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AMERICAN PASSIFLORACEAE 157
2-3-lobed (lobes divaricate, acuminate, the sinus shallowly lunate
or wanting, i.e., upper margin of leaf truncate, often undulate),
variable in shape, ranging from 6.5 cm. long and 9 cm. wide to 3 cm.
long and 10 cm. wide, rounded or subtruncate at base,
3-nerved,
ocellate, coriaceous, glabrous and lustrous above, glabrous or slightly
puberulent beneath; peduncles solitary or in pairs, 0.5 to 1.5 cm.
long, articulate near middle; bracts setaceous, about 3 mm. long,
borne below middle of peduncle; flowers up to 5 cm. wide; sepals
broadly lance-oblong, 1.5 to 2 cm. long, 7 to 8 mm. wide at base,
obtuse, subcoriaceous, yellowish green; petals oblong, 1 to 1.2 cm.
long, about 4 mm. wide at base, obtuse, membranous, yellowish
green; corona filaments in 2 series, the outer narrowly liguliform,
yellowish green, united at base into a broad, greenish white membrane,
the free filaments 1 to 1.5 cm. long, the inner filaments capillary,
3 to 4 mm. long, arising about 2 mm. from the free portion of the
outer series, greenish white; operculum membranous, closely plicate,
lobulate, white; limen annular; gynophore purple; ovary ovoid,
glabrous; fruit subglobose, 1 to 1.5 cm. in diameter; seeds obovate,
about 4 mm. long and 2 mm. wide, transversely sulcate.
TYPE LOCALITY: "America."
ILLUSTRATIONS: Amoen. Acad. 1: pi. 10, f. 11; Dillen. Hort. Elth.
pi. 137; Ann. Ge*n. Sci. Phys. Brux. 2: pi. 22, f. 8, 9; Cav. Diss.
10: pi. 271; Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 21: 495. /. 229A.
DISTRIBUTION: Trinidad, Guianas, and lower Amazon, Brazil;
Amazonian basin of Peru and Bolivia; at low elevations.
TRINIDAD: Aripo Estate, Trinidad Herb. 2592 (N, T).
Trinidad Herb. 8465 (T).
FRENCH GUIANA: Gabriel in 1802 (Gen).
Chatham,
Karouay, Sagot (P, S).
SURINAM: Hering (Ph); Hostmann 1095 (BM, Gen, P, V); Hostmann
& Kappler 478a (P, S); Kappler 142 (S); Focke 535 (Ut),
1246 (Ut). Saramacca River, Pulle 497 (Ut). Lower Surinam River,
Soeprata 35F (Ut). Paramaribo, Went 568 (Ut); Wullschlagel 214
(Brux); Splitgerber 603 (Leid, N, Ph, V). Upper Nickerie River,
B. W. 1036 (Ut). Gonini River, Gonggrijp 14 (Ut). Matappi,
Corantijne River, Gonggrijp 11 (Ut). Tapanahoni River, Versteeg
708 (Ut). Brownsberg, Zaandam 6893 (Ut).
BRITISH GUIANA: Schomburgk 154 (B), 664 (Gen, N, V). "Coast
lands," Jenman 2052 (BG), 5075 (Y). Barina River, Jenman 6997
(BG) ;
De la Cruz 3411 (N, Y). Demerera Gardens, Jenman 4222 (N).
Rockstone, Gleason 863 (N, Y). Essequibo River, Gleason 908 (Y).