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AMERICAN PASSIFLORACEAE 249
131. Passiflora cubensis Urban, Symb. Ant. 3: 326. 1902.
Passiflora coriacea A. Rich, in Sagra, Hist. Cuba 10: 288. 1845.
Not P. coriacea Juss.
Plant essentially glabrous; stem 3-4-angular, striate; stipules
linear-subulate, 2 to 3 mm. long, persistent; petioles 4 to 10 mm.
long, glandless, purplish; leaves obdeltoid or semi-ovate in general
outline, normally bilobed about one-third the length of the blade
(1.5 to 4 cm. along midnerve, 3 to 5 cm. along lateral nerves, 2.5 to
5 cm. at greatest width; lobes rounded or truncate at apex, often
emarginate, rarely acute, the sinus usually rounded; extreme forms
lobed to below middle, the lobes suberect, or nearly truncate at upper
margin and merely emarginate at the tips of the principal nerves),
cuneate or rounded at base, 3-nerved, ocellate, coriaceous or subcoriaceous,
lustrous above; peduncles solitary or in pairs, 1.5 to 2 cm.
long, articulate above middle; bracts setaceous, 2 to 3 mm. long,
borne at or below point of articulation; flowers red; calyx bowlshaped,
4 to 6 mm. long, 5 to 10 mm. wide, introrse at base, not
sulcate; sepals linear-oblong, 1.5 to 2.5 cm. long, 4 to 6 mm. wide,
obtuse; petals linear-oblong, 1 to 2 cm. long, 2.5 to 3 mm. wide,
obtuse; corona filamentose, the filaments in a single series, narrowly
linear, 4 to 6 mm. long, subulate at tips, yellowish; operculum membranous,
erect or very slightly incurved, 1.5 to 2 mm. long, denticulate;
limen apparently none; ovary ovoid or subglobose, faintly
longitudinally ribbed; fruit globose, up to 2 cm. in diameter; seeds
narrowly obovate, about 3 mm. long, 1 to 1.5 mm. wide, transversely
6-7-sulcate.
TYPE LOCALITY: Calicita, Santa Clara, Cuba.
DISTRIBUTION: Central and eastern Cuba, up to 700 meters
altitude.
CUBA: De la Sagra (P, type of P. coriacea Rich.). Sierra Maestra,
Leon 10557 (Y); Clement 563 (HS). Habana: Habana, Otto 191 (B).
Matanzas: San Miguel de los Bafios, Kittip 13855 (N); Le6n &
Roca 8866 (HS, N, Y). Santa Clara: Calicita, Combs 318 (B, type,
F, G, Y). Santa Clara, Britton & Cowell 10193 (Y) ;
L. B. Smith et al.
3145 (N). Cienfuegos Bay, Britton & Wilson 5714 (Y); Jack 7712
(N). Sancti Spiritus, Luna 955 (HS). Motembo, Le6n 9335 (HS).
Zapata, Ekman 18352 (B, S). Mordoza, Bailey 15223 (N). Camagiiey:
Roig 6066 (HV). La Gloria, Shafer 361 (Y). Pueblo Romano,
Shafer 2451 (F, N, Y). Camagiiey, Ekman 15365 (B, BM, S);
Shafer 871 (Y), 13107 (B, Y). Oriente: Wright 198a (B, Brux, G,