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248 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY BOTANY, VOL. XIX
to this species. The third sheet, labeled "Guyana," consists of a
mixture of the foliage of P. vespertilio and a flower of P. glandulosa.
The shape of the calyx differs in these specimens. In many of
them it is cylindric, of nearly uniform diameter, except at the base,
where it is much enlarged. In Maxon & Killip 418 it is narrowed
to the peduncle. Further study of all available material is necessary,
in order to determine whether more than one species is represented.
LOCAL NAMES: "Red wiss," "puss-gut."
130. Passiflora tacsonioides Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. I. 295. 1860.
Plant glabrous throughout; stem subquadrangular; stipules
linear-setaceous, 3 to 4 mm. long, falcate; petioles about 1 cm.
long, glandless; leaves transversely oblong in general outline, 2 to
6 cm. long, 4 to 8 cm. wide, 2-3-lobed at apex or at least not more
than a third their length (lobes rounded, apiculate), rounded at base,
ocellate beneath, coriaceous, lustrous above; peduncles "axillary,
simple, 2-1, twice as long as the petiole, jointed above the middle";
bracts "setaceous" ;
flowers 3 cm. long; calyx "red, the tube campanulate,
thrice shorter than the oblong-linear lobes"; petals "linear";
corona "short, filamentose, distant from the lacerate appendages
of the disc."
TYPE LOCALITY: Jamaica.
DISTRIBUTION: Jamaica.
JAMAICA: Wullschldgel 842 (B, fragment of type). Montego Bay,
Maxon & Killip 1675a (N). Fern Gully, Maxon 10376 (N). Hermitage
Dam, Maxon 8769 (N), 8770 (N), 8772 (N). House Hill, St.
Thomas, Maxon 9055 (N). Trafalgar River, Maxon & Killip 806
(N), 808 (N). Bath, Boughton 31 (N). John Crow Mountains,
Maxon & Killip 254 (N).
This may be merely a form of P. oblongata. Of the 11 specimens
here cited the fragmentary type material at Berlin alone has flowers.
I made no dissection of these, which are much larger than in P.
oblongata, and the floral characters stated above are derived from
Grisebach's description. The leaves of the type are transversely
oblong, suggestive of forms of P. Murucuja. The leaves of the sterile
specimens examined vary from transversely oblong to rather deeply
bilobed, similar to forms of P. biflora; but in all cases the leaves,
which appear to be fully developed, are decidedly broader than long,
thus serving to distinguish the plant at once from typical P. oblongata.