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AMERICAN PASSIFLORACEAE 149
This species is perhaps only another variant of P. misera, for
the flower structure is almost identical and in shape the leaves closely
approximate forms of P. misera. However, the ovary is very densely
pubescent, and as this character usually serves to distinguish species
of Plectostemma, I am maintaining P. leptoclada as a full species.
In the type and the Killip and Smith specimens the middle lobe is
developed in Williams 5252 it is almost absent.
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54. Passiflora misera HBK. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 136. 1817.
Passiflora Maximiliana Bory, Ann. Ge"n. Sci. Phys. Brux. 2: 149.
pi. 24. 1819.
Passiflora vespertilio Ker, Bot. Reg. 7: pi 597. 1821. Not P.
vespertilio L.
Passiflora discolor Link & Otto, Icon. PI. Select. 13: pi. 5. 1828.
Passiflora retusa Hook. Bot. Misc. 3: 325. 1833.
Cieca discolor M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 140. 1846.
Cieca misera M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 140. 1846.
Passiflora microcarpa Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1 :
556, 593.
1872.
Passiflora Maximiliana var. acutiloba Chod. Bull. Herb. Boiss. 7,
App. 1:74. 1899.
Passiflora Maximiliana var. retusa Chod. & Hassl. Bull. Herb.
Boiss. II. 4: 62. 1903.
Passiflora Maximiliana var. expansa Chod. & Hassl. Bull. Herb.
Boiss. II. 4: 62. 1903.
Passiflora laticaulis Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 14: 110. 1924.
Passiflora translinearis Rusby, Ann. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 7: 309.
1927, as to foliage.
Passiflora longilobis Hoehne, Linh. Telegr. Matto Grosso Annex.
5: Bot. pt. 1: 71. pi. 63. 1910.
Stem angulate or strongly compressed, striate, glabrous or finely
puberulous, sometimes scabrid ; stipules setaceous to narrowly linear,
2 to 3.5 mm. long, falcate; petioles 1 to 3.5 cm. long, glandless, glabrous
or finely puberulous; leaves 2-lobed (lobes widely divergent,
sometimes to an angle of nearly 90 degrees from the midnerve, the
leaves thus being almost transversely oblong or transversely linearoblong,
the lobes rounded at apex, rarely acutish, sometimes retuse,
occasionally a small intermediate lobe present), 0.5 to 2.5 cm. long
(midnerve), 4 to 13 cm. wide (between apices of lateral lobes),