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150 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY BOTANY, VOL. XIX
cordulate or subtruncate at base, 3-nerved (a pair of rather prominent
secondary nerves just below upper margin), inconspicuously
reticulate-veined, membranous, ocellate beneath, glabrous or minutely
pilosulous; peduncles solitary, rarely in pairs, slender, 1.5 to
10 cm. long; bracts setaceous, 3 to 5 mm. long, borne near apex of
peduncle; flowers 2.5 to 4 cm. wide; sepals lance-oblong to linearoblong,
10 to 18 mm. long, 3 to 5 mm. wide, obtuse, green and
usually puberulous without, white within; petals linear-oblong, 8 to
13 mm. long, 2 to 4 mm. wide, obtuse, white; corona filaments in 2
series, the outer filiform, 10 to 15 mm. long, attenuate at apex,
purplish (or white?), the inner linear, 3 to 4 mm. long, about 0.8
mm. wide, broadly capitate and often slightly emarginate; operculum
membranous, closely plicate, incurved, minutely fimbrillate at
margin; limen annular; ovary ovoid, glabrous; fruit globose, rarely
ovoid, 5 to 13 mm. in diameter; seeds narrowly ovate, about 3.5 mm.
long and 2 mm. wide, transversely sulcate, the ridges about 10.
TYPE LOCALITY: Between Turbaco and Cartagena, Colombia.
ILLUSTRATIONS: Link & Otto, Icon. PI. Select, pi. 5; Bot. Reg. 7:
pi. 597; Ann. Ge"n. Sci. Phys. Brux. 2: pi. 24; Lodd. Bot. Cab. 6:
pi. 565; Illust. Hort. 16: 2; Linh. Telegr. Matto Grosso Annex. 5:
Bot.pt. I: pi. 63. 1910.
DISTRIBUTION: Panama; northern and eastern South America to
northern Argentina; at low elevations.
PANAMA: Hayes 356 (BM, K). Bailemona, Stevens 687 (N).
Canal Zone: Monte Lirio, Killip 12187 (N) ;
Maxon 6841 (N). Trinidad
River, Pittier 3998 (N). Mindi, Cowell 169 (N, Y). Barro
Colorado Island, Kenoyer 456 (N) ; Bailey & Bailey 258 (N) ;
Chickering
52 (Mich).
SURINAM: Tulleken 256 (Leid).
112 (Ut).
Corantijne, Stahel & Gonggrijp
BRITISH GUIANA: Schomburgk 818 (B, Bo, K, N, Ut). Rapanuni
British Guiana Herb. 136 (BG).
River, Jenman 5539 (K).
(S).
VENEZUELA: Federal District: Silla de Caracas, Ernst in 1880
Trujillo: La Ceiba, Pittier 10871 (G, N).
COLOMBIA: Magdalena Valley, Dawe 954 (K). Magdalena:
Santa Marta, H. H. Smith 1591 (A, B, Brux, CM, F, G, Gen, K,
Ma, N, Ph, S, Ut, Y); Perez 4924 (HNC). Bolivar: Turbaco,
Humboldt & Bonpland (BW, P, type). Cundinamarca: Susumuco,
1,200 meters, Pennell 1723 (Y, type of P. laticaulis).