downloads/Killip 1.pdf - Passion Flowers

192 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY BOTANY, VOL. XIX
irregularly crenulate and minutely papillose; fruit globose, about 1
cm. in diameter; seeds oblong, 2 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, transversely
about 5-sulcate.
TYPE LOCALITY: Sierra de Nipe, near Woodfred, Cuba, altitude
500 to 650 meters.
DISTRIBUTION: Eastern Cuba, between 500 and 1,000 meters
altitude.
CUBA: Oriente: Sierra de Nipe, Shafer 3554 (Y, type); Ekman
31161) (S), 3174 (S). Monte Libanon, Ekman 10293 (B, type of
P. intermedia, S).
The type specimen consists of foliage and a single fruit only.
Flowering material has recently been collected by Ekman, and Urban
has thus been able to supplement the original description.
Passiflora intermedia seems to differ from P. nipensis only in the
slightly narrower leaf lobes, with a development of the intermediate
lobe. The type specimen of P. nipensis does not permit diagnosis of
a flower, and it is impossible to say positively that the two are the
same. In this group of Plectostemma the degree of development of
the middle lobe varies so greatly within a species, or even in the case
of individual plants, that this character alone hardly warrants the
recognition of distinct species.
87. Passiflora bilobata Juss. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 6: 107. 1805.
Astephananthes bilobata Bory, Ann. Ge"n. Sci. Phys. Brux. 2: 138.
1819 (as Asephananthes)
.
Tacsonia bilobata Spreng. Syst. Veg. 3: 44. 1826.
Cieca bilobata M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 146. 1846.
Stem angulate, striate, purplish with age, glabrous or finely
pilosulous; stipules linear-subulate, 2 to 5 mm. long; petioles 5 to 10
mm. long, glandless; leaves bilobed about two-thirds their length,
0.5 to 1.5 cm. (midnerve), 2.5 to 7 cm. (lateral nerves), 2 to 7 cm.
between apices of lobes (lobes linear to linear-oblong, 0.5 to 1.5 cm.
wide, usually broadest at apex, sometimes emarginate), rounded at
base, slightly revolute, coriaceous or subcoriaceous, lustrous and
scabrellous above, dull, glabrous beneath; peduncles solitary or in
pairs, 0.8 to 3 cm. long, slender, articulate just below apex; bracts
linear-subulate, 2 to 3.5 mm. long, borne near base of peduncle;
flowers up to 1.5 cm. wide, greenish yellow; sepals ovate-lanceolate,
6 to 8 mm. long, 3 to 4 mm. wide, slightly keeled near apex; petals
4 to 6 mm. long, 3 mm. wide, obtuse, membranous; corona
linear,