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AMERICAN PASSIFLORACEAE 139
SALVADOR: Ahuachapan, Standley 19887 (N, Y), 20024 (G, N);
Padilla 4 (N).
P).
Sonsonate, Calderdn 2222 (N).
NICARAGUA: Chaves 332 (N).
Masaya, Maxon 7704 (N).
Granada, Levy 392 (Cop, Bo, Gen,
VENEZUELA: Moritz (or Otto?) 2001 (BM, V); Karsten (V).
Orinoco River, Humboldt & Bonpland (BW). Yaracuy: Iboa,
Pittier 13095 (B, F, Gen, Mo, N, Y).
There is probably an error in the locality given for Hartweg's
type specimen. Passiflora filipes is a fairly common species in
Mexico, but there is no record of it in Ecuador other than that of
the Hartweg collection. Labels on the specimens of Hartweg 661 in
the New York Botanical Garden and the Muse'um d'Histoire
Naturelle, Paris, both read "Guayaquil." In the specimen at
Geneva the word "Mexico," printed on the label, is crossed out and
"Guayaquil" written in. Hartweg collected in both Mexico and
in Ecuador, and at about the same period.
There is not a vestige of a bract on any of the numerous specimens
examined, even those with very young peduncles, of the three
species, P. filipes, P. Pavonis, and P. lutea. Both P. filipes and
P. Pavonis were described as having small, deciduous bracts, but
I
believe their presence was assumed.
LOCAL NAMES: "Pasiflorita"
(Salvador).
(Nicaragua); "sandillita de pajaro"
45. Passiflora Pavonis Mast. Journ. Bot. Brit. & For. 21: 35. 1883.
Stem angled, grooved, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, the
branches densely pubescent; stipules narrowly falcate, 3 mm. long,
acuminate, deciduous; petioles filiform, 0.5 to 1.5 cm. long, densely
puberulent, glandless; leaves 1 to 3 cm. long, 2 to 5 cm. wide, 3-lobed
at apex (lobes nearly equal in length, rounded or truncate, mucronate,
the middle the broader), rounded at base, strongly 3-5-nerved, entire,
dark green and glabrous above, beneath paler and appressed-hirtellous
on the nerves; peduncles in pairs, slender, 1 to 2.5 cm. long,
puberulent; bracts none; flowers 1.5 to 2 cm. wide, yellowish green;
calyx tube setulose, ventricose at base; sepals linear-lanceolate, 10 to
12 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, acuminate, obscurely 3-nerved, minutely
puberulent without, glabrous within; petals 3 to 4 mm. long, barely
1.5 mm. wide, acute; corona filaments in 2 series, capillary, the outer
ones one-third to one-half the length of the petals, reflexed, the inner
about 2 mm. long, erect; operculum membranous, plicate, the margin