fruit globose, about 5 cm. in diameter,<br />

the exocarp coriaceous; seeds narrowly cuneate, 7 to 8 mm.<br />

long, 2 to 3 mm. wide, coarsely reticulate.<br />

TYPE LOCALITY: La Victoria, on Amazon River, Department of<br />

Loreto, Peru.<br />

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality,<br />

in northeastern<br />

Peru.

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