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222 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY BOTANY, VOL. XIX
and Rose 23343 from the type locality show flowers, fruit, and
especially seeds that differ in no way from those of P. rubra.
LOCAL NAMES: "Pasionaria de cerca" (Cuba); "liane couleuvre"
(Haiti); "bull hoof," "Dutchman's laudanum" (Jamaica); "mazomanchachi"
(Cuzco)Ṡection
5. Pseudodysosmia
111. Passiflora adenopoda DC. Prodr. 3: 330. 1828.
Passiflora acerifolia Schlecht. & Cham. Linnaea 5: 89. 1830.
Dysosmia acerifolia M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn.
2: 151. 1846.
Ceratosepalum micranthum Oerst. AmeY. Centr. pi. 17. 1863.
Passiflora ceratosepala Mast. Trans. Linn. Soc. 27: 630. 1871; in
Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 555. 1872.
Passiflora aspera Sess< & Moc. Fl. Mex. 227. 1887.
(?) Passiflora scabra Sesse" & Moc. Fl. Mex. 228. 1887.
Stem angulate, glabrate or hispidulous; stipules semi-orbicular,
1 cm. long, 1.5 cm. wide, entire or cuspidate-toothed; petioles 3 to 5
cm. long, sparingly or densely pubescent, bearing (about 8 mm. from
base of blade) 2 opposite, orbicular glands 2 to 4 mm. in diameter,
their stipes slender, 6 to 8 mm. long; leaves 7 to 12 cm. long, 8 to 15
cm. wide, 3-5-lobed (lobes ovate, abruptly acuminate), cordate,
3-5-nerved, entire or remotely and minutely denticulate, hispidulous
on both surfaces; peduncles solitary or in pairs, 2 to 2.5 cm. long;
bracts 3, borne at middle of peduncle, lanceolate or oblong, 7 to 10
mm. long, 4 to 6 mm. wide, lacerate; flowers 2 to 7 cm. wide; sepals
oblong-lanceolate, 2 to 4 cm. long, about 1 cm. wide, obtuse, becoming
concave above middle, terminating in a horn 1 cm. long, greenish
white or yellowish; petals linear-lanceolate, 1 to 1.2 cm. long, 0.5 mm.
wide; corona filaments in a single series, filiform, 1.5 to 1.8 cm. long;
white, purple-banded; operculum membranous, plicate, the margin
incurved; limen annular, 1 mm. high; ovary subglobose or oblong,
densely brown-tomentose; fruit globose, 2 to 2.5 cm. in diameter,
puberulent; seeds obcordate, strongly flattened, narrowed at base,
6 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, 1 mm. thick, straw-colored, reticulate with
15 to 20 central meshes 0.5 mm. in diameter, surrounded by a
marginal row of slightly larger (0.8 mm. in diameter) meshes, the
reticulation walls acute.
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TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico.
ILLUSTRATIONS: A. DC. Dess. Fl. Mex. 1: pi. 32; Oersted, AmeY.
Centr. pi. 17; Mutis, Icon. PI. Ined. 26: pi. 30.