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AMERICAN PASSIFLORACEAE 231
acute and aristulate), subrotund or subcordate at base, 3-nerved,
reticulate-veined (nerves and veins conspicuous on lower surface),
strigillose and slightly scabrous above, densely setulose-tomentose
beneath; peduncles in pairs, on the main stem or usually on leafy,
axillary branches, the leaves frequently wanting so that the inflorescence
appears racemose; bracts similar to the stipules, broadly cordate,
10 mm. long, 8 mm. wide, obtuse, reddish or violet-purple, glabrate
without, pilosulous within; flowers about 3 cm. wide; sepals linearoblong,
1.5 cm. long, 3 mm. wide, very densely pilose without, glabrate
within; petals linear-oblong, 8 mm. long, obtuse, pink; corona
filaments filiform, spotted with purple, in 2 series, the outer filaments
6 to 8 mm. long, the inner 2 mm. long, capitellate; operculum
about 2 mm. high, closely plicate, dark red below, pale yellow above,
denticulate, slightly incurved; limen erect, minutely pulverulent
above; ovary globose, densely white-pilose; fruit globose, about
1 cm. wide, transversely sulcate with 6 to 8 ridges, the ridges rugulose,
the axis slightly curved.
TYPE LOCALITY: Jutiapa, Guatemala.
ILLUSTRATION: Bot. Gaz. 20: pi. 86.
DISTRIBUTION: Southern Mexico to southern Guatemala, from
400 to 1,300 meters altitude.
MEXICO: Nee (Ma); Haenke 848 (Pr). Michoacan: Rio Coyaquilla,
Langlasse 837 (B, G, Gen, K, N, P). Colima: Colima,
Orcutt 4524 (F, Mo, N). Guerrero: Acapulco, Palmer 360 (Cal, F,
G, K, N, Y). Oaxaca: Nopala, Nelson 2429. (N). Plan de Minas,
Conzatti 4545 (N).
GUATEMALA: Jutiapa: Jutiapa, 425 meters, Heyde & Lux (J. D.
Smith 6334, B, Bo, Gen, N, type).
Because of a general similarity in the shape of the leaves, this
species might be confused with P. sexflora. The large bracts, varying
from bright red to violet-purple, the nonfasciculate inflorescence,
and the larger flowers readily distinguish it from that, however.
117a. Passiflora porphyretica var. angustata Killip,
var. nov.
Passiflora pannosa J. E. Sm. sensu Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey
Voy. 292. 1841. Not P. pannosa J. E. Sm.
Stipulae anguste lanceolatae vel setaceae, ca. 6 mm. longae, ad
0.8 mm. latae.
Stipules narrowly lanceolate or setaceous, about 6 mm. long,
0.8 mm. wide or less. Otherwise as in the species.