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AMERICAN PASSIFLORACEAE 19
coriacea is used to kill "chuchus." Other uses are mentioned in
connection with the individual species.
An interesting account of the cultivation of passion fruits is given
by W. T. Pope (Hawaii Agr. Exp. Sta. Bull. 74, 1935), with a list
of 18 papers on this subject.
GENERAL REMARKS
A study of Passifloraceae should be profusely illustrated. To
convey in words an accurate picture of the complicated flower
structure and the curious shape of the leaves is difficult. And only
a colored illustration can give any real idea of a living passionflower.
To appreciate this one has but to glance through the Botanical
Magazine and contrast the prosaic words of formal description with
the gorgeous reproductions accompanying them. My colleague,
Mr. E. C. Leonard, has generously prepared a few illustrations for
this paper, and for these I am very grateful. In an attempt to
offset this deficiency I have included in the treatment of the species
lists of the more important illustrations. In this connection mention
should be made of the superb paintings made under the direction
of Mutis for a flora of Colombia, which are preserved in the Jardin
Botanico, Madrid. Many of the color details given in the following
descriptions I have derived from these paintings.
During the course of these studies I have had unusual opportunities
to become acquainted with passionflowers both in their
native surroundings and in herbaria. Three major field trips, two
of them to Colombia and one to Peru and Amazonian Brazil, and
shorter expeditions to Cuba, Jamaica, Panama, and Curagao have
enabled me to study living plants of about 90 different species.
During these travels I have had the privilege of examining herbaria
rather infrequently visited by North American botanists such as
those at the Museu Goeldi, Pard; the Institute de La Salle, Bogota;
the Colegio de La Salle and the Academy of Sciences, Havana; and
Hope Gardens, Jamaica. On visits to Europe in 1925, 1932, and 1935
I was able to study the rich collections at the Royal Botanic Gardens,
Kew; the British Museum (Natural History); the Linnean Society;
the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris; the Jardin Botanico,
Madrid; the Jardin Botanique and the Boissier Herbarium, Geneva;
the Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna; the Botanisches Museum,
Berlin; the Jardin de 1'Etdt, Brussels; and the University of Utrecht.
Many specimens from these herbaria were lent me for more thorough
study in Washington. Through loans the greater part of the American
Passifloraceae in the Riksmuseet, Stockholm; Universitetets