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THE AMERICAN SPECIES OF 

PASSIFLORACEAE 

BY 

ELLSWORTH P. 

KILLIP 

ASSOCIATE CURATOR, DIVISION OF PLANTS 

UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 

THE LIBRARY OF THE 

APR 11 1938 

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 

BOTANICAL SERIES 

FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 

VOLUME XIX, PART I 

MARCH 31, 1938 

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CONTENTS 

List of illustrations 5 

Introduction 7 

Historical survey 8 

Varying concepts of classification 8 

General morphology 11 

Economic uses 18 

General remarks 19 

List of abbreviations for herbaria cited 20 

Bibliography 22 

Systematic treatment 23 

List of exsiccatae 582 

Index . 602 

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 

TEXT FIGURES 

1. a, Passiflora vitifolia; b, P. andina; c, P. foetida var. 

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santiagana 13 

2. a, Passiflora heterohelix (natural size) ; b, P. gracillima 

(natural size) ; c, P. nitida 15

THE AMERICAN SPECIES OF PASSIFLORACEAE 

ELLSWORTH P. KiLLiP 1 

INTRODUCTION 

Passionflowers have always had great popular appeal. Early 

Spanish missionaries to the New World saw in the corona, the longstalked 

ovary, surmounted by three styles, and the stamens a 

resemblance to the Crucifixion, and from this came the popular 

and scientific name. Drawings and descriptions of these "marvellous" 

flowers were taken back to Europe, and as early as 1610 

Jacomo Boscio presented the Flos Passionis to the world as "the 

most wondrous example of the Croce trionfante discovered in forest 

or field." (See Plant lore, legends, and lyrics, by Richard Folkard, Jr., 

London, 1884, portions of which are reproduced in Bailey's Standard 

Cyclopedia of Horticulture.) 

The present paper had its beginning in an attempt to present a 

taxonomic revision of the Mexican and Central American species 

of Passiflora. Before that was completed, however, I had opportunities 

for field work in parts of South America in which the genus 

was abundantly represented. The study of the material obtained 

on these expeditions and the incidental identification of other South 

American specimens, as well as material from the West Indies, led 

to an enlargement of the scope of the original project, to include all 

of the American Passifloraceae. 

Masters' monograph of the family in Flora Brasiliensis (1872) was 

a thorough elaboration of the American species known at that time. 

Since then, about 250 New World species have been proposed, but 

except for Harms' necessarily brief survey in the second edition of 

Die naturlichen Pflanzenfamilien no attempt has been made to bring 

together in a single treatment these recently described species, so 

as to establish their relationship with each other and with earlier 

ones. Moreover, the intensive exploration of tropical America in 

the last 50 years, especially in Mexico, Central America, and the 

Andes, has resulted in the acquisition of a large amount of herbarium 

material, so that there is now a far more accurate understanding 

of the species than was possible in Masters' time. 

The present survey deals with native species, and I have given 

little 

attention to the numerous hybrids developed in horticulture, 

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8 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY BOTANY, VOL. XIX 

to many of which specific names have been assigned. 

Masters has 

given a list of the species cultivated in European gardens (Journ. 

Hort. Soc. n. s. 4: 125, sq. 1877), and in Bailey's Standard Cyclopedia 

(p. 2486) there is an extensive discussion of horticultural hybrids. 

HISTORICAL SURVEY 

Because of the striking appearance of the flowers and the unusual 

shape of the leaves, Passifloraceae have long been a favorite subject 

of study for botanists. Throughout the works of the pre-Linnaean 

authors, as Hernandez, Pluckenet, Plumier, and Tourneforte, are 

to be found descriptions and illustrations of passionflowers. In an 

account of Passiflora by Hallman in Linnaeus' Amoenitates (1749), 

22 passionflowers are treated. In the Species Plantarum (1753) 

Linnaeus described 24 species, a number which was increased to 

35 by Lamarck (1789). The first extensive monograph of the family 

was published by Cavanilles in 1790 (Diss. 10), 43 species being here 

treated, of which 32 were figured. In 1805 Jussieu described (Ann. 

Mus. Hist. Nat. 6: 102-116, 388-396) 13 new species, and discussed 

in detail some of the generic problems connected with this group. 

In Rees' Cyclopedia (1819) 55 species were included. Drawings of 

25 species, unaccompanied by descriptions, appeared in Velloso's 

Flora Fluminensis (vol. 9, 1827). There were about 145 American 

species in De Candolle's Prodromus (1828), and in Roemer's synopsis 

of the family (1846) about 225 New World species were listed as 

valid. 

The most extensive studies of the family were those made 

by Masters, who, until his death in 1907, was the recognized authority 

upon the subject. His monograph of the American species in 

Flora Brasiliensis (1872), a synopsis of which appeared the preceding 

year, contained 202 species. An account of the Colombian species 

by Triana and Planchon (Ann. Sci. Nat. V. Bot. 17: 121-186. 1873) 

discusses the collections of Lehmann, Andre", Stiibel, and Weberbauer ; 

and others by Masters and by Harms, a survey of the Ecuadorean 

tacsonias by Sodiro (1903), and numerous papers by Harms and 

myself, all have made known many additional species. In the 

present monograph 355 species of Passiflora and 10 belonging to 

smaller genera are recognized, of which 17 are now proposed for the 

first time. 

In a few species there are one or two varieties or forms. 

Passiflora foetida has 37 varieties, 13 of them now newly described. 

VARYING CONCEPTS OF CLASSIFICATION 

Passifloraceae consists of 12 genera, four of which are found in 

the New World. Of the strictly Old World ones, Crossostemma,

AMERICAN PASSIFLORACEAE 9 

Schlechterina, and Machadoa are monotypic African genera; Deidamia, 

with about 8 species, and Tryphostemma, with about 30, likewise 

are wholly African. Adenia, the largest of the Old World genera, 

contains approximately 80 species, most of which are restricted to 

Africa, though a few occur in tropical parts of Asia and on the South 

Pacific islands. 

are found in New Guinea and New Zealand, respectively. 

Hollrungia and Tetrapathaea, both monotypic genera, 

In Passiflora, 

by far the most important genus of the family, less than 40 of 

the nearly 400 known species are endemic to the Old World; these, 

with the possible exception of one species in Madagascar, are known 

only from Asia and the South Pacific islands, and the genus is, therefore, 

primarily one of the New World. Mitostemma, with three 

species, and Dilkea, with five, are restricted to South America. 

Tetrastylis contains one Central American and one Brazilian species. 

The families Malsherbiaceae and Caricaceae were united to 

Passifloraceae by early authors, but they are now considered distinct. 

In the following brief review of the genera and groups into which 

the family has at various times been divided, those genera that 

properly are referable to Malsherbiaceae or to Caricaceae are not 

included, nor are the Old World groups of Passifloraceae considered. 

All the passionflowers were placed by Linnaeus in Passiflora. 

In 1787 Medicus created the genus Cieca for the apetalous species, 

and revived Tourneforte's names Murucuja and Granadilla for two 

additional genera. In 1789 (Gen. PI. 398) Jussieu added another 

genus of Tourneforte's, Tacsonia, but he did not recognize Cieca. 

These three genera, Passiflora, Murucuja, and Tacsonia, were maintained 

by Persoon (Syn. PI. 2: 219. 1807). 

In 1819 (Ann. G6n. Soc. Phys. Brux.) Bory St. Vincent proposed 

three additional segregates of Passiflora, viz., Asephananthes, Monactineirma, 

and Anthactinia. In 1822 (Me*m. Soc. Phys. Geneve 1: 

434-443) De Candolle, accepting the generic concepts of Jussieu 

and of Persoon, subdivided Passiflora into seven sections: Astrophea, 

Polyanthea, Tetrapathaea, Cieca, Decaloba, Granadilla, and Dysosmia. 

This treatment was followed in the Prodromus, an eighth section, 

Tacsonioides, being added to Passiflora, and Murucuja and Tacsonia, 

with two and four sections, respectively, being given generic rank. 

In 1846 Roemer, evidently with an extremely narrow concept 

of a genus, raised to generic rank all of De Candolle's sections. But 

in placing the species Roemer unfortunately showed a lack of knowledge 

of their characters, many being assigned to certain "genera" 

without apparent justification.


Bentham and Hooker adopted De Candolle's treatment, though 

reducing Murucuja to a section of Passi flora. 

In a paper in the Transactions of the Linnaean Society, issued the 

year before his monograph in the Flora Brasiliensis appeared, 

Masters recognized three genera, viz., Passiflora, Tacsonia, and 

Dilkea, the last being proposed at that time on the basis of recent 

collections from northern South America. He divided Passiflora 

into four subgenera: Astrophea, Plectostemma (including the sections 

Cieca, Dysosmia, and Decaloba), Murucuja (including the sections 

Eumurucuja and Psilanthus), and Granadilla. In Tacsonia he 

recognized two sections, Bracteogama and Eutacsonia. 

This early paper, in so far as it applied to New World species, was 

merely a synopsis of the forthcoming monograph, and many new 

species were mentioned by name only; in order not to burden the 

synonymy in the present monograph I have not cited this first use 

of such names. The new combinations here made date, of course, 

from this earlier paper. 

In their monograph of the Colombian Passifloraceae (1873) Triana 

and Planchon maintained but one genus, Passiflora, which they 

divided into five subgenera: Tacsonia,Granadilla, Plectostemma, Murucuja, 

and Astrophea. 

Within the next few years two new genera, Tetrastylis and Mitostemma, 

were described from Brazil. 

In the first edition of Die naturlichen Pflanzenfamilien Harms 

recognized four New World genera: Dilkea, Mitostemma, Tetrastylis, 

and Passiflora. Tacsonia and Murucuja here constituted sections 

of Passiflora, together with Astrophea, Decaloba, Cieca, Psilanthus, 

Granadilla, and Dysosmia. Harms' careful analysis of the family 

in the second edition of this work is by far the most satisfactory 

The genus here is divided 

treatment of the subdivisions of Passiflora. 

into 21 sections, 18 of which are represented in America, the sections 

often being subdivided into subsections or series. 

In the present paper the treatment of genera and subdivisions 

closely approximates that of Harms though (it is interesting to note) 

much of the material was prepared prior to the appearance of his 

latest revision. 

The most important divergence lies in the raising of Tetrastylis 

to generic rank, and in the regrouping of the species placed by Harms 

in the sections Decaloba and Cieca. I have, moreover, raised most 

of Harms' sections to subgenera.


GENERAL MORPHOLOGY 

In view of the thorough treatments of the morphology, organogeny, 

minute anatomy, and fertilization of the flower presented by 

Masters and by Harms, it seems unnecessary at this time to do more 

than discuss in a general way the vegetative and floral parts of the 

American Passifloraceae, mainly with a view to a proper understanding 

of the terms used in the keys and descriptions. 

the floral structure are shown in Figures 1 and 2. 

Details of 

Habit. Most of the passionflowers are herbaceous or woody 

vines, climbing by means of tendrils, or subscandent shrubs. Some 

species of the subgenus Astrophea are true shrubs or low trees, and 

in Dysosmia two species are low, spreading shrubs. 

Stem. The stem is terete or 3-5-angled. In Plectostemma it 

is usually longitudinally striate and often deeply grooved; in Granadilla 

it is terete or quadrangular. 

Tendrils. The tendrils are usually solitary in the axils of the 

leaves. In a few species they terminate the peduncles, and in one 

species some of the tendrils are axillary and some develop from a 

flowerless fork of a bifurcate peduncle. 

Stipules. The stipules vary from setaceous to broadly ovate, 

and constitute an excellent mark of distinction between groups of 

species. Their margin usually is entire in Plectostemma and Murucuja, 

entire or toothed in Granadilla and Tacsonia, and deeply cleft 

in Dysosmia. In Astrophea the stipules are setaceous, or at most 

narrowly linear, and soon deciduous. In several species of Granadilla 

with foliaceous stipules, the stipule is attached on one side slightly 

above its base. In the measurement of the stipules given in this 

paper -the term "length" is always applied to the longest dimension, 

even though this may not be the distance from the point of attachment 

of the stipule to its margin. 

Leaves. The leaves are always alternate, but probably in no 

group of plants is their shape more striking or the variation in outline 

of those of a single plant more extreme than in Passiflora. 

Especially is this true of the small-flowered vines of Plectostemma 

and the showier-flowered murucujas. The leaves may be undivided 

and transversely elliptic, orbicular, narrowly linear, or broadly 

ovate; or bilobed with widely spreading or erect lobes; or 3-5-lobed; 

or, in the case of a few species, compound. The margin is usually 

entire, though in several species it is toothed or even pectinate. 

The leaves are predominantly 3-nerved or obscurely 5-nerved, the


nerves reaching to the margin, and often terminating in a mucro. 

In Astrophea and in a few species of other subgenera the leaves 

are penninerved. In the present paper I have treated the petioles 

in a clause separate from the leaves, because of the frequent necessity 

of giving a lengthy description of petiolar glands. 

Foliar and bracteolar glands. In all but a few species nectarsecreting 

glands are present in some form, either as protuberances 

on the petioles or along the margin of the bracts, or as ocellae on 

the under surface of the leaves. The presence or absence of these 

glands on the petiole, and their shape, position, and number constitute 

important points of difference between species and groups of species. 

In Plectostemma there is a close correlation between the presence or 

absence of petiolar glands and the sculpturing of the seeds, and upon 

these characters, rather than upon the presence or absence of petals 

and the floral arrangement, are based the main sections of this subgenus 

in 

Peduncles. 

the present treatment. 

In most species the peduncles are borne singly or 

in pairs in the leaf axils, and are 1-flowered. 

Among exceptions to 

this are: P. multiflora and a few species of Astrophea in which the 

flowers are fascicled; P. racemosa and certain members of Astrophea 

with a racemose or a pseudoracemose inflorescence; other species 

of Astrophea in which the peduncles are one or more times dichotomous; 

the subgenera Tryphostemmatoides, Deidamioides, and Polyanthea, 

and one section of Astrophea, in which the peduncles terminate 

in a tendril and are 2-flowered; and seven representatives of Plectostemma 

in which the peduncles have two or more flowers. Occasionally 

the peduncles are borne in pairs on short, more or less 

leafy, axillary branches which usually bear stipules and terminate 

in a growing bud, a condition not to be confused with a true compound 

inflorescence. 

Bracts. Except for a few species of Plectostemma, bracts are 

present, though sometimes they are early deciduous. Their shape 

and size and their position on the peduncle constitute a most important 

character for the differentiation of subgenera, sections, and 

species. In all bracteate species of Plectostemma, with the exception 

of those of the small sections Pseudogranadilla and Hahniopathanthus, 

the bracts are narrowly linear to setaceous, and are scattered along 

the peduncle, a condition also found in Murucuja and its allied 

subgenera and in Astrophea. In Granadilla and Tacsonia and their 

relatives and in two sections of Plectostemma the bracts are generally 

conspicuous, leaflike, or sometimes highly colored, and form an

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FIG. 1. a, Passiflora ritifolia (from Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: pi. 121); b, P. 

andina (from Journ. Linn. Soc. 20: pi. 19); c, P.foetida var. santiagana. a, b, and 

c: 1, calyx tube; 2, sepals; 3, petals; 4, corona; 5, operculum; 6, limen; 7, gynophore; 

8, filament; 9, anther; 10, ovary; 11, style; 12, stigma. 

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involucre near the base of the flower. 

Usually in these groups they 

are distinct to the base, though in a few species they are partially 

connate. In Dysosmia they are involucrate, and are pinnatisect 

into filiform, gland-tipped divisions. 

Calyx tube. Writers differ in the use of a term for this part of 

the flower. Masters calls it "flower tube," designating the upper 

free portion as sepals. Harms uses the term receptacle. In the 

present paper it is considered the calyx or calyx tube; the upper 

free part, the sepals rather than the lobes. The calyx is bowl-shaped 

or cup-shaped (Tetrastylis and the subgenera Plectostemma, Tryphostemmatoides, 

Granadilla, Dysosmia, and Adenosepala) , 

campanulate 

or tubular-campanulate (Murucuja and Pseudomurucuja), 

short-tubular (Chloropathanthus, Distephana, in greater part, Granadillastrum, 

Calopathanthus and Astrophea, in part), or long-cylindric 

(Psilanthus, Tacsonia and allies, and Astrophea, in part). In species 

with a small calyx tube this is usually green or greenish; in those 

with a well developed tube it is nearly always highly colored, red, 

pink, purple, or orange, rarely pure white. Mitostemma and Dilkea 

have a much reduced calyx; in the latter the sepals are at first united 

into a tube, but soon separate. 

Sepals. There are five sepals in Passiflora and Tetrastylis, four 

in Mitostemma, and four, or perhaps sometimes five, in Dilkea. 

They vary from linear to broadly ovate, and ordinarily are the 

color of the calyx tube. In many species of Granadilla and Tacsonia 

they are dorsally keeled, the keel terminating in an awn. 

Petals. 

Petals are absent in Chloropathanthus and in a few species 

of Plectostemma. In Rathea they are attached below the mouth 

of the tube. 

In Tacsoniopsis the tube has a well developed limb, 

the petals being inserted at its margin. In all other petaliferous 

species they are borne at the margin of the tube, alternately with the 

sepals. They are white, greenish, or yellowish in most species of 

Plectostemma, usually highly colored in Murucuja, Pseudomurucuja, 

Granadilla, and Tacsonia. The petals are ordinarily smaller than 

the sepals and of a much thinner texture. In drying they often adhere 

so closely to the sepals that they are overlooked. 

Corona. The inside of the calyx tube, from its margin to the 

base of the gynophore, bears a series of processes, arranged usually 

in rings, one within the other. Not until Masters' time does the 

importance of these processes as diagnostic characters appear to 

have been fully appreciated, but in all recent treatments of the

FIG. 2. a, Passiflora heterohelix (natural size); 6, P. gracillima (natural size); 

c, P. nitida: 1, calyx tube; 2, sepals; 3, petals; 4, corona; 5, operculum; 6, limen; 

7, gynophore; 8, filament; 9, anther; 10, ovary; 11, style; 12, stigma (from Mart. 

Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: pi. 118). 

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family they are recognized as of primary importance in distinguishing 

species and groups of species. Various terms have been used to 

designate these series of processes. Sowerby (Trans. Linn. Soc. 2: 

19. 1794) called them principal rays, imperfect rays, operculum, 

and nectary. Masters considered the several layers as parts of a 

corona. The nomenclature adopted by Harms seems the most 

satisfactory, and is the one used in this paper. The differences in the 

terminology used by Masters and by Harms may be shown thus: 

MASTERS 

HARMS 

Faucial corona \ Corona 

Supramedian corona / 

Middle (or membranous) corona 

Operculum 

Inframedian corona 

Nectar ring 

Basal corona '. Limen 

The corona usually consists of numerous threadlike processes 

(often differently colored than the floral envelope), arranged in 

from one to several series, the outermost attached at the edge of 

the calyx tube just inside the sepals and petals. Whether these 

threads are filiform, liguliform, or spatulate, straight or falcate, 

terete or angled is important as a mark of specific distinction. In 

all but one species of Plectostemma, in Pseudomurucuja and Psilanthus, 

and in a few species of Tacsonia the corona consists of free 

filaments, arranged in one or two series, the second series, if present, 

being composed of much shorter threads. In Granadilla the elongate 

filaments occur either in a single series or in two series, and are usually 

succeeded by shorter threads or by tubercle-like processes which 

may not be arranged in definite rows. In Granadillastrum and Tacsonioides 

the filaments are in three or more ranks; in Astrophea the 

outer filaments are usually much dilated in their upper half, and are 

followed by one or more series of very short threads. In Murucuja 

the corona is a membranous tube about the gynophore. Distephana 

has a 2-3-ranked corona, the outer rank or ranks being filamentose, 

the inner one tubular. In most species of Tacsonia the filaments 

are reduced to short, tuberculiform processes, in one or two series. 

In Dysosmia and Dysosmioides there are two to four series of radiate 

filaments followed by several rows of minute threads. 

Operculum. The operculum presents great diversity of form, 

and is of prime importance in the differentiation of subgenera. In 

the subgenus Astephia and in Mitostemma and Dilkea it is wanting. 

In Plectostemma it is always a folded or plaited membrane, its 

margin, usually slightly incurved toward the gynophore, being entire, 

minutely crenulate, or serrulate. In Tryphostemmatoides 

it is a


thin, nonplicate membrane. In Dysosmia it is nonplicate, and the 

margin is denticulate. In Pseudomurucuja the operculum is borne 

at the top of the tube and is dependent. In Murucuja, Tacsonia, 

Granadillastrum, and Distephana it arises near the base of the tube 

and is dependent or at least is strongly inclined inward, the margin 

often being erect. In Calopathanthus, Chloropathanthus, Psilanthus, 

Tacsonioides, and Astrophea it is erect, usually being fringed or cleft 

partway. It is in Granadilla that the operculum exhibits the greatest 

diversity, varying from a single row of free filaments to a fringed or 

an entire membrane. 

Nectar ring. This is a low, narrow ring on the floor of the tube 

within the operculum. 

In some species it is wanting. 

Limen. In most of the species of Plectostemma the limen is 

similar to the nectar ring within which it is situated. In a few 

species of this subgenus it has the form of a thin membrane attached 

to the floor of the tube at the base of the gynophore and more or 

less adnate to the floor except at the margin. In Dysosmia and in 

many species of Granadilla it is a cup-shaped membrane with a 

flaring margin, closely surrounding the base of the gynophore. 

Like the nectar ring, it is absent in many species. 

Genital organs. In the subgenus Apodogyne and sometimes in 

P. apoda the ovary is sessile, the stamens being borne upon the floor 

of the calyx close to the base of the ovary. In all other species of 

Passiflora and in Tetrastylis the stamens and the ovary are raised 

upon a gynophore. The filaments are united in their lower part 

to form a tubular membrane closely adherent to the gynophore. 

In Passiflora the gynophore is straight, and the filaments are free 

from their tips to their point of separation from the gynophore. 

In Tetrastylis the gynophore is curved, and the stamens are united 

beyond it, only their tips being free. In these two genera there are 

five stamens. Mitostemma and Dilkea have 8 or 10 stamens, and 

these are inserted on the calyx close to the base of the gynophore. 

In all four genera the filaments are attached at or below the middle 

of the back of the 2-celled anthers. 

The ovary, borne just above the stamens, is globose, ovoid, or 

ellipsoidal. Generally it is terete, but in Astrophea and a few species 

of other groups it is trigonous, or occasionally hexagonal. In 

Astrophea it is broadly truncate at the apex, the styles projecting 

from the angles at the top of the ovary, as also in some species of 

Distephana. In Tacsonia and related groups the ovary usually tapers 

to the styles, which are free to their base. In Plectostemma and


in most species of Granadilla the styles project at the center of the 

top of the ovary, often being more or less united toward their base. 

Fruit. In Plectostemma the fruit is usually a globose berry, not 

more than 2 cm. in diameter, dark blue or black when ripe, containing 

an acidulous, watery, or mucilaginous pulp, surrounded by a parchment-like 

skin. In Dysosmia the fruit is somewhat larger, and red 

or yellow when mature, the outer wall being hard and brittle. The 

fruit of Granadilla varies in size from a crab apple to a small melon. 

Its walls are thin-skinned, hard-shelled, or rindlike. 

Seeds. The seeds are usually much compressed, and have a 

hard, bony testa. Seed characters of Passifloraceae have been too 

little regarded by students. Early in my studies my attention was 

brought to the large seed collection assembled by Mr. Homer Skeels, 

of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, in which Passiflora was 

well represented. At the outset it was obvious that the seeds fell 

into two main groups, those with a series of transverse ridges and 

grooves and those that were reticulated or pitted. Searching for 

other characters that might be correlated with these differences, 

I found that in general the species with glandless petioles had 

transversely grooved seeds and those with glanduliferous petioles, 

reticulate or pitted seeds. Except for the section Hahniopathanthus 

this correlation was almost perfect for the subgenus Plectostemma; 

it also held for Murucuja and the subgenera separated from it, and 

for Psilanthus. Unfortunately, well developed seeds of many species 

belonging to groups with showy flowers and rather large fruits, such 

as Tacsonia, Granadilla, and Astrophea, are not available, so it has 

not been possible to carry these studies as far as desirable. The 

extent to which this correlation exists may be observed by noting 

the descriptions of the petioles and seeds in the accompanying 

diagnoses of the subgenera of Passiflora. 

ECONOMIC USES 

Many of the species of Passiflora are of economic importance 

because of the quality of their fruit, their adaptability for cultivation 

as ornamental vines, or their medicinal properties. Passiflora 

quadrangularis, P. ligularis, P. edulis, P. maliformis, and P. laurifolia 

are the most important species with edible fruits. The leaves of 

P. mexicana and P. holosericea serve as a substitute for tea in some 

places. The root of P. foetida is used as an antispasmodic. It is 

said that the root of P. quadrangularis is anthelmintic, containing 

a substance called in certain localities "passiflorine," which possesses 

lethargic properties. In Guatemala an infusion of the seeds of P.


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


Museum, Copenhagen; the National Herbarium of Colombia; the 

British Guiana Botanic Gardens; and the Trinidad Herbarium have 

been available. I have also had the privilege of consulting the 

collections in this country, such as those at Field Museum of Natural 

History, the New York Botanical Garden, the Gray Herbarium 

and the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, the Academy 

of Natural Sciences (Philadelphia), the University of Pennsylvania, 

the Carnegie Museum, the Missouri Botanical Garden, the University 

of Michigan, the University of Minnesota, the University of California, 

Pomona College, and the California Academy of Sciences. 

To those in charge of all these collections and to the very helpful 

members of their staffs I wish to express my deepest gratitude. I am 

under special obligations to Dr. H. Harms, the eminent student of 

Passifloraceae, for invaluable aid in these investigations. Brother 

Leon, of Havana; Dr. Adolpho Ducke, of Rio de Janeiro; and Mr. 

N. Y. Sandwith, of Kew, have most generously sought in the field 

or in herbaria special information for me. Finally, I wish to extend 

my best thanks to those collectors whose names are familiar in the 

field of tropical American botany and who have made special effort 

to obtain material for me to men resident in tropical America, such 

as H. Pittier, 0. Buchtien, F. L. Herrera, A. Weberbauer, E. Pe>ez 

Arbelaez, C. A. Purpus, S. Calderon, Father Mille, and Brothers 

Apollinaire Marie, Elias, and Daniel, and to those who have been 

members of expeditions from the United States. 

A list of all herbaria consulted, with the corresponding abbreviation 

by which they are indicated in the citation of specimens, follows: 

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS FOR HERBARIA CITED 

A. Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University 

B. Botanisches Museum, Berlin-Dahlem 

Bas. 

BG. 

BM. 

Bo. 

Bog. 

Brux. 

BW. 

Cal. 

CAS. 

H. W. Bassler Herbarium, consulted at Iquitos, Peru; now 

on deposit at the New York Botanical Garden 

Botanic Gardens, Georgetown, British Guiana 

British Museum (Natural History) 

Boissier Herbarium 

Institute de La Salle, Bogota 

Jardin de TEtat, Brussels 

Willdenow Herbarium, Botanisches Museum, Berlin 

University of California 

California Academy of Sciences

CM. 

Cop. 

CU. 

Carnegie Museum 


Universitetets Botaniske Museum, Copenhagen 

Catholic University of America 

F. Field Museum of Natural History 

G. Gray Herbarium of Harvard University 

Gen. Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques, Geneva 

Go. 

Goeldi Museum, Para 

Gt. University of Gottingen 

HA. Academy of Sciences, Havana 

HNC. Herbario Nacional de Colombia, Bogota 

HS. Colegio de La Salle, Havana 

HV. Agricultural Experiment Station, Santiago de Las Vegas, 

Cuba 

J. Hope Gardens, Jamaica 

K. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 

Leid. 

Linn. 

Ma. 

Mich. 

Minn. 

Mo. 

Rijks Universiteit, Leiden 

Linnean Herbarium, London 

Jardin Botanico, Madrid 

University of Michigan 

University of Minnesota 

Missouri Botanical Garden 

N. United States National Museum 

NA. National Arboretum, Washington, D.C. 

P. Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 

Penn. 

Ph. 

Po. 

Pr. 

Roch. 

University of Pennsylvania 

Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 

Pomona College 

Narodnf Museum, Prague 

Rochester Academy of Science 

S. Riksmuseet, Stockholm 

SU. 

Stanford University 

T. Department of Agriculture, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad 

Up. 

Ut. 

Universitetets Botaniska Tradgard, Uppsala 

Rijks Universiteit, Utrecht 

V. Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna 

Y. New York Botanical Garden


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Walpers, (Passifloreae) Repert. 2: 218-222. 1843. 

SYSTEMATIC TREATMENT 

KEY TO GENERA 

Stamens 5, in all but 2 species borne on a well developed gynophore; 

sepals 5; petals (if present) 5. 

Gynophore straight; stamens free from their tips to the gynophore; 

styles 3 1. Passiflora. 

Gynophore curved; stamens united beyond the gynophore, only 

their tips free; styles 4 2. Tetrastylis. 

Stamens 8 or 10, inserted on the floor of the calyx; sepals and petals 

4, rarely 5. 

Styles distinct to the base; sepals from the first free nearly to the 

base, the calyx very small 3. Mitostemma. 

Styles united below the middle; sepals at first more or less united 

below the middle to form a tube, later separating. .4. Dilkea. 

1. PASSIFLORA L. Sp. 

PI. 955. 1753. 

Herbaceous or woody vines, usually climbing by tendrils, rarely 

erect herbs, small trees, or shrubs; leaves alternate (in American 

species), petiolate, simple or compound, lobed or unlobed, the petiole 

often glanduliferous; inflorescence axillary, simple or occasionally


compound; bracts small and dissitate or large and involucrate; flowers 

hermaphrodite (in American species), regular, often highly colored; 

calyx tube patelliform, campanulate, funnelform, or cylindric; sepals 

5, fleshy or membranous, often dorsally corniculate or aristate just 

below the apex; petals 5, membranous, alternate with the sepals, 

sometimes wanting; corona of 1 to several series of distinct or more 

or less united filaments, rarely tubular; operculum borne within 

(or below) the corona, membranous, flat or plicate, entire, lacerate, or 

filamentose, rarely wanting; nectar ring an annular ridge within (or 

below) the operculum, sometimes wanting; limen borne close to 

the base of the gynophore, annular or cupuliform, sometimes wanting; 

stamens 5 (in American species), the filaments monadelphous in a 

tube closely adnate to the gynophore, distinct above, the free filaments 

at first erect, at length reflexed, attached to the back of the 

anther near its middle; anthers linear, ovate, or oblong, 2-celled; 

ovary globose, ovoid, or fusiform, borne on a gynophore, which is 

elongate in most species, very short or wanting in a few; styles 3, 

distinct, or united at the base, cylindric or clavate; stigmas capitate, 

orbicular, or reniform; fruit indehiscent, baccate, globose, ovoid, 

or rarely fusiform, containing a mucilaginous pulp; seeds more or 

less compressed, reticulate, punctulate, or transversely grooved, 

borne on 3 parietal placentae. 

Type species: Passiflora incarnata L. 

SYNOPSIS OF SUBGENERA 

I. 

Apodogyne Killip, subgen. nov. 

Herbaceous vine; petioles minutely biglandular; flowers fascicled, 

very small; calyx patelliform; operculum plicate; ovary sessile, terete; 

stamens borne on calyx at base of ovary; styles united at the base, 

projecting from the center of the top of the ovary; fruit very 

small; seeds transversely sulcate, the ridges rugulose. Type: P. 

multiflora. No. 1. 

II. 

Astephia Killip, subgen. nov. 

Herbaceous vine; petioles glandless; calyx campanulate; petals 

clawed at base; corona 1-ranked; operculum and limen none; styles 

united at base, projecting from center of top of ovary; seeds transversely 

sulcate, the ridges rugulose. Type: P. penduliflora. No. 2. 

stat. nov. Passi- 

III. Tryphostemmatoides (Harms) Killip, 

flora sect. Tryphostemmatoides Harms in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 

ed. 2, 21: 500. 1925.


Slender, herbaceous vines; petioles glandless; peduncles 2- 

flowered, terminating in a tendril; calyx campanulate; operculum 

nonplicate; styles united at the very base, projecting from center 

of top of ovary; fruit 6-angled; seeds reticulate. Type: P. tryphostemmatoides. 

Nos. 3, 4. 

IV. Deidamioides (Harms) Killip, stat. nov. Passiflora sect. 

Decaloba subsect. Deidamioides Harms, Repert. Sp. Nov. 19: 58. 

1923. 

Herbaceous vine; petioles 2^4-glandular; leaves trifoliolate; 

peduncles 2-flowered, terminating in a tendril; operculum plicate. 

Type: P. deidamioides. No. 5. 

V. Plectostemma Mast. Trans. Linn. Soc. 27: 626. 1871; 

in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 545. 1872. 

Herbaceous vines; peduncles usually 1-flowered, not terminating 

in a tendril; calyx patelliform or campanulate; corona filamentose; 

operculum plicate; styles united at base, projecting from center of 

top of ovary. 

Sect. 1. Cieca (Medic.) Mast. Trans. Linn. Soc. 27: 630. 1871, 

in part. Cieca Medic. Malvenfam. 97. 1787. Baldwinia Raf. 

Amer. Monthly Mag. 267. 1818. Monactineirma Bory, Ann. Ge*n. 

Soc. Phys. Brux. 2: 138. 1819. Passiflora sect. Cieca DC. Me"m. 

Soc. Phys. Geneve 1: 435. 1822, in part. Meioperis Raf. Fl. Tellur. 

4: 103. 1838. 

Petioles with 2 globose, clavate, or patelliform, sessile or stipitate 

glands; bracts linear-subulate or setaceous, usually dissitate; petals 

often wanting; seeds reticulate. Type: P. viridis (=P. suberosa). 

Nos. 6-31. 

Sect. 2. Mayapathanthus Killip, sect. nov. 

Petioles with 2 scarlike glands; bracts minute, crowded at base 

of peduncle; petals present; seeds apparently reticulate. Type: 

P. obovata. No. 32. 

Sect. 3. Decaloba (DC.) Mast. Trans. Linn. Soc. 27: 631. 

1871, in part. Asephanathes (Astephananthes) Bory, Ann. Ge"n. 

Soc. Phys. Brux. 2: 138. 1819. Passiflora sect. Decaloba DC. Me"m. 

Soc. Phys. Geneve 1: 435. 1822, in part. Decaloba M. Roemer, 

Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 152. 1846. Passiflora subgen. Plectostemma sect. 

Decaloba subsect. Endecaloba Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 

548. 1872, in part. Passiflora sect. Decaloba subsect. Eudecaloba 

Harms in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 3, pt. 6a: 88. 1893, in part.


Bracts usually linear-subulate or setaceous, dissitate, rarely 

wanting; petioles glandless (in 2 species bearing auricular appendages 

near base); petals usually present; seeds transversely sulcate, the 

ridges rugulose. Type: P. biflora. Nos. 33-102, in 8 series. 

Sect. 4. Xerogona (Raf.) Killip, stat. nov. Xerogona Raf. Fl. 

Tellur. 4: 103. 1838. 

Bracts none; petals present; fruit elongate-obovoid or fusiform, 

hexagonal; seeds transversely sulcate, the ridges smooth. Type: 

Xerogona biloba (=P. capsularis). Nos. 103-110. 

Sect. 5. Pseudodysosmia (Harms) Killip, stat. nov. Ceratosepalum 

Oerst. Fl. Cent. Amer. 18. pi. 17. 1863. Passiflora sect. 

Decaloba subsect. Pseudodysosmia Harms in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 

ed. 2, 21: 500. 1925. 

Petiolar glands long-stipitate; bracts 3, oblong or lanceolate, 

verticillate near middle of peduncle, lacerate; petals present; seeds 

reticulate. Type: P. adenopoda. No. 111. 

Sect. 6. Pseudogranadilla (Harms) Killip, stat. nov. Passiflora 

sect. Decaloba subsect. Pseudogranadilla Harms in Engl. & 

Prantl, Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 21: 500. 1925. 

Petiolar glands none; bracts 3, 

foliaceous, verticillate near base 

of flowers; petals present; seeds transversely sulcate, the ridges 

rugulose. Type: P. pukhella. Nos. 112-117. 

stat. nov. Passi- 

Sect. 7. Hahniopathanthus (Harms) Killip, 

flora sect. Decaloba subsect. Hahniopathanthus Harms in Engl. & 


Petiolar glands none; bracts 2 or 3, very large, verticillate or 

nearly so, borne near base of flower; petals present; seeds reticulate. 

Type: P. Hahnii. Nos. 118-120. 

VI. Chloropathanthus (Harms) Killip, stat. nov. Synactila 

Raf. Fl. Tellur. 4: 104. 1838. Passiflora sect. Chloropathanthus 

Harms in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 21: 502. 1925. 

Herbaceous vines; petioles biglandular; bracts filiform or wanting; 

calyx short-cylindric or bowl-shaped ; petals none; corona filamentose; 

operculum short-tubular, nonplicate; styles united at very base, 

projecting from center of top of ovary; seeds reticulate. Type: 

P. viridiflora. Nos. 121, 122. 

VII. Murucuja (Medic.) Mast. Trans. Linn. Soc. 27: 626. 

1871, in part. Murucuja Medic. Malvenfam. 97. 1787. Murucuja


sections Pentaria and Decaria DC. Prodr. 3: 333. 1828. Peremis 

Raf. Fl. Tellur. 4: 104. 1838. Pentaria M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 

2: 187. 1846. Passiflora sect. Murucuja Benth. & Hook. Gen. PI. 

1:811. 1862. 

Herbaceous vines; petioles glandless; bracts narrowly linear or 

setaceous; calyx bowl-shaped; petals present; corona a tubular or 

funnel-shaped membrane, entire or denticulate; styles united at 

the very base, projecting from the center of the top of the ovary; 

seeds transversely sulcate. Type: Murucuja lunata (= P. Murucuja). 

Nos. 123-126. 

VIII. Pseudomurucuja (Harms) Killip, stat. nov. Pericodia 

Raf. Fl. Tellur. 4: 104. 1838. Psilanthus M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. 

Syn. 2: 198. 1846, not DC. Passiflora sect. Pseudomurucuja Harms 

in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 21: 501. 1925. 

Herbaceous vines; petioles glandless; bracts setaceous; calyx 

bowl-shaped, tubular-campanulate, or short-cylindric, shorter than 

the sepals; corona filamentose; styles united at very base, projecting 

from center of top of ovary; seeds transversely sulcate. Type: 

P. perfoliata. Nos. 127-131. 

IX. Psilanthus (DC.) Killip, stat. nov. Tacsonia sect. Psilanthus 

DC. Prodr. 3: 355. 1828i Passiflora subgen. Murucuja sect. 

Psilanthus Mast. Trans. Linn. Soc. 27: 626. 1871, in part. Passiflora 

sect. Psilanthus Harms in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 3, 

pt. 6a: 89. 1893. 

Herbaceous vines; petioles glandless; bracts setaceous; calyx 

cylindric, elongate, longer than the sepals; corona filamentose; 

operculum borne near base of tube, erect; styles united at base; 

seeds transversely sulcate. Type: Tacsonia trinervia (=P. trinervia). 

Nos. 132-135. 

X. Adenosepala Killip, subgen. nov. 

Woody vine; petioles biglandular near base; bracts lance-linear, 

involucrate; calyx urceolate-campanulate; sepals dorsally glandular 

near margin; corona a low, fleshy ring, cleft into triangular-dentiform 

processes; ovary tapering to the styles, the styles distinct. 

Type: P. Ernesti. No. 136. 

XI. Tacsoniopsis (Tr. & Planch.) Killip, stat. nov. Passiflora 

subgen. Tacsonia sect. Tacsoniopsis Tr. & Planch. Ann. Sci. Nat. 

V. Bot. 17: 127. 1873. Passiflora sect. Tacsoniopsis Harms in Engl. 

& Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 3, pt. 6a: 91. 1893.


Herbaceous vine; bracts foliaceous; calyx cylindric-funnel-shaped; 

sepals united above the throat of the tube for about half their length, 

the petals borne at the base of these lobes; corona minute; ovary 

tapering to the styles, the styles distinct; operculum dependent; 

fruit covered with long tubercles. Type: P. bracteosa. No. 137. 

XII. Rathea (Karst.) Killip, stat. nov. Rathea Karst. Fl. 

Colomb. 1: 77. pi. 38. 1858-1861. Tacsonia sect. Rathea Mast. 

Journ. Linn. Soc. 20: 26. 1883. Passiflora sect. Rathea Harms in 

Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 3, pt. 6a: 91. 1893. 

Herbaceous vine; petioles minutely glandular; bracts foliaceous; 

calyx cylindric; petals inserted at the middle of the tube below the 

sepals; corona none; ovary tapering to the styles, the styles distinct; 

fruit smooth; seeds smooth toward margin, obscurely transversesulcate 

at center of face. Type: Rathea floribunda (=P. andina). 

No. 138. 

XIII. Tacsonia (Juss.) Tr. & Planch. Ann. Sci. Nat. V. Bot. 17: 

126. 1873. Tacsonia Juss. Gen. PI. 398. 1789. Tacsonia sect. Eutacsonia 

DC. Prodr. 3: 333. 1828, in part. Tacsonia sect. Bracteogama 

DC. Prodr. 3: 334. 1828, in part. Poggendorffia Karst. Linnaea 28: 

438. 1856. Passiflora sect. Tacsonia ser. Bolivianae, Pinnatistipulae, 

Insignes, Eutacsoniae, and Parritanae Harms in Engl. & Prantl, 

Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 21: 506. 1925. 

Herbaceous or subligneous vines; petioles usually glandular, 

the glands often very small; bracts large, free, or connate part way; 

flowers showy, usually purple or red; calyx cylindric, much longer 

than the sepals (shorter in 1 species), the petals inserted at its margin; 

corona 1-2-ranked, often reduced to tubercles; operculum dependent; 

ovary usually tapering gradually or subabruptly to the styles, the 

styles distinct; seeds, so far as known, finely reticulate. Type: P. 

longiflora (=P. mixla). Nos. 139-174. 

XIV. Granadillastrum (Tr. & Planch.) Killip, stat. nov. 

Odostelma Raf. Fl. Tellur. 4: 104. 1838. Passiflora subgen. Tacsonia 

sect. Granadillastrum Tr. & Planch. Ann. Sci. Nat. V. Bot. 17: 127. 

1873. Passiflora subgen. Tacsonia sect. Poggendorffia Tr. & Planch. 

V. Bot. 17: 139. 1873, in greater part. Passiflora 

sect. Granadillastrum 


Passiflora sect. Tacsonia ser. Manicatae Harms in Engl. & Prantl, 


Herbaceous vines; bracts large, involucrate, free, or connate 

below middle; calyx urceolate-campanulate to short-cylindric, shorter


than the sepals; corona in 3 or more series, each series free to the 

base, at least the outer series filamentose; operculum dependent; 

ovary tapering to the styles, the styles distinct. Type: P. semiciliosa. 

Nos. 175-180. 

XV. Distephana (Juss.) Killip, stat. nov. Distephana Juss. Ann. 

Mus. Hist. Nat. 6: 396. 1805. Tacsonia sect. Distephana DC. Prodr. 

3: 335. 1828. Macrophora Raf. Fl. Tellur. 4: 103. 1838. Passiflora 

subgen. Tacsonia sect. Distephana Tr. & Planch. Ann. Sci. Nat. V. 

Bot. 17: 127. 1873. Passiflora sect. Distephana Harms in Engl. & 


Herbaceous or usually woody vines; bracts verticillate, 

glandular 

at margin, highly variable in size and shape; calyx short-cylindric, 

rarely campanulate, shorter than the sepals; corona in 2 or 3 series, 

the inner a fimbriate, tubular membrane; operculum dependent; 

ovary subtrigonous, tapering to the styles, the styles distinct to base 

or slightly united at the very base, sometimes the ovary subtruncate 

and the styles projecting from the top of the angles, thus similar to 

Astrophea. Type: Tacsonia glandulosa (= P. glandulosa). Nos. 

181-188. 

XVI. Calopathanthus (Harms) Killip, stat. nov. Passiflora 

sect. Calopathanthus Harms in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 

21:504.1925. 

Herbaceous vine; inflorescence pseudoracemose; bracts and 

bractlets setaceous; calyx short-cylindric; corona filamentose to 

base, 3-ranked; operculum suberect, tubular; ovary tapering to the 

styles, the styles distinct. Type: P. racemosa. No. 189. 

XVII. Tacsonioides (DC.) Killip, stat. nov. Passiflora sect. 

Tacsonioides DC. Prodr. 3: 330. 1828. Erndelia Raf. Fl. Tellur. 4: 

104. 1838, not Necker. Passiflora sect. Tacsonioides ser. Umbilicatae 


P. reflexiflora. Nos. 190-194. 

Type: 

Herbaceous vines; bracts involucrate, free; calyx narrowly 

cylindric, subequal to the sepals; corona short-filamentose, 2-5- 

ranked; operculum erect; ovary usually tapering to the styles, 

styles distinct. 

XVIII. Granadilla (Medic.) Mast. Trans. Linn. Soc. 27: 635. 

1871. Granadilla Medic. Malvenfam. 96. 1787, in part. Anthactinia 

Bory, Ann. Ge"n. Soc. Phys. Brux. 2: 139. 1819. Passiflora sect. 

Granadilla DC. Me"m. Soc. Phys. Geneve 1: 435. 1822. 

the


Herbaceous, rarely woody vines; bracts entire or serrulate, 

usually large and involucrate; flowers generally large and highly 

colored; calyx campanulate, rarely short-tubular, shorter than the 

sepals; corona variable, 3-several-ranked in all but a few species, 

the filaments often variegated; operculum incurved, erect at margin, 

rarely erect throughout; ovary narrowed to the styles, or the styles 

arising at center of top of ovary, free, or united at the very base; 

fruit often very large. Type: P. caerulea. Nos. 195-290, in 15 series. 

XIX. Dysosmia (DC.) Killip, stat. nov. Passiflora sect. 

Dysosmia DC. Me"m. Soc. Phys. Geneve 1: 436. 1822. Tripsilina 

Raf. Fl. Tellur. 4: 103. 1838. Dysosmia M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 

2: 149. 1846. Passiflora subgen. Plectostemma sect. Dysosmia Mast. 

Trans. Linn. Soc. 27: 631. 1871, in part. 

Benth. & Hook. Gen. PI. 1: 810. 1862. 

Passiflora sect. Dysosmia 

Herbaceous vines, occasionally low shrubs; stipules deeply cleft 

into filiform, usually gland-tipped segments, the uncut part merely a 

narrow band about the stem; petioles without true glands though 

often bearing gland-tipped hairs; bracts pinnatisect to tripinnatisect, 

the segments usually gland-tipped; flowers medium-sized; calyx 

campanulate; corona 4-5-ranked; operculum erect, denticulate; 

styles united at the very base, projecting from center of top of ovary; 

seeds reticulate. Type: P. hibiscifolia (= P.foetida var. hibiscifolia). 

Nos. 291-301. 

XX. Dysosmioides Killip, subgen. nov. Passiflora subgen. 

Plectostemma sect. Dysosmia Mast. Trans. Linn. Soc. 27: 631. 1871, 

in part. 

Herbaceous vines; petioles without true glands though often 

bearing gland-tipped hairs; stipules ovate or semi-ovate, denticulate 

to lacerate-dentate; bracts lacerate-dentate or laciniate; calyx 

campanulate; corona 3-ranked; operculum filamentose; styles free 

to base, projecting from center of top of ovary. Type: P. villosa. 

Nos. 302-306. 

XXI. Polyanthea (DC.) Killip, stat. nov. Passiflora sect. 

Polyanthea DC. M(hn. Soc. Phys. Geneve 1: 435. 1822; Prodr. 3: 

322. 1828, in part. Passiflora subgen. Plectostemma sect. Decaloba 

subsect. Polyanthea Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 548. 1872, in 

part. Passiflora sect. Decaloba subsect. Polyanthea Harms in Engl. 

& Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 3, pt. 6a: 88. 1893, in part; ed. 2, 21: 499. 1925. 

Wooojy vine; leaves compound; peduncles 2-flowered, terminating 

in a tendril; calyx broadly campanulate; corona 3-ranked, the outer-


most filaments verrucose or filamentose along the margin; operculum 

plicate; ovary trigonous, truncate, the styles projecting from the top 

of its angles, the stigmas very large. Type: P. cvrrhiflora. No. 307. 

XXII. Astrophea (DC.) Mast. Trans. Linn. Soc. 27: 629. 1871. 

Passiflora sect. Astrophea DC. Me"m. Soc. Phys. Geneve 1: 435. 1822. 

Astrophea Reichenb. Consp. 132. 1828. 

Trees, shrubs, or woody vines; tendrils often reduced to spines 

or wanting; petiolar glands scarlike if present; leaves simple; corona 

filaments short; operculum erect, 

subentire or usually more or less 

deeply cleft; ovary trigonous, broadly truncate, the styles projecting 

from the top of its angles. 

Sect. 1. 

Dolichostemma Killip, sect. nov. 

Plants scandent or arborescent; tendrils axillary, weak or wanting; 

calyx campanulate; corona 5-ranked; operculum long-tubular, 

exserted. Type: P. Haughtii. Nos. 308, 309. 

Sect. 2. 

Cirrhipes Killip, sect. nov. 

Woody vine; peduncles terminating in a tendril; calyx cylindriccampanulate; 

corona 3-ranked; operculum short, fimbriate halfway. 

Type: P. cirrhipes. No. 310. 

Sect. 3. Euastrophea (Harms) Killip, stat. nov. Passiflora 

sect. Astrophea subsect. Euastrophea Harms in Engl. & Prantl, 


Trees or shrubs, usually without tendrils; peduncles solitary or 

in pairs, usually dichotomous, ecirrhose; calyx campanulate or shorttubular, 

shorter than the sepals; corona 2-3-ranked. Type: P. 

arborea. Nos. 311-325. 

Sect. 4. 

Leptopoda Killip, sect. nov. 

Scandent shrub, apparently without tendrils; inflorescence 

racemose, the pedicels divaricate or pendulous; calyx short-cylindric; 

corona in several ranks, all but the outer one consisting of numerous 

plumose, reflexed filaments; operculum entire. 

No. 326. 

Type: P. leptopoda. 

Sect. 5. Pseudoastrophea (Harms) Killip, stat. nov. Passiflora 

sect. Astrophea subsect. Pseudoastrophea Harms in Engl. & 


Scandent shrubs or woody vines; peduncles solitary or in pairs, 

simple, short; calyx campanulate to cylindric-campanulate or funnel-


shaped, shorter than the sepals; corona not plumose. Type: P. 

Mansii. Nos. 327-343. 

Sect. 6. Botryastrophea (Harms) Killip, stat. nov. Passiflora 

sect. Astrophea subsect. Botryastrophea Harms in Engl. & Prantl, 


Scandent shrubs or woody vines (1 species a shrub or small tree) ; 

flowers in racemes, pseudoracemes, or dense fascicles; calyx cylindric, 

longer than the sepals; corona not plumose. Type: P. spicata. 

Nos. 344-354. 

KEY TO SUBGENERA 

Ovary sessile; flowers not more than 1.5 cm. wide (southern Florida 

and the West Indies; Costa Rica?) I. Apodogyne. 

Ovary borne on a gynophore (sometimes sessile in P. apoda) ; flowers 

usually larger. 

Operculum none; petals clawed at base (Cuba and Jamaica). 

II. Astephia. 

Operculum present; petals not clawed. 

A. Ovary terete or subangular, not definitely 3-angled, acute or 

rounded, the styles projecting from center of top of ovary 

and often united at the base, or the ovary tapering to the 

styles, 

the styles free to base; herbaceous or woody vines 

(low shrubs in a few species of Dysosmia). 

Peduncles terminating in a tendril, 2-flowered. 

Flowers less than 3 cm. wide; operculum not plicate (Panama 

to Ecuador) III. Tryphostemmatoides. 

Flowers more than 3 cm. wide; operculum plicate (Brazil). 

IV. Deidamioides. 

Peduncles not terminating in a tendril, 1 

(rarely 2-several)- 

flowered. . 

Operculum plicate; bracts (if present) linear-subulate or setaceous, 

not involucrate (broader and usually involucrate 

in sections 5-7 of Plectostemma; broader in 

\ Granadilla, series Kermesinae). 

Flowers usually small and not highly colored; corona 1-2- 

ranked (except in P. pulchella); operculum without 

a row of filaments upon its outside . . V. Plectostemma. 

Flowers usually more than 5 cm. wide, highly colored; corona 

in more than 2 series; operculum with row of filaments 

outside. XVI II. Granadilla, series Kermesinae.


or foliaceous, 

Operculum not plicate, of various forms; bracts setaceous 

scattered along the peduncle or involucrate. 

Bracts setaceous, scattered along the peduncle. 

Petals none; petioles biglandular; seeds reticulate 

(Mexico; Jamaica) VI. Chloropathanthus. 

Petals present; petioles glandless; seeds transversely 

sulcate. 

Corona tubular or funnel-shaped, at most denticulate 

(West Indies) VII. Murucuja. 

Corona filamentose, the filaments sometimes united 

toward the base. 

Calyx bowl-shaped or tubular-campanulate (often 

cylindric in P. oblongata), less than 2 cm. long, 

shorter than the sepals; plants glabrous 

(West Indies) VIII. Pseudomurucuja. 

Calyx cylindric, more than 2 cm. long, equaling 

or longer than the sepals; plants glabrous or 

pubescent (calyx sometimes less than 2 cm. 

long and shorter than the sepals in P. sanguinolenta; 

Colombia and Ecuador). 

IX. Psilanthus. 

Bracts predominantly verticillate, forming an involucre 

at the base of the flower, usually large and foliaceous. 

Sepals dorsally glandular at the margin; corona a low, 

fleshy ring, cleft into triangular-dentiform processes 

(Amazonian Brazil) 

X. Adenosepala. 

Sepals not glandular (except in P. setacea); corona 

other than above. 

B. Operculum dependent, the margin not recurved; 

calyx tube usually long-cylindric. 

Corona 1-2-ranked, tuberculate (filamentose in a 

few species) ; calyx tube elongate, longer than 

the sepals, but shorter than the sepals in P. 

insignis (Andes). 

Sepals united above the throat of the tube for half 

their length, the petals inserted at the base 

of the lobes XI. Tacsoniopsis. 

Sepals free to the throat of the calyx tube.


Petals inserted at the middle of the tube, 

below the sepals XII. Rathea. 

Petals inserted at the throat of the tube. 

XIII. Tacsonia. 

Corona in more than 2 ranks (if 2-ranked then the 

inner rank tubular), at least the outer rank 

filamentose; calyx tube urceolate-campanulate 

to short-cylindric, shorter than the sepals. 

Corona filaments of each rank distinct to base; 

leaves 3-lobed or 3-sect. 

XIV. Granadillastrum. 

Corona filaments of inner rank united part way 

into a tubular membrane; leaves entire or 

3-lobed. Flowers scarlet .. XV. Distephana. 

B. Operculum erect or horizontally spreading, not 

dependent. 

Flowers in long racemes; bractlets setaceous, soon 

deciduous 

XVI. Calopathanthus. 

Flowers solitary or in pairs in the leaf axils; bracts 

usually foliaceous and persistent. 

Calyx tube narrowly cylindric, about as long as 

the sepals 

XVII. Tacsonioides. 

Calyx tube campanulate or rarely shorttubular, 

much shorter than the sepals. 

Bracts entire or serrulate (pectinate in P. 

pedata), forming an involucre near the 

base of the flower XVIII. Granadilla. 

Bracts lacerate-dentate to 

bipinnatisect, the 

ultimate divisions usually gland-tipped. 

Stipules deeply cleft into filiform, or 

occasionally pinnatisect divisions, the 

uncut portion merely a narrow band 

about the stem; bracts pinnatisect to 

tripinnatisect; operculum denticulate. 

XIX. Dysosmia. 

Stipules denticulate to lacerate-dentate, the 

uncut portion ovate or semi-ovate; 

bracts lacerate-dentate or laciniate; 

operculum filamentose (Brazil). 

XX. Dysosmioides.


A. Ovary 3-angled, broadly truncate at apex, the styles projecting 

from the top of the angles; outer corona filaments often 

verrucose; trees, shrubs, or woody vines. 

Leaves compound; stigmas about 5 mm. in diameter; peduncles 

terminating in a tendril (Guianas; Brazil). 

XXI. Polyanthea. 

Leaves simple; stigmas smaller; peduncles not terminating 

in a tendril (except in P. cirrhipes) XXII. Astrophea. 

. . . 

Subgenus I. Apodogyne 

One species 1. P. multiflora. 

Subgenus II. Astephia 

One species 2. P. penduliflora. 

Subgenus III. 

Tryphostemmatoides 

Peduncles less than 1.5 cm. long; leaves transversely ovate, broader 

than long 3. P. tryphostemmatoides. 

Peduncles more than 1.5 cm. long; leaves oblong-ovate to suborbicular, 

longer than broad 4. P. gracillima. 

Subgenus IV. Deidamioides 

One species 5. P. deidamioides. 

Subgenus V. 

Plectostemma 

KEY TO SECTIONS 

Bracts linear-subulate or setaceous, less than 6 mm. long, not 

involucrate, sometimes wanting (narrowly ovate to oblanceolate 

in P. pilosa). 

Petiolar glands present; seeds reticulate. 

Bracts usually dissitate along the peduncle, more than 1 

mm. 

long; petiolar glands globose, clavate, or patelliform, sessile 

or stipitate Section 1. Cieca. 

Bracts crowded at base of peduncle, less than 1 mm. long; 

petiolar glands scarlike (British Honduras). 

Section 2. Mayapathanthus. 

Petiolar glands none (petioles with auricular appendages near base 

in P. auriculata and P. ferruginea) 

. 

Seeds with rugulose, transverse ridges; bracts present (absent 

in three species); fruit prevailingly globose or ovoid. 

Section 3. Decaloba.


Seeds with smooth, transverse ridges; bracts none; fruit prevailingly 

elongate-obovoid or fusiform. 

Section 4. 

Xerogona. 

Bracts lanceolate to orbicular-cordate, involucrate, usually purplish 

or pinkish. 

Petiolar glands orbicular, long-stipitate; bracts lanceolate or 

oblong, verticillate near middle of peduncle, lacerate. 

Section 5. Pseudodysosmia. 

Petiolar glands none; bracts obovate to orbicular-cordate, involucrate, 

entire 

(lacerate in P. rugosissima). 

Seeds transversely sulcate; stipules linear or linear-subulate 

(cordate in P. porphyretica) ; 

bracts 3, less than 2 cm. long. 

Section 6. Pseudogranadilla. 

Seeds reticulate; stipules reniform; bracts usually 2, more than 

A. Petals none. 

2 cm. long Section 7. Hahniopathanthus. 

Subgenus V. Plectostemma, Section 1. Cieca 

Stipules narrowly linear or setaceous. 

Petiolar glands sessile, more than 0.5 mm. in diameter; leaves 

much broader than long (subrotund in P. clypeophylla). 

Leaves distinctly peltate, their lobes, if present, triangularovate. 

Peduncles less than 1.5 cm. long; ovary ovoid; leaves transversely 

oblong-elliptic (rarely 3-lobed), coriaceous, 

green beneath 6. P. coriacea. 

Peduncles more than 1.5 cm. long; ovary globose; leaves 

subrotund, submembranous, glaucous beneath. 

7. P. clypeophylla. 

Leaves not peltate, their lobes prevailingly linear (southwestern 

United States and northern Mexico). 

8. P. tenuiloba. 

Petiolar glands usually pediceled and less than 0.5 mm. in 

diameter; leaves usually longer than broad. 

Glands borne at or above middle of petiole; fruit globose or 

ovoid; leaves entire or 3-lobed, polymorphic, green 

beneath 9. P. suberosa. 

Glands borne below middle of petiole; fruit ellipsoidal; leaves 

3-lobed to middle, glaucous beneath 10. P. gracilis.


Stipules ovate (Guatemala) 11. P. trinifolia. 

. Petals present. 

Peduncles more than 1-flowered, rarely the lower 1-flowered in 

P. holosericea. 

Outer corona filaments lanceolate; petals mottled with red 

within 12. P. holosericea. 

Outer corona filaments filiform; petals not mottled with red 

within (Colombia and Ecuador). 

Gynophore well developed; sepals narrowly lanceolate. 

13. P.Sodiroi. 

Gynophore very short or wanting; sepals broadly ovate. 

Peduncles 1-flowered. 

14. P. apoda. 

B. Corona 1-ranked; leaves membranous, dull above; stipules 

semi-ovate (linear or setaceous in four species). 

C. Glands borne on upper third of petiole. 

Leaves not lobed, 

Leaves 3-5-lobed. 

oblong-ovate, acuminate (Costa Rica). 

15. P. dioscoreaefolia. 

Bracts ovate to oblanceolate, more than 1 mm. wide 

(Mexico) 16. P. pilosa. 

Bracts linear or setaceous, not more than 1 mm. wide. 

Leaves entire at margin, truncate at base, 3-lobed onethird 

their length; stipules setaceous (Venezuela). 

17. P. stellata. 

Leaves usually toothed, cordate at base, lobed at least 

to middle; stipules usually semi-ovate. 

Ovary densely pubescent; seeds not strongly flattened, 

nearly 2 mm. thick (Brazil to Argentina; 

rare elsewhere). 

Leaves lobed about to middle, the central lobe 

lance-deltoid, not narrowed at base. 

18. P. Warmingii. 

Leaves lobed about two-thirds their length, the 

central lobe ovate, usually narrowed at 

base. 

19. P. morifolia. 

Ovary glabrous; seeds usually strongly flattened, less 

than 2 mm. thick (southwestern United States 

and Mexico).


Stem and leaves densely hirtellous; leaves subentire 

or shallowly and irregularly dentate or 

denticulate, 3-lobed with the basal lobes 

usually bilobate, the middle lobe somewhat 

narrowed at base. 

Petals linear or linear-lanceolate, 5 mm. long 

or less; stipules semi-ovate; tendrils well 

developed 20. P. bryonioides. 

Petals oblong-lanceolate, more than 5 mm. long; 

stipules linear-falcate; tendrils weak or 

often wanting 21. P. Karwinskii. 

Stem and leaves glabrate or very finely pilosulous; 

leaves regularly sinuate-dentate, strictly 3- 

lobed, the middle lobe not narrowed at base. 

C. Glands borne below upper third of petiole. 

22. P. colimensis. 

Stipules narrowly linear or setaceous; plants glabrous. 

Bracts setaceous, borne above middle of peduncle; 

petiolar glands about 0.5 mm. in diameter (Costa 

Rica) 23. P. pediculata. 

Bracts narrowly linear, often 1-2-toothed, scattered 

along peduncle; petiolar glands about 1 mm. in 

diameter (northern Mexico) 24. P. quercetorum. 

Stipules semi-ovate or subreniform; plants usually pubescent 

(Mexico and Guatemala). 

Lobes of leaves acute or acuminate; stipe of fruit 1.5 cm. 

or more long. 

Bracts setaceous; leaves about as broad as long, subentire 

25. P. sicyoides. 

Bracts semi-ovate, irregularly lobate; leaves longer than 

broad, lower lobes reduced. . .26. P. dolichocarpa. 

Lobes of leaves obtuse, rarely subacute; stipe of fruit 

less than 1.5 cm. long. 

Stalks of petiolar glands more than 6 mm. long, very 

slender 27. P. podadenia. 

Stalks of petiolar glands less than 5 mm. long, coarser. 

28. P. exsudans, 

B. Corona 2-3-ranked ; 

leaves coriaceous, lustrous above ; stipules 

setaceous.

Petiolar glands 1 


mm. in diameter; leaves membranous, inconspicuously 

reticulate-veined (Brazil). 29. P. truncata. 

Petiolar glands less than 1 mm. in diameter; leaves coriaceous, 

strongly reticulate-veined. 

Leaves densely pilosulous beneath; middle leaf lobe Jess 

than half as long as lateral lobes (Bolivia). 

30. P. exoperculata. 

Leaves glabrous or sparingly pubescent beneath; middle 

lobe more than half as long as lateral lobes (Peru). 

31. P. Lobbii. 

Subgenus V. Plectostemma, Section 2. Mayapathanthus 

One species 32. P. obovata. 

Subgenus V. Plectostemma, Section 3. Decaloba 

KEY TO SERIES 

Petioles with auricular appendages at middle or near base; leaves 

ovate-lanceolate, entire or with 2 reduced lateral lobes. 

Series 1. 

Auriculatae. 

Petioles without appendages; leaves variously lobed, entire in P. 

quadrifolia. 

Leaves lobed nearly to base or pedately 3-parted, 

the segments 

usually lobulate (West Indies) Series 2. Heterophyllae. 

Leaves entire to deeply lobed, but the lobes not lobulate, the 

leaves never pedately parted. 

Peduncles more than 1-flowered, rarely 1-flowered in P. sexflora. 

Peduncles 1-flowered. 

Series 3. 

Sexflorae. 

Petals none Series 4. Apetalae. 

Petals present. 

Bracts none; peduncles very slender; leaves broader than 

long, 3-lobed, the lobes usually obtuse . 

Bracts present though often early deciduous. 

Series 5. Luteae. 

Corona 1-ranked Series 6. Organenses. 

Corona 2-ranked. 

Inner corona filaments linear, broadly dilated at apex 

and often lobulate Series 7. Miserae. 

Inner corona filaments filiform or capillary, rarely 

minutely capitellate Series 8. Punctatae.


Series 1. 

Auriculatae 

Plant glabrous to cinereous-pubescent; fruit globose, not more than 

1.5 cm. in diameter 33. P. auriculata. 

Plant ferruginous-tomentose; fruit broadly ovoid, more than 1.5 

cm. in diameter (Peru) 34. P. ferruginea. 

Series 2. 

Heterophyllae 

Plant glabrous; segments of leaves petiolulate. 

. .35. P.Berteriana. 

Plant hirsutulous; segments of leaves not petiolulate. 

Series 3. 

Sexflorae 

36. P. heterophylla. 

Leaves not lobed, narrowly elliptic-oblong (Peru) 

. .37. P. quadriflora. 

Leaves lunately or truncately lobed, broader than long. 

Plant densely pubescent; leaves 3-lobed; peduncles stout, usually 

more than 3-flowered 38. P. sexflora. 

Plant glabrous; leaves bilobed; peduncles very slender, 2- or 3- 

flowered. 

Corona 1-ranked; leaf lobes only slightly divergent (Guatemala) 

39. P. allantophylla. 

Corona 2-ranked; leaf lobes strongly divergent, the blade therefore 

transversely oblong (Brazil) 40. P. saxicola. 

Series 4. 

Apetalae 

Leaves longer than broad, deeply bilobed; sepals lanceolate, less than 

5 mm. wide (Costa Rica and Panama) 41. P. apetala, 

Leaves broader than long, repand-truncate at upper margin; sepals 

broadly ovate, about 1 cm. wide (Peru) 42. P. Poeppigii. 

Series 5. 

Luteae 

Outer corona filaments narrowly linear (United States). 43. P. lutea. 

Outer corona filaments filiform. 

Stem, older leaves (at least), and ovary glabrous; leaves very thin, 

the venation inconspicuous 44. P. filipes. 

Stem, leaves, and ovary pubescent; leaves thicker, the venation 

conspicuous 45. P. Pavonis. 

Series 6. 

Organenses 

Operculum slightly plicate at apex, erect. 

Stem and petioles glabrous; leaves lobed to below middle; flowers 

pink (Salvador) 46. P. salvadorensis.


Stem and petioles puberulent; leaves lobed one-third their length; 

flowers orange (Mexico) 47. P. jorullensis. 

Operculum plicate throughout, usually incurved. 

Corona filaments linear-clavate, not more than 2 mm. long; leaves 

bilobed to below middle, the lobes suberect (Central America). 

48. P. ornithoura. 

Corona filaments filiform, ligulate, or dolabriform, more than 2 mm. 

long. 

Corona filaments filiform or ligulate, less than 1 mm. wide 

(Mexico) 49. P. Dictamo. 

Corona filaments dolabriform, more than 1 mm. wide. 

Leaves nearly as broad as long, shallowly 2-3-lobed at apex 

(Mexico and Guatemala) 50. P. Helleri. 

Leaves much broader than long. 

Sepals linear, more than 2 cm. long; gynophore very 

slender, more than 1.5 cm. long (West Indies). 

51. P. stenosepala. 

Sepals oblong-lanceolate, not more than 2 cm. long (Brazil). 

Series 7. 

Miserae 

52. P. organensis. 

Ovary densely cano-tomentose (Peru) 53. P. leptoclada. 

Ovary glabrous. 

Leaves 2-lobed, the lobes widely divergent (hence leaves transversely 

oblong), occasionally a small intermediate lobe present. 

Fruit globose 54. P. misera. 

Fruit fusiform 55. P. amalocarpa. 

Leaves 3-lobed, the lobes ascending, subequal or the middle the 

longest. Occasionally in P. tricuspis the middle lobe is wanting, 

the sinus being lunate (South America). 

Leaves coriaceous or subcoriaceous, lustrous above, green 

beneath 56. P. tricuspis. 

Leaves membranous, dull above and conspicuously fasciate 

along nerves, reddish beneath 57. P. trifasciata. 

Series 8. 

Punctatae 

Outer corona filaments united near base into a prominent membrane, 

the inner filaments arising from this membrane at a 

distance of about 2 mm. from the free outer filaments.


Peduncles less than 2 cm. long; leaves coriaceous, the lobes widespreading 

(Trinidad and Guianas) 58. P. vespertilio. 

Peduncles more than 2 cm. long; leaves submembranous, the lobes 

suberect (Bolivia to northwest Argentina) 

. . 59. P. urnaefolia. 

Outer corona filaments not united into a prominent membrane, the 

inner filaments arising close to the outer. 

Limen none (Trinidad, northern South . . 

America) 60. P. tuberosa. 

Limen present. 

A. Leaves longer than broad, prevailingly oblong in general 

outline, subentire or 3-lobed with the central lobe equaling 

or exceeding the lateral lobes; if 2-lobed, the depth of the 

sinus not half the length of the blade; general outline cuneiform 

in P. magdalenae, suborbicular in P. panamensis and 

P. Candollei. 

Calyx densely white-tomentose within; leaves thick-coriaceous, 

very lustrous above (Costa Rica). 

61. 

P. lancearia. 

Calyx glabrous within; leaves subcoriaceous, dull or sublustrous 

above. 

Leaves cuneiform or suborbicular in general outline, the 

lobes subequal, or the lateral only slightly shorter 

than the middle one. 

Fruit less than 1 cm. in diameter; leaves cuneate, the 

lobes rounded or truncate (Colombia). 

62. P. magdalenae. 

Fruit about 2 cm. in diameter; leaves rounded at base, 

the lobes acute or subobtuse (Panama). 

63. P. panamensis. 

Leaves lance-oblong or ovate-oblong. 

B. Lateral leaf lobes shorter than the central lobe, 

sometimes wanting and, hence, the leaves entire. 

Peduncles slender, much exceeding the petioles; plant 

glabrescent or finely 

appressed-pubescent. 

64. P. cuspidifolia. 

Peduncles stouter, shorter than the petioles; plant 

densely and softly pubescent or pilose. 

Outer corona filaments fusiform or liguliform; plant 

densely and softly pubescent with short hairs. 

65. P. mollis.

. 68. 


Outer corona filaments linear-lanceolate; plant 

densely pilose 66. P. pilosissima. 

B. Lateral leaf lobes usually much exceeding the 

central lobe. 

Outer corona filaments abruptly dilated into a 

flat-capitate apex (Colombia and Venezuela). 

67. P. bogotensis. 

Outer corona filaments not abruptly dilated into 

a flat-capitate apex. 

Outer corona filaments abruptly and strongly 

dilated in upper third, then tapering to a 

filiform apex (Colombia) 

. 

P. alnifolia. 

Outer corona filaments not as above but of 

variable form, linear, liguliform, or fusiform. 

C. Lobes of leaves obtuse (sometimes mucronulate), 

or the leaves suborbicular. 

Flowers at least 1.5 cm. wide; peduncles 

more than 1.5 cm. long. 

Outer corona filaments 

narrowly liguliform, 

not dilated; leaves broadly 

truncate or cordulate at base; plant 

more or less pubescent. 

Bracts entire; calyx tube not more than 

6 mm. wide at base; petals ovatelanceolate 

(Colombia and Ecuador) 

69. P. bauhinifolia. 

Bracts 2-3-cleft; calyx tube more than 

6 mm. wide at base; petals narrowly 

linear (Bolivia). 

70. P. Tatei. 

Outer corona filaments trigonous, usually 

dilated near middle; leaves rounded 

at base; plant usually glabrous, or 

nearly so (Venezuela and Colombia). 

71. P. cuneata. 

Flowers not more than 1.5 cm. wide; 

peduncles less than 2 cm. long (Haiti). 

91. P. Ekmanii. 

C. Lobes of leaves acute.


Leaves puberulent above, densely tomentellous 

beneath, drying reddish; flowers 

borne on short, axillary branches 

(Venezuela) 72. P. lyra. 

Leaves glabrous, finely puberulent, or 

canescent. 

Middle leaf lobe longer than the lateral 

lobes; ovary densely tomentellous 

(Costa Rica). .73. P. talamancensis. 

Middle leaf lobe, if present, much reduced; 

ovary glabrous or pilose 

(South America). 

Leaves narrowest above middle, the 

lobes erect (Colombia and 

Ecuador). 

Ovary glabrous; leaves glaucous 

beneath; limen cushion-like. 

74. P. popayanensis. 

Ovary pubescent; leaves green beneath; 

limen narrowly annular. 

Outer corona filaments slightly 

dilated at base, tapering to 

apex; length along lateral 

nerves of leaves at least 

twice as great as width of 

leaves; peduncles not more 

than 2.5 cm. long. 

Stem glabrous, scabrid; outer 

filaments about 1 cm. long. 

75. P. chelidonea. 

Stem pilosulous, smooth; outer 

filaments less than 8 mm. 

long ... 76. P. tribolophylla. 

Outer corona filaments conspicuously 

dilated at and above 

middle; length along lateral 

nerves of leaves less than 

twice as great as width of 

leaves; peduncles more than 

2.5 cm. long. 

. .77. P. Dawei.


Leaves broadest above middle, the 

lobes somewhat divergent. 

Outer corona filaments liguliform, 

not 3-angled; leaves cuneate at 

base, longer than broad. 

78. P. ichthyura. 

Outer corona filaments 3-angled; 

leaves rounded or subtruncate 

at base 79. P. Candollei. 

A. Leaves broader than long or, if longer than broad, predominantly 

2-lobed, the depth of the sinus at least half the 

length of the blade. 

Outer corona filaments conspicuously dilated at or above 

middle, less than half as long as the sepals, usually 3- 

angled. 

Gynophore 1 to 1.2 cm. long; outer corona filaments 

straight; peduncles solitary (Yucatan). 

80. P. yucatanensis. 

Gynophore less 

than 8 mm. long; outer corona filaments 

strongly falcate or dolabriform; peduncles solitary or 

in pairs. 

Peduncles more than 3.5 cm. long, usually solitary; ovary 

ellipsoidal (Panama to Peru) 81. P. punctata. 

Peduncles not more than 3.5 cm. long, in pairs; ovary 

globose or ovoid. 

Outer corona filaments dilated near middle, yellow; 

sepals and petals ovate-lanceolate (Mexico to 

Venezuela) 82. P. biflora. 

Outer corona filaments dilated at apex, purplish (?); 

sepals and petals linear (Brazil) .83. P. glaucescens. 

Outer corona filaments filiform or liguliform, not dilated, 

terete or flat, scarcely angled, usually more than half as 

long as the sepals. 

B. Lobes of leaves narrowly linear (or oblong in P. 

nipensis), rarely as much as 5 mm. wide, attenuate at 

apex (Cuba and Haiti). 

Operculum incised-dentate, the teeth triangular; stipules 

more than 3 mm. long; bracts borne below middle of 

peduncle (Haiti) 84. P. anadenia.


Operculum subentire, minutely papillose; stipules not 

more than 3 mm. long; bracts borne near apex of 

peduncle (Cuba). 

Leaf lobes linear, 3 cm. or more long, less than 2.5 mm. 

wide; sepals less than 1.5 cm. long 

. 

85. P. stenoloba. 

Leaf lobes narrowly oblong or lance-oblong, less than 

3 cm. long, 2.5 to 5 mm. wide; sepals 1.5 cm. or 

more long 86. P. nipensis. 

B. Lobes of leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, more than 

5 mm. wide, if linear, then abruptly dilated at apex. 

C. Flowers not more than 2.5 cm. wide. 

Bracts linear-subulate, congested at base of peduncle; 

leaves deeply bilobed, the intermediate lobe, if 

present, reduced to a mere cusp (Puerto Rico and 

Hispaniola). 

Leaves lobed to below middle, the lobes usually 

emarginate and broadest at apex; flowers borne 

on main stem 87. P. bilobata. 

Leaves lobed only to middle, the lobes rounded at 

apex, broadest toward base; flowers borne on 

short, leafless branchlets 88. P. bicrura. 

Bracts setaceous, scattered along peduncle; leaves subtruncately 

2-3-1obed or deeply 3-lobed. 

Peduncles solitary; ovary narrowly ellipsoidal (Peru). 

Peduncles usually "in 

89. P. tenella. 

pairs; ovary globose or ovoid. 

Fruit ovoid or obovoid; leaves membranous, drying 

purple-red (Colombia) 

. 

90. P. erythrophylla. 

Fruit globose; leaves subcoriaceous or membranous, 

drying green. 

Leaves densely villosulous beneath, the middle 

lobe reduced, the lateral lobes ascending 

(Haiti) 91. P. Ekmanii. 

Leaves essentially glabrous, the middle lobe 

equaling or exceeding the lateral lobes, the 

latter usually divaricate. 

Operculum densely and minutely fimbrillate; 

lobes of leaves acute or subacute (Colombia) 

92. P. micrantha.


Operculum not fimbrillate; lobes of leaves 

rounded or truncate. 

Leaves 3-lobed about to middle, less 

than 

twice as broad as long (United States 

and northern Mexico) ... 93. P. affinis. 

Leaves subtruncately 3-lobed, fully twice 

as broad as long. 

Outer corona filaments narrowly linearclavate, 

the inner ones filiform 

throughout (Colombia). 

94. P. bucaramangensis. 

Outer corona filaments terete, not dilated 

C. Flowers more than 2.5 cm. wide. 

at apex, the inner ones capitellate 

(Peru) 95. P. obtusiloba. 

Outer corona filaments trigonous 71. P. cuneata. 

Outer corona filaments not trigonous. 

Leaves lobed at least to middle, the middle lobe 

usually reduced to a mere cusp, the lobes 

suberect (Mexico and Central America). 

Flowers bluish purple and white; outer corona 

filaments capillary; petals half as long as the 

sepals (Central America) .... 96. P. Standleyi. 

Flowers red and white; outer corona filaments 

narrowly linear; petals barely a third as long 

as the sepals (Arizona and Mexico). 

97. P. mexicana. 

Leaves lobed not more than to middle, often subtruncate 

or undulate at upper margin. 

Lobes of leaves acute 98. P. anfracta. 

Lobes of leaves obtuse. 

Plant glabrous throughout. 

Outer corona ligulate, dilated just above 

middle; petals linear-oblong (Lesser Antilles) 

99. P. Andersonii. 

Outer corona filaments clavate; petals ovate 

(Amazonian Brazil). 100. P. micropetala. 

Plant pubescent; leaves green or sometimes 

paler beneath, but not glaucous.


Ovary pilose; petals less than half as long as 

the sepals; outer corona filaments narrowly 

linear-clavate; leaves suborbicular 

in general outline (Lesser Antilles). 

101. P. rotundifolia. 

Ovary glabrous; petals at least half as long 

as the sepals; outer corona filaments 

filiform ; leaves of variable shape (Bolivia 

and Brazil) 

. . . 

102. P. Pohlii. 

, 

Subgenus V. Plectostemma, Section 4. Xerogona 

Leaves not lobed. 

Leaves attenuate-acuminate, finely pilosulous beneath; corona 

filaments linear-clavate (Guatemala) 103. P. cobanensis. 

Leaves acute or acuminate, softly velutinous beneath; corona 

filaments subulate (British Honduras) 104. P. brevipes. 

Leaves bilobed. 

Stem and leaves hirsute with long, light brown hairs; leaves 

rounded at base, usually much longer than broad (Guatemala 

to Costa Rica) 105. P. costaricensis. 

Stem and leaves short-grayish-pubescent or occasionally 

tomentulous. 

Seeds sharply quadrangular; flowers less than 1.5 cm. wide 

(Mexico) 106. P. goniosperma. 

Seeds not quadrangular, flattened; flowers more than 1.5 cm. 

wide (often smaller in P. Conzattiana). 

Flowers less than 2 cm. wide; leaves nearly truncate at apex 

(Mexico) 107. P. Conzattiana. 

Flowers more than 2 cm. wide; leaves usually deeply lobed. 

Peduncles borne in pairs on short, axillary branches; leaves 

longer than broad, the lobes suberect (Mexico). 

108. P. Rovirosae. 

Peduncles solitary in the axils of the leaves of the main 

stem; leaves usually broader than long, lobes divergent. 

Fruit fusiform, 

tapering at apex; ovary glabrescent or 

usually puberulent; sepals greenish white. 

109. P. capsularis. 

Fruit obovoid or elliptic-obovoid, rounded at apex; ovary 

densely white-pilose; sepals red without. 

110. P. rubra.


Subgenus V. Plectostemma, Section 5. Pseudodysosmia 

One species 111. P. adenopoda. 

Subgenus V. Plectostemma, Section 6. 

Pseudogranadilla 

Peduncles more than 5 cm. long, about 5 times as long as the petioles; 

plant glabrous 112. P. pulchella. 

Peduncles less than 5 cm. long, equaling or not more than twice as 

long as the petioles; plant (except P. menispermacea) densely 

pubescent. 

Leaves bilobed one-third to one-half their length (Ecuador). 

113. P. indecora. 

Leaves truncately 2-3-lobed at apex. 

Bracts flabellate-lacerate (southern Mexico). 

114. P. rugosissima. 

Bracts entire or obscurely toothed. 

Leaves glabrous; bracts more than 1 cm. long (Colombia). 

115. P. menispermacea. 

Leaves ferruginous-tomentose beneath ; 

bracts not more than 

1 cm. long. 

Bracts oblanceolate, less than 5 mm. wide, not enclosing the 

bud (Colombia and Venezuela) .... 116. P. Kalbreyeri. 

Bracts cordate, more than 5 mm. wide, enclosing the bud 

(Central Mexico to Guatemala). .117. 

P. porphyretica. 

Subgenus V. Plectostemma, Section 7. Hahniopathanthus 

Sepals and petals radiate, not more than 3 cm. long; fruit globose. 

Stipules setiferous-toothed; bracts less than 3 cm. long, denticulate 

toward base 118. P. Hahnii. 

Stipules merely crenate; bracts more than 3 cm. long, entire. 

119. P.CookiL 

Sepals and petals erect, more than 3 cm. long; fruit ovoid. 

Subgenus VI. Chloropathanthus 

120. P. membranacea. 

Flowers green; leaves peltate; petioles glandular at or below middle; 

plant glabrous (Mexico) 121. P. viridiflora. 

Flowers scarlet; leaves not peltate; petioles glandular near apex; 

plant pilose (Jamaica) 122. P. lancifolia.


Subgenus VII. Murucuja 

Leaves orbicular, shallowly 3-lobed . . 

(Hispaniola) 123. P. orbiculata. 

Leaves oblong, ovate, or transversely oblong, shallowly 2-3-lobed, 

or deeply 2-lobed with divergent lobes. 

Sepals spatulate, conspicuously narrowed at base; corona less 

than 1 cm. long (Cuba) 124. P. Shaferi. 

Sepals linear-oblong, not narrowed at base; corona more than 

1 cm. long. 

Leaves usually much broader than long; operculum entire; 

corona reddish or purplish; limen none. . 125. P. Murucuja. 

Leaves longer than broad; operculum lacerate; corona yellowish; 

limen present (Puerto Rico) 126. P. Tulae. 

Subgenus VIII. Pseudomurucuja 

Sepals linear-subulate, the petals oblanceolate, broader than the 

sepals; leaves usually deeply cordate and amplexicaul (Jamaica). 

127. P. perfoliata. \ 

Sepals and petals linear or linear-oblong, the petals narrower than 

the sepals; leaves rounded or acute at base, not amplexicaul. 

Leaves entire, ovate to elliptic 

Leaves 2-3-lobed. 

(Bahamas, Cuba, and Haiti). 

128. P. cuprea. 

Inflorescence pseudoracemose, the leaves of the flowering 

branches greatly reduced or none; leaves longer than broad 

(Jamaica) 129. P. oblongata. 

Inflorescence not pseudoracemose; leaves broader than long or, 

if longer than broad, 2-lobed to the middle. 

Operculum dependent, lacerate 

(Jamaica). 

130. P. tacsonioides. 

Operculum erect, denticulate (Cuba) 131. P. cubensis. 

Subgenus IX. Psilanthus 

Calyx tube more than 2 cm. long, much exceeding the sepals; leaves 

much longer than broad (Colombia). 

Leaves glabrous, or puberulent on the nerves beneath; calyx tube 

2.5 to 8 cm. long. 

Calyx dilated at base; ovary glabrous 132. P. bicuspidata. 

Calyx acute at base; ovary hirsute-tomentose. 

133. P. hyacinthiflora.


Leaves tomentose beneath, 3-lobed at apex; calyx tube more than 

8 cm. long 134. P. trinervia. 

Calyx tube not more than 2 cm. long, subequal to or shorter than the 

sepals; leaves broader than long (Ecuador). 

135. P. sanguinolenta. 

Subgenus X. Adenosepala 

One species 136. P. Ernesti. 

Subgenus XI. Tacsoniopsis 

One species 137. P. bracteosa. 

Subgenus XII. Rathea 

One species 138. P. andina. 

Subgenus XIII. Tacsonia 

A. Peduncles slender, elongate (12 to 30 cm. long when developed), 

pendent; leaves generally polymorphic (entire or 3-lobed in 

the same species). 

Calyx tube longer than the sepals; bracts entire to dentate. 

Corona tuberculate or obsolescent (Colombia). 

Sepals with a broadly winged keel ; 

Sepals without a broadly winged keel. 

Bracts free to base. 

flowers orange. 

139. P. Parritae. 

Leaves densely hirsute-tomentose beneath ; 

bracts entire. 

140. P. cremastantha. 

Leaves villous beneath; bracts incised-dentate. 

Bracts united below middle. 

141. P. leptomischa. 

Stipules laciniate-fimbriate; calyx tube finely pilosulous. 

142. P. fimbriatistipula. 

Stipules serrate; calyx tube glabrous. 143. 

Corona filamentose. 

P. quindiensis. 

Leaves densely ferruginous-tomentose beneath, rugulose 

above, the middle lobe not narrowed at base (Ecuador). 

144. P. coactilis. 

Leaves grayish-villous beneath, flat above, the middle lobe 

(if leaves are 3-lobed) narrowed at base (Colombia). 

145. P. flexipes.


Calyx tube shorter than the sepals; bracts fimbriate. 

146. P. insignis. 

A. Peduncles rather stout, not more than 10 cm. long (sometimes 

longer in P. ampullacea and P. Mandoni*); leaves either all 3- 

lobed or 3-foliolate, or all undivided (i.e., uniform in each 

species). 

B. Leaves not lobed. 

Apex of leaves rounded or obtuse . . 

(Colombia) 147. P. adulterina. 

Apex of leaves acute or acuminate. * 

Bracts distinct to base (Colombia and Venezuela). 

Stipules setaceous to linear-lanceolate, entire. 

Margin of leaves subentire or slightly denticulate, 

revolute 148. P. lanata. 

Margin of leaves serrate or dentate, scarcely revolute. 

Leaves less than 7.5 cm. long; calyx tube and ovary 

glabrous 149. P. truxillensis. 

Leaves more than 7.5 cm. long; calyx tube pubescent 

without; ovary tomentose. .150. P. pamplonensis. 

Stipules deeply pinnatisect; leaves glabrous (Peru). 

151. P. lanceolata. 

Bracts united one-third to two-thirds their length (Colombia). 

Stem glabrous; stipules reniform, fimbriate. 

Stem rufo-villous; stipules linear. 

142. P. fimbriatistipula. 

Calyx tube not more than 7 cm. long; leaves strongly 

rugose; corona undulate 152. P. rugosa. 

Calyx tube more than 7 cm. long; leaves rugulose; corona 

not undulate 153. P. eriocaula. 

B. Leaves 3-lobed or 3-foliolate. 

C. Bracts free to base, usually serrate to lacerate. 

Stipules linear, entire or serrulate. 

Plant densely villous; peduncles at least 8 cm. long, stout; 

flowers white (Ecuador) 154. P. ampullacea. 

Plant essentially glabrous; peduncles less than 8 cm. long, 

slender; flowers reddish or yellowish. 

Calyx tube less than 3.5 cm. long; leaf lobes ovateoblong, 

fully 5 mm. wide (Peru and Bolivia). 

155. P. gracilens.


Calyx tube more than 3.5 cm. long (Colombia). 

Leaf lobes 5 mm. or less wide; corona 1-ranked; calyx 

tube more than 6 mm. long 156. P. Trianae. 

Leaf lobes more than 5 mm. wide; corona 2-ranked; 

calyx tube not more than 6 cm. long. 

157. P. Purdiei. 

Stipules laciniate-pectinate or pinnatisect. 

Leaves 3-foliolate (Peru) 158. P. trifoliata. 

Leaves 3-lobed. 

Stipules laciniate-pectinate; leaves glabrous beneath; 

corona tuberculate (Ecuador) .... 159. P. Jamesoni. 

Stipules pinnatisect; leaves tomentose beneath; corona 

filamentose. 

Calyx tube slightly longer than the sepals, more than 

8 mm. in diameter; leaves lobed at least half their 

length, grayish-tomentose beneath. 

160. P. pinnatistipula. 

Calyx tube nearly twice as long as the sepals, less than 

8 mm. in diameter; leaves lobed not more than 

one-third their length, ferruginous-tomentose beneath 

(Bolivia) 161. P. Mandoni. 

C. Bracts united, at least at base, usually up to middle. 

Stipules linear or setaceous. 

Leaves rounded or cordate at base, pubescent on both 

surfaces; peduncles more than 5 cm. long; flowers 

white; gynophore glabrous (Ecuador). 

154. P. ampullacea. 

Leaves cuneate at base, glabrous above; peduncles less than 

5 cm. long; flowers rose; gynophore densely pilose 

(Peru) 162. P. Matthewsii. 

Stipules oblong, ovate, or subreniform. 

Leaves small, less than 4 cm. long and 6 cm. wide; peduncles 

very slender; flowers red (Peru) 163. P. parvifolia. 

Leaves usually larger; peduncles stouter. 

Flowers blue, violet, or magenta; plant glabrous (not in P. 

Roseorum); petioles strikingly biglandular at apex. 

Stipules oblong, closely laciniate-dentate; stem and 

under surface of leaves densely tomentose (Ecuador) 

164. P. Roseorum.

174. 


Stipules subreniform, entire or few-toothed; stem and 

under surface of leaves glabrous. 

Calyx tube less than 5 cm. long (Colombia). 

165. P. glaberrima. 

Calyx tube more than 5 cm. long (Colombia and 

Ecuador) 166. P. cumbalensis. 

Flowers red or pinkish ; petioles variously glandular. 

Calyx tube less than 6.5 cm. long. 

Leaves and calyx tube glabrous (Peru). 

167. P. macrochlamys. 

Leaves pilosulous beneath; calyx tube densely 

tomentose (Colombia) 168. P. Schlimiana. 

Calyx tube at least 6.5 cm. long. 

Stipules more than 2.5 cm. long; leaves thickcoriaceous, 

lustrous above; plant glabrous 

(Peru) 169. P. anastomosans. 

Stipules less than 2.5 cm. long; plant more or less 

pubescent, often densely ferruginous-tomentose. 

Stem terete, only the younger parts subangular. 

Calyx tube less than 6 mm. in diameter; free 

portions of bracts narrowly lanceolate 

(Ecuador) 170. P. psilantha. 

Calyx tube more, than 6 mm. in diameter; free 

portions of bracts ovate or ovate-lanceolate. 

Leaf lobes linear-oblong, less than 2 cm. wide; 

stem and under surface of leaves grayishpilosulous 

(Ecuador). .171. P. tripartite!,. 

Leaf lobes ovate to oblong, usually more than 

2 cm. wide; stem ferruginous-tomentose; 

under surface of leaves grayish- or 

ferruginous-tomentose. 

172. P. mollissima. 

Stem distinctly angular. 

Petioles obscurely 4-12-glandular, the glands 

less than 1.5 mm. long; leaves rounded or 

abruptly cuneate at base . . . .173. P. mixta. 

Petioles 2-3-glandular at middle, the glands at 

least 1.5 mm. long; leaves auriculate or 

cordulate at base (Peru) 

. 

P. mesadenia.


Subgenus XIV. Granadillastrum 

Leaves 3-lobed not more than four-fifths their length (often entire in 

P. antioquiensis) ; 

bracts entire or serrate. 

Plant glabrous; bracts distinct to base (Venezuela and Colombia). 

175. P. semiciliosa. 

Plant sparingly to densely pubescent, the leaves densely tomentose 

or at least tomentellous on the nerves beneath; bracts distinct 

to base or connate below middle. 

Peduncles less than 8 cm. long; leaves usually lobed not more 

than to middle; flowers scarlet 176. P. manicata. 

Peduncles more than 8 cm. long; leaves not lobed, or 3-lobed 

nearly to base. 

Bracts distinct to base; peduncles very slender; leaves polymorphic, 

entire or 3-lobed; flowers red (Colombia). 

177. P. antioquiensis. 

Bracts united to middle; peduncles stout; leaves all 

3-lobed; 

flowers white (Peru) 178. P. peduncularis. 

Leaves 3-foliolate; bracts lacerate-serrate or laciniate-fimbriate 

(Peru and Bolivia). 

Plant glabrous; bracts lacerate-serrate 179. P. Weberbaueri. 

Plant densely tomentose; bracts deeply laciniate-fimbriate. 

Subgenus XV. Distephana 

180. P. trisecta. 

Leaves coriaceous or subcoriaceous, entire at margin. 

Calyx tube cylindric, more than 1 cm. long; outer rank of corona 

of free filaments 181. P. glandulosa. 

Calyx tube broadly campanulate, less than 1 cm. long; outer 

rank of corona a tubular membrane, filamentose only at 

margin 182. P. variolata. 

Leaves membranous, toothed. 

Stipules and bracts laciniate-fimbriate or incised-serrate (Bolivia). 

Leaves unlobed; stipules pinnatisect; bracts laciniate-fimbriate; 

plant lanate 183. P. callimorpha. 

Leaves 3-lobed; stipules and bracts incised-serrate; plant 

glabrous 184. P. Buchtienii. 

Stipules and bracts entire or merely glandular-serrate. 

Bracts ovate, at least 1 cm. wide; two outer ranks of corona 

filaments purple distally, white proximally; leaves never 

lobed. . . . 185. P. coccinea.


Bracts linear to oblong-lanceolate, usually less than 1 cm. 

wide (broadly ovate and wider in two varieties); two 

outer ranks of corona filaments red or white; leaves polymorphic 

in the same species, 3 (or asymmetrically 2)-lobed 

or unlobed. 

Plant essentially glabrous; bracts usually linear, less than 

5 mm. wide (broader in . 

variety) 186. P. quadriglandulosa. 

Plant pubescent; bracts lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 

usually 5 to 10 mm. wide; leaves prevailingly 3-lobed. 

Outer ranks of corona filaments red; operculum fimbriate 

(Central America and northwestern South America). 

187. P. vitifolia. 

Outer ranks of corona filaments white; operculum crenate 

or denticulate (Brazil) 188. P. speciosa. 

Subgenus XVI. Calopa than thus 

One species 189. P. racemosa. 

Subgenus XVII. Tacsonioides 

Plant villosulous; leaves entire or asymmetrically 3-lobed; bracts 

lacerate-pectinate (Brazil) 190. P. Luetzelburgii. 

Plant glabrous; leaves symmetrically 3-lobed; bracts entire or 

serrulate. 

Leaves peltate, hastate, the lateral lobes divergent at nearly 

right angles from the much longer middle lobe (Ecuador). 

191. P. reflexiflora. 

Leaves not peltate, the lateral lobes ascending, subequal to the 

middle lobe. 

Bracts not more than 6 mm. wide, narrowed at base 

Bracts more than 6 mm. wide, cordate at base. 

(Peru). 

192. P. tarapotina. 

Leaves cordulate; bracts cordate; peduncles stout; corona 

5-ranked (Bolivia and Argentina) 193. P. umbilicata. 

Leaves rounded or subtruncate at base; bracts oblong; 

peduncles slender; corona 2-ranked (Brazil). 

194. P. Mendoncaei. 

Subgenus XVIII. Granadilla 

KEY TO SERIES 

Stem quadrangular, the angles narrowly to broadly winged; seeds 

more than 5 mm. wide Series 1. Quadrangular es.


Stem terete or angular, the angles not winged; seeds not more than 

5 mm. wide. 

Bracts united, at least at base, more than 2 cm. long, enveloping 

the bud. 

Leaves 5-7-lobed Series 2. Digitatae. 

Leaves entire to 3-lobed . . . 

(polymorphic) Series 3. Tiliaefoliae. 

Bracts distinct to base. 

Stipules linear or setaceous, usually soon deciduous. 

Leaves neither lobed nor parted. 

Bracts less than 1 cm. long, acute; leaves lanceolate, less 

than 2.5 cm. wide; petioles glandless (Brazil). 

Series 4. 

Marginatae. 

Bracts more than 1 cm. long, rounded at apex; leaves oblong 

or oblong-lanceolate, more than 2.5 cm. wide (narrower 

in P. capparidifolia) ; petioles biglandular (glandless 

in P. Popenovii). 

Plants glabrous; leaves entire or serrulate (all exclusively 

South American except P. laurifolia and P. ambigua). 

Series 5. 

Plants pubescent; leaves serrate or serrulate. 

Leaves 3-7-lobed, or compound. 

Series 6. 

Laurifoliae. 

Serratifoliae. 

Sepals glandular dorsally; corona 1-ranked (Brazil). 

Series 7. Setaceae. 

Sepals not glandular; corona in 2 or more ranks. 

Bracts fimbriate; leaves definitely compound, the leaflets 

all petiolulate (West Indies and northern South 

America) Series 8. Pedatae. 

Bracts entire or serrulate; leaves lobed, if compound, only 

the terminal leaflet petiolulate. 

Corona more than 2-ranked; petiolar glands present; 

operculum denticulate or fimbriate. 

Series 9. 

Incarnatae. 

Corona 2-ranked; petiolar glands none; operculum 

entire (Bolivia and Argentina). 

Series 10. 

Palmatisectae. 

Stipules foliaceous, semi-ovate to semi-oblong, attached on one 

side above base, hence often appearing reniform.

. 198. 


Bracts setaceous or narrowly ovate, less than 5 mm. wide, 

scattered along peduncle, soon deciduous; operculum 

more or less plicate, bearing on outside a row of filaments. 

Series 11. 

Kermesinae. 

Bracts foliaceous, usually more than 5 mm. wide, verticillate, 

rarely imbricate. 

Bracts imbricate, unequal, one smaller than the others and 

borne a short distance below them. 

Series 12. 

Bracts verticillate, borne near apex of peduncle. 

Imbricatae. 

Leaves not lobed Series 13. Simplicifoliae. 

Leaves lobed. 

Plants essentially glabrous (leaves tomentose beneath 

in P. Gardneri), not hispid-hirsute. 

Plants hispid-hirsute throughout. 

Series 15. 

Series 1. 

Quadrangulares 

Series 14. 

Lobatae. 

Menispermifoliae. 

Petioles 6-glandular; nerves of leaves 10 or more to a side, nearly 

equidistant from each other; stipules ovate to lance-ovate, more 

than 1 cm. wide 195. P. quadrangularis. 

Petioles 2-4-glandular; nerves about 8 to a side, those of the upper 

half of blade farther apart than those of the lower; stipules linear 

to linear-lanceolate, not more than 1 cm. wide. .196. P. alata. 

Series 2. Digitatae 

One species 197. P. serrato-digitata. 

Series 3. Tiliaefoliae 

Petiolar glands liguliform (often appearing filiform when dry), at 

least 3 mm. long. Leaves usually not lobed . 

P. ligularis. 

Petiolar glands not liguliform, less than 3 mm. long, sessile or shortstipitate. 

Glands borne at apex of petiole (often a second pair near middle) ; 

stipules foliaceous (narrowly linear only in P. Seemanni and 

sometimes in P. tiliaefolia). 

Operculum filamentose, the filaments erect, at least 5 mm. long; 

stipules oblanceolate (Mexico and Guatemala). 

199. P. Nelsoni.


Operculum entire or minutely denticulate; stipules cordateovate 

or linear. 

Calyx tube campanulate-funnel-shaped, lined within with 

numerous rows of tubercles; stipules narrowly linear 

(Panama and Colombia) 200. P. Seemanni. 

Calyx tube campanulate, not lined with rows of tubercles; 

stipules ovate or ovate-lanceolate (rarely the uppermost 

linear-lanceolate) . 

Leaves minutely denticulate, usually 3-lobed, the basal 

lobes often overlapping; corona 3-ranked, the inner 

rank dentiform; bracts united at base only (Peru and 

Bolivia) 201. P. triloba. 

Leaves entire at margin, never lobed; corona about 5- 

ranked, the 3 inner ranks consisting of short filaments; 

bracts united about a third their length. 

202. P. tiliaefolia. 

Glands all borne at or below middle of petiole; stipules narrowly 

linear. 

Leaves not lobed ; ovary subglobose (common cultivated species 

of West Indies, rarer in northern South America). 

203. P. maliformis. 

Leaves usually lobed, or polymorphic, the upper sometimes 

entire; ovary narrowly ovoid or ellipsoidal. 

Ovary white-tomentose; plant pilosulous (Panama). 

204. P. Williamsii. 

Ovary glabrous; plant glabrous or pilosulous. 

Lateral leaf lobes nearly equal to middle lobe, the latter 

usually broadly ovate (Costa Rica and Panama). 

205. P. platyloba. 

Lateral leaf lobes barely half as long as middle lobe, the 

latter ovate or ovate-lanceolate (Trinidad and northern 

South America). 

Bracts subobtuse or acute, the tips less than 1 cm. long 

(northern South America) 206. P. serrulata. 

Bracts long-tapering, the tips more than 1 cm. long 

(Venezuela) 207. P. multiformis. 

Series 4. 

Marginatae 

One species 208. P. marginata.


Series 5. 

Laurifoliae 

Outermost rank of corona filaments shorter than the second rank. 

Leaves narrowly oblong, at least three times as long as broad, 

rounded at apex (British Guiana) 209. P. capparidifolia. 

Leaves broader, less than three (rarely more than two) times as 

long as broad. 

Petiolar glands usually wanting; peduncles very slender, more 

than 7 cm. long (Ecuador) 210. P. Popenovii. 

Petiolar glands always present; peduncles stout, rarely as much 

as 7 cm. long. 

Corona 2-ranked; operculum filamentose to base (Bolivia). 

211. P. nigradenia. 

Corona 2-several-ranked; operculum membranous, at least 

part way. 

Glands borne at or below middle of petiole; third rank of 

corona remote from the second rank; leaves subabruptly 

attenuate-acuminate (Mexico and Central America). 

212. P. ambigua. 

Glands borne at apex of petiole; third rank of corona 

adjacent to the second rank; leaves prevailingly 

rounded or obtuse at apex (common cultivated species 

of the West Indies and northern South America). 

213. P. laurifolia. 

Outermost rank of corona filaments equaling or exceeding the second 

rank. 

Ovary pubescent. 

Outermost corona filaments and those of the second rank very 

slender, filiform above middle. 

Bracts entire, 1 cm. or more wide, green; leaves not more 

than 5 cm. wide (Amazonian Brazil). 

214. P. acuminata. 

Bracts glandular-serrate, less than 1 cm. wide, reddish; 

leaves more than 5 cm. wide (British Guiana). 

215. P. Gleasoni. 

Outermost corona filaments and those of the second rank thickcarnose, 

the latter about 2 mm. wide. 

Flowers glabrous without, borne on short, axillary branches 

(Amazon Basin) 216. P. riparia.


Flowers pubescent without, borne in the leaf axils of the main 

stem (mountains of Colombia) 217. P. tolimana. 

Ovary glabrous. 

Leaves 3-5-nerved, conspicuously crenulate-serrulate (southeastern 

Brazil) 218. P. odontophylla. 

Leaves penninerved, entire or inconspicuously serrulate. 

Peduncles at least 7 cm. long; bracts thin-membranous, violetrose 

(southern Brazil) 219. P. ischnoclada. 

Peduncles less than 7 cm. long; bracts membranous or subcoriaceous, 

green. 

Outermost corona filaments succulent, 1 mm. thick, at 

least in the lower half; bracts more than 1.5 cm. wide; 

plant often turning black in drying 220. P. nitida. 

Outermost corona filaments very slender, less than 0.5 mm. 

thick; bracts less than 1.5 cm. wide. 

221. P. guazumaefolia. 

Series 6. 

Serratifoliae 

Outer series of corona filaments not more than 1 cm. long (Brazil). 

Flowers in clusters of 2 to 6, up to 3 cm. wide; bracts linearlanceolate, 

not more than 2 mm. wide 222. P. bahiensis. 

Flowers solitary, 

much more than 3 cm. wide; bracts ovate to 

oblong, more than 2 mm. wide 223. P. malacophylla. 

Outer corona filaments more than 1 cm. long. 

Leaves not lobed, minutely serrulate; petioles 4-6-glandular 

(Mexico and Central America) 224. P. serratifolia. 

Leaves polymorphic, entire to 3-lobed, repand-serrate; petioles 

obsoletely biglandular at apex (Cuba) .... 225. P. dasyadenia. 

Series 7. 

Setaceae 

One species 226. P. setacea. 

Series 8. 

Pedatae 

One species 227. P. pedata. 

Series 9. 

Incarnatae 

Leaves 5-lobed or 5-parted to base (rarely in P. cincinnata 3-lobed or 

3-parted nearly to base). 

Petioles biglandular near base; leaves 3-5-lobed or 3-5-parted, 

the terminal . . 

segment usually petiolulate 228. P. cincinnata.


Petioles biglandular above middle; leaves 5-lobed. 

Leaves 3-lobed. 

229. P. filamentosa. 

Bracts borne about 1 cm. below base of flower; petioles biglandular 

at base; leaf lobes rounded (Brazil) 230. P. recurva. 

Bracts borne within 5 mm. of base of flower; leaf lobes acute, 

acuminate, or cuspidate. 

Leaf lobes cuspidate; bracts about 5 cm. long (Guatemala). 

231. P. prolata. 

Leaf lobes acute or acuminate; bracts much shorter. 

Plant usually pilosulous; bracts less than 1 cm. long; leaves 

dull above (United States) 232. P. incarnata. 

Plant usually glabrous; bracts 1 cm. or more long; leaves 

lustrous above 233. P. edulis. 

Series 10. Palmatisectae 

One species 234. P. palmatisecta. 

Leaves 3-lobed ; plants glabrous. 

Series 11. Kermesinae 

Peduncles more than 9 cm. long. 

Flowers more than 5 cm. wide; leaves lobed to slightly below 

middle, the lobes oblong, rounded or subacute (Brazil). 

235. P. kermesina. 

Flowers less than 5 cm. wide; leaves lobed nearly to base, the 

lobes narrowly lanceolate, acuminate (Colombia). 

236.' P. Lehmanni. 

Peduncles 3 to 7 cm. long. 

Leaf lobes lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, at least 

four-fifths the length of the blade (Colombia). 

237. P. trisulca. 

Leaf lobes oblong, obtuse or subacute, less than four-fifths the 

Leaves entire. 

length of the blade. 

Bracts lanceolate, more than 5 mm. long; peduncles more 

than 5 cm. long (Colombia) 238. P. Smithii. 

Bracts setaceous, barely 2 mm. long; peduncles 5 cm. long, or 

less (Brazil) 239. P. Watsoniana. 

Plant pilosulous; peduncles more than 8 cm. long (Ecuador). 

240. P.Eggersii.


Plant glabrous; peduncles not more than 8 cm. long. 

Petiolar glands stipitate, less than 0.2 mm. in diameter; leaves 

not more than 7 cm. long (Brazil) 241. P. Miersii. 

Petiolar glands sessile or subsessile, about 1 mm. in diameter; 

leaves more than 7 cm. long (Bolivia) 

. . .242. P. Guentheri. 

Series 12. 

Imbricatae 

Principal corona filaments in a single series, very slender, concolorous, 

the inner filaments more than 1 mm. long; sepals 

awned (Peru) 243. P. cuzcoensis. 

Principal corona filaments in 2 series, coarse, banded with blue and 

white, the inner filaments reduced to tubercles not more than 

1 mm. long; sepals not awned (eastern Brazil) .244. P. sidaefolia. 

Series 13. Simplicifoliae 

Peduncles stout, as thick as the stem (peduncles and stem slender in 

P. subrotunda) ; sepals linear, more than four times as long as the 

tube. 

Flowers red; bracts obtuse (Colombia) 245. P. longipes. 

Flowers white, blue, or yellowish; bracts acute (Brazil). 

Leaves broadly ovate to subrotund, not more than 5 cm. long, 

3-5-nerved. 

Stem and peduncles stout, about 2 mm. thick; leaves and 

stipules coriaceous; flowers 8 to 10 cm. wide, white. 

246. P. mucronata. 

Stem and peduncles slender, not more than 1.5 mm. thick; 

leaves and stipules membranous; flowers about 2.5 cm. 

wide, deep blue 247. P. subrotunda. 

Leaves oblong-lanceolate, more than 5 cm. long, 1-nerved. 

248. P.Galbana. 

Peduncles less than the diameter of the stem ; sepals oblong or linearoblong, 

not more than 4 times as long as the tube. 

A. Petiolar glands sessile or subsessile (filiform in P. Jileki), less 

than 1 mm. long. 

Sepals linear-oblong or linear-lanceolate; outer corona filaments 

shorter than the sepals and petals; stipules soon deciduous. 

Petals and inside of sepals bright red; flowers 8 to 9 cm. 

wide when expanded (Brazil?) 249. P. amabilis. 

Petals and inside of sepals white; flowers about 6 cm. wide 

when expanded (Bolivia) 

250. P. mapiriensis.


Sepals oblong or oblong-lanceolate; outer corona filaments 

subequaling or longer than the sepals and petals; stipules 

persistent. 

Leaves thick-coriaceous, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 

often chartaceous at the margin; peduncles more than 

4 cm. long (Brazil) 251. P. Jileki. 

Leaves membranous or subcoriaceous, ovate to oblong or 

broadly ovate-lanceolate, not cartilaginous at margin; 

peduncles not more than 4 cm. long. 

Stipules long-awned, the awn fully half the length 

of the blade; petals conspicuously reticulateveined, 

longer than the sepals (British Guiana). 

252. P. retipetala. 

Stipules with shorter awns; petals inconspicuously, if 

at all, veined, shorter than the sepals (Brazil). 

253. P. actinia. 

A. Petiolar glands filiform, 1 mm. or more long. 

Under surface of leaves and outside of sepals densely 

cinereo-puberulent (Brazil) 254. P. canescens. 

Under surface of leaves and outside of sepals glabrous, 

pilose, or pilosulous. 

Stem and under surface of leaves densely pilose; petiolar 

glands 1.5 mm. or more long, curved. 

255. P. praeacuta. 

Stem and under surface of leaves glabrous or pilosulous; 

petiolar glands 1 to 1.5 mm. long, straight. 

Stipules more than 4 mm. wide, mucronulate; calyx 

tube up to 5 mm. long. 

Bracts less than 1 cm. wide, deciduous; leaves 

glaucous beneath, the nerves scarcely elevated 

beneath (Mexico to Venezuela). 

256. P.Oerstedii. 

Bracts 1 cm. wide or more, persistent; leaves green 

beneath, the nerves strongly elevated beneath 

(Amazonian Peru) 257. P. loretensis. 

Stipules not more than 4 mm. wide, caudate-acuminate; 

calyx tube more than 5 mm. long (Bolivia and 

Paraguay) 258. P. Rojasii.


Series 14. Lobatae 

Stem villous; leaves tomentose beneath (Brazil) 

. 259. P. Gardneri. 

Stem and leaves glabrous, or essentially so. 

Leaves 5-9-lobed nearly to base, rarely a few of the leaves 3-lobed. 

(Extensively cultivated throughout tropics.) 

. 

Leaves 3-lobed or 3-sect. 

.260. P. caerulea. 

Petiolar glands 2, at least 1 mm. wide; leaves cuneate at base, 

coriaceous (Argentina) 261. P. Mooreana. 

Petiolar glands usually several, less than 1 mm. wide; leaves 

cordulate, rounded, or subtruncate. 

Leaves 3-sect to within 2 mm. of base (Bolivia). 

262. P. dalechampioides. 

Leaves 3-lobed, rarely more than four-fifths their length. 

A. Bracts borne close to apex of peduncle, their length at 

least equal to the distance from their point of origin to 

the base of the flower; petiolar glands usually stipitate. 

B. Sepals dorsally awned with a foliaceous awn 5 mm. 

long, or more. 

Ovary ferruginous-villous-tomentose; flowers blue, 

violet, or purplish. 

Bracts oblong, cordate at base; flowers about 5 cm. 

wide; outer corona filaments linear-ligulate 

(Brazil) 263. P. cornuta. 

Bracts elliptic-oblong or narrowly lanceolate, narrowed 

at base; flowers larger; outer corona filaments 

filiform or ligulate. 

Peduncles usually 6 cm. or more long, stout; 

stipules usually at least half as long as 

adjacent petioles; awn of sepals more than 

8 mm. long; corona 6-7-ranked, the outer 

filaments filiform 264. P. violacea. 

Peduncles less than 6 cm. long, 

slender; stipules 

less than half as long as adjacent petioles; 

awn of sepals 8 mm. long or less; corona 4-5- 

ranked, the outer filaments liguliform. 

265. P. amethystina. 

Ovary glabrous; flowers white (blue to purplish in 

few species). 

a


Bracts petiolate, rounded at apex (Surinam, Brazil). 

266. P. picturata. 

Bracts sessile, usually acute or subacute at apex. 

Leaves peltate at least 5 mm. from lower margin. 

Bracts more than 7 mm. long, borne at base of 

flowers; awn of sepals more than 5 mm. long 

(Bolivia) 267. P. rubrotincta. 

Bracts not more than 7 mm. long, borne at least 

5 mm. below base of flower; awn of sepals 

less than 5 mm. long (Peru). 

268. P. spectabilis. 

Leaves not peltate or only slightly so. 

C. Operculum denticulate or minutely fimbrillate 

at margin, the entire portion much 

longer than the teeth or fringe. 

Petiolar glands present; inner ranks of 

corona filaments capitellate. 

Leaves lobed at least to middle; outer two 

rows of corona filaments filiform (Mexico 

to Colombia and Venezuela). 

269. P. subpeltata. 

Leaves less deeply lobed ; 

outer two rows of 

filaments more slender. 

Bracts more than 1.5 cm. long, borne at 

base of flower; leaves lobed about 

one-third their length (Cuba and 

Haiti) 270. P. pattens. 

Bracts less than 1.5 cm. long, borne at 

least 5 mm. below base of flower; 

leaves lobed about one-quarter their 

length (Brazil) 271. P. elegans. 

Petiolar glands none; inner ranks of corona 

filaments not capitellate (Bolivia to 

Argentina). 

Leaf lobes oblong, 

longer than broad. .272. 

less than three times 

P. naviculata. 

Leaf lobes linear-lanceolate, more than 

three times longer than broad. 

273. P. tucumanensis.


C. Operculum filamentose, the filaments equaling 

or longer than the membranous lower 

portion. 

Peduncles 25 to 35 cm. long (Venezuela). 

274. P. gritensis. 

Peduncles not more than 10 cm. long. 

Flowers lilac 

acuminate. 

or purple; 

leaf lobes acute or 

Under surface of leaves usually finely 

pilosulous, the upper surface lustrous 

(Central America). 

256. P. Oerstedii var. choconiana. 

Under surface of leaves glabrous, the 

upper surface dull (Ecuador). 

275. P.Sprucei. 

Flowers white; leaf lobes usually rounded 

or obtuse. 

Flowers not more than 4.5 cm. wide; 

corona filaments all capillary, less 

than 7 mm. long (southern Brazil 

and Paraguay) .... 276. P. tenuifila. 

Flowers usually more than 4.5 cm. wide; 

outer corona filaments filiform, 

coarser. 

Leaves lobed at least three-quarters 

their length, the middle lobe much 

narrowed at base; stipules glandular-mucronate 

(Brazil ) . 

277. P. lonchophora. 

Leaves lobed about to middle, the 

middle lobe scarcely narrowed at 

base; stipules not glandular-mucronate. 

Operculum plicate; leaves acutish 

(Paraguay and Argentina). 

278. P.Giberti. 

Operculum flat; leaves rounded or 

obtuse.


Petioles 6-8-glandular; operculum 

with dentiform processes within 

(Brazil). 

279. P.Eichleriana. 

Petioles minutely biglandular; 

operculum smooth within. 

Leaves lobed at least to middle, 

often glaucescent or yellowish 

green beneath (Peru). 

280. P. subulata. 

Leaves lobed about one-third 

their length, dull green, 

often reddish-blotched 

beneath (Colombia and 

Ecuador). 

281. P. resticulata. 

B. Sepals not awned, or awned with merely a setaceous 

awn less than 5 mm. long. 

Leaves coriaceous, lobed about four-fifths their length, 

the lobes narrowly lanceolate, less than 2 cm. 

wide (Colombia) 282. P. Pennellii. 

Leaves membranous, lobed about to middle, the lobes 

oblong or suborbicular, usually more than 2 cm. 

wide. 

Flowers 5 to 6 cm. wide; outer corona filaments as 

long as the petals; lateral leaf lobes ascending. 

283. P. stipulata. 

Flowers less than 5 cm. wide; outer corona filaments 

about half as long as the petals; lateral leaf 

lobes horizontally divaricate (Peru). 

284. P. aristulata. 

A. Bracts borne 1 to 3 cm. below apex of peduncle, their 

length less than the distance from their point of origin 

to the base of the flower; petiolar glands sessile; flowers 

blue, violet, or purple. 

Flowers 6 cm. wide or less; leaves lobed to below middle 

(Venezuela and Trinidad) 285. P. cyanea. 

Flowers more than 6 cm. wide; leaves lobed only to 

middle.


Leaves scarcely peltate; awns of sepals more than 

1 mm. long (British Guiana and Surinam). 

286. P.Garckei. 

Leaves distinctly peltate at least 5 mm. from margin; 

awns of sepals not more than 1 mm. long (Peru). 

268. P. speclabilis. 

Series 15. Menispermifoliae 

Jracts narrowly lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, less than 5 mm. 

wide, minutely glandular-denticulate; leaves usually very large, 

more than 10 cm. wide; plant often turning black in drying. 

287. P. menispermifolia. 

tracts ovate or ovate-lanceolate, more than 5 mm. wide, serrate or 

entire; leaves usually smaller, less than 8 cm. wide; plant not 

turning black in drying (Peru, Bolivia, and Amazonian Brazil). 

Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, entire or sometimes lobulate 

near base; petiolar glands not more than twice longer than 

thick 288. P. crassifolia. 

Leaves 3-lobed ; petiolar glands more than twice longer than thick. 

Ovary hirsute; leaves not hastately lobed, the middle lobe not 

more than two-thirds the length of the blade. 

289. P. nephrodes. 

Ovary glabrous; leaves hastately lobed, the middle lobe at least 

three-quarters the length of the blade . . . 290. P. hastifolia. 

-eaves not lobed, oblong. 

Subgenus XIX. Dysosmia 

Plant hirsute or tomentose. 

Plant erect, without tendrils or rarely with much reduced ones, 

hirsute (Brazil) 291. P. clathrata. 

Plant subscandent, with developed tendrils, softly villosulous or 

tomentose (British Honduras; cultivated in Cuba). 

292. P. Urbaniana. 

jeaves 3 (occasionally 5)-lobed (subentire in P. pectinata). 

Leaves densely lepidote beneath, not more than 3 cm. long, much 

broader than long, the middle lobe reduced (Brazil). 

293. P. lepidota. 

Leaves not lepidote, usually more than 3 cm. long and with a well 

developed middle lobe. 

Plant with an erect, shrubby caudex and a few sprawling 

branches, with or without tendrils, exceedingly viscous


and with a dense indument; leaf lobes suborbicular (Lower 

California). 

Outermost corona filaments much less 

than half as long as 

the petals; petals linear; gynophore at least 2 cm. long, 

very slender 294. P. Palmeri. 

Outermost corona filaments at least half as long as the petals; 

petals oblong or oblong-lanceolate; gynophore much less 

than 2 cm. long, rather stout 295. P. fruticosa. 

Plant an elongate vine, with well developed tendrils; middle 

leaf lobe usually elongate. 

Sepals glandular-punctate without; glands present along main 

rachis of bracts; bracts once-pinnatifid (southeastern 

South America) 296. P. chrysophylla. 

Sepals not glandular-punctate; glands, when present on 

bracts, borne at tips of ultimate segments. 

Bracts pinnatifid or bipinnatifid, the segments not glandtipped. 

Plants densely white- or yellowish-lanate, but 

lanuginous-hirsute in P. arida var. cerralbensis (Lower 

California) 297. P. arida. 

Bracts deeply 2-3-pinnatifid or -pinnatisect (once pinnatifid 

in P. pectinata, P. vestita, and P. foetida var. 

Moritziana), the segments gland-tipped. 

Leaves coriaceous or subcoriaceous, subentire or panduriform; 

plant glabrous (Bahamas, Bermuda, and 

Haiti). 

Bracts pectinate or if pinnatifid the rachis at least 

2 mm. wide; leaves cordate-deltoid, very obscurely 

lobed or entire 298. P. pectinata. 

Bracts deeply 2-3-pinnatisect, the rachis less than 

2 mm. wide; leaves panduriform, the lateral lobes 

evident 299. P. bahamensis. 

Leaves membranous or occasionally subcoriaceous, 

flaccid, usually variously 3-5-lobed, not panduriform. 

Seeds more than 6 mm. long and 3 mm. wide; lateral 

leaf lobes strongly ascending. 

Plant densely rufohirsute 

(Peru) 300. P. vestita. 

Seeds not more than 6 mm. long and 3 mm. wide; 

lateral leaf lobes usually divergent .301. P. foetida.


Subgenus XX. Dysosmioides 

Stipules lacerate-dentate or lacerate-pectinate; nerves of bracts and 

leaves scarcely darker than rest of blade. 

Leaves lobed only to middle, the lobes ovate or broadly ovatelanceolate; 

ovary glabrous or hirsute. 

Segments of bracts long-aristate; leaves longer than broad, 

ciliate-denticulate; ovary glabrous 302. P. villosa. 

Segments of bracts merely acute; leaves broader than long, subentire; 

ovary hirsute 303. P. Vellozii. 

Leaves lobed nearly to base, the lobes narrowly lanceolate; ovary 

glabrous 304. P. setulosa. 

Stipules serrulate or denticulate; nerves of bracts and leaves usually 

much darker than rest of blade; ovary hirsute. 

Leaves entire 304. P. hypoleuca. 

Leaves 3-lobed 306. P. campanulata. 

Subgenus XXI. Polyanthea 

One species (Guianas) 307. P. cirrhiflora. 

Subgenus XXII. Astrophea 

KEY TO SECTIONS 

Calyx tube campanulate or cylindric-campanulate, rarely cylindric, 

shorter than the sepals; flowers white, greenish, or greenish 

purple, the peduncles solitary or in pairs in the leaf axils, simple, 

or dichotomous. 

Peduncles once to several times dichotomous, occasionally simple 

in P. arborea and P. sphaerocarpa; plants usually erect shrubs 

or trees and without tendrils. 

Operculum exserted beyond throat of calyx tube. 

Section 1. Dolichostemma. 

Operculum not exserted. 

Peduncles terminating in a tendril 

Section 2. Cirrhipes. 

Peduncles not terminating in a tendril. Trees or shrubs, 

usually without any tendrils Section 3. Euastrophea. 

Peduncles simple. Plants usually scandent, with tendrils present. 

Flowers racemose, the pedicels long and slender; inner corona 

filaments plumose, reflexed 

Section 4. Leptopoda. 

Flowers solitary or in pairs, the peduncles short; inner corona 

filaments not plumose, erect . . . .Section 5. Pseudoastrophea.


Calyx tube cylindric, longer than the sepals; flowers red, yellow, or 

orange, in dense fascicles or in racemes or pseudoracemes. Plants 

usually scandent 

Section 6. Botryastrophea. 

Section 1. 

Dolichostemma 

Leaves oblanceolate, more than 15 cm. long, densely hirsutulous 

beneath; stem hirsutulous (Colombia) 308. P. Haughtii. 

Leaves obovate, less than 15 cm. long, glabrous; stem at most 

puberulent (Costa Rica) 309. P. Pittieri. 

Section 2. Cirrhipes 

One species (Peru) 310. P. cirrhipes. 

Section 3. Euastrophea 

Calyx tube cylindric, 1 to 2 cm. long, more than 3 times as long as 

wide; leaves very large, averaging more than 30 cm. long, acute 

or acuminate. 

Outer corona filaments not dilated, nearly straight (Colombia and 

Ecuador) 311. P. macrophylla. 

Outer corona filaments broadly dilated near apex, geniculate above 

and below middle (Ecuador; Peru?) 312. P. gigantifolia. 

Calyx tube campanulate or funnel-shaped (cylindric-campanulate in 

P. arborea), not more than 1 cm. long; leaves smaller, often 

obtuse. 

Calyx tube cylindric-campanulate, the length greater than the 

diameter at the throat (Colombia) 313. P. arborea. 

Calyx tube campanulate or funnel-shaped, the length and the 

diameter at the throat subequal. 

Branchlets and under surface of leaves pubescent. 

Leaves 20 to 25 cm. long, puberulous beneath; peduncles 

(including branches) more than 6 cm. long (Peru). 

314. P. frutescens. 

Leaves 5 to 11 cm. long (the older much longer), pilosulous 

beneath; peduncles (including branches) less than 6 cm. 

long (Colombia) 315. P. pubera. 

Branchlets usually glabrous; under surface of leaves glabrous, 

or pilosulous only on the nerves and veins. 

Sepals linear-lanceolate, less than 4 mm. wide; leaves subcaudate-acuminate 

(Colombia) 316. P. Mutisii.


Sepals oblong or oblong-lanceolate, at least 4 mm. wide; 

leaves obtuse, emarginate, or obtusely acuminate, rarely 

subacute. 

Leaf nerves 6 or 7 to a side; branches of peduncles not more 

than 1 cm. long (French Guiana) 317. P. ovata. 

Leaf nerves more than 7 to a side; branches of peduncles 

usually more than 1 cm. long (all Colombian except 

P.Lindeniana). 

Operculum erose-lobulate or pectinate; leaves usually 

pilosulous on the nerves and veins beneath. 

Inner corona filaments filiform; leaves 5-6-glandular 

on lower surface near base, the glands about 1 mm. 

in diameter, yellowish 318. P. grandis. 

Inner corona filaments subdolabriform; leaves biglandular 

at base of midnerve beneath, the glands 

about 2 mm. in diameter, black. 

Leaves ovate-lanceolate, averaging more than 15 cm. 

long, narrowed to an obtuse apex, bright green 

and lustrous on both surfaces. 

319. P. putumayensis. 

Leaves obovate or obovate-oblong, averaging less 

than 15 cm. long, usually rounded or emarginate 

at apex, dark green above, glaucescent beneath. 

Operculum erose-lobulate. . 

. .320. P. emarginata. 

Operculum pectinate 321. P. Engleriana. 

Operculum fimbriate, or filamentose nearly to base; leaves 

glabrous throughout. 

Leaves lustrous, concolorous; peduncles (including 

branches) 5 to 10 cm. long 322. P. Schultzei. 

Leaves dull, usually glaucous beneath; peduncles (including 

branches) up to 4 cm. long. 

Operculum filamentose nearly to base (Venezuela). 

323. P. Lindeniana. 

Operculum fimbriate only to middle. 

Leaves averaging 8 to 10 cm. long, the lateral nerves 

arcuate-ascending 324. P. sphaerocarpa. 

Leaves averaging 10 to 12 cm. long, the lateral 

nerves straight 325. P. ocanensis.


Section 4. 

Leptopoda 

One species (Guianas and northern Brazil) 326. P. leptopoda. 

Section 5. 

Pseudoastrophea 

Calyx tube broadly funnel-shaped, more than 1.5 cm. long; operculum 

flabellate-lobulate (Amazonian Brazil). 

Under side of leaves and calyx tube pubescent; corona filaments in 

4 series, the outermost dilated near middle, the others filiform. 

327. P. Candida. 

Under surface of leaves and calyx tube essentially glabrous; corona 

filaments in 2 series, the outer dilated near apex, the inner 

tuberculiform 328. P. hexagonocarpa. 

Calyx tube campanulate or cylindric-campanulate, rarely funnelshaped, 

not more than 1.5 cm. long; operculum not flabellatelobulate. 

Corona filaments in more than 3 series. 

Margin of leaves with a conspicuous dark band (French Guiana?). 

329. P. citrifolia. 

Margin 

of leaves uniform in color with the 

rest of the blade. 

Peduncles filiform, 3 to 4 cm. long; outer corona filaments 

smooth at margin (British Guiana) .... 330. P. deficiens. 

Peduncles stouter, not more than 2 cm. long; outer corona 

filaments verrucose on one side toward apex. 

Flowers more than 3 cm. wide when expanded, the calyx 

tube nearly 1 cm. wide at throat; leaves usually puberulous 

beneath, at least on the midnerve, the veins not 

elevated above (Guianas and Amazonian Peru and 

Brazil) 331. P. costata. 

Flowers not more than 3 cm. wide when expanded, the 

calyx tube much less than 1 cm. wide at throat; leaves 

glabrous, the nerves strongly elevated above (Amazonian 

Brazil) 332. P. faroana. 

Corona filaments in 1 to 3 series. 

Leaves pilosulous or villosulous beneath, rarely glabrous in 

P. Mansii. 

Operculum cleft to base. 

Calyx tube funnel-shaped, narrowed at base; outer corona 

filaments strongly verrucose; leaves averaging less


than 5 cm. wide, usually rounded at apex (mountains 

of British Guiana and adjacent Venezuela). 

333. P. sclerophylla. 

Calyx tube cylindric-campanulate, enlarged at base; outer 

corona filaments smooth; leaves averaging more than 

5 cm. wide, usually acute (central and southern Brazil). 

334. P. Mansii. 

Operculum denticulate, or cleft not more than to middle 

(Brazil). 

Outer corona filaments attenuate at apex; operculum cleft 

about to middle 335. P. haematostigma. 

Outer corona filaments rounded at apex; operculum merely 

denticulate 336. P. ceratocarpa. 

Leaves essentially glabrous. 

Operculum borne in lower third of tube (Amazonian Brazil). 

337. P. phaeocaula. 

Operculum borne at middle of tube (southeastern Brazil, 

except P. Tessmannii and P. venosa). 

Outer corona filaments not dilated 338. P. elliptica. 

Outer corona filaments conspicuously dilated above middle, 

subdolabriform. 

Flowers pendulous, the calyx tube angular. 

Fruit globose, terete; inner corona filaments not 

bifid 339. P. pentagona. 

Fruit ovoid, 6-angled; inner corona filaments deeply 

bifid 340. P. alliacea. 

Flowers erect or ascending; calyx tube terete or subterete. 

Inner corona filaments dilated at apex; leaves 

obtuse 

or subacute, concolorous (Brazil). 

341. P. rhamnifolia. 

Inner corona filaments not dilated at apex. 

Leaves obtuse or acute, concolorous (Peru). 

342. P. Tessmannii. 

Leaves sharply acuminate, glaucous beneath 

(Bolivia) 343. P. venosa. 

Section 6. 

Botryastrophea 

Flowers in short, compact fascicles, the rachis less than 3 cm. long. 

Plant a shrub or a small tree, without tendrils; leaves cuneateoblong; 

corona 1-ranked (British Guiana). .344. 

P. Quelchii.


Plant scandent, usually with tendrils; leaves not cuneate-oblong, 

rounded at base; corona 3-4-ranked. 

Operculum borne near base of tube, deeply fimbriate; calyx tube 

3 to 5 cm. long (Guianas) 345. P. fuchsiiflora. 

Operculum borne near middle of tube, cleft into 5 linear segments; 

calyx tube 1.5 to 3 cm. long (Peru). 

Calyx tube less than 2.5 cm. long; ovary pubescent; operculum 

cleft only in upper third 346. P. cauliflora. 

Calyx tube about 3 cm. long; ovary glabrous; operculum cleft 

nearly to base 347. P. skiantha. 

Flowers in elongate racemes, the rachis more than 3 cm. long, sometimes 

bearing a few reduced leaves. 

Leaves ovate-orbicular to lance-oblong, thick-coriaceous, glaucous 

beneath (British Guiana and Amazonian Brazil). 

348. P. longiracemosa. 

Leaves ovate-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, coriaceous or subcoriaceous, 

concolorous. 

Apex of leaves rounded or obtuse, often emarginate; outer corona 

filaments verrucose on one side (British Guiana and 

Venezuela) 349. P. securiclata. 

Apex of leaves acute or caudate-acuminate; outer corona filaments 

smooth at margin (slightly tuberculate in P. Rusbyi). 

Petioles not more than 1 cm. long; leaves caudate-acuminate, 

the tip at least 1 cm. long (Amazonian Brazil). 

Outer corona filaments strongly falcate-dilated; racemes 

up to 5 cm. long; plant erect, the tendrils reduced to 

spines 350. P. spicata. 

Outer corona filaments filiform; racemes more than 5 cm. 

. 

long ; plant scandent, tendril-bearing. .351. P. Holtii. 

Petioles more than 1 cm. long; 

the tip rarely more than 1 cm. long. 

leaves acute or acuminulate, 

Leaves less than twice as long as broad; calyx tube puberulent 

(Peru) 352. P. pyrrhantha. 

Leaves more than twice as long as broad; calyx tube glabrous, 

or minutely puberulent when young. 

Outer corona filaments hatchet-shaped; leaves coriaceous; 

petiolar glands present (Colombia and 

Amazonian Peru and Brazil) 353. P. spinosa. 

Outer corona filaments linear; leaves membranous; 

petiolar glands wanting (Bolivia) 354. P. Rusbyi.


Subgenus I. 

APODOGYNE 

1. Passiflora multiflora L. Sp. PI. 956. 1753. 

Meioperis multiflora Raf. Fl. Tellur. 4: 103. 1838. 

Cieca multiflora M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 148. 1846. 

Plant densely and softly pilosulous throughout; stem subangular, 

striate; stipules setaceous, 2 to 3 mm. long, soon deciduous; petioles 

up to 1 cm. long, usually bearing 2 minute, sessile glands at apex; 

leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 3.5 to 10 cm. long, 1.5 to 4 cm. 

wide, unlobed or rarely slightly undulate-lobed near middle, obtuse 

or rarely subacute at apex, rounded at base, 1-nerved, reticulateveined, 

subcoriaceous, often lustrous above; flowers in fascicles of 3 

(rarely 2) to 6, 1.5 cm. wide, or less, the peduncles slender, 0.5 to 

1 cm. long, articulate at middle; bracts linear-subulate, about 2 mm. 

long, borne near base of peduncle; calyx patelliform, strongly sulcate; 

sepals linear-lanceolate, 3 to 4 mm. long, 1 to 1.5 mm. wide, acutish; 

petals narrowly linear, 2 to 3 mm. long, less than 1 mm. wide, white; 

corona filaments in 2 series, the outer filiform, 2 to 3 mm. long, the 

inner setaceous, 1 mm. long, or less; operculum membranous, slightly 

plicate, less than 1 mm. high, incurved; limen annular, closely 

encircling the ovary; ovary globose, sessile, glabrous; fruit globose, 

5 to 8 mm. in diameter, dark blue, glabrous; seeds oblong, about 

3 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, transversely 6-8-grooved, the ridges 

rugulose. 

TYPE LOCALITY: "Dominica" (Hispaniola). 

ILLUSTRATIONS: L. Amoen. Acad. 1: pi. 10, f. 7; Cav. Diss. 10: 

pi. 282. 

DISTRIBUTION: Southern Florida, Greater Antilles, and Virgin 

Islands; Costa Rica, where perhaps introduced. 

FLORIDA: "Southern Florida," Simpson 494 (F, N); Garber (N); 

Rugel 168 (N). Monroe County: Key Largo, Moldenke 404 (N, Y). 

-Dade County: Elliotts Key, Britton 357 (F, K, Y); Small & Mosier 

5751 (S, Y); O'Neill 7586 (N). Key Largo, Pollard, Collins & 

Morris 181 (BM, F, Gen, K, Minn, N). Umbrella Key, Curtiss 167 

(G), 975 (B, BM, Bo, F, G, K, Minn, N, P). 

COSTA RICA: San Miguel, Wendkmd 887 (Cop). 

BAHAMAS: Andros Island, Brace 305 (F), 5272 (F, Y), 6710 (F, Y). 

CUBA: De la Sagra (B, V) ; Dupuy (Ma) ; 

Nee (Ma) ; Wright 2598 

(BM, Bo, Gen, HA, N, S, V), 3568 (N). Pinar del Rio: Taco Taco, 

Baker 3777 (Cal, F, HV, Mo, N); Roig & Acuna 4520 (HV). Sierra


de Anafe, Wilson 11405 (N, Y). Las Martinas, Shafer 11125 (N, Y). 

Sierra Guane, Shafer 10519 (N, Y). Vinales, Ekman 16578 (B, S). 

Habana: Somorrostra, Le6n 11457 (HS); Roig & Ledn 2630 (HV), 

8254 (HV). Lomas de Camoa, Ekman 13443 (B, S). Isla de Pinos, 

Britton, Britton & Wilson 14252 (N, Y); Le6n 6104 (HS, N), 15304 

(F). Matanzas: Poeppig in 1822 (V). Pan de Matanzas, Ekman 

16466 (B, BM, N, S). Santa Clara: Trinidad, Britton, Britton & 

Wilson 5581 (N, Y). Buenos Aires, Jack 6858 (N). Bahia de 

Gallina, Roig 7395 (HV). Zapates, Ekman 18339 (B, S). Peninsula 

de Zapata, Roig & Cremata 2174 (F). Camagiiey: Ganado, Shafer 

923 (F, N, Y). Cayo Cuayaba, Shafer 641 (F, N, Y). Oriente: 

Santiago, Britton, 

Britton & Cowell 12839 (N, Y); Palmer 365 (F, 

Minn, N, Ph); Ekman 4166 (S), 4498 (S). 

Banes, Ekman 6579 (S). 

HAITI: St. Raphael, Leonard 7655 (N), 7656 (N). Ennery, 

Leonard 9006 (N). Jean Rabel, Leonard & Leonard 12922 (K, N). 

Mole St. Nicolas, Leonard & Leonard 13293 (N). Gonave, Ekman 

H9374(E,N). Massif des Uatheux, Ekman H3045 (E,N). Gonave 

Island, Leonard 3291 (N). Tortue Island, Leonard & Leonard 

13957 (N). 

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Bertero (Gen, V) ; 

Poiteau (Gen) ; Meyerhoff 

(B) ; 

Sieber (V). Barahona, Fwrtes 926B (Cop, F, S) ; 

Ekman H7040 

(B, N). 

Bayajibe, Taylor 461 (F). 

PUERTO Rico: Cabo Rojo, Sintenis 687 (Bo, Gen, Minn, N, S). 

Aybonito, Sintenis 2949 (J). Manati, Sintenis 6654 (N, V). Vega 

Baja, Britton & Cowell 1426 (N, Y). Vega Alta, Britton, Britton & 

Brown 6787 (N, Y). Martin Pefia, Britton & Britton 7118 (N, Y); 

Stevenson 1248 (N). 

VIRGIN ISLANDS: St. Thomas, Oersted (Cop, N). 

BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS: Tortola, Britton & Shafer 907 (N, Y). 

In previous treatments of Passiflora this species has been placed 

in Plectostemma but, though bearing a superficial resemblance to P. 

holosericea, it clearly represents a wholly different group. Indeed, on 

the basis of sessile ovary it might perhaps be segregated as a genus. 

The correlation of gland-bearing petioles and reticulate seeds, 

characteristic of Plectostemma, does not obtain in 

P. multiflora, for 

the petioles have glands, though the seeds are transversely sulcate. 

It is here placed in the monotypic subgenus Apodogyne. 

LOCAL NAMES: "Fruta del perro," "pasionaria vainilla" 

"liane tafia" (Haiti). 

(Cuba);


The specimens cited above are for the most part quite uniform. 

There occurs, however, a form that is glabrous throughout. 

la. Passiflora multiflora f. glabra Ekman, Arkiv Bot. 21A, No. 

5: 16. 1927. 

Plant glabrous throughout; otherwise as in typical P. multiflora. 

BAHAMAS: H. E. Robinson 242 (K). Eleuthera Island, E. G. 

Britton 6472 (F, Y). New Providence, E. G. Britton 3331 (F, Y), 

6585 (F, Y). Andros Island, Northrop & Northrop 374 (F, K, Y). 

CUBA: Pinar del 

Oriente: Baracoa, Ekman 3696 (S). 

Rio: Sierra Guacamayas, Ekman 17979 (B, S). 

HAITI: Tortue Island, Ekman H4114 (B, S, type); Leonard & 

Leonard 11307 (N), 13957 (K, N), 14000 (N). 

Subgenus 

II. ASTEPHIA 

2. Passiflora penduliflora Bert, in DC. Prodr. 3: 326. 1828. 

Passiflora rotundifolia L. sensu Swartz, Obs. Bot. 337. 1791, not 

P. rotundifolia L. 

Passiflora rotundifolia var. Swartzii DC. Prodr. 3: 327. 1828. 

Decaloba penduliflora M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 157. 1846. 

Decaloba Swartzii M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 160. 1846. 

Passiflora Swartzii Mast. Trans. Linn. Soc. 27: 634. 1871; in 

Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 556. 1872. 

Plant glabrous throughout; stem rather coarse, strongly angulate, 

striate; stipules setaceous, 3 to 4 mm. long; petioles 0.5 to 2 cm. long, 

slender, glandless; leaves variable in shape, suborbicular, ovate, 

oblong, or triangular-obovate, 4 to 7.5 cm. long, 2.5 to 8 cm. wide, 

3-lobed at apex (lobes acute or obtuse, mucronulate, the middle lobe 

longer, rarely shorter, than the lateral lobes), or occasionally subentire, 

rounded at base, 3-nerved, ocellate, subcoriaceous or membranous; 

peduncles 2 to 4 cm. long at anthesis, 6 to 10 cm. long and 

pendulous in fruit, articulate below middle; bracts subulate, 2 to 4 

mm. long, subcoriaceous, deciduous; flowers up to 4 cm. wide, greenish 

yellow; calyx tube campanulate, slightly elongate after anthesis, 

green; sepals oblong-lanceolate, 1.5 to 2 cm. long, 0.4 to 0.6 cm. wide, 

obtuse; petals oblanceolate, subequaling sepals, 0.5 to 0.7 cm. wide, 

rounded at apex, short-clawed at base; corona filaments in a single 

series, linear-clavate, unequal, 0.5 to 1.5 mm. long, united at base to 

form a fleshy ring; operculum none; limen none; ovary ovoid, gla-


brous; fruit globose or ovoid, 1 to 1.5 cm. in diameter; seeds broadly 

ovate, transversely 8-10-sulcate, the ridges rugulose. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Jamaica. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Bot. Mag. 77: pi. 4565; Lemaire, Jard. Fleuriste 

2: pi. 114; Fl. des Serres 1. 7: pi. 656. 

DISTRIBUTION: Eastern Cuba and Jamaica. 

CUBA: Bertero (B). Monte Verde, Wright 198 (B, Bo, Brux, G, 

Gen, HA, P). Santa Clara: Trinidad, Roig 5749 (HV). Camaguey: 

Acuna 8883 (HV). La Gloria, Shafer 70 (F, N, Y). Oriente: Santiago, 

Britton & Cowell 12845 (B, N, Y). Ensenada de Mora, Britton, 

Cowell & Shafer 13058 (Y). Sierra de Nipe, 500 meters, Ekman 6490 

(S), 9073 (B). 

Bayate, Ekman 2747 (S), 6253 (BM, S). 

JAMAICA: P. Browne (Linn, type); Swartz (S, type of P. rotundifolia 

L. sensu Swartz); Wiles (Gen); Bertero (Gen, V). Peters Vale, 

Westmoreland, Harris 9941 (BM, J, N, Y). Mandeville, S. Brown 

269 (Ph); Britton 1068 (Y), 3246 (Y). Troy, Harris 9414 (B, BM, 

F, J, Y) ; 

Britton 611 (F, Y). Moneague, Maxon & Killip 361 (N, P), 

370 (N) ; 

Alexander in 1850 (B, P). Mt. Diabolo, 700 meters, Maxon 

& Killip 460 (N). Newcastle, Britton 3453 (Y). Vinegar Hill, 

Portland, 1,175 meters, Maxon & Killip 831 (F, G, N, P, Y). 

Cinchona, 1,600 meters, Clute 218 (B, Minn, N); Maxon & Killip 

921 (G, N); Britton 83 (Y). 

In this remarkable species there is no vestige of either an operculum 

or a limen, the inside of the calyx being smooth from the singleranked 

corona to the gynophore. The petals are distinctly clawed, 

and thus unlike any other species of Passiflora. Other characters, 

as the sculpturing of the seeds, subulate bracts and stipules, and 

ocellate leaves, suggest a rather close relationship to Plectostemma, 

section Decaloba. I am creating for it a monotypic subgenus, 

Astephia. 

The specimen in the Stockholm herbarium upon which Swartz 

based his description of "P. rotundifolia" is in an excellent state of 

preservation, and is unmistakably P. penduliflora. 

The species is represented in the Linnean Herbarium by a 

single collection, one made by P. Browne probably in Jamaica. No 

name is given it by Linnaeus, but Solander has written on the sheet 

"Passiflora rotundifolia." 

In Jamaica the stems are used for tying fences. 

LOCAL NAMES: "Bejuco de manteca," "pasionaria vejigosa" 

(Cuba).

Subgenus III. 


TRYPHOSTEMMATOIDES 

3. Passiflora tryphostemmatoides Harms, Bot. Jahrb. 18: Beibl. 

46: 6. 1894. 

Plant slender, glabrous throughout; stipules subulate, 2 mm. long; 

petioles up to 5 mm. long, very slender, bearing at extreme apex 2 

minute, sessile glands; leaves transversely ovate or elliptic, rarely 

suborbicular, 1.2 to 1.8 cm. long, 1.5 to 3 cm. wide, rounded or 

truncate, or rarely slightly emarginate at apex, cordulate or truncate 

at base, 1 -nerved, subcoriaceous, glaucescent beneath; peduncles 

solitary in the axils of the leaves, 0.5 to 1.5 cm. long, 2-flowered at 

apex, terminating in a slender tendril; pedicels 3 to 6 mm. long; 

bracts setaceous, 2 to 3 mm. long; flowers 1.5 cm. wide when fully 

expanded, yellowish green; sepals oblong, 5 to 7 mm. long, obtuse; 

petals oblong, 3 to 5 mm. long; filaments of corona in a single series, 

filiform, 2 to 3 mm. long, yellowish green, streaked with pink; 

operculum membranous, 1.5 mm. high, nonplicate, lacerate-cleft 

half its height; limen cupuliform; ovary subglobose; fruit subglobose 

or broadly ovoid, 6-angulate, up to 2.5 cm. long, 2 cm. in diameter, 

yellowish green, the wall brittle; seeds obovoid, very slightly flattened, 

6 mm. long, 3 mm. wide, finely reticulate, axis slightly curved. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Above Juza, eastern slopes of the Central Andes 

of Popaydn, Colombia, altitude 1,700 meters. 

DISTRIBUTION: Central and Western Cordilleras of Colombia, 

1,700 to 2,600 meters altitude. 

COLOMBIA: Mutis 2856 (Ma, N). El Choco; Quibdo, Angel 

(Daniel 536; N). Huila: Juza, Lehmann 5662 (B, type, K). Caldas: 

Pereira, Kittip 10164 (N). El Valle: La Cumbre, Pennell 5154 

(G, Gen, N, Ph, Y); Kittip 5561 (G, K, N, Ph, Y). Miraflores, 

above Palmira, Kittip 6154 (G, N). Cuesta de Tocota, west of Cali, 

Pittier 738 (N). El Cauca: Andes west of Popayan, Lehmann 5915 

(B, K). San Antonio, Pennell & Kittip 7339 (N, Y), 8032 (N). 

La Gallera, Micay Valley, Kittip 7962 (N). El Tambo, von Sneidern 

985 (S). 

This and P. gracillima are well marked species, occupying a 

position by themselves. The general appearance of the flowers 

suggests Plectostemma, but the operculum is not plicate and is 

lacerate-cleft about half its length. 

As indicated by specimens cited, P. tryphostemmatoides is widely 

distributed in western Colombia. In certain places it is abundant. 

LOCAL NAME: "Golondrina" (El Choco).


4. Passiflora gracillima Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 14: 112. 

1924. Figure 2, 6. 

Plant glabrous throughout; stem slender, subterete below, angulate 

above; stipules setaceous, 2.5 to 3 mm. long; petioles up to 3 mm. 

long, bearing at apex 2 minute, sessile glands; leaves oblong, ovateoblong, 

or suborbicular, 2.5 to 5 cm. long, 2 to 4 cm. wide, unlobed, 

rounded or occasionally subemarginate at apex, truncate or cordulate 

at base, entire, penninerved (5 to 7 pairs of secondary nerves), 

reticulate-veined, subcoriaceous, dark green and lustrous above, 

green or subglaucous beneath; peduncles solitary in the axils of the 

leaves, 2 to 4 cm. long, very slender, bearing at apex 2 pediceled 

flowers, and terminating in a slender tendril; flowers 1.5 to 2 cm. 

wide, greenish yellow; sepals linear-lanceolate, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, 3 to 

5 mm. wide, obtuse; petals 7 to 8 mm. long, 2 mm. wide; corona 

filaments in 2 series, 

the outer filiform, 4 to 5 mm. long, the inner 

capillary, 1.5 mm. long; operculum membranous, nonplicate, 

lacerate nearly to middle; limen cupuliform, 1 mm. high; ovary 

ovoid or ovoid-fusiform, obscurely 6-angled, 6-ribbed ; 

fruit ellipsoid, 

3 to 5 cm. long, 1.5 to 2 cm. thick, 6-angled and 6-ribbed, stipitate; 

seeds ovate, 3 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, reticulate at center, the 

margin thickened, faintly transverse-striate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Salento, Caldas, Colombia, 2,400 meters altitude. 

DISTRIBUTION: Western Panama, Central and Western Cordilleras 

of Colombia, and central Ecuador. 

PANAMA: Chiriqui: Hart 104 (K). 

COLOMBIA: Caldas: Salento, Pennell 9224 (G, N), 9317 (N, Y), 

9393 (A, G, N, type, Y). El Choco: Quibdo, Archer 1902 (N), 2034 

(N). Narino: Between Meneses and Pasto, Andre 2882 (K). 

ECUADOR: Chimborazo: Riobamba, Rimbach 222 (F). 

Closely related to the preceding, this species differs in having 

leaves longer than broad and in its longer peduncles. Further 

examination of the type material indicates that the original description 

of the operculum as plicate was incorrect; it appears to be nonplicate, 

essentially like that of P. tryphostemmatoides. 

LOCAL NAME: "Granadilla." 

Subgenus IV. DEIDAMIOIDES 

5. Passiflora deidamioides Harms, Repert. Sp. Nov. 19: 57. 1923. 

Plant glabrous throughout; stem subterete; stipules?; petioles 

1.5 to 5 cm. long, bearing 2 to 4 sessile glands; leaves trifoliolate,


the leaflets oblong or obovate-oblong, 5 to 8 cm. long, 2 to 5 cm. 

wide, obtuse at apex, obtuse at base or narrowed to a short (5 to 10 

mm.) petiolule, entire, 1-nerved, membranous or subcoriaceous; 

peduncles solitary, 4 to 6 cm. long, slender, bearing 2 slenderpediceled 

flowers (pedicels 2 to 3 cm. long), and terminating in a 

long tendril; bracts setaceous, 2 to 3 mm. long; flowers 5 to 6 cm. 

wide; calyx tube broadly campanulate, 4 to 5 mm. long, 12 to 13 

mm. wide at throat; sepals lanceolate-oblong, obtuse; petals nearly 

as long as and narrower than sepals; corona in several series, the 

outer 1.5 to 2 cm. long, the succeeding gradually shorter, the innermost 

filiform, 3 to 5 mm. long; operculum membranous, 2 to 3 mm. 

high, plicate, lobulate; limen cupuliform, adnate to base of gynophore; 

ovary ovoid, glabrous. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Alto da Serra, Sao Paulo, Brazil, the type collected 

by A. Gehrt (No. 4592; in herb. Hort. Oswaldo Cruz). 

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the states of Rio de Janeiro 

and Sao Paulo, southeastern Brazil. 

BRAZIL: Sao Paulo: Puiggari 150 (P). 

Rio de Janeiro: Therezopolis, 

Erode 9850 (B); De Mourn 150 (Brux). 

In the second edition of Die Naturlichen Pflanzenfamilien 

Harms created for this rare species a separate section of Plectostemma, 

to which he gave the name Deidamioides. In the present 

treatment I am raising the section to subgeneric rank, placing it next 

to Plectostemma. 

Subgenus V. PLECTOSTEMMA 

Section 1. Cieca 

6. Passiflora coriacea Juss. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 6: 109. pi. 39, f. 2. 

1805. 

Passiflora difformis HBK. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 136. 1817. 

Passiflora clypeata J. E. Sm. in Rees, Cycl. 26: Passiflora No. 20. 

1819. 

Monactineirma coriacea Bory, Ann. Sci. Ge"n. Phys. Brux. 2: 

138. 1819. 

Cieca difformis M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 

Cieca coriacea M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 

2: 140. 1846. 

2: 148. 1846. 

Passiflora sexocellata Schlecht. Linnaea 27: 521. 1854. 

Passiflora obtusifolia Sesse" & Moc. PI. Nov. Hisp. 156. 1887. 

Passiflora cheiroptera Cortes, Fl. Colomb. ed. 2, plate between 

pp. 112 and 113. 1919, plate only.


Stem angulate, glabrate below, densely puberulent above; stipules 

narrowly linear, 5 mm. long, acute; petioles glabrate or puberulent, 

2 to 4 cm. long, bearing usually at or below middle, rarely near apex, 

2 sessile or subsessile glands (sometimes 4-glandular), the glands 

about 1 mm. in diameter; leaves 3 to 7 cm. long (midnerve), 7 to 

25 cm. wide, normally 2 (or obscurely 3)-lobed (lateral lobes divergent, 

acute or rarely obtuse), peltate, 5-nerved, reticulate-veined, 

ocellate beneath, coriaceous, cartilaginous at margin, glabrous; upper 

inflorescence a terminal raceme 4 to 6 cm. long, destitute of leaves, 

with stipules and bractlike, biglandular appendages (the petioles of 

abortive leaves) at the base of the pedicels, the lower flowers solitary 

or usually in pairs in the axils of the leaves; flowers 2.5 to 3.5 cm. 

wide, yellowish -green; sepals oblong-lanceolate, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, 

4 to 5 mm. wide, obtuse; petals none; corona filaments in 2 series, 

those of the outer filiform, 7 to 8 mm. long, the inner linear, 2 mm. 

long, 0.6 mm. wide; operculum membranous, plicate, the margin 

slightly incurved; limen annular, thick, barely 1 mm. high, dark 

brown; ovary ovoid, glabrous; fruit globose, 1 to 2 cm. in diameter, 

glabrous; seeds obcordate to obovate, about 4 mm. long, 2 mm. 

wide, curved, conspicuously beaked, each face coarsely reticulate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Santa Fe", 

Colombia. 

near Honda, Department of Tolima, 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Hernandez, Rer. Medic. Nov. Hisp. Thes. 435; 

Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 6: pi. 39, j. 2; Ann. Ge"n. Sci. Phys. Brux. 2: 

pi 22J. 2; Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. ed. 2. 21: 499. /. 230A, B; 

Mutis, Icon. PI. Ined. 26: pi. 32; Cortes, Fl. Colomb. ed. 2, plate 

between pp. 112 and 113. 

DISTRIBUTION: Mexico to northern Peru and northern Bolivia, 

up to 2,000 meters altitude; known also from British Guiana on the 

basis of a single collection. 

MEXICO: Liebmann 4080 (Cop), 4.081 (Cop), 4084 (Cop), 4085 

(Cop), 4156 (Cop); Sesse & Mocino 4457 (Ma), 4458 (Ma), 4462 

(Ma, type of P. obtusifolia). Sinaloa: Mazatlan, Brandegee in 1890 

(Cal). San Luis Potosi: Tamasopo, Pennell 17985 (N). Tamazunchale, 

Lundell & Lundell 7149 (N). Nayarit: Tres Marias Islands, 

Mason 1772 (CAS, N). Jalisco: San Sebastian, Mexia 1448 (N). 

Veracruz: Hahn 106 (P). Qual tepee, Liebmann 4083 (Cop, N). 

Misantla, Liebmann 4082 (Cop); Purpus 5580 (B, BM, Cal, F, G, 

Mo, N, Y). Tantoyuca, Ervendberg 211 (G). Mexico: Rincon, 

HintonSOSO (K, N), 4655 (K, N). Colima: Manzanillo, Ferris 6208


(N). Tabasco: San Juan Bautista, Rovirosa 212 (K, N, Ph). 

Yucatan: Chichankanab, Gaumer 23714 (F). Yucatan, Gaumer 

24415 (Gen, Mo). Tuxpefia, Lundell 1210 (Mich, N). Champoton, 

Steere 1888 (N). 

GUATEMALA: Tejada 248 (N). Secanquim, Goll 27 (N). Chocon 

Plantation, Watson (G). Pet&i: Uaxactun, Bartlett 12270 (N), 

12755 (Mich). La Libertad, Lundell 2349 (Mich), 439 (Mich). 

Alta Verapaz: Cubilquitz, Turckheim 8215 (B, G, N). Chama, #. 

Johnson 273 (N). Izabal: Puerto Barrios, Standley 24959 (N). 

Quirigua, Standley 24014 (N), 2^007 (N). Cristina, Blake 7595 (N). 

San Felipe, Deam 10 (G, Mich). Suchitepe"quez: Las Animas, 

Shannon 274 (N). 

HONDURAS: Santa Barbara: San Pedro Sula, 

Thieme 5242 (N). 

Atlantida: Tela, Standley 52783 (N), 54712 (N), 56658 (N) 

Puerto Sierra, Wilson 256 (N, Y), 533 (Y). 

BRITISH HONDURAS: Honey Camp, Lundell 636 (N). Belize 

River, Lundell 3836 (N), 3839 (Mich), #&4i (Mich), S&42 (Mich). 

Corozal, Gentle 215 (N), 255 (N), 51-4 (N), 527 (Mich). El Cayo, 

Bartlett 12011 (N); Chanek 4 (N). Alfonsoville, Gentle 821 (N). 

Kendal, Schipp 803 (Gen, Mich). 

SALVADOR: Izalco, Pittier 1949 (N). Ahuachapan: Padilla 163 

(N). San Salvador: San Salvador, Standley 20602 (N), 22723 (N); 

Calderdn 829 (N). San Vicente, Standley 21306 (N). 

COSTA RICA: Pittier 6584 (Brux); Tonduz 14830 (K). Las Vueltas, 

Tucurrique, Tonduz 12808 (B, N, P). Limon, Pittier 3630 

(BM, N). Hacienda de Zent, United Fruit Company 344 (N). Golfo 

Dulce, Brenes 105 (V). 

PANAMA: Canal Zone: Gaillard in 1909 (N). Barbacoas, Hayes in 

1862 (BM). Las Cascadas, Standley 29594 (N). Darie"n, Standley 

31617 (N). Empire, Piper 5479 (N). Alhajuela, Pittier 3456 (N). 

Barro Colorado Island, Shattuck 57 (N). 

BRITISH GUIANA: Essequibo, Lejos 43 (B). 

COLOMBIA: Mutis (Linn, type of P. clypeata) ; 

Lehmann B. T. 1162 

(Y). Magdalena: Cincinnati, Giacometto 4 (Ph). Santa Marta, 

Purdie (K, erroneously labeled "Jamaica"). Atlantico: Campo 

Alegre, H. H. Smith 1955 (Y). Onaca, H. H. Smith 2781 (Y). Victoria, 

Viereck in 1922 (N). Bolivar: Turbaco, Killip & Smith 14415 

(G, N, Y). Cartagena, Heriberto 392 (N). Santander: Narifio, 

Killip & Smith 14970 (G, N, Y). Bucaramanga, Killip & Smith


16343 (A, G, N, Y), 19062 (G, N, Y), 21156 (N). Tona, Inst. de La 

Salle, Bogoth (Bog). Cundinamarca: Fusagasuga, Goudot in 1844 

(P). La Mesa, Triana 2933 (BM, Gen, HNC, P). Nilo, Perez 510 

(N). Boyaca: Inst. de La Salle, Bogota (Bog). Tolima: Honda, 

Humboldt & Bonpland (P, type). El Moral, Quindio Trail, Humboldt 

& Bonpland (type of P. difformis; B, P). Rio Cuello, Hazen 

9652 (G, N, Y) ; Kittip 9726 (G, N). Ibague", Cuatrecasas 3245 (Ma). 

Caldas: Manizales, Pennett 10190 (A, G, N). El Valle: La Manuelita, 

Pennell & Killip 6180 (G, N). Zarzal, Pennell, Killip & 

Hazen 8500 (N), 8581 (N). Puerto Caldas, Killip & Hazen 11023 

(N). Cisneros, Killip 11442 (G, N). Rio Dagua, Lehmann 2777 

La Paila, HoUon 703 (Y). 

(BM, Bo). 

ECUADOR: Coastal plain, Rimbach 255 (N). 

PERU: Haenke 1882 (Pr). San Martin: Tarapoto, Ule 6461 

(B, Gen, Go); Spruce 4532 (V). Chasuta, King 3963 (N). Alto Rio 

Huallaga, L. Williams 5517 (N), 575^ (N). Junin: San Ramon, 

Killip & Smith 24907 (F, N, Y). 

BOLIVIA: Beni: San Buenaventura, Mulford Biol. Expl. 1196 

(N,Y). 

This well marked, widely distributed species was figured in 1651 

by Hernandez and described under the name tzinacanatlapatli. In 

typical specimens the two lobes are divaricate at an angle of about 

90 degrees from the midrib, the upper margin being nearly a straight 

line; hence the leaf is transversely oblong-elliptic. Often a middle 

lobe is present, varying from a mere point to a short, broadly truncate 

lobe or a well defined, lance-oblong lobe (Salvador, Standley 20188; 

Padilla 163). These latter plants strongly resemble forms of P. 

suberosa, but may be distinguished by the larger, sessile or subsessile 

petiolar glands and the peltate leaves. Otherwise the material cited 

above is remarkably uniform. Lehmann 2777, from Colombia, has 

ovate stipules, and is strongly suggestive of P. trinifolia. The type 

of P. obtusifolia is an atypical plant, with thinner leaves, the middle 

lobe short and broadly truncate and the lateral lobes obtuse. 

LOCAL NAMES: "Hoja de murcie'lago" (Mexico, Guatemala); 

"murcie'lago" (Mexico, Salvador); "media luna," "granadilla del 

monte" (Guatemala); "ala de murcie'lago" (Salvador); "bejuco de 

blatijito" 

(Colombia); "uchuanquirisi" (Inca). 

7. Passiflora clypeophylla Mast. Bot. Gaz. 16: 7. 1891. 

Plant glabrous throughout; stem flattened, grooved; stipules 

narrowly linear, 5 mm. long, acute, coriaceous; petioles 2 to 3 cm.


long, bearing at middle 2 sessile glands about 1 mm. in diameter; 

leaves subrotund or obscurely 3-lobed, 7 to 8 cm. long, 8 to 10 cm. 

wide, peltate, 5-7-nerved, reticulate-veined, entire or emarginate at 

tips of nerves, membranous, slightly cartilaginous at margin, dark 

green above, glaucous beneath; peduncles solitary or in pairs, 1.5 to 

2.5 cm. long, slender, articulate at middle; bracts early deciduous; 

flowers 1 

to 1.5 cm. wide; sepals oblong, 7 mm. long, 3 mm. wide, 

obtuse, yellowish green; petals none; corona filaments in 2 series, the 

outer filiform, 6 mm. long, purple at base, yellow toward apex, 

reflexed, the inner linear-clavate, 2 mm. long, erect; operculum membranous, 

plicate, the apex incurved, denticulate; limen annular; 

ovary globose. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Barranca del Rubelcruz, Alta Verapaz, northern 

Guatemala. 

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality, 

Guatemala. 

in northern 

GUATEMALA: Alta Verapaz: Barranca del Rubelcruz, 770 meters, 

J. D. Smith 1625 (N, type). 

This species, though rather closely related to P. coriacea, is 

readily distinguished by its thinner, nearly orbicular leaves and its 

more slender peduncles. The single specimen examined shows no 

evidence of the terminal raceme of flowers frequent in P. coriacea. 

8. Passiflora tenuiloba Engelm. in Gray, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. 

6: 192. 1850. 

Passiflora Bigelovii Small, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 1: 283. 1899. 

Stem slender, subterete, glabrous or slightly pilosulous; stipules 

linear-setaceous, about 3 mm. long; petioles up to 8 mm. long, 

bearing 2 sessile, saucer-shaped glands at the extreme apex of the 

petiole or occasionally one on each of the lowermost lateral nerves 

close to their base, the glands 1 to 1.2 mm. in diameter, sessile; 

leaves deeply 3-lobed (lobes linear or cuneate, oblong, often aristulate, 

the lateral up to 8 cm. long, 0.3 to 2 cm. wide, once or twice 

lobed, the middle lobe from one-third to two-thirds as long as 

the lateral lobes, entire to 3-lobed), subcordate at base, 3-5-nerved, 

strongly reticulate-veined, few-ocellate, coriaceous, sparsely or 

densely pilosulous above, glabrous beneath; peduncles solitary or 

in pairs, 3 to 7 mm. long, very slender, articulate at middle, finely 

pilosulous, at length glabrous; bracts apparently none (at least 

early deciduous); flowers about 2 cm. wide, greenish; 

sepals linearlanceolate, 

6 to 8 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, obtuse, 

hyaline-margined;


petals none; corona filaments in 2 series, those of the outer narrowly 

linear, 3 to 4 mm. long, the inner ones filiform, 2 mm. long; operculum 

membranous, closely plicate, minutely denticulate at margin; 

limen annular, borne within 1 mm. of operculum; ovary globose, 

glabrous; fruit globose, 8 to 10 mm. in diameter; seeds ovate-oblong, 

3 to 4 mm. long, 2 to 2.5 mm. wide, acute at ends, reticulate at middle 

of each face, 

5-sulcate at margin, the axis slightly curved. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Western Texas (type collected by Lindheimer). 

DISTRIBUTION: Central and southern Texas to southern New 

Mexico and northern Tamaulipas, Mexico. 

TEXAS: Manon Spring, Havard in 1883 (N). Pecos, Bigelow 

(Mexican Boundary Survey 393d; G, N, Y). Camp Green, Bigelow 

(Mexican Boundary Survey 393c; B, Y, type of P. Bigelovii}. Dallas 

Co., Reverchon in 1877 (Y). Sterling Co., Tharp 3615 (N). Travis 

Co., Tharp 2850 (N). Hays Co., Tharp 1538 (N). Kerr Co., Bray 

164 (N). Crockett Co., Reverchon 328 (F). Terrell Co., Wooton in 

1911 (N). Brewster Co., Tharp 3616 (N). Wilson Co., Palmer in 

1879 (G). Uvalde Co., E. J. Palmer 10192 (N). Duval Co., Croft 64 

(Y). Webb Co., Schott (F). Starr Co., Nealley 161 (F), 204 (Penn). 

NEW MEXICO: Wright 171 (K), 216 (BM, G, K, N), 1083 (B, Bo, 

G, N, P). Dona Ana Co., Bigelow (Mexican Boundary Survey 393; N). 

MEXICO: Tamaulipas: El Mulato, Bartlett 11016 (N). 

In P. tenuiloba the glands are borne either just below the subcordate 

base of the blade hence, on the petiole or just above hence 

on the lowermost nerves, a point which suggests that this species 

is a connecting link between the two principal sections of Plectostemma. 

Further evidence of its intermediate position lies in the 

sculpturing of the seeds. The faces are reticulate at the center, 

transversely grooved toward the edges, thus exhibiting the principal 

distinguishing characters of the two sections. Clearly, however, 

the species is more closely related to P. coriacea and P. suberosa 

than to any species of Decaloba. 

In the form described as P. Bigelovii the middle leaf lobe is proportionately 

longer. 

9. Passiflora suberosa L. Sp. PI. 958. 1753. 

Passiflora pallida L. Sp. PI. 955. 1753. 

Passiflora hirsuta L. Sp. PI. 958. 1753. 

Passiflora minima L. Sp. PI. 959. 1753.


Passiflora nigra Jacq. Obs. Bot. 2: 27. pi. 46, f. 3. 1767. 

Passiflora glabra Mill. Card. Diet. ed. 8. Passiflora No. 4. 1768. 

(l)Passiflora olivaeformis Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8. Passiflora No. 

6. 1768. 

Passiflora peltata Cav. Diss. 10: 447. pi. 274. 1780. 

Cieca viridis Medic. Malvenfam. 97. 1787. 

Cieca nigra Medic. Malvenfam. 97. 1787. 

Passiflora angustifolia Swartz, Prodr. 97. 1788. 

Passiflora parviflora Swartz, Prodr. 97. 1788. 

Passiflora heterophylla Dryand. in Ait. Hort. Kew. 3: 309. 1789, 

not P. heterophylla Lam. 

Passiflora hederaefolia Lam. Encycl. 3: 38. 1789. 

Passiflora longifolia Lam. Encycl. 3: 40. 1789. 

Passiflora hederacea Cav. Diss. 10: 448. 1790. 

Granadilla suberosa Gaertn. f. Fruct. & Sem. 2: 480. 1791. 

Cieca heterophylla Moench, Meth. PI. Suppl. 101. 1802. 

Cieca suberosa Moench, Meth. PL Suppl. 102. 1802. 

Cieca minima Moench, Meth. PI. Suppl. 

Passiflora litoralis HBK. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 

102. 1802. 

2: 138. 1817. 

Baldwinia peltata Raf. Amer. Monthly Mag. 267. 1817. 

Monactineirma angustifolia Bory, Ann. Ge"n. Sci. Phys. Brux. 

2: 138. 1819. 

Monactineirma minima Bory, Ann. Ge"n. Sci. Phys. Brux. 2: 138. 

1819. 

Monactineirma suberosa Bory, Ann. Ge*n. Sci. Phys. Brux. 2: 138. 

1819. 

Monactineirma peltata Bory, Ann. Ge"n. Sci. Phys. Brux. 2: 138. 

1819. 

Monactineirma hederacea Bory, Ann. Ge"n. Sci. Phys. Brux. 2: 

138. 1819. 

Passiflora oliviformis Veil. Fl. Flum. 9: pi. 83. 1827. 

Passiflora globosa Veil. Fl. Flum. 9: pi. 85. 1827. 

Passiflora Kohautiana Presl, Fl. Bemerk. 72. 1836. 

Passiflora villosa MacFadyen, Fl. Jamaica 2: 151. 1837, not 

P. villosa Veil. 

Meioperis peltata Raf. Fl. Tellur. 4: 103. 1838. 

Meioperis suberosa Raf. Fl. Tellur. 4: 103. 1838.


Meioperis minima Raf. Fl. Tellur. 4: 103. 1838. 

Meioperis pallida Raf. Fl. Tellur. 4: 103. 1838. 

Meioperis angustifolia Raf. Fl. Tellur. 4: 103. 1838. 

Meioperis hederacea Raf. Fl. Tellur. 4: 103. 1838. 

Passiflora Warei Nutt. in Sillim. Journ. ex Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. 

Amer. 1: 539. 1838. 

Passiflora limbata Tenore, Ind. Sem. Hort. Neap* 12. 

Sci. Nat. II. 13:380. 1840. 

Passiflora flexuosa Gardn. Lond. Journ. Bot. 1: 174. 1842. 

1839; Ann. 

Passiflora pseudo-suberosa Fisch. Ind. Sem. Hort. Bot. Petropol. 

9: 82, ex Walp. Rep. 2: 934. 1843. 

Cieca peltata M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 141. 1846. 

Cieca hederacea M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 141. 1846. 

Cieca pallida M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 142. 1846. 

Cieca angustifolia M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 

Cieca olivaeformis M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 

2: 143. 1846. 

2: 144. 1846. 

Cieca globosa M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 144. 1846. 

Cieca littoralis M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 145. 1846. 

Cieca pseudo-suberosa M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 

Cieca V/arei M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 146. 1846. 

Cieca minima M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 147. 1846. 

Cieca flexuosa M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 148. 1846. 

Cieca limbata M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 148. 1846. 

2: 146. 1846. 

Passiflora hirsuta var. parvifolia M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 

174. 1846. 

Passiflora lineariloba Hook. f. Trans. Linn. Soc. 20: 222. 1851. 

Passiflora tridactylites Hook. f. Trans. Linn. Soc. 20: 222. 1851. 

Passiflora puberula Hook. f. Trans. Linn. Soc. 20: 223. 1851. 

Passiflora suberosa var. divaricata Griseb. Bonplandia 6: 7. 1858. 

Passiflora suberosa var. minima Mast. Trans. Linn. Soc. 27: 630. 

1871; in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 579. 1872. 

Passiflora suberosa var. hirsuta Mast. Trans. Linn. Soc. 27: 630. 


Passiflora suberosa var. hirsuta subvar. argentea Mast. Trans. 

Linn. Soc. 27: 630. 1871; in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 579. 1872. 

Passiflora suberosa var. angustifolia Mast. Trans. Linn. Soc. 27: 

630. 1871; in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 579. 1872.


Passiflora suberosa var. pallida Mast. Trans. Linn. Soc. 27: 630. 


Passiflora suberosa var. hederacea Mast. Trans. Linn. Soc. 27: 

630. 1871; in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 579. 1872. 

Passiflora suberosa var. lineariloba Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, 

pt. 1: 579. 1872. 

Passiflora suberosa var. longiloba Tr. & Planch. Ann. Sci. Nat. V. 

Bot. 17: 157. 1873. 

Passiflora suberosa var. longipes Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 25: 149. 

1890. 

Passiflora calliaquatica Krause, Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 32, pt. 2: 

340. 1914. 

Plant glabrous to densely pubescent, the lower portion of the 

stem corky; stipules linear-subulate, 6 to 8 mm. long; petioles 0.5 

to 4 cm. long, biglandular, the glands usually less than 0.5 

mm. in 

diameter and distinctly stipitate, rarely larger and subsessile, borne 

above middle of petiole; leaves highly variable in outline, entire 

to deeply 3-lobed (lobes narrowly linear to broadly ovate, 

suberect 

or widely divergent, acute or obtuse), rounded or occasionally 

peltate at base, membranous or subcoriaceous, sometimes ocellate 

beneath; flowers 0.8 to 3 cm. wide, solitary or in pairs in the axils 

of the leaves, or occasionally in leafy, axillary racemes; bracts 

minute, setaceous, soon deciduous; sepals ovate-lanceolate, 

subobtuse, 

greenish yellow; petals none; corona filaments in 2 series, filiform, 

the outer recurved, white, yellow at apex, purple below, those 

of the inner series capitellate; operculum membranous, plicate, 

minutely fimbrillate, white, the margin incurved; limen annular; 

ovary subglobose or ovoid, glabrous; fruit globose or ovoid, dark 

purple or black, glaucous when young, 6 to 15 mm. in diameter; 

seeds flattened, slightly curved, abruptly acuminate at apex, tapering 

at base, 3 to 4 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, coarsely reticulate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: "Dominica," probably Hispaniola. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Plum. Desc. PI. Amer. pi. 84, 85, 88, 89; Pluk. 

Aim. pi. 210, f. 3; Amoen. Acad. 1: pi. 10, f. 2, f. 14, f. 16, f. 18; Jacq. 

Obs. Bot. 2: pi. 46, f. 3; Cav. Diss. 10: pi. 265, 266, 270; Trans. 

Linn. Soc. 2: pi. 5; Jacq. PI. Hort. Schonbr. 2: pi. 181; Jacq. Hort. 

Vind. 1: pi. 20, 163; Bot. Reg. 2: pi. 144; 3: pi. 188; 8: pi. 660; 

Smith, Exot. Bot. 1: pi. 28; Illus. Ind. Bot. 2: pi. 108; Gaertn. f. 

Fruct. & Sem. 2: pi. 177, f. 1; Bot. Mag. 45: pi. 1983; Veil. Fl. Flum. 

9: pi. 83, 85; Britton, Fl. Berm. 251; Mutis, Icon. PI. Ined. 26: pi. 31.


DISTRIBUTION: Common throughout tropical America, except 

in the Guianas, where it is unknown, or at least rare. Introduced in 

Old World tropics. In the following list of exsiccatae specimens 

without collectors' numbers are not included, and hundreds of 

specimens in European herbaria are omitted. 

FLORIDA (Peninsular Florida and the Keys) : 

Nuttall (BM, type 

of P. Warei} ; 

Baldwin 45 (Penn) ; 

E. G. Britton 407 (F, Y), 463 (F, Y) ; 

N. L. Britton 158 (F); Curtiss 973 (F, N), 974 (Minn, N), 5641 

(Bo, Cal, Minn, N); Cutter, Small & Carter 731 (Ph); Eaton 407 (F); 

Fredholm 5608 (N); J. A. Harris C17410 (Minn); Hitchcock 105 

(F, Minn, N); Killip 31667 (N); Lansing 2177 (F), 2390 (F); 

Moldenke 323 (Y), 340 (N, Y), 516 (N, Y), 517 (Y), 526 (N, Y), 

550a (Y); Mosier 268 (N); Pollard, Collins & Morris 158 (F, Minn, 

N); Rugel 255 (Bo), 256 (Bo), 257 (Bo); Safford & Mosier 32 (N), 

227 (N), 298 (N), 299 (N); Simpson 260 (F, N); Small et al. 5733 

(S, Y), 5787 (S, Y), 5923 (S, Y), 6586 (S, Y); Standley 18987 (N); 

Tracy 7518 (F, N), 7655 (F, Minn, N), 01 0S (F, Minn, N, Penn); 

Weber 225 (F). 

TEXAS: Brownsville, Rose 18110 (N); Rose & Russell 24283 (N); 

Runyon512 (N). 

MEXICO: Chihuahua: Gentry 2910 (F). Durango: Rose 3504 (N). 

San Luis Potosi: Pringle 3520 (G); Purpus 5048 (Cal), 5049 (Cal). 

Nayarit: Ferris 5589 (N, S). Jalisco: Reko 4574 (N); flose 2946 

(G, N); flose


BRITISH HONDURAS: Gentle 23 (N), 42 (Mich). 

SALVADOR: Standley 20188 (N). 

COSTA RICA: Brenes 6158, in part (F), 13675 (F); Standley 33063 

(N), 41490 (N) ; 

Tonduz 10903 (N) ; 

Torres 80 (N). 

PANAMA: Lehmann 1849 (Bo). Colon: Pittier 4402 (N). 

Panama: Kittip 12039 (N); Standley 25357 (N), 30733 (N). 

WEST INDIES: 2 sheets of uncertain origin (Linn, type of P. 

minima). 

BERMUDA: Britton & Brown 23 (Cop, F, N, Penn, Ph, Y); S. 

Brown 718 (N, Ph); F. S. Collins 235 (F, N); Millspaugh 44 (F). 

BAHAMAS: Brace 198 (F), 1518 (F), 1955 (F), 4110 (F), -4-4U 

(F, N, Y), 4774 (F, N, Y); E. G. Britton 3322 (F, Y), 6415 (F, Y); 

Britton & Millspaugh 2189 (F, N, Y), 2463 (F), 6174 (F); #n/aw 4 

(G); Eggers 4406 (Cop); Millspaugh 2213 (F), 2257 (F), 2518 (F), 

2351 (F), 9075 (F); AM & Taylor 883 (F), 1097 (F), 3779 (N, Y); 

Northrop 216 (F), 2-42 (Bo, F), 389 (F); Sraa


Wright 197 (BM, Bo, Brux, G, Gen, HA), 1245 (Bo, F, G, HA, N, 

S, V), 2597 (BM, Bo, G, Gen, HA). 

HAITI: Cook 48 (N); Ekman H9347 (N); Leonard 3038a, 3314, 

3462 (all N), 3463 (F, N), 3562 (BM, G, N, Ph), 3610 (F, G, N, Ph), 

4818 (G, N, Ph), 4852 (N, Ph), 4997 (F, N), 5135 (G, N); Leonard & 

Leonard 7140, 7394a, 7662, 7952, 8116, 8521, 8811, 9631, 9726, 9788, 

11181, 11294, 11323, 11901, 12713, 13952, 13962 (all N); Miller 222 

(N), 225 (N); Nash 155 (F, Y). 

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Abbott 1469, 171 5a, 1724, 2507, 2834 

(all N); Fart's 24, 121, 310, 442 (all N); Fuertes 160 (BM, F, G, N, V); 

Miller 1116 (N), 1117 (N}; Millspaugh 831 (F), 854 (F); Raunkiaer 

1356 (Cop); Rose 3796, 4164, 4442 (all N); Wright, Parry & Brummel 

27, 28, 30 (all N). 

JAMAICA: S. Brown 115 (Ph); P. Browne (Linn); Crawford 115, 

680, 681, 737, 742, 759, 824 (all Ph); Fredholm 3076 (N); Harris 6877 

(F, J), 12747 (F, G, J, N); Lehmann 3800 (Bo); Lloyd 1074 (F); 

Maxon 1679 (N), 10398 (N); Maxon & Killip 338 (F, G, N, Y), 343 

(N, Y), 389 (F, G, N, Y), 1426a (N), 1580 (N), 1655a (F, N, Y), 1657 

(F, G, N, Y), 1701 (F, G, N, Y); Miller Herbarium (BM, type of 

P. glabra); Millspaugh 1994 (F); Swartz (S, type of P. angustifolia); 

Wight 23 (F). 

PUERTO Rico: Britton, Cowell & Brown 4637 (F, Y), 5030 (F, N, 

Y); Britton & Wheeler 38 (F, N, Y); Goll 185, 311, 312, 331, 409 

(all N); Heller 6068 (F, G, HV, N, Ph), 6324 (F, G, HV, N, Ph); 

Prey 21 (N), 80 (N); Sintenis 644 (G, N, S), 811 (G, N, S), S1./C (B), 

J0SJ (J, N), 3487 (G, N), 3488 (F, G, Gen, N, V), 5114 (G, N), 

(Gen, V), 5668 (G); Sfea/er 2506 (F, N, Y), 27S (N, Y); StaM 

(S); Stevenson 1856 (N); Underwood & Griggs 472 (N), 601 (N). 

VIRGIN ISLANDS (U. S.): St. Croix, Ricksecker 186 (F, Minn, N), 

322 (F, N); J. B. Thompson 367 (N). St. John, Britton & Shafer 226 

(N, Y), 557 (N, Y). St. Thomas, Britton & Marble 1228 (N, Y); 

Wydler 88 (Gen). 

VIRGIN ISLANDS (British): Tortola, Fishlock 24, 39, 141 (all G), 

152 (G, N, Ph). 

ST. MARTIN: Boldingh 2721, 2734, 2757, 2764, 2834, 2871 (all Ut). 

SABA: Boldingh 314 (Ut), 1668 (Ut). 

ANGUILLA: Boldingh 3498 (Ut). 

ST. EUSTATIUS: Boldingh 192, 271, 313, 342, 490, 690, 713 (all Ut), 

837 (Ut, Y).


BONAIRE: Boldingh 7042, 7263, 7396 (all Ut). 

ANTIGUA: Rose 3460 (N). 

GUADELOUPE: Duss 3616 (Cop, N), 3909 (N, Y), 3929 (N); Stehle 

190, 253, 317 (all N). 

DOMINICA: Jacquin (V). 

MONTSERRAT: Shafer 424 (F, N, Y). 

MARTINIQUE: Belanger 811 (P); DMSS 575 (Y), 874 (Cop), 4690 

(Cop);Hahn586 (BM). 

BARBADOS: Dosft 5J8 (N). 

ST. VINCENT: H. H. & G. W. Smith 615 (G, J), 1314 (BM), 

1616 (N). Between Kingston and Calliagua, Eggers(!) 15718 (B, 

type of P. calliaquatica) 

. 

GRENADA: Broadway 1720 (G); Miller 316 (N). 

ARUBA: Boldingh 6515 (Ut, Y). 

CURACAO: Boldingh 4726, 4926, 5107 (all 

Ut); Britton & Shafer 

2975 (N, Y) ; 

Curran & Haman 205 (G, N, Ph) ; Killip & Smith 21044 

(G, N, Y). 

TRINIDAD: Broadway 7726 (N); Kuntze 961 

526, 641, 5017, 10389, 12568 (all T), 3618 (N, T). 

(Y); Trinidad Herb. 

VENEZUELA: Sucre: Broadway 285, 291, 340, 374 (all G, N, Y). 

Miranda: Pittier 11970 (Gen, N, Y). Federal District: Eggers 13440 

(Cop); Pittier 7871 (N), 9567 (G, N), 9783 (N), J0250 (N), 13598 

(N). Aragua: Fendler 473 (G, Mo, Y). 

COLOMBIA: Magdalena: H. H. Smith 1531 (Y), 2624 (F, Mo, N, 

Y) Atlantico: Pennett 12074 . (G, N, Ph, Y). Bolivar: Bittberg 

121 (S), 122 (S); Killip & Smith 14164 (A, G, N, Y), 14168 (G, N, 

Y), J4*89 (G, N), 14470 (G, N, Y). Norte de Santander: Killip & 

Smith 20887 (G, N). 

Santander: KiUip & Smith 15029 (G, N, Y), 

16834 (G, N, Y), 1S59S (G, N). Cundinamarca: Lehmann 2515 

(Bo, N); Triana, Passiflora No. 5 (HNC). Tocaima, Goudot (P, 

type of P. suberosa var. longilobd). Antioquia: Archer 152 (N), 370 

(N, Ut), 759, iOOS, 1041 (all N); PermeW J0W0 (G, N). Caldas: 

Kittip 10165 (G, N, Ph, Y);Pennell 10182 (G, N, Ph, Y), 10641 (N). 

-El Valle: Killip 11262 (N), 11673 (G, N, Ph, Y); Lehmann 3332 

(Bo, N), 5587 (BM). 

ECUADOR: Eggers 15237 (F). Manabi: Eggers 15583 (P). 

Guayas: Eggers 14427 (N); Holmgren 55 (BM, N, S); MtTfe 42a (N); 

Stevens 322 (N), 52-4 (N). Le6n: Lehmann 4579 (G, N). Huigra:


Rose 22294 (G, N, Y), 23854 (N). Colon (Galapagos Islands): 

Andersson (K, type of P. tridactylites, P, S) ; 

Baur 160 (G) ; Heindachner 

68 (V); Howell 8747 (CAS), 9665 (CAS, N); Schimpff 52 (CAS, Gen, 

Ut); Snodgrass & Heller 321 (G), 625 (G); Stewart 2074 (CAS, G), 

2075 (CAS, G, N, Y), 2076 (CAS), 2077 (CAS, G), 2078 (CAS), 

207P (CAS, G, N), 20S0, 20SJ, 20S2 (all CAS, G). 

PERU: Dombey 734 (P). Tumbez: Weberbauer 7638 (F). Lima: 

Gaudichaud 154 (Gen, P), 154bis (P); Mfe'p


In the great majority of the specimens examined the petiolar 

glands are minute (less than half a millimeter in diameter), and are 

distinctly stalked. In the case of a few Andean specimens and an 

occasional one from other localities, the glands are nearly as large as 

those of P. coriacea, and are subsessile. 

Although strict adherence to the rules of page priority would 

require the use of the name P. pallida, it seems best to apply P. suberosa 

to this species because (1) the form with 3-lobed leaves is much 

the commoner and has the wider distribution; (2) it was represented 

in the Linnean Herbarium by a specimen which Linnaeus had at 

hand in 1753; and (3) it is the name in general use. 

LOCAL NAMES: "Meloncillo," "pintero," "huevo de gallo" 

(Cuba); "noxbe cimarron" (Peru). 

10. Passiflora gracilis Jacq. ex Link, Enum. PI. 2: 182. 1822. 

Cieca gracilis M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 141. 1846. 

Plant glabrous throughout; stem very slender, subquadrangular; 

stipules narrowly linear, 1 to 1.5 mm. long, falcate; petioles 4 to 5 

cm. long, very slender, biglandular in lower half, the glands stipitate, 

subopposite; leaves 3 to 7 cm. long, 7 to 10 cm. wide, 3-lobed about 

to middle (lobes subequal, or the middle lobe the longest, obtuse 

or rounded), cordate at base, 3-nerved, entire, thin-membranous, 

glaucous beneath; peduncles filiform, 2 to 3 cm. long; bracts setaceous, 

1 to 1.5 mm. long, dissitate; flowers about 2 cm. wide; sepals 

narrowly oblong, about 1 cm. long, 0.2 to 0.3 cm. wide, obtuse, 

concave, white; petals none; corona filaments in 2 series, the outer 

filiform, 6 to 8 mm. long, the inner capillary, 1 to 1.2 mm. long, 

minutely capitellate; operculum membranous, plicate, slightly incurved, 

crenulate; nectar ring annular; limen annular; ovary ovoid, 

glaucous; fruit ellipsoidal, about 2.5 cm. long, 1.5 cm. in diameter, 

the exocarp parchment-like, scarlet (or purplish?) ; 

seeds subglobose, 

slightly flattened, about 4 mm. long, 3 mm. wide, abruptly acute 

at each end, reticulate with a hexagonal reticulation at center of each 

face, surrounded by 6 smaller reticulations. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Uncertain, the type seen at Vienna. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Jacq. Eclog. PI. Rar. 2: pi. 168; Rev. Hort. IV. 

9: 14. /. 1. 1860; Bot. Reg. 11: pi. 870; Amer. Nat. 18: 820; Flora 

111-112:407.1918. 

DISTRIBUTION: Frequently cultivated; perhaps a native of 

Venezuela.


SOUTH CAROLINA: Abbesville Co., introduced, A. P. Anderson in 

1898 (N). Dupre 1580 (Minn). 

CALIFORNIA: Cultivated at Pacific Beach, Kumm in 1928 (N). 

COSTA RICA: Hatillo, 1,100 meters, Softs 31 

(F). 

VENEZUELA: "In regione temperata," Moritz 1963 (BM, P, V). 

Aragua: Colonia Tovar, Fendler 472 (G, K, Ph, Y), 2328 (K). 

BRITISH GUIANA: Cultivated, British Guiana Herb. 135 (BG, N), 

139 (BG). 

BRAZIL: Mattogrosso: Pohl 1228 (Brux, V). 

Passiflora gracilis differs from its apetalous allies of this section 

in the larger, elongate fruit. It is, moreover, a much more delicate 

plant. Cultivated specimens are to be found in many herbaria. 

The only ones I have seen which from their labels give no indication 

of such an origin 

are the Costa Rican, Venezuelan, and Brazilian 

collections cited above. This species has served as the basis for 

interesting studies by J. Arthur Harris. See Harris: Prolification 

of the fruit in Capsicum and Passiflora, Mo. Bot. Gard. Ann. Rep. 

1906: 135-145. 1906; Harris and Gortner: On the influence of the 

order of development of the fruits of Passiflora gracilis upon the 

frequency of teratological variations, Plant World 17: 199-203. 1914. 

11. Passiflora trinifolia Mast. Bot. Jahrb. 8: 217. 1887. 

Stem slender, terete, flexuous, minutely puberulent; stipules 

ovate-lanceolate to orbicular, 5 to 8 mm. long, 4 to 6 mm. wide, 

mucronate; petioles 0.5 to 1 cm. long, bearing 2 flattened glands at or 

slightly above middle, or these occasionally absent; leaves 1.5 to 2.5 

cm. long, 2.5 to 6 cm. wide, 3-lobed to middle (lobes triangular-ovate, 

nearly equal or the lateral somewhat the larger, acute or obtuse), 

subcordate and 5-nerved at base, reticulate-veined, ocellate, coriaceous, 

glabrous or minutely puberulent; peduncles in pairs, as long 

as or slightly shorter than the adjacent petioles, articulate above 

the middle; flowers 1 to 2 cm. wide, yellowish green; sepals deltoidlanceolate, 

7 mm. long, 6 mm. wide, subcoriaceous; petals none; 

corona filaments in a single series, filiform, dilated toward apex, 

4 mm. long, erect; operculum membranous, plicate, the margin 

fimbrillate; limen annular; ovary subglobose, glabrous or minutely 

puberulent. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Santa Rosa, Baja Verapaz, Guatemala. 

DISTRIBUTION: Department of Baja Verapaz, central Guatemala, 

between 1,200 and 1,600 meters altitude.


GUATEMALA: Baja Verapaz: Santa Rosa, Lehmann 1314 (Bo, K, 

type); Turckheim 1207 (G, K, N), 11.2868 (N). Cuesta de Cachil, 

Pittier 160 (N). 

The foliage of this plant bears a slight resemblance to that of 

certain West Indian forms of P. suberosa. Passiflora trinifolia is 

readily distinguished from that, as well as from all 

species of Passiflora, by its large stipules. 

12. Passiflora holosericea L. Sp. PI. 958. 1753. 

other apetalous 

Decaloba holosericea M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 164. 1846. 

Passiflora reticulata Sauv. Fl. Cub. 56. 1873. 

(t)Passiflora 

tuxtlensis SessS & Moc. Fl. Mex. 229. 1887. 

Plant usually densely pubescent throughout (glabrescent in certain 

Cuban forms); stem terete, striate, corky below; stipules filiform, 

6 mm. long; petioles 1 to 2.5 cm. long, bearing near middle 

2 dark brown, sessile glands 2 mm. in diameter; leaves 5 to 10 

cm. long, 4 to 7 cm. wide, 3-lobed (lobes rounded, mucronulate, the 

middle one much longer), entire, bidentate at the cordate base, 3- 

nerved, reticulate-veined, velvety-pubescent above, densely and 

softly tomentose beneath ; peduncles solitary or in pairs in the axils 

of the leaves, 2-4-flowered (rarely those of the lower axils 1-flowered), 

the flowers pediceled, the pedicels bearing 2 or 3 subulate bracteoles 

2 mm. long; flowers 3 to 4 cm. wide; sepals ovate-lanceolate, 1.3 to 

1.5 cm. long, 0.5 cm. wide, obtuse, densely pubescent without, glabrous 

within, white, sparingly spotted with red; petals oblanceolate 

or spatulate, 1 to 1.3 cm. long, 0.6 cm. wide, white, streaked with 

brown and mottled with red; corona filaments in 2 series, the outer 

lanceolate, 7 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, yellow at apex, purple toward 

base, the inner capillary, 4 to 5 mm. long, clavate; operculum membranous, 

closely plicate, 

the margin incurved; limen annular, close 

to the operculum; ovary obovoid, densely pilose; fruit globose, 1.5 

cm. in diameter, glabrous or softly pubescent; seeds obovateobcordate, 

about 3 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, coarsely reticulate, the 

axis curved. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Veracruz, Mexico. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Martyn, Hist. PI. Rar. pi 49; Amoen. Acad. 1: 

pi. 10, f. 15; Cav. Diss. 10: pi. 291; Bot. Reg. 1: pi. 59; Bot. Mag. 

45: pi. 2015. 

DISTRIBUTION: Mexico to Honduras; central and western Cuba; 

northern Colombia and Venezuela. Tropical zone, up to 700 meters 

altitude.


MEXICO: Haenke 849 (Pr); Sesse & Mocino 4468 (Bo, Ma). 

Colima: Manzanillo, Ferris 6191 (N). Sinaloa: Mazatlan, Rose, 

Standley & Russell 14132 (F, G, Mo, N, Y). Tepic: Tres Marias 

Islands, Maltby 55 (N, Y); Nelson 4249 (F, G, N); Ferris 5586 (N), 

5739 (N, SU); Mason 1711 (N, S); Howett 10419 (N). Veracruz: 

Banos del Carrizal, Purpus 6022 (BM, Cal, F, G, Mo, N, Y). Antigua, 

Purpus 6237 (Cal). Monserrate, Purpus 10025 (N). Vera^ 

cruz, Krausse (BW); De Salza (P). Michoacan: Petatlan. Langlasse 

725 (P). Guerrero: Acapulco, Palmer 307 (G, K, N, Y), 411 

(N); Bonpland (B); Barclay 1976 (BM); Nee (Ma). Oaxaca: 

Oaxaca, Galeotti 3675 (P). Salinitas, Conzatti 4492 (N). Huilotepec, 

Nelson 2577 (G, N, Y). San Francisco Ranch, Conzatti, Reko & 

Makrinius 3267 (G). 

GUATEMALA: Gualan, Deam 6336 (Cal, F, G, Mich, N, V). 

Zacapa: Zacapa, Deam 6358 (F, Mich, N, Y); Kellerman 7774 (F). 

HONDURAS: Santa Barbara: San Pedro Sula, Thieme 5244 (B, 

Bo, G, N). 

SALVADOR: Chalatenango, Calderon 2362 (N). 

CUBA: Wright 3568 (B, G, HA, N, S, Y); Rugel 828 (Y). Pinar 

del Rio: El Mariel, Ekman 16350 (B, N). Sierra de Anafe, Wilson 

11516 (B, N, Y). Retiro, San Cristobal, Sauvalle (HA, No. 886, 

type of P. reticulata). Loma Pelada, Ledn 12519 (HS). Habana: 

Habana, Nee (Ma). Sierra de Anafe, Ekman 16915 (B, S); Killip 

13507 (N). Lomas de Camoa, Ekman 13514 (B, S). Sierra de 

Tapaste, Ekman 13586 (B, S). Matanzas: Pan de Matanzas, 

Ekman 16465 (B, S). Matanzas, Rugel 350 (B, BM); De la 

Sagra (P). 

BRITISH GUIANA: Cultivated (?), British Guiana Herb. 131 (BG), 

137 (BG). 

VENEZUELA: Warming 360 (Cop). Miranda: Guarenes, Pittier 

11263 (N), 11910 (Gen, N, Y). Federal District: El Zigzag, E. 

Pittier 65 (N, Y). El Limon, Pittier 13499 (F, N). Aragua: Colonia 

Tovar, Moritz 1674 (BM). Carabobo: Canoabito, Pittier 9131 

(G, N). 

COLOMBIA: Magdalena: Santa Marta Mountains, Schultze 1622 

(B). Atlantic: Salgar, Pennett 12059 (G, N, Ph, Y). 

Masters placed this among the species of Plectostemma with 1- 

flowered peduncles. Occasionally the peduncles in the lower axils 

are 1-flowered, owing perhaps to the additional pedicels having 

become detached or not having developed. Harms associates it


with P. multiflora and P. sexflora in his section Decaloba-Polyanthea. 

Clearly, however, its relationship is with P. suberosa. The similarity 

of the seeds of the two species, as well as other likenesses, such as 

corky stem and leaf shape, indicates a close alliance between the two. 

The single specimen of P. holosericea in the Linnean Herbarium 

probably was not in Linnaeus' possession in 1753. His description 

was based primarily upon Martyn's description and illustration of 

a plant grown in England from seeds obtained by Houston at 

Veracruz. 

None of the Sess and Mocifio specimens in the Madrid herbarium 

are labeled P. tuxtlensis, and their description of that species 

does not apply well to any known Mexican species. Certain details 

suggest P. holosericea, P. jorullensis, P. Helleri, and P. Rovirosae. 

LOCAL NAMES: "Etamo real;" "itamo real" (Acapulco). 

13. Passiflora Sodiroi Harms, Repert. Sp. Nov. 18: 298. 1922. 

Stem subterete or angulate, softly short-pubescent; stipules 

lanceolate, falcate; petioles 2 to 2.5 cm. long, biglandular at or below 

middle, the glands short-stipitate; leaves ovate, 8 to 10 cm. long, 5 to 

6 cm. wide, 3-lobed towards the apex (lateral lobes smaller than the 

middle lobe, occasionally wanting, the lobes rounded or acute), 

rounded or subtruncate at base, conspicuously reticulate, subcoriaceous, 

glabrescent above, softly pubescent or tomentellous beneath; 

inflorescence cymose, the cymes in pairs, several-flowered, pubescent; 

bracts setaceous, 4 to 5 mm. long; calyx tube saucer-shaped; sepals 

narrowly lanceolate, about 1 cm. long; petals linear-lanceolate, 6 to 

7 mm. long; corona filaments filiform, capitellate, in 2 or 3 series; 

operculum closely plicate; limen annular; gynophore about 6 mm. 

long; ovary globose, pubescent; fruit globose, about 1 cm. in diameter. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Alaspongo, Pichincha, Ecuador. 

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality, in northcentral 

Ecuador. 

ECUADOR: Pichincha: Alaspongo, Sodiro 562 (B, type). 

This species is discussed under P. apoda. 

14. Passiflora apoda Harms, Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 10: 809. 

1929. 

Stem subangular, cano-villous or cano-villosulous; stipules linearlanceolate, 

3 to 5 mm. long, 1.5 to 2 mm. wide at base, falcate; petioles 

1 to 3 cm. long, biglandular at or below middle, the glands sessile or


short-stipitate; 

leaves ovate-oblong or oblong, rarely suborbicular, 

6 to 16 cm. long, 4 to 11 cm. wide, 3-lobed (lobes obtuse or acute, the 

middle lobe usually much the larger, the lateral lobes sometimes much 

reduced), rounded or retuse at base, subcoriaceous, glabrescent above, 

sparingly to densely cano-pilosulous on the nerves and veins beneath ; 

inflorescence cymose, the cymes in pairs, several-flowered, the rachis 

1 to 2.5 cm. long; bracts linear-lanceolate, 4 to 5 mm. long, the 

bractlets linear-setaceous, 2 to 3 mm. long; flowers 2.5 to 3 cm. wide; 

sepals broadly ovate, 1 to 1.3 cm. long, 5 to 6 mm. wide, obtuse, 

fleshy, green without, white within; petals ovate, slightly shorter 

than the sepals, obtuse, membranous, white; corona filaments filiform, 

capitellate, in 2 series, the outer 5 to 8 mm. long, greenish 

white, purple-maculate at base, the inner about 3 mm. long, pink, 

purple-maculate near apex; operculum closely plicate, pinkish purple, 

fimbrillate; limen annular; gynophore wanting or rarely very short 

and stout, 2 to 3 mm. long; ovary globose, pubescent; fruit globose, 

about 1 cm. in diameter, at length glabrous; seeds obovate, about 4 

mm. long and 3 mm. wide, reticulate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Cucarronera, New Quindio Trail, Department 

of Caldas, Colombia. 

DISTRIBUTION: Central Cordillera of Colombia, 2,500 to 3,300 

meters, and known from a single collection from northern Ecuador. 

COLOMBIA: Antioquia: Las Mintas, south of Caldas, Pennell 10946 

(N). Caldas: Cucarronera, New Quindio Trail, Hazen 9688 (B, 

type, G, N, Ph, Y). Between Laguneta and Magana, Old Quindio 

Trail, Kittip & Hazen 9413 (G, N, Ph, Y). San Bernardino, Killip 

10154 (G, N, Ph, Y). Salento, Hazen 9694 (G, N, Ph, Y). Rio 

San Rafael, below Cerro Tatama, Pennell 10391 (G, N, Ph, Y). 

ECUADOR: Pichincha: Between Atacatzo and Saloya, Mille in 

1919 (N). 

This species is common along the much traveled Quindio Trail, 

and it is rather remarkable that it should not have been described 

Some of the specimens collected by the Pennell-Killip- 

until 1929. 

Hazen expedition I distributed as P. Sodiroi, and I am not fully convinced 

that that is not the correct disposition, especially in view of 

the fact that the Mille specimen, from the general vicinity of the 

type locality of P. Sodiroi, is clearly conspecific with the Colombian 

material. All but one of the Colombian specimens have abundant 

flowers, and although the gynophore is wanting in most of them (as 

it is in the Mille specimen), sometimes a very short, stout gynophore


is present. In P. Sodiroi the gynophore is well developed, being 

about 6 mm. long. As the sepals of that species are narrowly lanceolate 

and those of P. apoda broadly ovate, I am keeping the two 

separate for the present. Although the sessile or subsessile ovary 

suggests a relationship with P. multiflora, there is a correlation in P. 

apoda of gland-bearing petioles and reticulate seeds, indicating that 

the species is best placed in the section Cieca of Plectostemma, where 

it comes nearest P. Sodiroi and P. holosericea. 

15. Passiflora dioscoreaefolia Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 

14: 108. 1924. 

Stem slender, subtriangular, sulcate, pubescent at nodes with a 

few hooked hairs, otherwise glabrous; stipules semi-ovate, 7 to 10 

mm. long, 3 to 5 mm. wide, attenuate at apex, slightly undulate at 

finely pubescent with hooked 

margin; petioles up to 2.5 cm. long, 

hairs, biglandular near apex, the glands short-stipitate, 2 mm. long, 

2 mm. wide; leaves oblong-ovate, 8 to 15 cm. long, 4 to 8 cm. wide, 

entire, abruptly acuminate, cordulate, 5-7-nerved, entire and slightly 

thickened at margin, membranous, densely red-spotted, sparsely 

pubescent with hooked hairs above, glabrous beneath; peduncles 

solitary or in pairs, up to 4 cm. long, 1-flowered, slightly pubescent 

with hooked hairs; bracts setaceous, 3 to 4 mm. long, scattered; 

flower 5 cm. wide (when expanded); sepals ovate-lanceolate, 2 cm. 

long, 1 cm. wide at base, cucullate at apex, greenish white(?) and 

slightly pubescent without, white, longitudinally striate with deep 

purple, within; petals oblong or oblong-spatulate, about 1.2 cm. long, 

0.6 cm. wide, obtuse, white, marked like the sepals; corona filaments 

in a single series, filiform, 1.5 cm. long, white, spotted with deep 

purple; operculum plicate, the margin lobulate, slightly incurved; 

limen saucer-shaped, 2 mm. high, crenulate; gynophore and stamens 

mottled and streaked with deep purple; ovary narrowly ovoid, shortstipitate, 

glabrous; fruit ovoid, about 15 cm. long(?), 3.5 cm. in 

diameter, 6-angled; seeds obcordate, about 7 mm. long, 5 mm. wide, 

and 3 mm. thick, coarsely reticulate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: La Palma, Province of San Jose', 

altitude 1,600 meters. 

Costa Rica, 

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the mountain forests of central 

Costa Rica. 

COSTA RICA: La Palma, San Jose", Stork 1*36 (N, type). La Palma 

de San Ram6n, Brenes 5747 (F), 5764 (F), 5951 (F), 6131 (F), 

11392 (F), 11899 (F).


The flowers of this species and the presence of glands at the apex 

of the petioles indicate relationship with P. bryonioides and P. 

Karwinskii. 

its entire leaves. 

It is distinguished from all the species of that group by 

Through study of the material collected by Brenes and recently 

received by Field Museum, it is possible now to amplify the original 

description. One of these specimens bears an old fruit which, 

though it is broken, in half, is of mammoth size for species of this 

relationship. 

16. Passiflora pilosa Ruiz & Pavon ex DC. Prodr. 3: 330. 1828. 

Plant hispid throughout with stiff, pellucid, more or less hooked 

hairs; stem angulate, terete, grooved; stipules broadly cordate-ovate, 

1.5 to 1.7 cm. long, 1.5 cm. wide, strongly nerved, minutely serrulate 

or entire; petioles 2.5 to 3.5 cm. long, biglandular, the glands clavate, 

2 mm. long, 1 mm. in diameter at apex, borne on the upper third of 

the petiole; leaves 5 to 11 cm. long, 6 to 14 cm. wide, deeply 3-lobed 

(middle lobe ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or subacute, slightly 

exceeding the ovate, acute lateral lobes), 3-5-nerved, the nerves 

flattened, the veins conspicuous, irregularly repand-dentate, hispidulous, 

cordate-cuneate at the basal sinus; peduncles solitary or in 

pairs, 2 to 3 cm. long; bracts 3, narrowly ovate to oblanceolate, 5 to 6 

mm. long, 1.5 to 3 mm. wide, acute, densely ciliate, 2 situated at the 

base of the flower, the third about 4 mm. lower on the peduncle; 

flowers 3.5 cm. wide; sepals oblong-lanceolate, 2 cm. long, 

T*- 

0.7 cm. 

wide, slightly concave at apex, deep red and hispid without, paler, 

red-streaked, and glabrate within; petals oblong-lanceolate, 9 mm. 

long, 3 mm. wide, obtuse; corona filaments in a single series, narrowly 

linear, 1.6 cm. long, 0.6 mm. wide; operculum approximate to the 

corona, membranous, white, slightly plicate, 4 mm. high, the margin 

very minutely fimbrillate, incurved; nectar ring annular; limen 

membranous, white, 1 mm. high, incurved ; ovary ovate, tapering at 

apex, glabrous. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico. 

DISTRIBUTION: Central Mexico. 

MEXICO: Sesse & Mocino 4475 ["Pavon"] (type; BM, Gen, Ma). 

Felipe del Agua, Conzatti (C. L. Smith 584; G). Michoacan: Loma 

Santa Maria, near Morelia, 2,000 meters, Arsene 7353 (N). 

Mexico: Telpintla, 1,840 meters, Hinton 4261 (K). 

The identity of P. pilosa has long been in doubt, due to De 

Candolle's incomplete description and to the fact that Masters con-


fused this species with P. menispermifolia HBK. 

Though giving no 

diagnosis of the flowers, De Candolle placed the species in Granadilla, 

evidently on the basis of the rather large bracts. Masters misapplied 

the name P. pilosa to a "Pavon" specimen of P. menispermifolia, and 

attempted to reconcile this plant with De Candolle's description of 

P. pilosa. This accounts for the rather curious description of "P. 

pilosa" in the Flora Brasiliensis. 

Although the bracts of this species, like those of P. adenopoda, 

are larger than in P. bryonioides and its allies, it is better placed at 

this point than in the poorly defined group, Plectostemma section 

Pseudogranadilla. 

Pavon's name in connection with Mexican specimens indicates 

that the sheet came from the Pavon Herbarium or was distributed by 

Pavon. His travels in the New World were confined to Chile and 

Peru, and most, if not all, of these Mexican collections were obtained 

by Sess6 and Mocifio. In the Boissier Herbarium there are specimens 

bearing labels reading "Herb. Pavon Peru" and "Herb. Pavon 

Sesse" & Mocino." The numbers associated with the Sess and 

Mocifio collections were recently assigned these specimens in the 

Madrid Herbarium, a partial set of which is deposited in Field 

Museum. Specimens distributed to other herbaria are of course 

unnumbered. 

17. Passiflora stellata Moritz ex Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 

17: 423. 1927. 

Stem slender, subtriangular, striate, finely pilosulous; stipules 

setaceous, 5 mm. long; petioles up to 3 cm. long, biglandular at base 

of blade, the glands 0.5 mm. long; leaves 4 to 6.5 cm. long, 4 to 8 cm. 

wide, 3-lobed about one-third their length (lobes broadly triangular 

or triangular-ovate, 2 to 3 cm. wide, acute or obtusish), subtruncate 

at base, 5-nerved, entire at margin, sparsely and minutely 

pubescent above, more densely pubescent beneath, membranous; 

peduncles about 2.5 cm. long; bracts setaceous, scattered; flowers 

white or greenish (?); sepals oblong, about 2 cm. long, hyaline at 

margin, cucullate at apex, keeled, the keel terminating in a horn 3 

mm. long; petals linear, less than 1 cm. long, obtuse, white, membranous; 

corona filaments in a single series, liguliform, about 7 mm. 

long; operculum membranous, 7 mm. high, slightly plicate, erose at 

margin, white; gynophore slender, striate, slightly swollen at base; 

stamens very slender, 1 cm. long; ovary ellipsoidal, 6-grooved, 

glabrous.


TYPE LOCALITY: "In reg. temp, et subfrig.," New Granada. 

(The collections of Moritz labeled New Granada were made in 

what is now Venezuela.) 

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type material. 

VENEZUELA: Moritz 1961 (BM, P, type). 

The shape of the leaves and the presence of glands at the apex of 

the petioles indicate a relationship with P. Warmingii. The stipules, 

however, are setaceous, not foliaceous; the gynophore is slenderer, 

and the ovary ellipsoidal, not ovoid. 

18. Passiflora Warmingii Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 591. 

1872. 

(?) Passiflora dumetosa Barb. Rodr. Contr. Jard. Bot. Rio de Jan. 

4: 94. pi 17B. 1907. 

Stem angulate, slender, grooved, sparsely hispidulous; stipules 

semi-ovate, 4 to 6 mm. long, 2 to 3 mm. wide, long-acuminate; 

petioles up to 5 cm. long, slender, pilosulous and hispidulous, biglandular 

at apex, the glands about 1.5 mm. long, thick-stipitate; 

leaves 3 to 5 cm. long, 4 to 6 cm. wide, 3-lobed (lobes deltoid, acute, 

mucronulate, the middle lobe 2 to 2.5 cm. long, longer than the lateral 

lobes), cordate at base, repand-dentate, 3-nerved, membranous, 

finely hispidulous above, minutely pilosulous and glaucescent 

beneath; peduncles solitary or in pairs, up to 1.5 cm. long; bracts 

setaceous, 2 to 2.5 mm. long; flowers about 2.5 cm. wide; sepals lanceolate-oblong, 

8 to 10 mm. long, about 5 mm. wide, obtuse, greenish; 

petals lanceolate-oblong, 6 to 7 mm. long, 2.5 to 3 mm. wide, obtuse, 

white; corona filaments in a single series, filiform, about 5 mm. long, 

purplish below middle; operculum plicate, borne close to the corona, 

deeply crenulate, incurved; nectar ring annular, inconspicuous; 

limen membranous, adnate to the floor of the calyx, the margin free, 

entire; ovary ovoid, densely white- or brownish-pilose or squamosepilose; 

fruit ovoid, pilose; seeds obcordate, about 4 mm. long, 3 mm. 

wide, 2 mm. thick, coarsely reticulate, 

the central mesh prominent. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Lagoa Santa, Minas Geraes, Brazil. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: pi 112; Arkiv Bot. 8, 

No. 8:pll,f. 6. 

DISTRIBUTION: Southwestern Colombia; east-central and southern 

Brazil ; 

and Paraguay. 

COLOMBIA: Narino: Chabasquia, "Prov. Pasto," Karsten (V).


BRAZIL: Sello 3963 (B, cited by Masters as P. sicyoides). Matto 

Grosso: Santa Anna, Malme in 1903 (S). Minas Geraes: Lagoa 

Santa, Warming 1153 (Cop, type, N). Caldas, Henschen (Regnell 

111. 1701, S). Sao Paulo: Rio Clara, Lofgren 535 (Cop). Campinas, 

Noack 189 (B); Campos Novaes 850 (N); Reiner 382 (S), 423 (S). 

Serra de Caracol, Mosen 1328 (S). Rio Grande do Sul: Santa Maria, 

Malme 1203 (S). Santo Angelo, Schwarzer in 1900 (S). 

PARAGUAY: Jorgensen 3790 (F, Mo, N). Caaguazu, Hassler 9329 

(B, BM). 

Apparently the only species of this group in Brazil, P. Warmingii 

is readily distinguished from its allies, except P. morifolia, by a 

densely pilose ovary, scarcely flattened, coarsely reticulate seeds, 

and less deeply lobed leaves. The points of difference between 

P. Warmingii and P. morifolia are discussed under the latter species. 

19. Passiflora morifolia Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 555. 

1872. 

Passiflora Weberiana Andre", Rev. Hort. 57: 113. 1885. 

Passiflora erosa Rusby, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 4: 363. 1907. 

Passiflora Warmingii subsp. chacoensis R. E. Fries, Arkiv Bot. 

8, No. 8:4. pJ. l,f. 7. 1909. 

Passiflora Heydei Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 12: 258. 1922. 

Stem obscurely 4-angled, grooved, glabrate below, sparingly 

hispidulous above; stipules semi-ovate, 6 mm. long, 3 mm. wide, 

long-acuminate, minutely hispidulous, sparsely ciliate; petioles up 

to 6 cm. long, flattened, hispidulous or pilosulous, biglandular, the 

glands borne within 1 cm. of the apex, thick-stipitate, 1.5 mm. long, 

0.8 to 1 mm. wide; leaves 4 to 11 cm. long, 5 to 15 cm. wide, 3-lobed 

to below middle (lobes acute, the middle lobe ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 

usually narrowed at base, the lateral lobes divergent at an 

angle of about 70 degrees from midrib), deeply cordate at base, 

3-nerved, repandly dentate or denticulate, or su ben tire, membranous, 

dark green and hispidulous with minute, hooked hairs above, 

paler and minutely pilosulous beneath; peduncles solitary or in 

pairs, densely hispidulous, 1 to 2 cm. long, divaricate from the stem 

at right angles; bracts setaceous, 2.5 to 3 mm. long, borne about 1 cm. 

below the base of the flower, approximate or the uppermost slightly 

remote; flowers 2 to 3 cm. wide; sepals linear-oblong, 1 to 1.5 cm. 

long, 3 to 4 mm. wide, obtuse, without densely hispidulous 

to glabrescent, 

green, within glabrous, white, mottled with red, the apex


terminating in a horn about 3.5 mm. long; petals linear-lanceolate, 

6 to 8 mm. long, 2 to 4 mm. wide, obtuse, white; corona filaments 

in a single series, filiform, 5 to 6 mm. long, white, banded with blue 

or violet; operculum membranous, plicate, the margin slightly incurved, 

crenulate; nectar ring annular, borne midway between the 

operculum and the base of the gynophore; limen membranous, adnate 

to floor of calyx tube, the margin free; ovary subglobose, densely 

pubescent, glaucous; fruit globose, 2 cm. in diameter, hispidulous, 

glaucous; seeds very slightly compressed, obcordate-obovoid, 4 mm. 

long, abruptly tapering at base, coarsely reticulate, the central mesh 

or the 2 central meshes conspicuous. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Tucuman, Argentina, the type collected by 

Tweedie (No. 1174). 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Rev. Hort. 59: opp. p. 324; Arkiv Bot. 8, No. 8: 

pi 1,1. 7. 

DISTRIBUTION: Mexico and Guatemala; eastern Peru to Paraguay 

and Argentina; between 450 and 2,800 meters altitude. 

SOUTH CAROLINA: Clemson, introduced, House 2887 (F, G, N, Y). 

MEXICO: Schnee (P). 

GUATEMALA: Heyde & Lux 324 (B, N; possibly of same collection 

as the following). Santa Rosa: Casillas, 1,200 meters, Heyde & Lux 

3772 (G, N, type of P. Heydei, Y). 

PERU: Gay 941 (P);Pav6n (Bo). 

Echarate, Weberbauer 7949 (Gen, N). 

Cuzco: Urubamba Valley, near 

BOLIVIA: La Paz: Sorata, Mandon 613 (BM, Bo, Gen, K, P). 

Santa Cruz: Buena Vista, Steinbach 5347 (B, F, N), 5349 (Gen, Y), 

8019 (Gen, K, Ut, Y). 

PARAGUAY: Jorgensen 2845 (G). Caaguazu, Balansa 2199 (Gen). 

ARGENTINA: Jujuy: Tilara, Venturi 9217 (N). Salta: Rio 

Juramento, Lorentz & Hieronymus 302 (B, F). Rosario de Lerma, 

Venturi 8088 (G, N). El Naranjo, Venturi 7631 (N). Tucuman: 

Lorentz & Hieronymus 1145 (B), 1146 (B); Lillo 142 (P); Stuckert 

9480 (Gen). La Florida, Lorentz & Hieronymus 389 (B, F). Sierra 

de Zenta, Venturi 8355 (G, K, N). Los Gomez, Leales, Venturi 670 

(N). Rio Sali, Venturi 1101 (N). Cumbre de Taficillo, Venturi 

5900 (N). Chaco: Fontana, Meyer 1033 (N). Colonia Elisa, Meyer 

2233 (N). Cordoba: Stuckert 4507 (Gen). Sierra de Cordoba, 

Stuckert 14215 (Gen), 15195 (Gen), 18680 (Gen). 

This is very closely allied to the last preceding species, apparently 

differing only in the more deeply lobed, larger leaves, the lobes being


of different shape. However, in view of the unusual distribution 

of both species (Warmingii in southwestern Colombia, southeastern 

Brazil, and Paraguay; morifolia in Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, 

Bolivia, Paraguay, and Argentina), perhaps they should be treated 

as a single, variable species. 

I can find no differences between the Guatemalan plant which 

I described as P. Heydei and material from Bolivia and Argentina, 

though its occurrence at such a great distance from the center of 

distribution is rather remarkable. 

The plant referred to by Small (Fl. Southeast. U. S. ed. 2, 809. 

1913) as P. Warmingii, reported as being well established near 

Clemson, South Carolina, specimens of which (House 2887) are to 

be found in several American herbaria, is certainly P. morifolia. 

LOCAL NAME: "Pachito" (Bolivia). 

20. Passiflora bryonioides HBK. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 140. 1817. 

Passiflora bryonifolia Spreng. Syst. Veg. 3: 42. 1826. 

Decaloba bryonioides M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 

Passiflora inamoena Gray, PI. Wright. 

2: 59. 1853. 

2: 163. 1846. 

(t)Passiflora Karsteniana A. Dietr. in Otto & Dietr. Allg. Gartenzeit. 

21:42. 1853. 

(l)Passiflora hirsuta L. sensu Sess4 & Moc. PI. Nov. Hisp. 155. 

1887. Not P. hirsuta L. 

Passiflora serrata L. sensu Sesse" & Moc. PI. Nov. Hisp. 156. 

1887, in part. Not P. serrata L. 

Stem angulate or sub terete, hispidulous; stipules semi-ovate, 

cuspidate, 5 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide, more or less ciliate; petioles 

hirsute or hispidulous, 2.5 to 5 cm. long, bearing within 1 cm. of 

the apex 2 clavate glands 0.8 to 0.9 mm. long and 0.9 to 1 mm. in 

diameter; leaves 4 to 7 cm. long, 5 to 9 cm. wide, deeply 3-lobed 

(lobes oblong, acute or obtuse, the middle lobe usually narrowed 

at its base, the lateral lobes often 2-lobed), cordate at base, 3-5- 

nerved, entire or sparingly and irregularly dentate or denticulate, 

hispidulous on both surfaces; peduncles solitary, 2 to 3 cm. long; 

bracts setaceous, 3 to 4 mm. long, deciduous; flowers 2 to 3 cm. wide; 

sepals ovate-lanceolate, 9 to 13 mm. long, 3 to 5 mm. wide, obtuse 

or acutish, greenish yellow; petals linear or linear-lanceolate, 4 mm. 

long, 1 mm. wide, white; corona filaments in a single series, filiform, 

6 to 7 mm. long, purple-tinged at base; operculum arising at base 

of preceding, membranous, plicate, strongly incurved; nectar ring


annular; limen adnate to floor of calyx, membranous, the margin 

free, entire; ovary narrowly ovoid, glabrous; fruit oblong, 3 to 3.5 

cm. long, 2.5 cm. in diameter, borne on a stalk about 5 mm. long; 

seeds ovate, 4 mm. long, 2.3 mm. wide, strongly flattened, 

reticulate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Near Santa Rosa, Mexico. 

closely 

DISTRIBUTION: Southern Arizona to southern Mexico; sea level 

to 1,700 meters altitude. 

ARIZONA: Pima County: Arivaca, Peebles, 

5644 (N). 

Harrison & Kearney 

MEXICO: Sesse & Mocino 4477, in part (Bo, Ma, type of "P. 

serrata" Sesse" & Moc.); Schnee in 1894 (P). Santa Rosa, Humboldt 

& Bonpland 4%45 (type; B, P). Jaral, W. Schumann 601 (B, N, P). 

Sonora: Santa Cruz, Wright 1084 (G, type of P. inamoena, K, N, 

Y). Sierra de las Gronillas, Hartman 99 (Cal, F, G, Penn). Puerta 

de Pinitos, Hartman 152 (G, K). Chihuahua: Batopilas, Palmer 32 

(G, N, Y). 

Chihuahua, Pringle 330 (B, BM, Bo, Brux, F, G, Gen, 

K, N, P, Penn, Y). Sierra Mapula, Pennell 18655 (N). Nuevo 

Leon: La Zama, Abbon (B). Durango: Durango, Palmer 346 (B, 

BM, Bo, Cal, F, G, K, N, Y). Tejame"n, Palmer 564 (N). San Luis 

Potosi: Schaffner 109, in part (K); Parry & Palmer 259, in part 

(BM, F, K, N). Jalisco: Guadalajara, Pringle 5463 (G). Guanajuato: 

Guanajuato, Duges 320 (G); Kerber 1266 (P). Quere"taro: 

San Juan, Altamirano 1743 (N). San Juan del Rio, Rose, Painter & 

Rose 9513 (N, Y). Cadereyta, Rose, Painter & Rose 9728 (N, Y). 

Puebla: San Luis Tultitlanapa, Purpus 3540 (B, BM, Cal, F, G, N, 

Y), 8076 (Cal, Mo, N). Guadalupe, Nicol&s in 1909 (Gen, K, N, 

P), 48 (F, N). Puebla, Arsene 1121 (N, P), 1856 (N), 10100 (N), 

10174 (N); Nicolas 235 (N). Mexico: Ixtapan, Hinton 1151 (K, N). 

Acatitlan, Hinton 4340 (N). Michoacan: Arsene in 1910 (Mo, N). 

Much of the material cited above was distributed as P. inamoena, 

a species described as apetalous and placed by Masters in the 

section Cieca. Examination of type material shows narrow, inconspicuous 

petals to be present, and there apparently are no other 

characters to distinguish P. inamoena from P. bryonioides. This 

species has also been confused with P. exsudans, from which it 

distinguished by its flattened seeds, the position of the petiolar 

glands, and the smaller petals. 

The plant described as P. serrata (evidently intended for P. 

and Mocino was clearly based on their number 

serrata L.) by Sess 

is


4477, in the Madrid herbarium. This consists of a small specimen 

of P. bryonioides and two specimens of P. exsudans t 

the description 

apparently being derived from both elements. The type locality 

given by the authors is Michaelopolim (i.e., San Miguel), though 

this name does not appear on the label accompanying the specimen. 

LOCAL NAMES: "Cocapitos" (Guanajuato); "pasionaria del 

monte" (Durango); "granadina" (State of Mexico). 

21. Passiflora Karwinskii Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 555. 

1872. 

Passiflora Pringlei Robins. & Greenm. Amer. Journ. Sci. III. 

50: 151. 1895. 

Passiflora platyneura Eastw. Proc. Amer. Acad. 44: 604. 1909. 

Stem angulate, hispid with hooked hairs; tendrils none; stipules 

linear-falcate, attenuate, 3 mm. long; petioles ascending, 0.5 to 

2 cm. long, hispid, biglandular at apex, the glands stipitate; leaves 

2 to 4 cm. long, 3 to 5 cm. wide, 3-lobed to middle (central lobe 

ovate-oblong, rounded or subacute at apex, bearing upon the under 

surface near its base 2 round, sessile glands, the lateral lobes generally 

unequally bilobate), subcuneate to reniform at base, entire or irregularly 

dentate, hispidulous, especially at margin and on nerves; peduncles 

1.5 to 2.5 cm. long, hispid; bracts setaceous, about 3 mm. 

long; flowers about 5 cm. wide; sepals linear-oblong, 15 to 20 mm. 

long, 6 to 8 mm. wide, hispid without, glabrate within; petals oblonglanceolate, 

10 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide; corona filaments in a single 

series, slightly exceeding the petals; operculum membranous, slightly 

plicate, strongly incurved; nectar ring annular, dark brown; limen 

membranous, adnate to floor of calyx, the outer margin free, entire; 

ovary ovoid, glabrous; fruit globose, 1.5 cm. in diameter, tapering 

at base; seeds flattened, oblong, 4.5 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide, apiculate, 

closely reticulate. 


Munich). 

Type collected by Karwinsky (Herb. 

DISTRIBUTION: Southern Mexico, from 2,000 to 2,500 meters 

altitude. 

MEXICO: Conzatti & Gonzales 1196 (G). Michoacan: Patzcuaro, 

Pringle 5268 (G, type of P. Pringlei). Oaxaca: Oaxaca, Andrieux 

235 (Gen, P), 308 (Gen, P); 369 (G, K, V). Sierra de San Felipe, 

Pringle 5750 (G, N). Buena Vista, Seler 95 (B). Cuilopdn Moun- 

San Felipe, Rose & 

tains, L. C. Smith 44 (G, type of P. platyneura).


Hough 4602 (N). Las Sedas, Rose & Hough 4634 (N). Pueblo 

Viejo, Nochixtlan, Conzatti 1834a (F). 

This species is very closely related to P. bryonioides, and the two 

are often confused. In P. Karwinskii tendrils are wanting, even in 

well developed specimens; the stipules are much narrower than in P. 

bryonioides; the flowers are larger; and the petals are much longer 

and wider. 

The original description of P. Karwinskii was very meager, and 

apparently it has heretofore not been associated with the plant more 

recently described as P. Pringlei. I have not seen type material of 

P. Karwinskii, but at Kew there is a detailed sketch of the type, 

which leaves little doubt that the two are the same. 

The retention of P. platyneura as a valid species is impossible. 

That was described as closely resembling P. Pringlei but differing in 

larger flowers, paler pubescence, and broader leaf bases. The 

additional material that has become available for study since the 

publication of P. platyneura shows that these characters are not 

constant. 

22. Passiflora colimensis Mast. & Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 

5: 181. pi. 20. 1899. 

Stem angulate, glabrate, somewhat nodulose below; stipules 

setaceous, 2 to 3 mm. long, deciduous; petioles sparingly pubescent, 

2.5 to 6 cm. long, bearing within 1 cm. of the apex 2 stipitate glands, 

2 mm. long; leaves 3 to 6 cm. long, nearly as broad, 3-lobed (lobes 

rounded or acutish, the middle slightly the longest), cordate at base, 

3-nerved, denticulate, sparingly pubescent above with short, hooked 

hairs, pale and finely pilosulous beneath; peduncles solitary, 3 cm. 

long, glabrate; bracts setaceous, 4 mm. long, deciduous; flowers 3.5 

to 4 cm. wide, white, streaked with red; sepals lanceolate 1.3 to 1.5 

cm. long, 5 to 6 mm. wide, acute, puberulent without, glabrous within; 

petals one-third to one-half as long as the sepals; corona filaments in 

a single series, filiform, half as long as the sepals; operculum membranous, 

plicate, incurved, 2.5 mm. long, tinged at apex and near 

base with purple, the margin minutely crenulate; nectar ring 

annular, midway between the preceding and base of gynophore; 

limen annular, thick; ovary elliptic, glabrous; fruit globose, 2.5 to 3 

cm. in diameter; seeds obovoid, strongly flattened, closely reticulate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Colima, Mexico. 

ILLUSTRATION: Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 5: pi. 20. 

DISTRIBUTION: Western Mexico.


MEXICO: Thompson (G). Sinaloa: Coacoyolitos, Ortega 6460 

(N, Ph). Michoacan: Baquete, 200 meters, Langlasse 509 (B, K, N). 

Colima: Colima, Palmer 283 (Cop, N, type, S). Guerrero: 

Achotla, Reko 4962 (N). 

Closely related to P. bryonioides, but distinguished by its 

strictly 3-lobed leaves, with broader lobes, the middle lobe not 

narrowed at the base, and by a much less dense indument. The 

toothing at the margin is regular and more pronounced in the case 

of P. colimensis. 

Reko states that the fruit is edible. 

23. Passiflora pediculata Mast. Bot. Gaz. 23: 247. 1897. 

Plant glabrous throughout ; 

stem slender, angulate ; stipules setaceous, 

3 mm. long, deciduous; petioles 4 to 6 cm. long, biglandular 0.6 

to 1 cm. from the base, the glands minute, short-stipitate, 0.5 mm. in 

diameter, the stipe 0.4 mm. long; leaves 4 to 5 cm. long, 5 to 8 cm. 

wide, 3-lobed to middle (lobes ovate-lanceolate, obtuse), shallowly 

cordate or subtruncate at base, entire, thin, slightly glaucous beneath; 

peduncles, when developed, nearly 4 cm. long; bracts setaceous, 

3 mm. long, scattered on upper half of peduncle; flowers about 

3 cm. wide; sepals oblong, obtuse, 1.5 cm. long, 6 mm. wide; petals 

linear-oblong, 1 cm. long; corona filaments in a single series, filiform, 

white, transversely banded with violet, erect, slightly shorter than 

the petals; operculum membranous, plicate, the margin inflexed, 

entire; nectar ring annular, thin-membranous, incurved; ovary 

ellipsoid. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Rio Torres, near San Francisco de Guadalupe, 

Province of San Jose\ Costa Rica. 

DISTRIBUTION: Central Costa Rica. 

COSTA RICA: Rio Torres, near San Francisco de Guadalupe, 

San Jose", Tonduz 7250 (Bo, Brux, N, type); Pittier 16701 (Y). San 

Jose", Erode 2329 (B), 2378 (B). 

This is easily distinguished from the other species of this group 

by its long petioles and peduncles, the former minutely biglandular 

almost at their base, and by setaceous stipules. It is, moreover, 

entirely glabrous. The foliage bears a close resemblance to that of 

P. gracilis. 

24. Passiflora quercetorum Killip, sp. nov. 

Glaberrima; caulis quadrangulatus; stipulae anguste lineares; 

petioli ad basin biglandulosi ; 

folia usque ad medium trilobata, lobis


rotundatis, cordulata, membranacea, subtus glaucescentia; bracteae 

anguste lineares, integerrimae vel 1-2-dentatae; sepala oblonga; 

petala late lanceolata; corona 1-seriata, filamentosa; operculum 

plicatum; ovarium ovoideum. 

Vine, glabrous throughout, the root slightly corky; stem quadrangular; 

tendrils weak, filiform; stipules narrowly linear, 3 to 4 mm. 

long, subfalcate; petioles 3 to 4 cm. long, biglandular at base, the 

glands saucer-shaped, about 1 mm. in diameter; leaves 3-lobed 

about to middle, 2.5 to 5.5 cm. along midnerve, 3 to 4 cm. along 

lateral nerves, 5 to 8.5 cm. wide (lobes rounded, 1.5 to 3 cm. wide), 

cordulate, denticulate toward base, membranous, dark green above, 

glaucescent beneath; peduncles solitary or in pairs, 2 to 2.5 cm. long; 

bracts narrowly linear, dissitate, 3 to 4 mm. long, entire or with 1 or 

2 setiferous teeth; flowers about 5 cm. wide; calyx tube patelliform; 

sepals oblong, 2 to 2.5 cm. long, 6 to 7 mm. wide, pale yellow; petals 

broadly lanceolate, about 1.5 cm. long, 1 cm. wide at base, pale yellow; 

corona filaments in a single series, filiform, slightly longer than 

the petals, proximally violet, distally yellow; operculum membranous, 

plicate; nectar ring annular; limen membranous, incurved; the 

ovary ovoid. 

Type in the herbarium of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural 

Sciences, collected in stony, granitic, oak woods above Curahui, base 

of Cerro Saguarivo, east of San Bernardo, Sonora, Mexico, altitude 

1,200 to 1,400 meters, August, 1935, by F. W. Pennell (No. 1957 '4). 

Also, Sierra Charuco, Sonora, H. S. Gentry 2310 (F). 

This species is most nearly related to the Costa Rican P. pediculata. 

Both are glabrous and have narrow stipules, and glands borne 

near the base of the petiole. From that species P. quercetorum is 

distinguished by its broader bracts, which usually bear a few teeth, 

larger petiolar glands, and broadly ovate, not linear-oblong, petals. 

25. Passiflora sicyoides Schlecht. & Cham. Linnaea 5: 88. 1830. 

Passiflora odora Link & Otto, Icon. PI. Rar. 93. pi. 47. 1831. 

Decaloba sicyoides M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 163. 1846. 

Stem slender, hispidulous or glabrate, slightly nodulose; stipules 

semi-ovate, cuspidate, 5 to 7 mm. long; petioles 2 to 6 cm. long, 

densely hispidulous, bearing at middle 2 subopposite, stipitate glands 

1.5 mm. long; leaves 5 to 8 cm. long, 4 to 10 cm. wide, 3-lobed (lobes 

deltoid-acuminate, mucronate), entire or obscurely denticulate near 

the cordate base, 3-nerved, thin-membranous, light green above, 

glaucous beneath, minutely hispidulous on both surfaces; peduncles


solitary or in pairs, slender, half as long as the petioles; bracts setaceous, 

3 mm. long; flowers 3 to 4 cm. wide; calyx tube hispidulous 

without; sepals oblong-lanceolate, 1.2 to 2 cm. long, 0.6 to 1 cm. wide, 

acute, sparingly hispidulous; petals ovate-lanceolate, 0.5 to 1.2 cm. 

long; corona filaments in a single series, 7 to 8 mm. long, narrowly 

linear, white, with 4 or 5 transverse bands of purple; operculum membranous, 

plicate, purple, incurved, the margin minutely serrulate; 

nectar ring annular; limen membranous, arising midway between the 

latter and the base of the gynophore, 1 mm. long, the margin strongly 

incurved, crenulate; ovarj^ ovoid, stipitate, 

glabrous; fruit obovoid, 

tapering to a stipe 2.2 cm. long, glabrous; seeds obcordate, abruptly 

acute at the base, 5 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, 2 mm. thick, coarsely 

reticulate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Jalapa, Mexico. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Link & Otto, Icon. PI. Rar. pi. 47; Lemaire, Jard. 

Fleuriste 3: Misc. 46. 1853; Paxton, Fl. Card. 3: 24. 

DISTRIBUTION: Central and southern Mexico. 

MEXICO: Hahn in 1865-1866 (P). Tepic: Between Tepic and 

Santiago, 1,000 meters, Mexia 624 (N). 

Hidalgo: Trinidad, Pringle 

13427 (N), 13684 (G). Veracruz: Jalapa, Schiede & Deppe (B, type, 

also type of P. odora) ; Barnes, Chamberlain & Land 54 (F) F. 

; 

W. 

Johnson in 1906 (N); Purpus 6233 (Cal). Oaxaca: Ghiesbreght in 

1843 (P). 

Much material has been identified as P. sicyoides that properly 

should be referred to P. exsudans, P. bryonioides, or P. Warmingii 

(the Brazilian specimen [Sello 3962] cited by Masters as P. sicyoides 

is P. Warmingii). True P. sicyoides apparently is a rather rare 

species, confined to a small area in Mexico. All the specimens here 

cited show great uniformity in foliage. The leaves are 3-lobed, 

the lobes being very acute, and the margin is entire except near the 

base. The petiolar glands are rather small for the group, and the 

ovary is conspicuously stipitate. The plants bear a striking resemblance 

to Sicyos angulatiis. 

26. Passiflora dolichocarpa Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 20: 

374. 1930. 

Stem subquadrangular, hispidulous; stipules semi-ovate, 6 to 

7 mm. long, 2 to 3 mm. wide, finely hispidulous, especially at margin; 

petioles about 2 cm. long, slender, b.iglandular below middle, the 

glands clavate, about 1.5 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, sessile; leaves subhastate, 

6 to 10 cm. long, 4.5 to 7 cm. wide (middle lobe lanceolate,


acuminate, 3.5 to 4 cm. wide at base, the basal lobes reduced, shortacuminate), 

sinuate-dentate, cordulate, membranous, finely hispidulous 

on both surfaces; peduncles in pairs, 3.5 to 4 cm. long, slender, 

articulate near apex; bracts ovate-lanceolate in general outline, 

4 to 5 mm. long, 3 to 4 mm. wide, oblique at base, sessile, irregularly 

lobed, hispidulous, borne at upper third of peduncle; flowers about 

2.5 cm. wide; sepals oblong, 10 to 13 mm. long, 7 to 8 mm. wide, 

slightly cucullate at apex, hispidulous without, white, longitudinally 

streaked with red or purple within; petals oblong, 8 to 10 mm. long, 

3 to 4 mm. wide, obtuse, white; corona filaments in a single series, 

narrowly linear, 6 to 7 mm. long, white, banded with red or purple; 

operculum plicate, about 1.5 mm. high, the margin incurved, minutely 

denticulate; limen annular; ovary ovoid, tapering at apex, stipitate 

at base, glabrous; fruit narrowly ovoid-clavate, about 6 cm. long 

(including a stipe 1.5 cm. long), 1.5 cm. in diameter; seeds broadly 

obovate, 3 to 4 mm. long, reticulate, flattened. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Chicavac, Tecpan, Guatemala. 

type). 

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from type collection. 

GUATEMALA: Tecpan: Chicavac, 2,500 meters, Salas 584 (N, 

Although obviously related to P. sicyoides, this species bears 

conspicuous bracts, shaped much like the stipules and cleft somewhat 

as in P. adenopoda. The leaves are distinctly subhastate, proportionately 

much narrower than in the case of other species of this 

relationship. 

The fruit is unusually long and narrow for the group. 

The common name is given as "granadilla." 

27. Passiflora podadenia Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 14: 109. 

1924. 

Stem subquadrangular, sulcate, hispidulous; stipules semi-ovate, 

10 mm. long, 6 to 7 mm. wide, cuspidate at apex; petioles up to 

5 cm. long, hispid-hirsute, biglandular below middle (glands pyriform, 

1.5 mm. thick, borne on long, slender, hispidulous stalks 

6 to 7 mm. long); leaves 4 to 6 cm. long, 5 to 7 cm. wide, deeply 

3-lobed (middle lobe oblanceolate, 2 to 2.5 cm. wide, narrowed 

toward base, short-acuminate), deeply cordate at base, 5-7-nerved, 

subentire toward ends of lobes, coarsely dentate near base, hispidulous 

with pellucid hairs, dark green above, paler beneath ; peduncles 

in pairs, about 2 cm. long; bracts linear-attenuate, 4 mm. long, 0.6 

to 0.9 mm. wide, entire; flowers 3 to 3.5 cm. wide, white, spotted 

and streaked with dark purple; sepals ovate-lanceolate, about 15


mm. long, 8 mm. wide, slightly cucullate at apex; petals oblong or 

oblong-spatulate, 7 to 10 mm. long, 3 mm. wide, obtuse; corona 

filaments in a single series, narrowly linear, 1 cm. long; operculum 

erect, 3 mm. high, white, the margin incurved, minutely denticulate; 

nectar ring annular; limen annular, thick; ovary ovoid, tapering 

at apex, stipitate, hispidulous, at length glabrate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Hacienda San Antonio, Colima, Mexico. 

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type collection. 

MEXICO: Colima: Hacienda San Antonio, 1,200 meters, Reko 

4839 (N, type). 

The long, slender stalks of the glands at once distinguish this 

species from its nearest relatives of this section. The shape of the 

leaves and the general aspect of the plant suggest P. bryonioides. 

Passiflora adenopoda likewise has long-stalked glands, but the 

lacerate bracts, differently shaped leaves, and larger flowers at once 

prevent possibility of confusion with P. podadenia. 

28. Passiflora exsudans Zucc. Abh. Akad. Wiss. Miinchen 2: 342. 

1837. 

Passiflora hispidula Knowles & Westcott, Fl. Cab. 126. 1837. 

Decaloba exsudans M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 162. 1846. 

Passiflora serrata L. sensu Sesse* & Moc. PI. Nov. Hisp. 156. 

1887, in part. Not P. serrata L. 

Passiflora eslavensis Ramirez, Informe Secret. Foment. 1895: 

35. 1895. 

Plant hispidulous throughout; stem angulate, more or less flattened; 

stipules semi-ovate, 6 to 10 mm. long, cuspidate; petioles 

1 to 3 cm. long, bearing below the middle 2 orbicular, stipitate 

glands nearly 2 mm. in diameter, the stipe short and stout; leaves 

3 to 7 cm. long, 4 to 11 cm. wide, deeply 3-5-lobed (lobes narrowly 

ovate to ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute), sinuate-dentate at 

the cordate base, otherwise nearly entire, membranous, hispidulous 

on both surfaces; peduncles solitary or in pairs, 0.5 to 1.5 cm. long; 

bracts filiform, 3 to 4 mm. long; flowers 2.5 to 3.5 cm. wide; sepals 

ovate-lanceolate, 9 to 10 mm. long, 5 mm. wide, green and hispidulous 

without, yellowish white, streaked with red, and glabrous within; 

petals triangular-ovate, 6 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, hyaline; corona 

filaments in a single series, narrowly liguliform, 6 to 7 mm. long, 

white, banded with purple; operculum membranous, closely plicate, 

the margin crenate, inflexed; limen annular, thick; ovary subglobose


or ovoid, more or less tapering at base, glabrous; fruit globose or 

globose-ovoid, 2 to 3 cm. in diameter, the stipe about 1 cm. long; 

seeds obcordate, nearly terete, 5 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, 3 mm. thick, 

each face covered with about 20 relatively large depressions. 


DISTRIBUTION: Central and southern Mexico, 1,700 to 3,000 

meters altitude. Also in central Nuevo Leon, in northeastern Mexico. 

MEXICO: Zuccarini (B, type, V); Sesse & Mocino 4473 (Ma), 

4476 (Ma), 4477, in part (Ma, type of "P. serrata" Sess< & Moc.); 

Karwinski (Brux); Schnitz 497 (V). Nuevo Leon: Galeana, Sierra 

Madre Oriental, Pennell 17093 (N). San Luis Potosi: Parry & 

Palmer 259, in part (Bo, F, G, Ph, Y). San Luis Potosi, Schaffner 

109, in part (G), 454 (B, Y). Alvarez, Palmer 218 (N). Jalisco: 

Sierra Madre, near Bolanos, Rose 2965 (N). Hidalgo: Zimapan, 

Coulter 62 (G, K), 63 (G, K). Puebla: Esperanza, Purpus 956 (B), 

2500 (B, Cal, Gen, P). Morelos: Cuernavaca, Pringle in 1904 (Cop). 

Mexico: Hacienda de Eslava, Ajusco, Altamirano in 1895 (F, N, 

type of P. eslavensis); Pringle 9625 (G). Tequesquipan, Hinton 

819 (K). Comunidad, Hinton 3848 (K), 4889 (K). Tlaxcala: 

Tlaxcala, Arsene in 1908 (N). Michoacan: Patzcuaro, Pringle 

5278 (G). Morelia, Arsene 5962 (Mo, N). Oaxaca: Sierra de San 

Felipe, Pringle 5872 (G, N); Conzatti & Gonzales 235 (G, N). San 

Felipe del Agua, Conzatti 584 (N). Tanetze, Galeotti 3666 (Brux, P). 

The original description of P. exsudans is very complete and 

affords no basis for Masters' treatment of the species as a synonym 

of P. bryonioides. 

Several of the specimens cited above were distributed as P. bryonioides 

and P. sicyoides. They all agree, however, excellently with 

the type specimen at Berlin. 

As in the case of many species of this 

The seeds are more coarsely 

group, the leaves are slightly variable. 

reticulate than those of P. bryonioides, but less so than in 

P. Warmingii. 

This is undoubtedly the plant described in the same year as 

P. hispidula, the identity of which has been in doubt because in 

the original description no mention was made of foliage characters. 

29. Passiflora truncata Regel, Ann. Sci. Nat. IV. Bot. 12: 

378. 1859; Gartenflora 8: 356. pi. 276. Dec., 1859. 

Passiflora Lawsoniana Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 580. 

1872.


Stem sub triangular, finely pilosulous or puberulent; stipules 

linear-setaceous, soon deciduous; petioles 8 to 15 mm. long, bearing 

at or below middle a pair of sessile, saucer-shaped glands about 

1 mm. in diameter; leaves 2 to 5 cm. long (along midnerve), 4 to 

8 cm. wide, truncate at apex, or obsoletely 2-3-lobed, rounded at 

base, 3-nerved, ocellate, membranous, glabrescent above, minutely 

but densely pilosulous beneath; peduncles in pairs, 1 to 1.5 cm. 

long, very slender; bracts setaceous, deciduous; flowers 2 to 3.5 cm. 

wide; sepals oblong, about 1 cm. long, 3 to 4 mm. wide, obtusish; 

petals 3 to 5 mm. long, 2 to 3 mm. wide; corona filaments in 2 series, 

the outer liguliform, subequal to the petals, radiate, the inner filiform, 

3 to 4 mm. long, capitate, erect; operculum plicate; ovary 

subglobose, cano-puberulent. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Southern Brazil. 

ILLUSTRATION: Gartenflora 8: pi. 276. 

DISTRIBUTION: Southeastern Brazil. 

BRAZIL: Rio de Janeiro: Riedel & Luschnath 1108 (type collection; 

N). Corcovado, Mosen 2504 (S); Schenck in 1886 (B). Santa 

Catharina: F. Muller 179 (K, type of P. Lawsoniana). 

The leaves of this species are shaped much like those of certain 

forms of P. Pohlii, but the presence of glands on the petioles shows 

that the two are not at all closely related. Although P. truncate, 

apparently is rare and little known, fortunately an excellent drawing 

accompanied Regel's description. 

Masters described P. Lawsoniana as apetalous and cited three 

collections, a Luschnath specimen, Muller 179, and a Riedel specimen, 

with indication that he had seen only the Muller collection. 

This, which must be considered the type, is in the Kew Herbarium. 

It bears small, withered petals, and though the flowers are slightly 

smaller than those shown in Regel's drawing of P. truncata, no other 

differences are discernible. Doubtless the Luschnath and Riedel 

collections cited as P. Lawsoniana actually were a part of the type 

material of P. truncata. 

30. Passiflora exoperculata Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 

556. 1872. 

Stem subquadrangulate, densely pilosulous to glabrous; stipules 

setaceous, 4 to 5 mm. long; petioles up to 1.5 cm. long, biglandular 

at middle, the glands sessile, less than 1 mm. in diameter; leaves 

transversely ovate, 1.5 to 3.5 cm. long, 5 to 7 cm. wide, 3-lobed


(lateral lobes widely divergent, lanceolate, obtuse or acutish, occasionally 

1-lobed on lower side, the middle lobe variable, broadly 

deltoid and acute to triangular-ovate and rounded), cordate or 

truncate at base, 3-nerved, closely reticulate-veined, coriaceous, 

above glabrous, or puberulent on the nerves and veins, beneath 

glaucescent, sparsely puberulent to densely pilosulous; peduncles in 

pairs, up to 2.5 cm. long, articulate at middle; bracts setaceous, 

scattered; flowers 1.5 to 2.5 cm. wide, greenish white; sepals ovatelanceolate, 

0.8 to 1.5 cm. long, 3 to 5 mm. wide, obtuse; petals linear, 

6 to 9 mm. long, 2 to 3 mm. wide, obtuse; corona filaments in 2 

series, white, the outer filiform, 3 to 4 mm. long, the inner 2 to 3 mm. 

long, capitellate; ovary globose, glabrous; fruit globose. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Sorata, Bolivia. 


Bolivia. 

in western 

BOLIVIA: La Paz: Sorata, 2,700 to 3,000 meters, Mandon 611 

(BM, Bo, G, Gen, K, type, P, S, Y). 

The structure of the floral parts and the shape and texture of the 

leaves of this and the following species are more characteristic of 

the section Decaloba than of P. bryonioides and its relatives. The 

petiolar glands and the sculpturing of the seeds make necessary their 

placement here, however. 

31. Passiflora Lobbii Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 553. 

1872. 

Passiflora obtusiloba var. glandulifera Harms, Repert. Sp. Nov. 

19: 25. 1923. 

Stem subquadrangular, striate, finely pilosulous or glabrous; 

stipules subulate-setaceous, 3 to 4 mm. long; petioles up to 1.5 cm. 

long, biglandular near base, the glands saucer-shaped, minute, 

sessile; leaves 2 to 3 cm. long, 4.5 to 8 cm. wide, 3-lobed one-third to 

one-half their length (lobes lance-ovate, subequal, 1.5 to 2 cm. wide, 

obtuse, mucronulate), shallowly cordate at base, entire at margin, 

3-nerved, reticulate-veined, coriaceous, minutely pilosulous on nerves 

above or glabrescent, lustrous above, dull and yellowish green 

beneath; peduncles solitary or in pairs, slender, up to 1.5 cm. long, 

sparingly pilosulous; bracts setaceous, 2 to 2.5 mm. long; flowers 

1.5 to 2 cm. wide; sepals oblong-lanceolate, 7 to 9 mm. long, 3 to 

3.5 mm. wide, acutish, purple without, grass-green within; petals 

linear-oblong, 4 to 5 mm. long, 2 to 2.5 mm. wide, obtuse, grass-green; 

corona filaments in 3 series, those of the outermost subequal to


petals, filiform, purple in lower half, light green in upper half, those 

of the succeeding series pink or purple, capitellate, the tip green; 

operculum membranous, plicate, inflexed, minutely fimbrillate; 

limen annular, close to operculum; ovary globose, glabrous; fruit 

globose, about 1.5 cm. in diameter; seeds broadly obovoid, 5 mm. 

long, 3.5 mm. wide, closely reticulate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: "Columbia," but almost certainly Peru. 

(Many 

well known Peruvian plants have been reported from Colombia 

solely on the basis of sheets in the Kew Herbarium bearing the 

inscription "Lobb, Columbia." It is certain that many of these 

specimens, including the one under consideration, were actually 

collected in Peru. See Killip: The Botanical Collections of William 

Lobb in Colombia, Smiths. Misc. Coll. 87: 1-13. 1932.) 

DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of central Peru, between 2,700 and 

3,200 meters altitude. 

PERU: Lobb (K, type); Gay in 1839-1840 (P); MacLean (K); 

Mathews (Gen). Caururu, Savatier 1436 (K). Ancash: Between 

Samanco and Caraz, Weberbauer 3165 (B, type of P. obtusiloba var. 

glandulifera, Gen). Huanuco: Ambo, Macbride & Featherstone 2415 

(F, N). Ayacucho: Pampalca, between Huanta and Rio Apurimac, 

Killip & Smith 28241 (F, N, Y). Huanta, Killip & Smith 23322 (N). 

This species has much the general appearance of P. obtusiloba. 

The presence of petiolar glands in P. Lobbii and their absence in 

P. obtusiloba, apparently a fundamental distinction in Plectostemma, 

show that the two actually are widely separated. Harms called 

attention to the presence of petiolar glands on a Weberbauer specimen 

of "P. obtusiloba" at Berlin, and gave to it the varietal name 

glandulifera. Masters' species P. Lobbii has not been associated 

heretofore with Peruvian plants, due largely to the fact of its being 

recorded as from "Columbia." 

Section 2. 

Mayapathanthus 

32. Passiflora obovata Killip, Carnegie Inst. Wash. Publ. 461: 

308. pi. 1. 1936. 

Plant glabrous throughout; stem subangular, dark; stipules soon 

deciduous; petioles about 2 cm. long, biglandular just above middle, 

the glands oblong, scarlike, about 1 mm. long; leaves obovate or 

oblong-obovate, 9 to 12 cm. long, 5 to 6.5 cm. wide, subabruptly 

acuminate at apex, slightly narrowed at base, entire, obscurely 

quintuplinerved (lateral nerves soon anastomosing, the midnerve 

prominent, the venation not elevated), subcoriaceous, lustrous, dark


green; peduncles in pairs, 2.5 to 3 cm. long, slender, articulate above 

middle; bracts minute, triangular-ovate, about 0.7 mm. long, acute, 

closely appressed to the peduncle and borne near its base; flowers 

about 4 cm. wide, greenish white; calyx patelliform; sepals oblong, 

1.5 cm. long, 0.8 cm. wide, obtuse; petals linear-oblong, about 

1.3 cm. long, 0.4 cm. wide; corona filaments in 2 series, the outer 

subequal to the petals, ligulate, filiform toward apex, the inner 

capillary, about 2 mm. long, minutely capitellate; operculum 

membranous, 4 mm. high, closely plicate, slightly incurved; limen 

annular, low; ovary globose, the young ovules apparently reticulate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: British Honduras. 

ILLUSTRATION: Carnegie Inst. Wash. Publ. 461: pi. 1. 

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type material. 

BRITISH HONDURAS: "Camp 35," British Honduras Geological 

Survey, 850 meters, Schipp 713 (F, type). 

This species occupies an anomalous position in the subgenus 

Plectostemma, and apparently is best treated as representing a monotypic 

section. The flowers are characteristic of this subgenus, but 

the scarlike glands, similar to those of Astrophea and of some species 

in Granadilla, the nervation of the leaves, and the very small bracts, 

closely appressed to the peduncle near its base, separate it from all 

other species of Plectostemma. 

Section 3. Decaloba 

Series 1. Auriculatae 

33. Passiflora auriculata HBK. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 131. 1817. 

Passiflora appendiculata G. F. W. Mey. Prim. Fl. Esseq. 223. 

1818. 

Passiflora cyathophora Desv. in Hamilt. Prodr. 48. 1825. 

Passiflora Rohrii DC. Prodr. 3: 326. 1828. 

Passiflora cinerea Poepp. & Endl. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 57. pi. 177. 

1838. 

Cieca auriculata M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 143. 1846. 

Cieca appendiculata M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 145. 1846. 

Cieca cinerea M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 148. 1846. 

Decaloba Rohrii M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 156. 1846. 

Decaloba cyathophora M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 157. 1846. 

Passiflora Kegeliana Garcke, Linnaea 22: 60. 1849. 

Passiflora torta Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 548. 1872.


Passiflora cayaponioides Rusby, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Card. 8: 107. 

1912. 

Passiflora cryptopetala Hoehne, Comm. Linh. Telegr. Matto 

Grosso Ann. 5: Bot. pt. 5: 76. pi. 112. 1915. 

Stem angulate, glabrous, puberulent, or finely pilosulous; 

stipules filiform, 2 to 4 mm. long, soon deciduous; petioles 0.5 to 2 

cm. long, puberulent, bearing near base 2 auriculate appendages 

about 2 mm. wide; leaves lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate, or lanceoblong 

in general outline, 5 to 15 cm. long, 2 to 10 cm. wide, 

undulately or angulately 3-lobed, rarely unlobed, acuminate, subcordate 

or rounded at base, 3-5-nerved (rarely 1-nerved), subcoriaceous, 

glabrous and lustrous above, cinereous-pubescent, glabrate, 

dull or lustrous beneath; peduncles in pairs, 0.5 to 1 cm. long; bracts 

setaceous, about 2 mm. long, deciduous; flowers 2 to 2.5 cm. wide; 

sepals narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 10 to 15 mm. long, 1 to 2 mm. wide, 

acute, yellowish green or pale greenish; petals linear, 5 to 7 mm. long, 

0.5 mm. wide, white; corona filaments in 2 series, the outer filiform, 

about 1 cm. long, caudate, yellowish green, purple at base, the inner 

barely 3 mm. long, capitellate, white; operculum membranous, 

closely plicate, incurved, white; limen annular, fleshy, whitish; 

gynophore often swollen at base; ovary ovoid, pilosulous; fruit globose, 

1 to 1.5 cm. in diameter, densely or sparingly pilosulous, pale 

yellow; seeds obovate, 5 mm. long, 3 mm. wide, flattened, the testa 

bearing 6 to 10 undulating ridges. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Maypure Cataracts, Orinoco River, Venezuela. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Poepp. & Endl. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: pi. 177; 

Comm. Linh. Telegr. Matto Grosso Ann. 5: Bot. pt. 5: pi. 112. 

DISTRIBUTION: Nicaragua, southeastward to the Guianas and 

the Amazon Basin of Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil; common in the 

forests of the tropical zone, ascending to 1,200 meters altitude. 

NICARAGUA: R. Tate 115 (BM, K), 116 (K), 117 (K). 

COSTA RICA: Talamanca, Pittier 8715 (Bo, Brux, N). Shirores, 

Tonduz 9326 (Bo, Brux, N, V). Las Vueltas, Tonduz 13002 (BM, 

Bo, N). Rio Hondo, Pittier 16919 (K). 

PANAMA: Cana, R. S. Williams 964 (Y). Canal Zone: Gatun, 

Hayes 2 (G, N), 463 (Y). Chagres, Fendler 122 (G, K, N). Agua 

Clara, Stevens 595* (N). Fort Sherman, Standley 30949 (N). 

TRINIDAD: Broadway 6099 (K); Fendler 380 (BM); Trinidad 

Herb. 642 (T). Sangre Grande, Trinidad Herb. 11861 (K, T). Piaco,


Button & Button 2467 (G, N, Y); Trinidad Herb. 5293 (T), 9025 (T). 

Arima, Britton & Britton 2898 (G, N, Y). Caroni River, Britton & 

Hazen 732 (G, N, Y). Mora, Broadway 6725 (K, Mo). 

FRENCH GUIANA: Richard (P, type of P. cyathophora) ; 

Le Blonde 

29 (Gen); Melinon 65 (B); Perrottet in 1821 (Gen, P); Leprieur in 

1839 (Gen, P). Karouany, Sagot 385 (K, Ut). Cayenne, Rohr 

(BM, type of P. Rohrii); Patris (Gen). 

SURINAM: Hostmann & Kappler (S); Landre 620, in part (Leid). 

Mariepaston, Kegel 1320 (Gt, type of P. Kegeliana). Republiek, 

Kuyper 3 (B, Ut). Scotelweg, Archer 2649 (N). Zandrij I, Archer 

2785 (N). 

BRITISH GUIANA: Schomburgk 75 (B), 97 (K, P); Appun 870 (K); 

Jenman 7585 (B). Berbice River, Schomburgk 289 (Gen, K, V). 

Mt. Roraima, Schomburgk 960 (B). Potaro River, Jenman 835 (K). 

Bartica, Jenman 4739 (K). Lake Itooribisci, Jenman 5133 (K). 

Madoony Creek, Jenman 4972 (Y). Demerara River, Persaud 

185 (F); Jenman 6271 (EG); De la Cruz 2632 (N, Y). Georgetown, 

Hitchcock 16914 (G, N, Y). Kartabo, Hitchcock 17210 (N). Upper 

Mazaruni River, De la Cruz 2844 (N, Y). Waini River, De la Cruz 

3742 (N). Wanama River, De la Cruz 3879 (EG, G, N, Y). 

VENEZUELA: Amazonas: Maypure Cataracts, Humboldt & 

Bonpland (type, BW). 

COLOMBIA: Santander: Puerto Wilches, Killip & Smith 14811 

(A, G, N, Y). Boyaca: El Humbo, Lawrance 551 (S). Cundinamarca: 

Cundai, Triana 2932 (BM, P). Putumayo: Umbria, 

King 1681 (N). El Valle: Buenaventura, Killip 11754 (N). Dagua, 

Perez 3022 (N). Narino: Tumaco, Barclay 866 (BM). (This sheet 

bears the data "Tumaco, Mexico," but probably the southwestern 

seaport of Colombia is the place of collection. Barclay collected in 

both Mexico and along the Pacific coast of Colombia. This would be 

the only record of this species in Mexico.) 

ECUADOR: Manabi: El Recreo, Eggers 15101 (B, F). Guayas: 

Balao, Eggers 14530 (N). Leon: Naranjal, Lehmann in 1890 (K). 

Chimborazo: Spruce 6142 (BM, K, V). Oro: Zaruma, Lehmann 

8017 (B, G, K, N). 

PERU: San Martin :Tarapoto, Ule9644 (B, K). Loreto: Mainas, 

Poeppig 1 790 (B, Gen, V, type of P. cinerea) , 

2302 (Bo) 

. 

Yurimaguas, 

Killip & Smith 27589 (N, Y), 28311 (F, N, Y), 29035 (N, Y); L. 

Williams 4226 (F), 7873 (F, Gen). Iquitos, King 141 (F, N, Y);


Mexia 6388 (K, N). Rio Maranon, Tessmann 4933 (Gen, S). 

Balsapuerto, King 2933 (Gen, N). Junin: Puerto Yessup, Killip & 

Smith 26886 (F, N, Y). 

BOLIVIA: Beni: Cobija, Rio Acre, Ule 9645 (B, Go, K, N, Ut). 

Rurrenabaque, Cardenas (Mulford Biol. Expl. 1777; Y). La Paz: 

Tumupasa, R. S. Williams 432 (BM, Y, type of P. cayaponioides). 

BRAZIL: Amazonas: Sao Gabriel de Cachoeira, Spruce 2222 (K). 

Manaos, Killip & Smith 30149 (N, Y). Santa Maria de Marmettos, 

Rio Madeira, Ule 6100 (B, Go). Near Roraima, Ule 8665 (B, Go, 

K, Ut). Sao Paulo de Olivenca, Krwfco^f 8566 (Y). Para: Sao Carlos, 

Spruce 2962 (K, P). Para, Killip & Smith 30273 (N, Y) ; Dahlgren & 

Sella 632 (N). Santarem, Spruce 9114 (K, type of P. torta, P). 

The position in the subgenus Plectostemma which this and the 

following species should occupy is not clear. Both have conspicuous 

auricular appendages near the base of the petioles, but the seeds are 

sulcate, not reticulate as in all other species of Plectostemma with 

petiolar glands. Perhaps these appendages are not true petiolar 

glands, although they have the same function. Besides the sculpturing 

of the seeds, there are other minor details which indicate its 

relationship with species of the section Decaloba, rather than with 

those of Cieca. 

In all the Peruvian material above cited, the leaves are dull, 

glaucous, and cinereous-pubescent beneath, and represent the form 

described as P. cinerea, and the plant from central Brazil described as 

P. cryptopetala appears also to represent this variant. In the Bolivian 

specimens heretofore referred to P. cayaponioides, they are lustrous 

and concolorous, as in the case of material from northern South 

America and Central America. 

In specimens from Trinidad and Para the leaves are sometimes 

quite entire, and two of the basal nerves are so much reduced that 

the leaf is strictly 1-nerved. Such leaves are sometimes found on 

the same plant with leaves of typical form, so that the maintenance 

of P. torta, based solely upon this variation, is impossible. 

LOCAL NAME: "Sasoboro" (Surinam). 

34. Passiflora ferruginea Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 556. 

1872. 

Stem angulate, rufo-tomentose; stipules narrowly linear, 6 to 10 

mm. long; petioles 1 to 5 cm. long, bearing near middle 2 auriculiform 

appendages 2 to 3 mm. wide; leaves broadly ovate in general outline,


8 to 20 cm. long, 5 to 12 cm. wide, subangulately 3-lobed (lateral 

lobes often much reduced), rounded at apex, rounded or cordulate 

at base, sinuate-dentate or sinuate-denticulate, 3-5-nerved, membranous 

or subcoriaceous, densely hirsutulous above, rufo-tomentose 

beneath; peduncles solitary or in pairs; bracts setaceous, 1 to 2 mm. 

long; flowers 2.5 to 3 cm. wide; sepals narrowly lanceolate, 1 to 1.5 

cm. long, about 3 mm. wide, short-corniculate, greenish; petals narrowly 

linear, about 7 mm. long and 1 mm. wide, greenish; corona 

filaments in 2 series, the outer narrowly linear in lower half, filiform 

in upper, about 1 cm. long, yellow and violet, the inner filiform, 2 to 

2.5 mm. long, capitellate; operculum closely plicate, about 1 mm. 

high, incurved; limen annular, fleshy, densely tomentose; ovary 

ovoid, sericeo-villous; fruit broadly ovoid, about 3.5 cm. long, 2.5 

to 3 cm. wide, flattened at ends, yellowish, at length purplish; seeds 

broadly obcordate, 3 to 5 mm. long, 2.5 to 3 mm. wide, transversely 

about 5-grooved. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Tarapoto, Peru. 

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the general vicinity of the type 

locality, in northern Peru. 

PERU: San Martin: Tarapoto, Spruce 4901 (K, type). Juanjui, 

Alto Rio Huallaga, 400 to 800 meters, King 4159 (N), 4299 (N). 

Until recently collected by Mr. Klug, this species had been known 

only from a single fruiting specimen, the type in the Kew Herbarium. 

Klug's material is in flower, and from it the description of the floral 

parts has been derived. The species is nearest related to P. auriculata, 

having the same curious appendages on the petioles and the 

same general sculpturing of the seeds. 

Series 2. 

Heterophyllae 

35. Passiflora Berteriana Balb. ex DC. Prodr. 3: 325. 1828. 

Cieca Berteriana M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 145. 1846. 

Passiflora coarctata Urban & Ekman, Arkiv Bot. 23A, No. 5: 

89. pi. 5. 1930. 

Plant glabrous throughout; stem subangular; stipules falcatesetaceous, 

up to 4 mm. long; petioles 5 mm. long or less, 

glandless; 

leaves up to 1.5 cm. long, 2 cm. wide, subsessile or short-petiolate, 

ternately 3-parted (leaflets ovate or obovate, 1 to 2 cm. long, 0.5 to 1 

cm. wide, tapering to a distinct petiolule, usually 1-3-lobed or -cleft, 

the ultimate segments rounded or truncate at apex, minutely 

cuspidate), reticulate-veined, the nerves and veins prominent beneath; 

peduncles solitary or in pairs, up to 1 cm. long, very slender;


bracts 3, narrowly linear, 2.5 mm. long, entire or 3-cleft; flowers 1 to 

1.5 cm. wide; sepals linear-oblong, 7 to 8 mm. long, 1 to 2 mm. wide, 

obtuse; petals ovate, about 3 mm. long, obtuse; corona filaments in 

a single series, narrowly liguliform, 2 to 3 mm. long; operculum membranous, 

plicate, incurved; limen annular; ovary globose, glabrous, 

about 7 mm. in diameter; seeds obovate, about 2.5 mm. long, 1.5 

mm. wide, transversely 6-sulcate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: "Santo Domingo." 

ILLUSTRATION: Arkiv Bot. 23A, No. 5: pi. 5. 

DISTRIBUTION: Eastern Cuba and Hispaniola. 

CUBA: Wright 2604 (B, Bo, G, Gen). 

HAITI: Petit-Paradis, Ekman H4542 (B, type of P. coarctata, 

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Bertero (B, Gen, type). 

This species was described as apetalous, but Dr. Harms has 

kindly dissected for me a flower of the type collection and reports 

that it has very evident petals. Passiflora Berteriana is quite unlike 

any other species, although it has the general habit of P. heterophylla. 

36. Passiflora heterophylla Lam. Encycl. 3: 41. 1789. 

Plant finely hirsutulous throughout; stem subangulate, slender; 

stipules setaceous, 3 to 4 mm. long; petioles up to 1.5 cm. long, 

glandless; leaves 3 to 7 cm. long, 4 to 9 cm. wide, palmately lobed 

nearly to base or the lower occasionally entire and linear or oblong 

(lobes shallowly or deeply lobulate, the ultimate ones rounded or 

abruptly acute at apex), cordate at base, membranous or subcoriaceous, 

hispidulous above, hirsutulous on nerves and veins beneath; 

peduncles up to 3.5 cm. long; bracts filiform, borne near middle of 

peduncle, 3 to 4 mm. long; flowers 1.5 to 3 cm. wide; sepals oblonglanceolate, 

8 to 10 mm. long, about 3 mm. wide, obtuse, aristate 

dorsally below apex; petals linear-oblong, 3.5 to 5 mm. long, 1 to 

2.5 mm. wide; corona filaments in 2 series, the outer narrowly liguliform, 

5 to 6 mm. long, reflexed, green, violet at base, the inner filiform, 

1.5 to 2 mm. long, capitellate; operculum membranous, plicate, 

incurved, minutely fimbrillate, white below, pinkish above; limen 

annular; ovary subglobose, glabrous. 

TYPE LOCALITY: "St. Domingue." 

ILLUSTRATION: Plum. PI. Amer. ed. Burm. pi. 139, f. 1. 

DISTRIBUTION: Western Cuba and Haiti. 

CUBA: Pinar del Rio: Sierra Guacamayas, Ekman 17983 (B, 

HS, HV, N, S, Y). 

N).


HAITI: Collector doubtful (P, type); Ehrenberg 69 (B). Massif 

des Matheux, 400 meters, Ekman H2132 (B, N, S). 

Ekman 2132 and 17983 and Ehrenberg 69 are in fine condition 

and permit a detailed description of this hitherto little known species. 

The leaves of a single plant sometimes show great variation; in 

Plumier's plate they are shown as sinuately 5-lobed, 3-lobed, and 

entire. 

Series 3. Sexflorae 

37. Passiflora quadriflora Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 17: 

424. 1927. 

Plant glabrous throughout; stem angular, strongly compressed, 

striate, scabrous; stipules setaceous, about 1 cm. long; petioles 7 to 

9 mm. long, tortuous, glandless; leaves narrowly lanceolate, 5 to 8 

cm. long, 1.5 to 2 cm. wide, unlobed, acute, mucronulate, rounded 

or subcuneate at base, entire, 3-nerved (nerves nearly parallel, 

conspicuous), reticulate- veined, ocellate between lateral nerves and 

midnerve, coriaceous or subcoriaceous; peduncles in pairs, 2-flowered, 

the main portion and the branches nearly equal, each about 1 cm. 

long; bracts setaceous, 3 to 5 mm. long, 

scattered; flowers rotatecampanulate, 

about 5 cm. wide, greenish (?); sepals lanceolate, about 

2 cm. long, 0.5 cm. wide at base, acute; petals linear-lanceolate, 5 to 

6 mm. long, 1 to 1.2 mm. wide, obtuse, white, membranous; corona 

filaments in 2 series, the outer filiform, 5 to 6 mm. long, the inner 

capillary, 2 mm. long; operculum membranous, 2 mm. long, slightly 

plicate, finely fimbriate one-third its length; nectar ring annular; 

limen shallowly saucer-shaped, 0.5 mm. high; ovary globose; styles 

very slender, about 8 mm. long; fruit globose-ovoid, subtrigonous, 

averaging 2.3 cm. long, 2.2 cm. in diameter. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Villcabamba, Rio Chinchao, Peru. 

DISTRIBUTION: Eastern slopes of the Andes in northern and 

central Peru. 

PERU: San Martin: Tarapoto, Ule 6464 (B, Gen, Go); L. Williams 

5514 (F). Huanuco: Rio Chinchao, 1,900 meters, Macbride 

5189 (F, type, N). 

This species presents several unusual characters. The peduncles 

are 2-flowered, but they do not terminate in a tendril as in the case 

of P. cirrhiflora, P. tryphostemmatoides, and P. gracillima. The 

leaves are unlobed, an unusual form in the subgenus Plectostemma, 

to which P. quadrifolia clearly belongs. The operculum is more 

deeply fimbriate than in most species of this subgenus.


38. Passiflora sexflora Juss. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 6: 110. pi. 37, 

f. 2. 1805. 

Passiflora pannosa J. E. Sm. in Rees, Cycl. 20: Passiflora No. 28. 

1819. 

Passiflora capsularis var. geminifolia DC. Prodr. 3: 325. 1828 

(error for geminiflora). 

Meioperis pannosa Raf. Fl. Tellur. 4: 103. 1838. 

Cieca pannosa M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 148. 1846. 

Decaloba sexflora M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 

2: 164. 1846. 

Passiflora floribunda Lemaire, Fl. des Serres 4: 335b. 1848. 

Passiflora triflora Macf. Fl. Jamaica 2: 149. 1850. 

Passiflora capsularis var. geminiflora DC. ex Mast, in Mart. 

Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1:590. 1872. 

Passiflora miraflorensis Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 14: 109. 

1924. 

Passiflora isotriloba Cuf. Archivio Bot. 9: 196. 1933. 

Stem densely hirsute, subangular; stipules linear-subulate, about 

5 mm. long; petioles hirsute, 2.5 to 3 cm. long, glandless; leaves 

3 to 8 cm. along midnerve, 5 to 12 cm. along lateral nerves, 5 to 11 

cm. wide, 3-lobed (middle lobe usually shorter than, or occasionally 

as long as the lateral lobes), rounded or subcordate at base, entire, 

membranous, rarely subcoriaceous, hirsutulous and usually setulose 

above, softly villous or tomentose beneath ; peduncles in pairs, 2-10- 

flowered, rarely 1-flowered; bracts and bractlets linear-lanceolate, 

3 to 5 mm. long, irregularly few-cleft or subentire; flowers 1.5 to 3 

cm. wide; sepals lanceolate, 8 to 15 mm. long, 2 to 4 mm. wide, acute, 

densely hirsute without, glabrous within, white; petals linear, 

8 to 

10 mm. long, 1 to 1.5 mm. wide, obtuse; corona filaments in 2 series, 

the outer as long as the petals, white at apex, purple below, those of 

the inner series half as long as the outer, purple throughout, capitate; 

operculum membranous, plicate, lavender, the apex incurved; limen 

annular; ovary globose, densely brown-pubescent; fruit globose or 

depressed-globose, 6 to 10 mm. in diameter, densely pubescent; 

seeds obovate, slightly flattened, black, coriaceous, transversely 

6-7-sulcate, the ridges rugulose. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Dominican Republic. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 6: pi. 37, f. 2; Engl. & 

Prantl, Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 21: 499. /. 230E, F; Mutis, Icon. PI. Ined. 

26: pi. 12.


DISTRIBUTION: Southern Florida and Greater Antilles, and on the 

continent from southern Mexico to Panama; also in the Central 

Cordillera of Colombia. 

FLORIDA: Dade Co.: Sykes Hammock, Small & Mosier 5484 

(S, Y) ; 

J. A. Harris C17358 (Minn). Goodburn Hammock, Smatt & 

Mosier 5920 (S). Costello and Ross Hammock, Eaton 668 (F). 

Cauldwell's Hammock, Britton 264 (F, K, Y). Cutler, Small & 

Carter in 1903 (F, N, Y). Redlands District, Moldenke 550 (Y), 

552a (Y). 

MEXICO: Sesse & Mocino 4460 (Bo, Ma), 4461, in part (Ma). 

Sierra San Pedro Nolasco, Jurgensen 796 (BM, Bo, Gen, K), 886 

(Gen). Tepic: Acaponeta, Rose in 1897 (N). Veracruz: Liebmann 

4121 (Cop), 4123 (Cop). Mirador, Liebmann 4122 (Cop); Linden 

752, in part (Gen). Orizaba, Bourgeau 3279 (G, K, P). Zacuapan, 

Purpus 2065 (BM, Cal, F, G, N, Y), 10840 (N). Cordoba, Bourgeau 

1897 (B, Bo, Brux, Gen, N, P, S); Kerber 117 (B, BM, Bo, Brux, 

Cop, Gen, K, N, P). Fenia, Purpus 10012 (N). Oaxaca: Chinantla, 

Galeotti3670 (Brux, Gen, P), 3673 (P). Chiapas: Purpus 7294 (Cal). 

GUATEMALA: Huehuetenango: Tecaltenango, Seler 3143 (B, N). 

Alta Verapaz: Finca Mocca, H. Johnson 82 (G, N); Skutch 1468 (N). 

Coban, H. Johnson 528 (N); Turckheim 686 (B, G, K, Y), 8216 (B, 

G, N), 11.614 (Y), 11.1389 (N). Tres Cruces, J. D. Smith 1624 

(K, N). Tactic, Lehmann 1419 (Bo, G, K), 1431 (Bo). Baja Verapaz: 

Purula, Turckheim 11.1723 (N). Quiche": San Miguel Uspantan, 

Heyde & Lux 3091 (N). Quezaltenango: Volcan Santa Maria, 

Kelkrman 6698 (F). 

COSTA RICA: Oersted 4150 (Cop). Cartago, Oersted 4120 (Cop); 

Standley 50868 (N). Cerros de Irazu, Reimoser 289 (V, type collection 

of P. isotriloba) ; 

Pittier (Tonduz) 13044 (Bo, K, N). Finca La Cima, 

San Jos


Sierra del Cobre, Ekman 7878 (S). 

Corojo, Ekman 5047 (S). 

Sierra Maestra, Ekman 8109 (S). 

HAITI: Jaeger 164 (B). Furcy, Leonard 4271 (BM, G, N), 4586 

(N), 4683 (N); Buck 1571 (B); Picarda 1532 (B); Cfcrn* 16&Z (B). 

Morne de la Hotte, Ekman 474 (B, S). Fonds Varettes, Leonard 

3770 (BM, N), 3965 (N, Ph), S070 (N). Marmelade, Leonard 8315 

(N). Kalacroix, Leonard 7961 (N). Goave, Ettwcw H7309 (N). 

Massif de la Selle, Bailey 204 (N). 

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Poiteau (Gen, P, type). Barahona, 

Fuertes 598 (B), 1200 (B). Constanza, Turckheim 3254 (B). Sabaneta, 

Valeur 515 (N). 

JAMAICA: Mandeville, Crawford 691 (Ph). Hollymount, Maxon 

& Killip 419 (N), 494 (F, G, N, Y), 536 (N); Mtmw iOfca? (N); 

Perkins 415 (B), 6


as having the peduncles in pairs. This evidently is also P. sexflora. 

Passiflora triflora, likewise described from a Jamaican specimen, was 

said to have glabrescent leaves, peduncles in pairs, each with three 

flowers, and bractlets awl-shaped or 3-cleft. This species was maintained 

as valid by Fawcett and Rendle in the Flora of Jamaica, 

though they also listed the name in the synonymy of P. sexflora. 

The occurrence of this plant in Colombia represents an interesting 

extension of range. Lemaire based P. floribunda upon a plant grown 

in Europe from seeds brought by Linden from New Granada, but 

as Linden also collected in Cuba and some of his plants are known 

to have been wrongly labeled, it has been thought that the New 

Granada record was erroneous. Among the unpublished Mutis 

paintings at Madrid is one which clearly depicts P. sexflora, but 

unfortunately there is no precise locality in Colombia associated 

with this plate. The plant from the Central Cordillera of Colombia, 

described by me as P. miraflorensis, I now think is indistinguishable 

from P. sexflora, though nearly all its peduncles bear but a single flower. 

In the absence of flowers or fruit, 

P. sexflora is easily confused 

with P. capsularis and P. rubra. The middle leaf lobe is usually 

much more developed than in these two. 

LOCAL NAMES: "Granada" (Mexico; Guatemala); "pasionaria de 

cerca" (Cuba). 

39. Passiflora allantophylla Mast. Bot. Gaz. 16: 7. 1891. 

Plant glabrous throughout; stem angulate, sulcate-striate, finely 

setulose; tendrils axillary; stipules setaceous, 1.5 to 2 mm. long, 

deciduous; petioles 0.5 to 1 cm. long, glandless; leaves 2 to 2.5 cm. 

long, 4 to 5 cm. wide, 2-lobed to the middle (lobes rounded, mucronulate, 

somewhat divergent), entire, rotund at base, the lower surface 

bearing 1 or 2 pairs of ocellae; peduncles slender, equaling or slightly 

exceeding the petioles, 3-flowered, the pedicels very slender, as long, 

or nearly as long, as the peduncles; bracts setaceous, deciduous; 

flowers 1 to 1.2 cm. wide, white; sepals oblong, 5 to 7 mm. long, 2 to 

2.5 mm. wide, obtuse; petals hyaline, slightly shorter than the sepals; 

corona filaments in a single series, about 2 mm. long, capitellate, 

yellow at apex, purplish at base; operculum membranous, slightly 

plicate, the margin fimbrillate, incurved; limen narrowly annular, 

fleshy; ovary subglobose, glabrous. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Santa Rosa, Baja Verapaz, Guatemala. 


Guatemala. 

in northern


GUATEMALA: Baja Verapaz: Santa Rosa, 1,500 meters, Turckheim 

(J. D. Smith 1425; K, type, N). 

This species is known only from a single collection. 

delicate plant, noteworthy for the 3-flowered peduncles. 

It is a very 

The foliage 

is suggestive of P. mexicana and P. ornithoura, though the species is 

not closely related to either. 

40. Passiflora saxicola Gontsch. Bull. Jard. Bot. Princ. U. S. S. R. 

26: 559. 1927. 

Plant glabrous throughout; stipules setaceous, 1 to 2 mm. long; 

petioles slender, up to 7 mm. long, glandless; leaves bilobed (lobes 

broadly obovate, rounded, wide-spreading, 

hence the blade transversely 

oblong), up to 1.8 cm. along midnerve and 6 cm. wide, 3- 

nerved; peduncles up to 7 mm. long, 2-3-flowered, the pedicels 

slender, 6 to 10 mm. long; bracts subulate, about 1 mm. long; flowers 

yellowish white; calyx tube broadly campanulate; sepals oblong, 

about 1.2 cm. long, 6 mm. wide, obtuse; petals oblong, about half 

as long as the sepals; corona filaments in 2 series, the outer filiform, 7 to 

8 mm. long, dilated at middle, the inner filiform, about 3 mm. long; 

operculum membranous, 2.5 mm. high, plicate above middle, 

short-denticulate; limen a thick, crispate ridge; ovary ovoid. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Near Ilheos, State of Bahia, Brazil, the type 

collected by L. Riedel (No. 789). 

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type specimen. 

This recently proposed species I know only from description. 

The author likens it to P. Maximiliana (P. misera) but notes a 

difference in the shape of the leaves, the color of the flowers, and the 

"petaloid" outer corona filaments. To the first of these differentiating 

characters I do not attach much importance, as the leaves of 

P. misera are quite variable, certain forms agreeing well with the 

above description, and the color of the flowers ranges from yellowish 

white to greenish white. The dilated outer corona filaments and, 

more especially, the compound inflorescence, not stressed by Gontscharow, 

suggest that a wholly different species is represented. In 

the present treatment this comes nearest P. allantophylla and 

P. sexflora. 

Series 4. Apetalae 

41. Passiflora apetala Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 12: 255. 

1922. 

Plant glabrous throughout; stem angulate, grooved; stipules 

setaceous, 2 to 4 mm. long; petioles 1.5 to 3 cm. long, glandless;


leaves broadly cuneate in outline, 3 to 7 cm. long, 2 to 6 cm. wide, 

bilobate (lobes subapproximate, one-half to quite as long as the undivided 

portion of blade, obtuse, mucronate), at base subrotund or 

cuneate, strongly 3-nerved, membranaceous; peduncles in pairs, 

slender, 2 cm. long; bracts setaceous, 2 to 3 mm. long, 

deciduous; 

flowers small, 1.2 to 1.8 cm. wide; sepals oblanceolate, 6 mm. long, 

2.5 mm. wide, yellowish green, inconspicuously nerved; petals none; 

corona filaments in a single series, filiform, 2.5 mm. long; operculum 

membranaceous, plicate, strongly incurved about base of gynophore; 

limen annular; ovary depressed-globose, 1 mm. in diameter, glabrous; 

fruit black, globose, 8 to 10 mm. in diameter; seeds broadly 

ovate, 2.5 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, transversely sulcate with 6 or 7 

nearly parallel ridges. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Cerro de Escazu, Costa Rica, 1,000 meters 

altitude. 

ILLUSTRATION: Gard. Chron. 4: 420. 1875. 

DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of central Costa Rica, between 1,000 

and 2,200 meters altitude; also in western Panama. 

COSTA RICA: Endres (V); Pittier 4366 (Brux, V). Viento Fresco, 

Standley & Torres 47906 (N). Cerro de Las Lajas, Heredia, Standley 

& Valeria 51417 (N). Cerro de Escazu, Pittier (or Tonduz?) 13043 

(Bo, F, K, N, type). Copey, Tonduz (or Pittier?) 11739 (B, Brux, 

F, N, V). San Jose", J. D. Smith 6530 (BM, K, N). Santa Maria 

de Dota, Standley 41607 (N), 42945 (N); Tonduz 17462 (B, G). 

Cartago, Oersted 4086 (Cop), 4140 (Cop). 

PANAMA: Chiriqui: Monte Lirio, Seibert 160 (N). 

This is the only member of Plectostemma section Decaloba 

definitely known to be without petals. The foliage is much like 

that of P. ornithoura, but the species differs not only in the absence 

of petals but in longer and narrower sepals and in much longer, 

filiform not linear filaments. 

42. Passiflora Poeppigii Mast. Trans. Linn. Soc. 27: 630. 1871; in 

Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 546. 1872. 

Poepp. & Endl. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 

Passiflora lunata Juss. sensu 

2: 58. pi. 178. 1835. Not P. lunata Juss. 

Plant glabrous throughout; stem slender, subangular, compressed; 

stipules subulate-falcate, 1.5 mm. long; petioles slender, up 

to 3 cm. long, glandless; leaves transversely oblong in general outline, 

1.5 to 5 cm. along midnerve, 2 to 6.5 cm. along lateral nerves, 3.5 to


10 cm. wide, repand-truncate at upper margin, truncate and subemarginate 

at base, membranous; peduncles solitary or in pairs, 4 to 

6 cm. long, very slender; bracts setaceous, 1 to 1.5 mm. long, borne 

near middle of peduncle; flowers 1.5 to 2 cm. wide; calyx tube campanulate; 

sepals broadly ovate, about 1.5 cm. long and 1 cm. wide, 

subacute, white; petals none(?); corona filaments in 2 series, the 

outer filiform, 7 to 8 mm. long, the inner narrowly linear, about 

2 mm. long, capitate; operculum plicate, incurved; ovary ovoid. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Province of Mainas, Peru. 

ILLUSTRATION: Poepp. & Endl. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: pi. 178. 


PERU: Loreto: Yurimaguas, Poeppig D.2170 (V, type). 

The only other apetalous species of Decaloba is P. apetala, 

of Costa Rica and western Panama, but in no other respect do the 

two species seem closely related. The coronal structure and the 

general outline of the leaves suggest a close affinity with P. misera 

and P. leptoclada. I am not fully satisfied that the plant is apetalous. 

Dr. Rechinger, of the Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, has 

generously lent me a part of the type material, but it is impossible, 

because of the condition of the flowers, to verify the author's statement 

that they are without petals. If petals actually are present, 

the species should be placed next to P. misera, from which it would 

be differentiated by the broadly ovate rather than linear-oblong 

sepals, and the shorter filaments of the outer corona. 

Series 5. 

Luteae 

43. Passiflora lutea L. Sp. PI. 958. 1753. 

Granadilla lutea Medic. Malvenfam. 96. 1787. 

Plant glabrous or sparingly pilosellous; stipules setaceous, 3 to 5 

mm. long, deciduous; petioles up to 5 cm. long, glandless; leaves 

usually much wider than long, 3 to 7 (or occasionally up to 9) cm. 

long, 4 to 10 (or up to 15) cm. wide, 3-lobed usually from one-quarter 

to one-third the length (lobes broadly triangular-ovate, rounded or 

obtuse, rarely acutish, often mucronulate), rounded, subcordate, or 

subtruncate at base, 3-nerved, closely and usually inconspicuously 

reticulate-veined, membranous, rarely subcoriaceous; peduncles 

solitary or in pairs, 1.5 to 4 cm. long, very slender; bracts none; 

flowers 1 to 2 cm. wide; calyx tube patelliform; sepals linear-oblong, 

5 to 10 mm. long, 2 to 3 mm. .wide, obtuse, pale green; petals linear, 

3 to 5 mm. long, about 1 mm. wide, acutish, white; corona filaments


in 2 series, 

the outer ones about 30, narrowly linear or almost filiform, 

5 to 10 mm. long, radiate, greenish white, the inner narrowly 

liguliform, 1.5 to 2.5 mm. long, slightly thickened toward apex, 

white above, pink-tinged at base; operculum membranous, plicate, 

erect, white at margin, pale pink at base; nectar ring a low ridge; 

limen cupuliform, fleshy; ovary obovoid, glabrous; fruit globoseovoid, 

about 1.5 cm. long and 1 cm. in diameter; seeds broadly 

obcordate or suborbicular, 4.5 to 5 mm. long, 3 mm. wide, transversely 

sulcate with 6 or 7 grooves, the ridges strongly rugulose. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Virginia. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Jacq. Icon. PI. Rar. 3: pi. 607; Cav. Diss. 10: 

pi. 267; Bot. Reg. 1: pi. 79; Britton & Brown, Illustr. Fl. Northeast. 

U. S. 2: 457; ed. 2, 2: 565. 

DISTRIBUTION: Pennsylvania to Illinois and Kansas, south to 

Florida and Texas. 

(N). 

PENNSYLVANIA: Allegheny County, Koenig in 1895 (N). 

OHIO: Chillicothe, Safford 425 (N). Dayton, Morgan in 1879 

Cincinnati, Lloyd in 1882 (N). 

INDIANA: Haubstadt, Schuermeier in 1897 (N). 

ILLINOIS: Marion County, Bebb in 1860 (F). 

MISSOURI: Allenton, Letterman (N). Carondelet, Eggert in 1877 

(N). Springfield, Standley 8939 (N). 

MARYLAND: Great Falls, House 497 (N); Leonard & Killip 687 

(N). Glen Echo, Tidestrom (N). Plummer's Island, Killip 13107, 

13742 (N). 

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Vasey (N); Ward (N); Steele 

Kearney (N); Chickering (N). 

(Cop, N); 

VIRGINIA: Cultivated at Uppsala (Linn, type); Muhlenberg 

(BW). Four Mile Run, Pollard in 1895 (N). Luray, Tidestrom 6723 

(N). Alta vista, Fauntleroy 674 (N). Churchview, Leonard & Killip 

549 (N). Ocean View, Kearney 1217 (N). 

WEST VIRGINIA: Baileysville, Morris 1208 (N). Eagle Mountain, 

Steele 14 (N). Graf ton, J. D. Smith in 1879 (N). 

NORTH CAROLINA: Church's Island, McAtee 1215 (N). Columbus, 

Townsend in 1897 (N). Biltmore, Biltmore Herbarium 739 (N). 

Smith's Island, Biltmore Herbarium 739b (N). 

SOUTH CAROLINA: Bradley, Davis. 1994 (N). Clemson College, 

Anderson 1586 (N). Charleston, Curtiss 6528 (N).


GEORGIA: Union Point, Biltmore Herbarium 739d (N). Rome, 

Biltmore Herbarium 789e (N). Oconee River, J. D. Smith in 1884 (N). 

Lookout Mountain, Ruth 409 (N). Chickamauga, Harper 113 (N). 

FLORIDA: Chapman 869 (N). 

Lake City, Nash 2155 (N). 

KENTUCKY: Bardwell, McFarland 257 (N). Marion County, 

Williamson in 1875 (N). 

TENNESSEE: Wolf Creek, Kearney 729 (N). 

349 (N). Chester County, Bain 109 (N). 

Nashville, Svenson 

ALABAMA: Mobile, Mohr in 1878 (N). Agricola, Pollard & Maxon 

106 (N). Guntersville, Biltmore Herbarium 739a (N). 

MISSISSIPPI: Ocean Springs, Skehan in 1895 (N). Biloxi, Tracy 

5075 (N). Rockport, F. Cook in 1925 (N). 

ARKANSAS: Little Rock, Hasse in 1886 (N). Gum Springs, E. J. 

Palmer 10553 (N). Hot Springs, Runyon 1492 (N). 

LOUISIANA: Covington, Arsene 11681 (N), 11753 (N). Catalpa, 

Pennell4300 (Penn). 

OKLAHOMA: Lenapah, G. W. Stevens 2638 (N). Fort Cobb, 

Palmer 144 (N). 

TEXAS: Weatherford, Tracy 8296 (N). San Antonio, E. D. 

Schulz 785 (N). Houston, Tharp 2448 (N); E. Hall 229 (N). El 

Jardin, Runyon 521 (N). San Augustine, Crockett (N). Fort Smith, 

Bigelow (N). Denison, Biltmore Herbarium 739f (N). Temple, 

Wolff 2297 (N). 

Bachman Dam, Lundell & Lundell 7042 (N). 

Passiflora lutea and P. incarnata, the only species widely distributed 

in the United States, are represented in herbaria by a very large 

number of specimens. In both cases only a few are cited in the 

present publication, these being selected to show the distribution 

by states. 

This and the two following species are bractless, but because of 

the rugulose ridges of the seeds and the small, subglobose fruit they 

clearly should be placed in the section Decaloba rather than Xerogona, 

which likewise is bractless. The peduncles of these three species 

are very slender, the flowers small, and the leaves broader than 

long and trilobed above the middle. Passiflora lutea is distinguished 

from P. filipes by the thicker filaments of the outer corona, and by 

thicker, more deeply lobed leaves, the reticulate venation of which 

usually is quite evident. Wolff 2297, from central Texas, is an 

aberrant form, with deeply lobed leaves, the lobes being lanceolate


or oblong-lanceolate, 6 to 9 cm. long along the nerves and 1.5 to 3 cm. 

wide, the distance between the extremities of the lateral lobes 

reaching 15 cm. 

44. Passiflora filipes Benth. PI. Hartw. 118. 1843. 

Decaloba filipes M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 

2: 161. 1846. 

Plant slender, glabrous throughout; stem terete; stipules linearlanceolate, 

2 to 4 mm. long, falcate, acuminate; petioles 1 to 2 cm. 

long, glandless; leaves 1 to 4 cm. long, 2 to 6 cm. wide, 3-lobed at 

apex (lobes nearly equal, obtuse or slightly acuminate), rounded at 

base, 3-nerved, dark green above, slightly glaucescent beneath; 

peduncles very slender, 4 to 6 cm. long, diverging at nearly right 

angles to the stem; bracts none; flowers small, 8 to 15 mm. wide, 

yellowish green or greenish white; sepals lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 

6 to 9 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, acutish; petals narrowly linear, 

3 to 4 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide; corona filaments in 2 series, filiform, 

the outer equaling the petals, 

the inner shorter; operculum membranous, 

plicate, 

incurved; limen annular, close to the gynophore; 

ovary globose, glabrous; fruit globose, 5 to 7 mm. in diameter; seeds 

slightly flattened, obovate or obcordate, 4 mm. long, 2.5 to 3 mm. 

wide, transversely sulcate with 3 or 4 broken ridges. 

TYPE LOCALITY: "In woods near Guayaquil, Ecuador," but 

almost certainly Mexico. 

DISTRIBUTION: Southern Texas to Nicaragua; also in Venezuela; 

tropical zone, up to 900 meters altitude. 

TEXAS: Cameron County: Olmito, Rose & Russell 24171 (N). 

Brownsville, Rose 18109 (N); Clover 1603 (Mich), .Z700 (Mich). 

South Point, Hotchkiss 4847 (N). 

MEXICO: Hartweg 661 (Gen, K, type, P, V, Y) ; 

Haenke 872 (Pr). 

Tamaulipas: Victoria, Berlandier 2265 (BM, Bo, G, K, N), 3046 

(Gen, K). La Morita, Bartktt 10777 (Mich). Sinaloa: Culiacan, 

Brandegee in 1904 (Cal). 

Jalisco: Quimixto, Mexia 1235 (BM, Gen, 

N). Colima: Manzanillo, Ferris 6228 (N). Veracruz: Lacoba, 

Liebmann 4115 (Cop). Mirador, Liebmann 4143 (Cop). Zacuapan, 

Purpus 2295 (Cal, G, N, Y). Bafios del Carrizal, Purpus 6235 (Cal, 

F, N, Y). Oaxaca: Tomellin Canon, Rose 11323 (N, Y). Puerto 

Angel, Reko 3486 (N). 

Oaxaca, Galeotti 3656 (Brux, Gen, K). 

GUATEMALA: Chocon, Watson 244b (G). 

HONDURAS: San Pedro Sula, Turckheim 5247 (N).


SALVADOR: Ahuachapan, Standley 19887 (N, Y), 20024 (G, N); 

Padilla 4 (N). 

P). 

Sonsonate, Calderdn 2222 (N). 

NICARAGUA: Chaves 332 (N). 

Masaya, Maxon 7704 (N). 

Granada, Levy 392 (Cop, Bo, Gen, 

VENEZUELA: Moritz (or Otto?) 2001 (BM, V); Karsten (V). 

Orinoco River, Humboldt & Bonpland (BW). Yaracuy: Iboa, 

Pittier 13095 (B, F, Gen, Mo, N, Y). 

There is probably an error in the locality given for Hartweg's 

type specimen. Passiflora filipes is a fairly common species in 

Mexico, but there is no record of it in Ecuador other than that of 

the Hartweg collection. Labels on the specimens of Hartweg 661 in 

the New York Botanical Garden and the Muse'um d'Histoire 

Naturelle, Paris, both read "Guayaquil." In the specimen at 

Geneva the word "Mexico," printed on the label, is crossed out and 

"Guayaquil" written in. Hartweg collected in both Mexico and 

in Ecuador, and at about the same period. 

There is not a vestige of a bract on any of the numerous specimens 

examined, even those with very young peduncles, of the three 

species, P. filipes, P. Pavonis, and P. lutea. Both P. filipes and 

P. Pavonis were described as having small, deciduous bracts, but 

I 

believe their presence was assumed. 

LOCAL NAMES: "Pasiflorita" 

(Salvador). 

(Nicaragua); "sandillita de pajaro" 

45. Passiflora Pavonis Mast. Journ. Bot. Brit. & For. 21: 35. 1883. 

Stem angled, grooved, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, the 

branches densely pubescent; stipules narrowly falcate, 3 mm. long, 

acuminate, deciduous; petioles filiform, 0.5 to 1.5 cm. long, densely 

puberulent, glandless; leaves 1 to 3 cm. long, 2 to 5 cm. wide, 3-lobed 

at apex (lobes nearly equal in length, rounded or truncate, mucronate, 

the middle the broader), rounded at base, strongly 3-5-nerved, entire, 

dark green and glabrous above, beneath paler and appressed-hirtellous 

on the nerves; peduncles in pairs, slender, 1 to 2.5 cm. long, 

puberulent; bracts none; flowers 1.5 to 2 cm. wide, yellowish green; 

calyx tube setulose, ventricose at base; sepals linear-lanceolate, 10 to 

12 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, acuminate, obscurely 3-nerved, minutely 

puberulent without, glabrous within; petals 3 to 4 mm. long, barely 

1.5 mm. wide, acute; corona filaments in 2 series, capillary, the outer 

ones one-third to one-half the length of the petals, reflexed, the inner 

about 2 mm. long, erect; operculum membranous, plicate, the margin


fimbrillate; limen annular; ovary globose or broadly ovoid, setulose; 

fruit globose, 6 to 8 mm. in diameter, glabrescent; seeds broadly 

ovate, compressed, 2.5 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, transversely rugose 

with 6 rounded, conspicuously rugulose ridges. 


DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of central Mexico. 

MEXICO: Sesse & Mocino (BM, type, cited as "Pavon," Bo). 

Morelos: Cuernavaca, 2,000 meters, Pringle 6826 (B, BM, Bo, Brux, 

Cal, F, G, Gen, K, Minn, Mo, N, P, Ph, S, V, Y). Tepoxtlan, 

Pringle 9207 (G, N). Mexico: Taquesquipan, Hinton 816 (N). 

The minute inner series of corona filaments evidently was overlooked 

by Masters, as he describes the faucial corona as "filis 1- 

seriatis." This species is readily distinguished from P. filipes by 

its pubescence, shorter peduncles, larger flowers, and truncate middle 

leaf lobe. 

Series 6. 

Organenses 

46. Passiflora salvadorensis Bonn. Smith, Bot. Gaz. 42: 297. 1906. 

"Passiflora subtriangularis alfa" Calderon, Passifl. Dilob. Salv. 

15. pi. opp. p. 20. 

Plant glabrous throughout; stem sub triangular, striate; stipules 

filiform; petioles 3 to 5 cm. long, glandless; leaves 6 to 10 cm. long 

(along lateral nerves), 6.5 to 8.5 cm. wide (or the lower up to 18 cm. 

long, 12 cm. wide), bilobed one-third to two-thirds their length (lobes 

oblong, lance-oblong, or ovate-oblong, rounded or acutish, suberect, 

the sinus often very narrow), rounded or truncate at base but often 

abruptly narrowed to petiole, dark green and often lustrous above, 

paler and dull beneath, membranous; peduncles in pairs, up to 5 cm. 

long, slender; bracts subulate, about 4 mm. long, borne slightly below 

middle of peduncle; flowers 2.5 to 3 cm. wide; sepals linear, 1.5 to 

2 cm. long, 5 mm. wide or less, green; petals similar to the sepals, 

about 5 mm. long and 1.5 mm. wide, white or light yellow-green; 

corona filaments in a single series, filiform, about 1 cm. long, purple 

or purplish red; operculum membranous, 3 to 4 mm. high, erect 

or very slightly inclined toward the gynophore, pinkish purple, 

slightly plicate, denticulate; limen annular, 1 to 2 mm. high; ovary 

subglobose; fruit globose, about 1 cm. in diameter; seeds obovate, 

2 to 3 mm. long, 1.5 to 2 mm. wide, transversely sulcate with about 

6 strongly rugulose ridges. 

TYPE LOCALITY: San Salvador, Salvador. 

ILLUSTRATION: Calderon, Passifl. Dilob. Salv. opp. p. 20.


DISTRIBUTION: Salvador, 650 to 1,400 meters altitude. 

SALVADOR: Ahuachapdn, Padilla 478 (N). San Salvador, Velasco 

(J. D. Smith 8887; N, type); Standley 19279 (G, N); Calderdn 810 

(G, N). Cerro del Guayabal, Calderdn 2004 (N). 

In this species and the following the operculum is longer than 

in other species of Decaloba, and is folded very slightly and at 

the apex only, thus suggesting Murucuja and Granadilla, section 

Kermesinae. Likewise, the limen is more elevated than it normally 

is in Decaloba, and the stamen filaments are unusually long and 

very slender. 

The leaves of both P. salvadorensis and P. jorullensis are quite 

similar to those of P. ornithoura and P. mexicana. 

LOCAL NAME: "Calzoncillo." 

47. Passiflora jorullensis HBK. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 133. 1818. 

Passiflora trisetosa DC. Prodr. 3: 324. 1828. 

Cieca trisetosa M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 147. 1846. 

Decaloba jorullensis M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 

Passiflora Medusae Lemaire, Fl. des Serres 4: 375. 1848. 

2: 160. 1846. 

Passiflora punctata L. sensu Sesse" & Moc. PI. Nov. Hisp. 155. 

1887. Not P. punctata L. 

Stem subtriangular, densely puberulent; stipules setaceous, 2 to 3 

mm. long; petioles 3 to 4 cm. long, strongly grooved, puberulent, 

glandless; leaves bilobed or trilobed one-third their length (length 

along midnerve 2 to 8 cm., along lateral nerves 3 to 8.5 cm.; lobes 

erect, rounded or subacute, mucronulate, 3 to 8 cm. wide), truncate 

or subcuneate at base, 3-nerved, reticulate-veined (nerves and veins 

conspicuous), minutely puberulent above, glabrous beneath; peduncles 

in pairs, 2.5 to 3 cm. long; bracts setaceous, scattered; flowers 

3.5 to 4 cm. wide, "orange"; sepals linear-lanceolate, 15 mm. long, 

2 to 3 mm. wide, acute, glabrous; petals obscure, slender, linear, 3 

to 4 mm. long, less than 1 mm. wide, obtuse; corona filaments in 

a single series, 

narrowly ligulate, 8 mm. long, 0.5 to 0.6 mm. wide; 

operculum membranous, about 3 mm. high, slightly plicate above, 

flat below (margin slightly arcuate, minutely denticulate), at first 

orange then pink, becoming brown when dry; limen membranous, cupshaped, 

1.5 mm. high, arising at base of gynophore, entire; ovary 

globose, minutely hispidulous, becoming glabrate; fruit globose, 

about 1 cm. in diameter, glabrous, black, lustrous; seeds obovate,


about 3 mm. long and 2 mm. wide, transversely sulcate, with 

5 rugulose ridges. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Mt. Jonillo, Mexico. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Fl. des Serres 5: pi. 528; Bot. Mag. 79: pi. 4752; 

A. DC. Dess. PI. Mex. 1: pi. 29. 

DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of central and southern Mexico, 

between 1,300 and 1,800 meters altitude. 

MEXICO: Sesse & Mocino 4459 (Bo, Gen, Ma, type of P. trisetosa), 

4461, in part (Ma). Mexico: Puerto Salitre, Hinton 1794 (K, N). 

Timbres, Hinton 2139 (K, N). Temascaltepec, Hinton 2407 (K). 

Michoacan: Mt. Jorullo, Bonpland (B, type). Uruapan, Pringle 

13673 (G). Colima: Hacienda San Antonio, Reko 4822 (N). 

Oaxaca: Ghiesbreght 301 (P). Chiapas: Siltepec, Matuda 928 (Mich). 

This is a rare species, with a coronal structure like that of P. 

salvadorensis and with leaves suggestive of forms of P. mexicana. 

Passiflora trisetosa was briefly described in the Prodromus and 

later figured by A. De Candolle, and until recently I had considered 

it identical with the plant described later as P. Helleri Peyr. and P. 

fuscinata Mast. Sesse & Mocino 4459, in the Madrid Herbarium, 

clearly is the original of the drawing of P. trisetosa and therefore the 

type. The flowers have the prominent, erect, very slightly plicate 

corona characteristic of P. jorullensis and not of P. Helleri, and it 

appears that P. trisetosa is a synonym of P. jorullensis. De Candolle 

described the flowers as apetalous and Masters therefore placed the 

species in Cieca. The type specimen bears small, very inconspicuous 

petals, this being one of many instances of petals having been overlooked 

by early authors. 

48. Passiflora ornithoura Mast. Bot. Gaz. 16: 8. 1891. 

Passiflora dicthophylla Mast. Bot. Gaz. 16: 8. 1891. 

Plant glabrous throughout; stem flattened, striate; stipules 

setaceous, 3 mm. long, deciduous; petioles 1.5 to 2.5 cm. long, 

glandless; leaves bilobed to below middle, often nearly to base (lobes 

narrowly linear to broadly ovate, 3 to 10 cm. long, 0.5 to 2 cm. 

wide, acute or obtuse, mucronulate), cuneate or subrotund at base, 

3-nerved, membranous, above dark green with frequently a pale 

streak along the midnerve, beneath paler or somewhat glaucous; 

peduncles in pairs, 

1 to 2 cm. long, very slender; bracts setaceous, 

about 1.5 mm. long; flowers about 1.5 cm. wide; sepals oblong, 7 to 

8 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, obtuse; petals linear, 5 mm. long, 2.5 mm.


wide, hyaline, white; corona filaments in a single series, linearclavate, 

barely 2 mm. long; operculum membranous, 1.5 mm. high, 

closely plicate, fimbrillate, incurved; limen annular, fleshy; ovary 

globose; fruit globose, 6 to 8 mm. in diameter, purple; seeds strongly 

flattened, broadly ovate, about 2 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, transversely 

sulcate with about 6 conspicuously rugulose ridges. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Duenas, Department of Zacatep^quez, Guatemala. 

DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of western Central America, from 

Guatemala to Costa Rica, between 1,300 and 1,900 meters altitude. 

GUATEMALA: Rio Ojas, Lehmann XVIII (Bo). Sacatepe'quez: 

Duenas, J. D. Smith 2136 (B, Bo, Gen, G, K, type, N, P), 2143 

(B, Bo, G, K, type of P. dicthophylla, N, P, Ph, Y). Capetillo, 

J. D. Smith 2492 (F, G, K, N, Ph). Acatepeque, Heyde & Lux 4481 

(G, N). 

Solola: San Lucas, Kellerman 5830 (N). 

SALVADOR: Calderdn 2317 (N). 

Sierra de Apaneca, Ahuachapan, 

Standley 20138 (N, Y); Padilla 164 (N), 165 (N), -477 (N). 

COSTA RICA: Endres 70 (BM, K); Hoffmann 458 (B). Aserri, 

San Jose", Standley 34140 (N). 

The leaf lobes of this species vary greatly in length, breadth, and 

degree of divergence, some of the forms resembling P. mexicana, 

P. jorullensis, P. salvadorensis, and P. apetala. It should be noted 

that these five species all have very similar leaves, and usually can 

be distinguished only by the flowers. 


49. Passiflora Dictamo DC. Prodr. 3: 324. 1828. 

Cieca Dictamo M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 146. 1846. 

Stem slender, subangulate, sulcate, minutely pubescent, especially 

toward the end of the branches; stipules linear-falcate, 2 mm. long, 

deciduous; petioles slender, 5 to 8 mm. long, glandless; leaves bilobate 

(or rarely with an obsolescent truncate lobe in the sinus; lobes 

rounded or acutish, emarginate or apiculate, the distance from the 

base of the blade to the apex of the lobes ranging from 1 to 4 cm., 

from the base of the blade to the sinus 0.8 to 2 cm.), rounded or 

subemarginate at base, strongly 3-nerved, without ocellae beneath, 

membranous or subcoriaceous, glabrous throughout or sparsely 

pubescent on the upper surface of nerves; peduncles in pairs, filiform, 

about 1 cm. long, articulate 1 mm. below the apex, bearing a single 

setaceous, deciduous bract at the point of articulation and a minute, 

3-toothed bract near the middle; flowers 1 to 1.5 cm. wide, yellowish


green(?); sepals oblong, 3 mm. wide, strongly 3-nerved, glabrous; 

petals glabrous, hyaline, shorter than the sepals; corona filaments 

in a single series, filiform-clavate, about 3 mm. long; operculum 

membranous, plicate; limen annular; ovary globose, glabrous; fruit 

about 1 cm. in diameter. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico (based upon a Sesse" and Mocino 

drawing). 

ILLUSTRATION: A. DC. Dess. Fl. Mex. 1: pi. 28. 

DISTRIBUTION: Central Mexico. 

MEXICO: Puebla: Cerro de Mazize, Pur pus in 1907 (Cal). 

Tultitlanapa, 

Purpus 3546 (Cal). 

I am referring these specimens to P. Dictamo with much hesitation, 

for that species may be only a synonym of P. biflora. It was 

briefly described in the Prodromus, and was placed in the apetalous 

section; nor are petals shown in the illustration later published by 

A. De Candolle. However, as indicated elsewhere, inconspicuous 

petals were frequently overlooked, and perhaps they were in this 

case. The petals of these two Purpus specimens are much less 

conspicuous than those of P. biflora. 

LOCAL NAME: "Dictamo." 

50. Passiflora Helleri Peyr. Linnaea 30: 54. 1859. 

Passiflora fuscinata Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 551. 1872. 

Stem subangular, deeply grooved, glabrate or finely pubescent; 

stipules linear-subulate, about 3 mm. long, 0.8 mm. wide; petioles 

2 to 3 cm. long, glandless; leaves ovate-oblong or orbicular in general 

outline, 3.5 to 8 cm. long, 3 to 7 cm. wide, 3-lobed at apex (lobes 

acute or obtuse, mucronulate, the middle lobe usually the largest), 

rounded or subcuneate at base, 3-nerved, reticulate-veined, ocellate 

beneath, subcoriaceous, glabrate, or minutely puberulent on the 

nerves beneath; peduncles 2 to 3.5 cm. long, articulate just below 

flower base; bracts setaceous, 1.5 to 2.5 mm. long, deciduous; flowers 

3 to 4 cm. wide; sepals oblong-lanceolate, 1.3 to 1.5 cm. long, about 

0.6 cm. wide, obtuse, green without, greenish white within; petals 

narrowly oblong, about 1 cm. long, 0.4 cm. wide, white, pink-tinged; 

corona filaments 40 to 45, in a single series, 5 to 7 mm. long, dilated 

and slightly geniculate on the inner margin just above middle, green 

and purple-dotted at margin without, purple at margin within; 

operculum membranous, plicate, white, the margin strongly incurved,


minutely serrulate or fimbrillate; limen annular; ovary ovoid, 

minutely pilosulous; fruit globose, glabrate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Mirador, State of Veracruz, Mexico. 

DISTRIBUTION: Veracruz, Mexico and northern Guatemala, 


MEXICO: Veracruz: Mirador, Liebmann 4098, Passiflora No. 19 

(N, type collection of P. fuscinata) ; 

C. Heller 160 (P, V, type); 

Purpus 13064 (F, Mich). Zacuapan, Purpus 3765 (Cal), 10670 

(BM, N), 11094 (Mich, N, V); without number, grown at Washington, 

B.C. (N, S). 

GUATEMALA: Alta Verapaz: Coban, Turckheim 11.1618 (N). 

Pansamala, Turckheim 875 (N). Baja Verapaz: Purula, Turckheim 

11.1724 (N). 

In my report on the Passifloraceae of the Mayan region (Carnegie 

Inst. Wash. Publ. 461: 310. 1936) I wrongly associated this species 

with P. trisetosa DC., briefly described in the Prodromus and later 

figured by A. De Candolle. Having subsequently seen a Sesse" and 

Mocino specimen that clearly is the original of the drawing, I realize 

that P. trisetosa is in reality the same as P. jorullensis HBK. 

The detailed description of the flower is based upon living material 

in the United States Department of Agriculture, grown from 

seeds sent by Dr. C. A. Purpus. 

51. Passiflora stenosepala Killip, nom. nov. 

Passiflora Swartzii Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 556. 1872, 

as to description only. 

Plant glabrous throughout except ovary; stipules setaceous, 2 

to 3 mm. long, soon deciduous; petioles 2 to 5.5 cm. long, slender, 

glandless; leaves transversely ovate, 3 to 5 cm. along midnerve, 3.5 

to 6 cm. along lateral nerves, 5 to 8 cm. at greatest width, truncate 

and shallowly 3-lobed at upper margin (lobes usually mucronulate), 

rounded or truncate at base, ocellate, membranous, pale beneath; 

peduncles solitary or in pairs, up to 3 cm. long, slender, articulate 

just below apex; bracts setaceous, 1 to 1.5 mm. long, borne on upper 

third of peduncle; flowers up to 7 cm. wide; sepals linear, 2.5 to 3 

cm. long, 3 to 4 mm. wide, obtuse; petals linear, 1.5 to 2 cm. long, 

obtuse, yellowish white; corona filaments in a single series, subdolabriform, 

about 5 mm. long and 1 mm. wide, 

yellowish green at 

apex, purplish otherwise; operculum plicate, minutely denticulate;


limen annular, 1 mm. high; gynophore slender, nearly 2 cm. long; 

ovary ovoid, cano-villosulous. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Dominica. 

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the island of Dominica. 

DOMINICA: Imray 270 (B, K, type); Nichols 42 (K). 

As already pointed out in connection with P. penduliflora, the 

plant described by Swartz as "P. rotundifolia L." belongs to that 

species. De Candolle's name, P. rotundifolia var. Swartzii, and 

Roemer's Decaloba Swartzii, both of which were based solely on 

Swartz's description without additional material being at hand, are 

likewise synonyms of P. penduliflora. 

Masters, in transferring the 

specific name from Decaloba to Passiflora, wrongly associated with it 

Imray 270, and the description which he formulated of P. Swartzii 

was based solely on this Imray specimen. Under the rules of nomenclature, 

the name P. Swartzii becomes also a synonym of P. penduliflora, 

so that a new name is necessary for this plant. 

Although the leaves of P. stenosepala are very similar to those of 

P. Andersonii and forms of P. Pohlii, its relationship is clearly with 

P. organensis, both having a single series of broad corona filaments 

and a pubescent ovary. From P. organensis the present species is 

readily distinguished by the larger flowers with very narrow sepals 

and petals, the long, slender gynophore, and the shape of the leaves. 

52. Passiflora organensis Gardn. London Journ. Bot. 4: 104. 1845. 

(?) Passiflora rubra Veil. Fl. Flumin. 9: pi 77. 1827, figure only. 

Not P. rubra L. 

(?) Passiflora pertusa Veil. Fl. Flumin. 9: pi. 79. 1827, figure only. 

Passiflora porophylla Veil. Fl. Flumin. 9: pi. 82. 1827, figure only. 

Cieca porophylla M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 147. 1846. 

Decaloba rufa M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 

2: 159. 1846. 

Decaloba organensis M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 160. 1846. 

Passiflora organensis var. marmorata Mast. Gard. Chron. 1869: 

1158. 1869. 

Passiflora maculifolia Mast. Gard. Chron. III. 32: 334. 1902. 

Plant essentially glabrous throughout; stem subangular, compressed; 

stipules linear-subulate, 2 to 3 mm. long, subfalcate; petioles 

1.5 to 3 cm. long, slender, glandless; leaves bilobed (rarely trilobed; 

lobation variable, the proportion between midnerve and lateral 

nerves ranging from 4.5:6 to 2:10, the lobes broadly ovate to lanceo-


late, 1.5 to 3 cm. wide, obtuse or acute, mucronulate, the sinus 

wanting or lunate), rounded at base, 3-5-nerved (often whitefasciate 

along nerves above), often glaucescent or reddish beneath, 

membranous or subcoriaceous; peduncles in pairs, up to 4 cm. long; 

bracts setaceous, 2 to 3 mm. long, borne near middle of peduncle; 

flowers up to 5 cm. wide; calyx broadly patelliform, 1 to 1.5 cm. 

obtuse, reflexed, 

wide; sepals oblong-lanceolate, about 1.5 cm. long and 5 mm. wide, 

cream-colored to dull purple; petals ovate-lanceolate, 

about half as long as sepals; corona filaments in a single series, 

strongly dolabriform, about 5 mm. long, 1.5 to 2 mm. wide, deep 

purple; operculum closely plicate, incurved, about 4 mm. high, pale 

at base, pink at margin; limen a low ridge midway between operculum 

and gynophore; gynophore 5 to 7 mm. long; ovary obovoid, glabrous 

or pubescent; fruit globose, 1 to 1.5 cm. in diameter; seeds ovate, 

about 4.5 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide, transversely 7-9-sulcate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Organ Mountains, Brazil. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. I: pi. Ill; Veil. Fl. Flumin. 

9: pi. 77(1}, 79(1), 82; Gard. Chron. III. 32: 334. 1902. 

DISTRIBUTION: Eastern Brazil, from Minas Geraes to Parana; 

low mountains, up to 1,000 meters altitude. 

BRITISH GUIANA: Botanic Gardens, cultivated, Jenman 4221 (BG). 

BRAZIL: Blanchet 156 (BM, Gen); Glaziou 12472 (Cop). Minas 

Geraes: Ule 2568 (N). Serra de Caldas, Regnell III.638 (S), 4501 

(S). Serra do Cipo, Chase 9201 (N). Vicosa, Chase 9451 (N), 9461 

(N). Espiritu Santo: Serra de Santa Barbara de Caparoa, Mexia 

(Cal). Rio de Janeiro: Rio de Janeiro, Guillemin 629 (Gen); De 

Moura 506 (B); Dollinger (B); Kuhlmann 15792 (S, Ut). Pedra da 

Gavea, L. B. Smith 2170 (G). 

Organ Mountains, Gardner 428 (type; 

BM, K); Miers (BM, type of P. organensis var. marmorensis), 3471 

(K); SeUo 2127 (B). Patmeiras, Ule 4987 (B). Cantagallo, Peckolt 

212 (V). Sao Paulo: Gaudichaud 990 (P) ; 

Erode 7393 (B). Encontro, 

Brade 5526 (S). Cidade Jardim, L. B. Smith & Kuhlmann (Smith 

1805; N). Santos, Lindberg 360 (Brux). Parana: Serrinha, Dusen 

3772 (N, S). Volta Grande, Dusen 9899 (S). Jaguariahyva, Dusen 

in 1911 (S). Alexandra, Dusen 11472 (Gen, S). Serra do Mar, 

Dusen 14392 (G). 

Considerable variation in leaf shape is noted in the specimens 

here cited. The ovary is glabrous in most of the specimens, but in a 

few it is pubescent. The leaves are minutely pilosulous in Ule 2568 

and Glaziou 18254. The flowers range from cream-colored to dull


purple. However, there does not appear to be any correlation of 

these differences. Passiflora maculifolia is doubtless one of these 

forms of P. organensis. The illustration of P. organensis in the Flora 

Brasiliensis and that of P. maculifolia in the Gardener's Chronicle 

are remarkably similar; both show broad, hatchet-shaped corona 

filaments and recurved petals. Leaves obtained from what is said 

to be the type specimen of P. maculifolia, growing at Kew, almost 

exactly match Dusen 14392. Passiflora maculifolia is stated to have 

been "introduced from Venezuela with Cattleya Mossiae." No 

Venezuelan specimens of this relationship have been examined, and 

records of this nature are always open to question. 

readily recognized by the single row of 

Passiflora organensis is 

deep violet or purple, hatchet-shaped corona filaments. 

is easily confused with that of P. punctata or P. Pohlii. 

The foliage 

Series 7. 

Miserae 

53. Passiflora leptoclada Harms, Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 9: 

979. 1926. 

Plant glabrous throughout except ovary; 

stem slender, striate; 

stipules linear-setaceous, about 2 mm. long; petioles 1 to 2.5 cm. long, 

glandless; leaves transversely elliptic or transversely oblong in 

general outline, truncate or shortly 3-lobed at apex, 1.5 to 4 cm. along 

midnerve, 2.5 to 4 cm. along lateral nerves, 4 to 7 cm. wide (lobes 

rounded or obtuse, mucronulate, the middle lobe up to 1 cm. long or 

almost wanting), subtruncate, cordulate, or rounded at base, ocellate, 

2 to 3 cm. long; bracts subulate, 

membranous; peduncles in pairs, 

1 to 1.5 mm. long; flowers up to 3 cm. wide; sepals narrowly oblong, 

1 to 1.2 cm. long, 2 to 3 mm. wide, obtuse; petals similar to sepals, 

about 7 mm. long, 1 to 1.5 mm. wide; corona filaments in 2 series, 

the outer filiform, subequal to the sepals, the inner linear, 3 to 4 mm. 

long, broadly capitate and emarginate; operculum membranous, 

closely plicate, denticulate; limen annular; ovary ovoid, densely 

cano-tomentulous; fruit globose, about 1.5 cm. in diameter, pilosulous; 

seeds transversely sulcate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: San Isidro, Loreto, Peru. 

DISTRIBUTION: Amazon basin of northern Peru. 

PERU: Loreto: San Isidro, Tessmann 4969 (B, type). Soledad, 

Killip & Smith 29775 (N). Mishuyacu, Killip & Smith 29989 

(N, Y). La Victoria, L. Williams 2737 (F, N). Puerto Arturo, 

L. Williams 5252 (F).


This species is perhaps only another variant of P. misera, for 

the flower structure is almost identical and in shape the leaves closely 

approximate forms of P. misera. However, the ovary is very densely 

pubescent, and as this character usually serves to distinguish species 

of Plectostemma, I am maintaining P. leptoclada as a full species. 

In the type and the Killip and Smith specimens the middle lobe is 

developed in Williams 5252 it is almost absent. 

; 

54. Passiflora misera HBK. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 136. 1817. 

Passiflora Maximiliana Bory, Ann. Ge"n. Sci. Phys. Brux. 2: 149. 

pi. 24. 1819. 

Passiflora vespertilio Ker, Bot. Reg. 7: pi 597. 1821. Not P. 

vespertilio L. 

Passiflora discolor Link & Otto, Icon. PI. Select. 13: pi. 5. 1828. 

Passiflora retusa Hook. Bot. Misc. 3: 325. 1833. 

Cieca discolor M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 140. 1846. 

Cieca misera M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 140. 1846. 

Passiflora microcarpa Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1 : 

556, 593. 

1872. 

Passiflora Maximiliana var. acutiloba Chod. Bull. Herb. Boiss. 7, 

App. 1:74. 1899. 

Passiflora Maximiliana var. retusa Chod. & Hassl. Bull. Herb. 

Boiss. II. 4: 62. 1903. 

Passiflora Maximiliana var. expansa Chod. & Hassl. Bull. Herb. 

Boiss. II. 4: 62. 1903. 

Passiflora laticaulis Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 14: 110. 1924. 

Passiflora translinearis Rusby, Ann. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 7: 309. 

1927, as to foliage. 

Passiflora longilobis Hoehne, Linh. Telegr. Matto Grosso Annex. 

5: Bot. pt. 1: 71. pi. 63. 1910. 

Stem angulate or strongly compressed, striate, glabrous or finely 

puberulous, sometimes scabrid ; stipules setaceous to narrowly linear, 

2 to 3.5 mm. long, falcate; petioles 1 to 3.5 cm. long, glandless, glabrous 

or finely puberulous; leaves 2-lobed (lobes widely divergent, 

sometimes to an angle of nearly 90 degrees from the midnerve, the 

leaves thus being almost transversely oblong or transversely linearoblong, 

the lobes rounded at apex, rarely acutish, sometimes retuse, 

occasionally a small intermediate lobe present), 0.5 to 2.5 cm. long 

(midnerve), 4 to 13 cm. wide (between apices of lateral lobes),


cordulate or subtruncate at base, 3-nerved (a pair of rather prominent 

secondary nerves just below upper margin), inconspicuously 

reticulate-veined, membranous, ocellate beneath, glabrous or minutely 

pilosulous; peduncles solitary, rarely in pairs, slender, 1.5 to 

10 cm. long; bracts setaceous, 3 to 5 mm. long, borne near apex of 

peduncle; flowers 2.5 to 4 cm. wide; sepals lance-oblong to linearoblong, 

10 to 18 mm. long, 3 to 5 mm. wide, obtuse, green and 

usually puberulous without, white within; petals linear-oblong, 8 to 

13 mm. long, 2 to 4 mm. wide, obtuse, white; corona filaments in 2 

series, the outer filiform, 10 to 15 mm. long, attenuate at apex, 

purplish (or white?), the inner linear, 3 to 4 mm. long, about 0.8 

mm. wide, broadly capitate and often slightly emarginate; operculum 

membranous, closely plicate, incurved, minutely fimbrillate at 

margin; limen annular; ovary ovoid, glabrous; fruit globose, rarely 

ovoid, 5 to 13 mm. in diameter; seeds narrowly ovate, about 3.5 mm. 

long and 2 mm. wide, transversely sulcate, the ridges about 10. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Between Turbaco and Cartagena, Colombia. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Link & Otto, Icon. PI. Select, pi. 5; Bot. Reg. 7: 

pi. 597; Ann. Ge"n. Sci. Phys. Brux. 2: pi. 24; Lodd. Bot. Cab. 6: 

pi. 565; Illust. Hort. 16: 2; Linh. Telegr. Matto Grosso Annex. 5: 

Bot.pt. I: pi. 63. 1910. 

DISTRIBUTION: Panama; northern and eastern South America to 

northern Argentina; at low elevations. 

PANAMA: Hayes 356 (BM, K). Bailemona, Stevens 687 (N). 

Canal Zone: Monte Lirio, Killip 12187 (N) ; 

Maxon 6841 (N). Trinidad 

River, Pittier 3998 (N). Mindi, Cowell 169 (N, Y). Barro 

Colorado Island, Kenoyer 456 (N) ; Bailey & Bailey 258 (N) ; 

Chickering 

52 (Mich). 

SURINAM: Tulleken 256 (Leid). 

112 (Ut). 

Corantijne, Stahel & Gonggrijp 

BRITISH GUIANA: Schomburgk 818 (B, Bo, K, N, Ut). Rapanuni 

British Guiana Herb. 136 (BG). 

River, Jenman 5539 (K). 

(S). 

VENEZUELA: Federal District: Silla de Caracas, Ernst in 1880 

Trujillo: La Ceiba, Pittier 10871 (G, N). 

COLOMBIA: Magdalena Valley, Dawe 954 (K). Magdalena: 

Santa Marta, H. H. Smith 1591 (A, B, Brux, CM, F, G, Gen, K, 

Ma, N, Ph, S, Ut, Y); Perez 4924 (HNC). Bolivar: Turbaco, 

Humboldt & Bonpland (BW, P, type). Cundinamarca: Susumuco, 

1,200 meters, Pennell 1723 (Y, type of P. laticaulis).


BOLIVIA: Beni: Lake Rogagua, 300 meters, Rusby (Mulford Biol. 

Expl. 1619, in part; Y, type of P. translinearis). El Chaco: Rio 

Pilcomayo, Fries 1621 (S). 

BRAZIL: Sello 337 (B), 668 (B), 2480 (B, type of P. microcarpa), 

2488 (B). Amazonas: Rio Branco, Ule 7853 (B, Go, K, N). Ega, 

Poeppig 2618 (V). Gapo, Spruce 1629 (K). Pard: Tapand, Killip 

& Smith 30360 (N). Boa Vista, Dahlgren & Sello, 62 (N). Mexiana 

Santa Maria, Guedes 2428 (Go). Ceard : Gardner 818 (Gen). Campo 

Grande, Lofgren 285 (S). Pernambuco: Tapera, Pickel 2544 (N). 

Minas Geraes: Lagoa Santa, Warming 1158 (Cop). Serra da Mantiqueira, 

Glaziou 10871 a (P). Rio de Janeiro: Rio de Janeiro, Glaziou 

12742 (B, Gen, P). Cabo Frio, Ule 4733 (B). Matto Grosso: Santa 

Anna de Chapada, Sladen 428 (BM). Porto Esperanza, Rio Paraguay, 

Chase 11092 (N). Cuyaba, Malme in 1902 (S), in 1903 (S). 

Corumba, Robert 782 (K). Sao Paulo: Puiggari in 1885 (P); Perdonnet 

262 (Bo), 263 (Bo); Burchell 2457 (K). Agua Branca, Erode 

7395 (B). Sorocaba, Lofgren 277 (Cop, N). Parana: Tarma, 

Dusen 117la (G), in 1904 (N). Serrinha, Dusen 3085 (N, S), 7357 

(BM, Gen, K, N, Ph, S). Rio Grande do Sul: Thering 82 (B). 

Navegantes, Reineck & Czermak 60 (B, Bo, Go, P, S, V). Porto 

Alegre, Czermak 153 (Gen, K); Malme 546 (S). Cachoeira, Malme 

494 (S). Excolonia, Schwarzer in 1900 (S); Lindman A1139 (S). 

Santo Angelo, Lindman 1139 (N). 

PARAGUAY: Igueri, Hassler 1418 (BM, Bo, K). Piragu, Balansa 

2205 (Bo, Gen, K). Olympia, Anisits 2081 (S). Villa Rica, Jorgensen 

3788 (N). Estancia Armonia, Anisits 1863 (S). San Bernardino, 

Osten 8923 (S); Hassler 3512 (B, Bo, Gen, K, P, V). Cerros de 

Tobaty, Hassler 6413 (B, BM, Bo, type of P. Maximiliana var. 

retusa, Gen, K, P, V). Cordillera de Altos, Hassler 12373 (B, BM, 

Cop, G, Gen, K, N), 12607 (B, BM, Cop, G, Gen, K, N); Fiebrig 

426b (B), 608 (B, F, Gen, K). Conception, Hassler 7333 (A, B, BM, 

Bo, type of P. Maximiliana var. expansa, Gen, K, P, V). Gran 

Chaco, Hassler 2927 (B, BM, G, Gen, K, P, V). Caraguatay, 

Hassler 1418a (Bo, type of P. Maximiliana var. acutiloba). Pilcomayo, 

Rojas 107 (B); Morong 896 (Y), 1032 (BM, CM, F, G, K, 

N, Y). Tobaty, Archer 4850 (N). 

ARGENTINA: Corrientes: Bonpland (P). Formosa: Jorgensen 2618 

(G, N). Chaco: Fontana, Meyer 160 (N). Misiones: La Granja, 

Ekman 1513 (S). Posadas, Vattuone & Bianchi 87 (N). Entre Rios: 

Parand Delta, Cabrera 254a (F, N). Buenos Aires: Tweedie 179 

(BM).


Nearly all the material here cited has been distributed as P. Maximiliana 

or P. microcarpa, the name P. misera having been overlooked 

or the identity of that species not having been well established. 

The type specimen of P. misera in the Humboldt Herbarium is 

in a fine state of preservation, and there is little doubt that the plant 

of Panama and northwestern South America is identical with it. 

Farther to the east and south in South America the plants usually 

have shorter peduncles and the venation of the leaves is more prominent, 

but some material from southern Brazil (Malme 494, Lindman 

All 3 9} has peduncles fully as long as those of typical P. misera of 

Colombia, and a similar obscure venation. Throughout the range, 

the shape of the leaves shows about the same variation. Flowers of the 

specimens examined are uniform, characterized by broadly capitate 

inner filaments of the corona. This species is thus distinguished from 

P. biflora and P. vespertilio, forms of which resemble it in leaf shape. 

It is difficult to understand the reason for the continued maintenance 

of P. microcarpa as distinct from "P. Maximiliana," both 

names being used by recent students of the genus in revising herbarium 

material, apparently without much discrimination. When 

developed, the fruit varies from 5 to 13 mm. in diameter, not an 

important difference within a species of Passiflora. 

Passiflora laticaulis appears to be an aberrant form with abnormally 

developed stems. The type sheet of P. translinearis consists 

of a mounted specimen with a single attached flower in bud, 

its peduncle being much elongate and bearing two setaceous bracts, 

all representing a plant certainly referable to P. misera, although 

the leaf lobes are rather narrower than usual. In a pocket are two 

detached flowers and a bract that clearly belong to a plant of P. quadriglandulosa, 

a species of the subgenus Distephana, remote from 

Plectostemma. These detached parts and the mounted stems and 

leaves form the basis of the description of P. translinearis, the single 

attached bud and adjacent bracts having been overlooked. Though 

this confusion may have occurred after collecting, the error might 

happen in collecting vines in the tropics, where often two species of a 

genus are intertwined and parts of each taken for a single plant. 

The foliage of P. longilobis is like that of P. translinearis. 

LOCAL NAMES: "Noenonjinopo," "sjimio" (Surinam). 

55. Passiflora amalocarpa Barb. Rodr. Vellosia 1: 25. 1891; 3, 

pt. 1: pi. 12. 1891. 

Passiflora cabedeknsis Barb. Rodr. Vellosia 1: 30. 1891; 3, pt. 2: 

pi. 13c. 1891.


Plant glabrous throughout; stem subangular, compressed, striate, 

slightly scabrid at angles; stipules narrowly linear, 2 to 3 mm. long, 

subfalcate; petioles 1 to 2.5 cm. long, glandless; leaves transversely 

oblong or transversely linear-oblong in general outline, 3-lobed or 

occasionally truncate at upper margin, 1 to 4 cm. along midnerve, 

3.5 to 6.5 cm. along lateral nerves, 7 to 12 cm. between apices 

of lateral lobes (middle lobe usually well developed, 1 to 3 cm. 

wide, truncate or rounded, the lateral lobes obtuse or rounded), 

cordulate at base, membranous, ocellate; peduncles solitary, up to 

5 cm. long; bracts linear-setaceous, about 2 mm. long, borne near 

apex of peduncle; flowers 3.5 to 4 cm. wide; sepals linear-lanceolate, 

about 1.5 cm. long and 4 mm. wide at base, obtuse; petals linear, 

5 to 7 mm. long and 1 mm. wide; corona filaments in 2 series, the 

outer filiform, subequal to petals, the inner narrowly linear, 2 to 

3 mm. long, capitate and emarginate; operculum membranous, 

closely plicate, minutely fimbrillate; limen annular; ovary fusiform; 

fruit fusiform, 3.5 to 4 cm. long, 1 to 1.5 cm. in diameter; seeds 

transversely sulcate with about 7 ridges. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Manaos, State of Amazonas, Brazil (type 

collected by Barbosa Rodriguez). 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Vellosia 3, pt. 1: pi. 12; 3, pt. 2: pi. 13c. 

DISTRIBUTION: Amazonian Brazil and Peru. 

PERU: Loreto: Lower Rio Nanay, L. Williams 526 (F, N). 

In leaf shape and coronal structure this species rather closely 

resembles P. misera and perhaps should be treated as a variant of 

that. The fruit, however, is fusiform, much like that of P. tenella, 

which has a dissimilar flower structure. 

56. Passiflora tricuspis Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 587. 

1872. 

Passiflora tricuspis var. minor S. Moore, Trans. Linn. Soc. II. 

4: 365. 1895. 

Passiflora tricuspis var. brevifolia Chod. & Hassl. Bull. Herb. 

Boiss. II. 4: 61. 1904. 

Stem angulate, often flexuous, compressed, glabrous, longitudinally 

sulcate, the ridges strongly scabrellous; stipules setaceous, 

2 to 4 mm. long, at length deciduous; petioles 1 to 1.5 cm. long, 

glandless, finely pilosulous or nearly glabrous; leaves variable (1) 

deeply bilobed, the lobes divaricate, the sinus lunate, bearing a 

cusp at the end of the midnerve or with an obsolete intermediate

i 


lobe, 1.5 to 4 cm. along midnerve, 3 to 6 cm. along lateral 

nerves, 

5 to 10 cm. wide between apices of lobes, or (2) 3-lobed from a third 

to two-thirds the length of the blade, the lobes subequal or usually 

the middle lobe the longer, the lateral lobes ascending, 5 to 13 cm. 

along midnerve, 4.5 to 11 cm. along lateral nerves, 3 to 7 cm. wide 

below lobation (lobes lanceolate to linear-oblong, 1 to 2.5 cm. wide, 

obtuse or acuminate, mucronulate), rounded or emarginate at base, 

entire, 3-nerved, reticulate-veined, subcoriaceous or coriaceous, glabrous 

or minutely puberulous, sublustrous or dull above, finely 

pilosulous beneath; peduncles 2 to 3 cm. long, articulate near apex; 

bracts setaceous, 2 to 3 mm. long, deciduous; flowers 3 to 4.5 cm. 

wide; calyx broadly patelliform about 1.2 cm. wide; sepals lanceoblong, 

4 to 5 mm. wide, obtuse, white; petals oblong, scarcely half 

as long as sepals, white; corona filaments yellowish, in 2 series, the 

outer narrowly liguliform, about 1.5 cm. long, 1-nerved, the inner 

narrowly linear, 2 to 2.5 mm. long, capitate; operculum borne 

close to corona, membranous, plicate, about 2 mm. high, undulate 

and minutely fimbrillate at margin; limen a narrow ring borne about 

halfway between operculum and base of gynophore; ovary subglobose, 

glabrous; fruit globose, about 1.5 cm. in diameter, glabrous; 

seeds ovate, about 3 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, transversely 7-sulcate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Serra de Araripe, Piauhy, Brazil. 

DISTRIBUTION: Amazonian basin of Peru and Bolivia to eastern 

Brazil and Paraguay, between 500 and 1,100 meters altitude. 

PERU: Loreto: Rio Ucayali, Tassmann 3194 (B). Junin: La 

Merced, Killip & Smith 23474 (N); Macbride 5436 (F, N). 

BOLIVIA: Challana, Troll 2238 (B). Beni: Reyes, Cardenas 

(Mulford Biol Expl. 1359; N, Y). Rio Ivon, White (Mulford Biol. 

Expl. 2371; Y). La Paz: Mapiri, Rusby 496 (Y), 828a (Y); G. H. H. 

Tate 495 (Y); Buchtien 1675 (N); R. S. Williams 789 (BM, N, Y). 

Coroico, Buchtien 6003 (N). Cochabamba: Incacorral, Steinbach 

9692 (B). Santa Cruz: Misiones Guarayos, Werdermann 2616 (B). 

Buenavista, Steinbach 2206 (B). 

BRAZIL: "Brazil Occid.," Tamberlik (V). Amazonas: Ule 5831 

(B). Para: Guaramiranga, Ducke 1343 (Go). Piauhy: Serra de 

Araripe, Gardner 1631 (K, type). Goyaz: Burchell 6988 (K). 

Matto Grosso: Moore 579 (B, BM, Y), 793 (BM, type of P. tricuspis 

var. minor). Campo Grande, Chase 10802 (N). Corumbao, Malme 

2752 (S). Palmeiras, Lindman A2751 (S); Weddell 3025 (P); Hoehne


4941 (N). Sao Paulo: Santa Anna, Erode 6094 (S). Araraquara, 

Hoehne 10641 (B). 

PARAGUAY: Santa Maria, Anisits 2064 (S). 

Rio Apa, Hassler 

4181 (B), 7875 (A, B, BM, Bo, Gen, K, P, V). Sierra de Amambay, 

Hassler 10649 (B, BM). 

The species of this immediate relationship, P. misera, P. tricuspis, 

and P. trifasciata, are all characterized by relatively broad 

inner corona filaments, which are strongly dilated at the apex and 

often slightly lobed. 

The structure of the flowers of all 

the specimens cited above is 

uniform, but the shape of the leaves varies from deeply 3-lobed, with 

suberect lobes, to 2-lobed, with divaricate lobes, similar to that seen 

in P. misera. Numerous examples are found, however, with leaves 

intermediate between the extremes, and it is impossible to recognize 

more than a single species on the basis of foliage. In Hassler 7875 

the lower leaves are identical with those of type material of P. tricuspis, 

but the upper ones are very similar to those of Hoehne 4941 

and to those of P. misera. This collection was cited by Chodat 

as P. organensis, but the coronal structure is different. Steinbach 

2206 also has both forms of leaves. This species is probably most 

readily distinguished from its allies by its strongly roughened stem. 

Much of the material here cited as P. tricuspis, especially that 

representing the form with bilobate leaves, has been variously 

determined as "P. organensis," "P. punctata," and "P. Maximiliana." 

Of these the first two species differ markedly in the shape of 

the inner corona filaments. In P. misera (P. Maximiliana) the leaf 

lobes are blunter and more widely divergent. 

57. Passiflora trifasciata Lemaire, Illus. Hort. 15: pi. 544. 1868. 

Plant glabrous throughout; stem angulate, striate, smooth or 

sometimes asperate on the edges; stipules subulate, 2 to 4 mm. long, 

subfalcate; petioles up to 5 cm. long, glandless; leaves 5 to 10 cm. 

along midnerve, 4 to 10 cm. along lateral nerves, 4 to 10 cm. wide, 

3-lobed about a third their length (lobes deltoid, 2 to 3.5 cm. wide, 

acute or obtusish, the lateral usually ascending), cordulate at base, 

membranous, dull, above dark green, mottled with white or yellowish 

green along nerves, beneath reddish or violet; peduncles up to 3 cm. 

long, slender; bracts setaceous, 2 mm. long; flowers 2.5 to 3.5 cm. 

wide; calyx tube broadly campanulate; sepals oblong, about 15 mm. 

about 10 mm. 

long, 5 mm. wide, obtuse, light green; petals linear, 

long, 2.5 to 3 mm. wide, light green; corona filaments in 2 series, the


outer terete, 8 to 10 mm. long, the inner linear-clavate, about 3 mm. 

long; operculum plicate, incurved, white, pink-tinged at margin; 

limen thick, lobulate; ovary subglobose, glabrous; fruit globose, 1.5 

to 2.5 cm. in diameter, glaucous; seeds narrowly oblong-ovoid, 4 mm. 

long, 2 mm. wide, transversely 6-sulcate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Peru or Brazil (type based on a cultivated 

specimen). 

ILLUSTRATION: Illus. Hort. 15: pi. 544- 

DISTRIBUTION: Amazonian Peru; Brazil (?). 

CUBA: Santa Clara: Soledad, introduced from Hope Garden, 

Jamaica, Walsingham in 1936 (A). 

PERU: San Martin: Lamas, 840 meters, L. Williams 6327 (F). 

Loreto: Yurimaguas, 135 meters, Killip & Smith 27819 (N), 28069 

(N, Y), 28297 (F, N, Y), 28318 (F, N, Y); L. Williams 5075 (F), 

5213 (F). Balsapuerto, Killip & Smith 28412 (F, N, Y). 

BRAZIL: Schott in 1886, cultivated at Washington, D.C. (N). 

The strongly mottled leaves of this species are conspicuous in the 

dense forests of the upper Amazonian region. The plant is doubtless 

closely related to P. tricuspis, but is readily distinguished by the 

coloring, texture, and shape of the leaves. 

Passiflora trifasciata has been introduced into European horticulture. 

Indeed, the species has been known only from horticultural 

material until recently collected in the Huallaga Valley in northern 

Peru, where it appeared to be native. 

Series 8. Punctatae 

58. Passiflora vespertilio L. Sp. PL 957. 1753. 

Granadilla vespertilio Moench, Meth. PL Suppl. 14. 1802. 

Passiflora hemicycla G. F. W. Mey. Prim. Fl. Esseq. 225. 1818. 

Passiflora geminiflora DC. Prodr. 3: 323. 1828. 

Passiflora surinamensis Miq. Linnaea 18: 363. 1844. 

Decaloba vespertilio M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 155. 1846. 

Decaloba surinamensis M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 158. 1846. 

Decaloba hemicycla M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 

Decaloba geminiflora M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 

2: 160. 1846. 

2: 164. 1846. 

(?) Passiflora europhylla Mast. Gard. Chron. 28: 350. 1900. 

Stem angulate, compressed, striate, often flexuous, glabrous or 

sparingly puberulent; stipules narrowly linear-setaceous, about 5 

mm. long, 0.5 mm. wide; petioles up to 1.5 cm. long, glandless; leaves


2-3-lobed (lobes divaricate, acuminate, the sinus shallowly lunate 

or wanting, i.e., upper margin of leaf truncate, often undulate), 

variable in shape, ranging from 6.5 cm. long and 9 cm. wide to 3 cm. 

long and 10 cm. wide, rounded or subtruncate at base, 

3-nerved, 

ocellate, coriaceous, glabrous and lustrous above, glabrous or slightly 

puberulent beneath; peduncles solitary or in pairs, 0.5 to 1.5 cm. 

long, articulate near middle; bracts setaceous, about 3 mm. long, 

borne below middle of peduncle; flowers up to 5 cm. wide; sepals 

broadly lance-oblong, 1.5 to 2 cm. long, 7 to 8 mm. wide at base, 

obtuse, subcoriaceous, yellowish green; petals oblong, 1 to 1.2 cm. 

long, about 4 mm. wide at base, obtuse, membranous, yellowish 

green; corona filaments in 2 series, the outer narrowly liguliform, 

yellowish green, united at base into a broad, greenish white membrane, 

the free filaments 1 to 1.5 cm. long, the inner filaments capillary, 

3 to 4 mm. long, arising about 2 mm. from the free portion of the 

outer series, greenish white; operculum membranous, closely plicate, 

lobulate, white; limen annular; gynophore purple; ovary ovoid, 

glabrous; fruit subglobose, 1 to 1.5 cm. in diameter; seeds obovate, 

about 4 mm. long and 2 mm. wide, transversely sulcate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: "America." 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Amoen. Acad. 1: pi. 10, f. 11; Dillen. Hort. Elth. 

pi. 137; Ann. Ge*n. Sci. Phys. Brux. 2: pi. 22, f. 8, 9; Cav. Diss. 

10: pi. 271; Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 21: 495. /. 229A. 

DISTRIBUTION: Trinidad, Guianas, and lower Amazon, Brazil; 

Amazonian basin of Peru and Bolivia; at low elevations. 

TRINIDAD: Aripo Estate, Trinidad Herb. 2592 (N, T). 

Trinidad Herb. 8465 (T). 

FRENCH GUIANA: Gabriel in 1802 (Gen). 

Chatham, 

Karouay, Sagot (P, S). 

SURINAM: Hering (Ph); Hostmann 1095 (BM, Gen, P, V); Hostmann 

& Kappler 478a (P, S); Kappler 142 (S); Focke 535 (Ut), 

1246 (Ut). Saramacca River, Pulle 497 (Ut). Lower Surinam River, 

Soeprata 35F (Ut). Paramaribo, Went 568 (Ut); Wullschlagel 214 

(Brux); Splitgerber 603 (Leid, N, Ph, V). Upper Nickerie River, 

B. W. 1036 (Ut). Gonini River, Gonggrijp 14 (Ut). Matappi, 

Corantijne River, Gonggrijp 11 (Ut). Tapanahoni River, Versteeg 

708 (Ut). Brownsberg, Zaandam 6893 (Ut). 

BRITISH GUIANA: Schomburgk 154 (B), 664 (Gen, N, V). "Coast 

lands," Jenman 2052 (BG), 5075 (Y). Barina River, Jenman 6997 

(BG) ; 

De la Cruz 3411 (N, Y). Demerera Gardens, Jenman 4222 (N). 

Rockstone, Gleason 863 (N, Y). Essequibo River, Gleason 908 (Y).


Tumatumari, Gleason 371 (N, Y). Mazaruni River, Graham 96 

(CM). Mt. Everard, De la Cruz 1382 (F, N, Y). 

PERU: Loreto: Rio Nanay, L. Williams 1201 (F). Iquitos, L. 

Williams 81 80 (F). 

N,Y). 

BOLIVIA: Beni: Rio Ivon, Cardenas (Mulford Biol. Expl. 2074; 

BRAZIL: Collector not given (P, type of P. geminiflora). Para: 

Ilha do Mosqueiro, Kittip & Smith 30664 (N, Y). Para, Moss 37 

(N); Ducke 3314 (Go), 3859 (Go). Jububu, Huber 2816 (Go). Ilha 

do Maranhao, Ducke 528 (Go). Arumatheua, Snethlage 8199 (Go). 

Bahia: Blanchet 156 (Gen). 

Passiflora vespertilio and P. urnaefolia are characterized by an 

unusual structure of the outer rank of the corona. The filaments are 

united at the base into a distinct membrane, upon which, at some 

distance from the margin, the very slender inner filaments are borne. 

The leaves of P. vespertilio are of two main forms: those with the 

upper margin an almost straight line (represented by Linnaeus' 

drawing in the Amoenitates) and those with the upper margin of the 

lobes a curved line, meeting at the middle to form a shallow sinus 

(represented by the only specimen in Linnaeus' herbarium in 1753). 

Among more recent collections the former is duplicated by Schomburgk 

664, the latter by Moss 37. 

Masters cites specimens from central Brazil as P. vespertilio, but 

the occurrence of true P. vespertilio in Brazil south of the Amazon 

basin and Bahia is doubtful, the specimens referred here being better 

The 

placed in P. Pohlii, P. ichthyura, P. organensis, or P. tricuspis. 

leaves of each of these species are variable; on the other hand, forms 

of species which are quite distinct in coronal structure have very 

similar foliage. 

Passiflora europhylla was described from a living plant, originating 

in British Guiana, of which apparently no herbarium specimen 

was made. Masters' description is indefinite in certain important 

details, and the species is doubtfully included here. 

The fruit of P. vespertilio is eaten in Surinam. 

LOCAL NAMES: "Noenonjinopo," "jorka markoesa," "blaka 

markoesa," "anjoemara koesjilikodo" (Surinam). 

59. Passiflora urnaefolia Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 6: 42. 1896. 

Stem glabrous or finely pilosulous; stipules narrowly linear, 2 to 

3 mm. long, falcate; petioles slender, up to 3 cm. long, glandless;


leaves subtruncately 2-3-lobed, 2 to 8.5 cm. along midnerve, 3 to 10 

cm. along lateral nerves, 3 to 10 cm. wide (middle lobe, if present, 

reduced, the lateral lobes ascending, acute or rounded), rounded 

or subtruncate at base, membranous, glabrescent above, glaucescent 

and finely and sparingly pilosulous beneath; peduncles slender, 

2.5 to 4 cm. long; bracts setaceous, 2 to 3 mm. long; sepals oblong, 

about 1.5 cm. long and 5 mm. wide, obtuse, light blue(?); petals 

lanceolate, 8 to 10 mm. long, 3 to 4 mm. wide; corona filaments in 

2 series, the outer narrowly linear (appearing filiform when dry), 

united at base into a broad membrane, the free portion 5 to 10 mm. 

long, the inner filaments capillary, 1 to 2.5 mm. long, borne on the 

membrane about 2 mm. from the margin; operculum close to the 

preceding series, slightly plicate, erect, the margin minutely fimbrillate; 

limen annular, fleshy; ovary ovoid, glabrous; fruit globose, 

1.2 to 1.5 cm. in diameter, glabrous or pilosulous; seeds ovoid, 

transversely sulcate, the ridges 4 or 5. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Mapiri, Bolivia. 

DISTRIBUTION: Central Bolivia to northwestern Argentina. 

BOLIVIA: La Paz: Mapiri, Bang 1517 (B, BM, Bo, F, G, Gen, K, 

Minn, N, Ph, Y, type). Sorata, Mandon 610 (P). Chuquisaca: 

Fiebrig2683(B). 

ARGENTINA: Salta: Los Banos, Venturi 9322 (BM, N). San 

Tucuman: Quebrada de Lules, 700 meters, 

Pedrito, Meyer 910 (N). 

Venturi 967 (G, N). 

Closely related to P. vespertilio, this species differs in its much 

longer peduncles, shorter outer corona filaments, and differently 

shaped, thinner leaves. 

60. Passiflora tuberosa Jacq. PL Hort. Schonbr. 4: 49. pi. 496. 

1804. 

Passiflora punctata Lodd. Bot. Cab. 2: pi. 101. 1818. Not P. 

punctata L. 

Decaloba tuberosa M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 160. 1846. 

Plant glabrous throughout; stipules narrowly linear, up to 5 mm. 

long, falcate, coriaceous; petioles up to 2 cm. long, glandless; leaves 

oblong, deeply 2-lobed, 4 to 6 cm. along midnerve, 7 to 12 cm. along 

lateral nerves, 5 to 7 cm. between apices of lobes (lobes lanceolate or 

oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, mucronulate), rounded at base, 3-nerved 

(a secondary pair of nerves just below sinus), closely reticulateveined, 

subcoriaceous, sublustrous above, pale beneath; peduncles in


pairs, up to 4 cm. long; bracts setaceous, 2 to 3 mm. long; flowers 

4.5 to 5 cm. wide, white; sepals oblong-lanceolate, 1.5 to 2 cm. long, 

0.6 cm. wide, obtuse; petals ovate-lanceolate, 0.6 to 1 cm. long, 0.3 

to 0.4 cm. wide, obtuse; corona filaments in 2 series, the outer strapshaped, 

3 to 4 mm. long, 0.8 to 1 mm. wide, slightly clavate at apex, 

the inner filiform, barely 0.5 mm. long; operculum plicate; limen 

none; ovary subglobose, glabrous. 

TYPE LOCALITY: West Indies. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Jacq. PL Hort. Schonbr. 4: pi. 

496; Bot. Cab. 

2: pi. 101; Ann. Ge'n. Sci. Phys. Brux. 2: pi. 23, f. 1; Bot. Reg. 5: 

pi. 4^2. 

DISTRIBUTION: St. Thomas, Trinidad, and northern South 

America, just entering northern Brazil, near sea level. 

LOCALITY UNCERTAIN: "Hort. Schon." (V, type). 

ST. THOMAS: Finlay 183 (P). 

TRINIDAD: Pruess 1463 (B); Trinidad Herb. 2588 (T), 2599 (T), 

3851 (T), 5703 (T). Tabaquite, Broadway in 1918 (F, G, N, T, Y). 

Providence, Broadway 2846 (B). Aripo, Trinidad Herb. 9808 (T). 

Marabella, Trinidad Herb. 2594 (T). Fort George, Trinidad Herb. 

2595 (T). Blue Basin, Trinidad Herb. 10743 (T). Tobago, Eggers 

5949 (B). 

BRITISH GUIANA: Appun 2080 (K). Pirara, Schomburgk 642 

(B, K). 

VENEZUELA: Sucre: Cumana, Humboldt & Bonpland 234 (B, BW). 

BRAZIL: Amazonas: Rio Branco, Ule 28 (B). 

The absence of a limen is the outstanding feature of this plant, 

a species of rather limited distribution, not readily confused with 

others. 

61. Passiflora lancearia Mast. Journ. Bot. Brit. & For. 23: 114. 

1885. 

Stem stout, striate, glabrous or the younger branches minutely 

and sparingly puberulous; stipules setaceous, 1 cm. long, deciduous; 

petioles strongly furrowed, glabrous, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, glandless; 

leaves oblong-lanceolate, 4 to 8 cm. long, 2 to 4 cm. wide, entire (or 

obscurely lobed on each side about 1 cm. below the apex, the younger 

leaves more deeply lobed), acuminate, tapering at base, strongly 

3-nerved, bearing 4 to 8 ocellae on the lower surface, thick-coriaceous, 

bright green and shining above, paler beneath, glabrous; peduncles


in pairs, 6 to 8 mm. long, glabrate or puberulous; bracts linearsetaceous, 

1.2 mm. long; flowers 3 to 4 cm. wide, the calyx densely 

white-tomentose within; sepals ovate-lanceolate, 1.2 to 1.5 cm. long, 

7 to 10 mm. wide, obtuse, green without, white within; petals onethird 

to one-half as long as the sepals, white; corona filaments in two 

series, the outer filaments filiform, 4 to 5 mm. long, reflexed, the inner 

barely 2 mm. long, capillary, very slightly clavate; operculum membranous, 

closely plicate, 4 mm. high, strongly incurved over the floor 

of the calyx; limen annular, fleshy, erect, 1 mm. high, its inner side 

and the central portion of the floor of the calyx densely tomentose; 

ovary ovoid or ellipsoid, glabrous, dull brown; fruit subglobose, 

3 cm. in diameter, glabrous; seeds broadly ovate, 6 mm. long, 4.8 

mm. wide, flattened, transversely sulcate, with 7 or 8 ridges. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Near La Palma and San Isidro, on the slopes of 

"Tranzu" (Irazu) Volcano, Costa Rica. 

DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of central Costa Rica, between 1,300 

and 1,700 meters altitude. 

COSTA RICA: Irazu Volcano, Lehmann 1255 (Bo, type). La 

Hondura, Standley 36250 (N), 36312 (N), 37742 (N), 37869 (N). 

La Palma, Standley 32959 (N), 38051 (N); Tonduz 12450 (N); 

Biolley 14026 (N). Peralta, Stork 476 (N). El Mufieco, Standley 

51286 (N). La Estrella, Standley 39308 (N). Agua Caliente, Lankester 

K141 (K). La Palma de San Ramon, Brenes 6778 (F). 

This species differs markedly from other Central American representatives 

of Decaloba. It has thick, nearly entire leaves, which are 

fully twice as long as broad; the calyx is covered within by a dense, 

white tomentum; and the seeds are almost twice as large as those of 

other species of this group. Masters' description of the corona filaments 

as "petaloideis 1-serialibus falcato-spatulatis" apparently is 

erroneous, for the corona is 2-ranked, the filaments of the outer rank 

being filiform and those of the inner capillary-clavate. 

Several of the specimens cited above have rather deeply lobed 

leaves, which are broader than long. In each instance these specimens 

are without flowers, and apparently represent a juvenile stage. 

62. Passiflora magdalenae Tr. & Planch. Ann. Sci. Nat. V. Dot. 

17: 166. 1873. 

Stem angulate, tortuous, glabrous, or the younger parts finely 

pubescent; stipules subulate, 3 to 3.5 mm. long; petioles slender, up 

to 5 cm. long, glandless, glabrous or finely appressed-pubescent; 

leaves triangular-obovate, 4 to 8 cm. long, 5 to 8 cm. wide, truncately


3-lobed (lobes 0.8 to 1.5 cm. long, rounded or truncate, mucronulate, 

subequal or the middle longer than the lateral), cuneate at base, 

ocellate beneath, glabrous, membranous, usually reddish beneath; 

peduncles solitary or in pairs, 2 to 3 cm. long, very slender; flowers 

up to 3 cm. wide, purplish white(?); sepals lanceolate, 1 to 1.5 cm. 

long, about 0.4 cm. wide, obtuse; petals similar to and slightly shorter 

than sepals; corona filaments numerous, in 2 or 3 indefinite series, 

filiform, about 8 mm. long; operculum plicate, lobulate at margin; 

limen saucer-shaped, subcrenulate; ovary subglobose, tomentellous 

when young, at length nearly glabrous; fruit globose, 8 to 9 mm. in 

diameter, black; seeds narrowly obcordate, about 3 mm. long, 2 mm. 

wide, acute at apex, transversely sulcate with about 6 grooves. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Magdalena Valley, between Guaduas and Penon 

de Conejo, Colombia. 

DISTRIBUTION: Upper Magdalena Valley, Colombia. 

COLOMBIA: Cundinamarca: Between Guaduas and Pefion de 

Conejo, Goudot in 1844 (P, type). Tolima: Libano, 800 meters, 

Pennell 3386 (G, N, Y). 

The shape of the leaves of this species is unlike that of any of its 

relatives, and the plant is easily recognized. 

63. Passiflora pan amen sis Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 12: 

259. 1922. 

Plant glabrous throughout; stem angulate, grooved, flexuous; 

stipules linear-falcate, 4 to 5 mm. long; petioles 1.5 to 2.5 cm. long, 

glandless; leaves suborbicular in general outline, 5 to 8 cm. long, 

5 to 7 cm. wide, 3-lobed (lobes approximate, subequal or the middle 

slightly longer, about one-third the length of blade, triangular, acute 

or somewhat obtuse, mucronate), rounded or subpeltate at base, 

3-nerved, subcoriaceous, ocellate beneath; peduncles 2.5 to 4 cm. 

long, articulate about 6 mm. below the flower; bracts setaceous, 

deciduous, 2 borne at the point of articulation, the third near the 

middle of the peduncle; flowers about 3 cm. wide; sepals oblonglanceolate, 

1.2 to 1.4 cm. long, 6 to 7 mm. wide, obtuse, yellowish 

green; petals rose-colored, spatulate, 8 mm. long, 3 to 4 mm. wide; 

corona filaments in 2 series, the outer 7 mm. long, subfalcate, dilated 

and 3-angled toward apex, the inner 3 mm. long, capillary, minutely 

capitellate; operculum membranous, pink, plicate, erect, crenulate; 

limen annular; ovary globose, sparingly strigillose; fruit globose, 

2 cm. in diameter, glabrate; seeds straw-colored, obovate, apiculate,


strongly flattened, transversely sulcate with about 6 sharp, somewhat 

rugulose ridges. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Southern Darie"n, Panama. 


Panama. 

in eastern 

PANAMA: Panama: Along Sambu River, southern Darie"n, Pittier 

5556 (F, N, type). 

The shape of the leaves of P. panamensis is similar to that of 

typical forms of P. tricuspis. The flowers are quite different, however, 

the angled filaments of the outer corona indicating probably a 

closer relationship with P. biflora. 

64. Passiflora cuspidifolia Harms in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 

3, pt. 6a: 72. /. 25B. 1893; Bot. Jahrb. 18: Beibl. 46: 3. 1894. 

Passiflora mollis var. integrifolia Planch, ex Mast, in Mart. Fl. 

Bras. 13, pt. 1:550. 1872. 

Passiflora mollis var. subintegra Tr. & Planch. Ann. Sci. Nat. V. 

Bot. 17: 164. 1873. 

Plant subglabrous or pilosulous; stem angular, compressed; 

stipules subulate, 2 to 3 mm. long; petioles up to 1.5 cm. long, glandless; 

leaves ovate to oblong-ovate, 7 to 15 cm. long, 3 to 7 cm. wide, 

entire or obscurely lobed just below the acute or subacute apex, 

rounded at base, 3-nerved, ocellate, subcoriaceous, glabrous and 

lustrous above, pilosulous and dull beneath; peduncles solitary or in 

pairs, slender, 1.5 to 3.5 cm. long; bracts linear-subulate, 2 to 3 mm. 

long, scattered, persistent; flowers about 3 cm. wide; sepals oblong, 

1.5 cm. long, 3 to 4 mm. wide; petals slightly smaller than sepals; 

corona filaments in 2 series, the outer narrowly liguliform, very 

slightly dilated above middle, narrowed at apex, about 4 mm. long, 

erect, the inner filiform, about 3 mm. long; operculum plicate, denticulate; 

nectar ring annular; limen annular, close to preceding; ovary 

subglobose, pilose; fruit globose, about 1 cm. in diameter. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Between Vergara and Pacho, Cundinamarca, 

Colombia. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 3, pt. 6a: 72. /. 25B; 

ed. 2, 21: 477. /. 218B; Mutis, Icon. PI. Ined. 26: pi. 16. 

DISTRIBUTION: Eastern Cordillera of Colombia, between 1,500 


COLOMBIA: Santander: Mesa de Los Santos, Killip & Smith 15320 

(N, Y). Paramo del Roble, Goudot 11 (K, type of P. mollis var.


integrifolia, P). 

Boyaca: Mt. Chapon, Lawrance 87 (Gen, N, Y). 

Cundinamarca: Mutis 2272 (Ma), 4412 (Ma); Dawe 67 (K, N). 

Between Vergara and Pacho, Lehmann 7629 (B, type, G, K). Tena, 

Lehmann 6105 (B, K). Tenasuca, Triana 2548 (BM, type of P. 

mollis var. subintegra, Gen, HNC, K, P). Fusagasuga, Lehmann 2525 

(Bo, Gen, K); Dawe 347 (K). Alban, Perez 2574 (HNC). 

Passiflora cuspidifolia, P. mollis, P. bogotensis, P. alnifolia, P. 

bauhinifolia, and P. Tatei are very closely related, and the drawing of 

lines of differentiation between them, and the assorting of herbarium 

material among them, present much difficulty. 

Original descriptions 

of four of the species dealt mainly with vegetative parts, and attempts 

by later writers to form correct interpretations of the species through 

the study of the dried flowers have not proved wholly successful. 

The outer corona filaments, which doubtless constitute the true 

basis of differentiation, are quite succulent, and in the process of 

Moreover, many of the 

drying lose much of their original shape. 

specimens were evidently past their prime flowering state when 

collected. 

In view of the complexity of these six species, it seems desirable 

to discuss them at one place: 

Passiflora cuspidifolia. The outer corona filaments are much 

slenderer than in P. mollis, P. alnifolia, or P. bogotensis, and, though 

not long-attenuate as in P. bauhinifolia and P. Tatei, they are rather 

narrower at the extremity than in the three others. A nectar ring is 

present, as in P. alnifolia, but the operculum is entire at the margin. 

The leaves closely approximate typical forms of P. mollis, though 

the middle lobe is sharper. The indument is much scantier than in 

the close relatives. This apparently is a rare species. 

Passiflora mollis. The outer corona filaments have nearly 

straight edges; if they are dilated at all, it is at or just above the 

middle, hence they are slightly fusiform. The leaves were described 

by Kunth as being 3-lobed with a prominent middle lobe and much 

reduced lateral lobes, and glabrous above. The type locality is given 

as "cum praecedente" (P. alnifolia), which was along the banks of 

the Rio Cuello on the Quindio Trail, Colombia. I collected five 

specimens along the Rio Cuello or in close vicinity to it, and these, 

in general, agree with Kunth's description and with type material 

at Berlin. The leaves are all more or less pubescent above; in No. 

9607 they are lunately bilobed at the apex with no vestige of an 

intermediate lobe; in No. 9592 the three lobes are nearly equal. 

Unfortunately, the flowers were withered, but apparently the outer


corona filaments are at the most very slightly dilated. 

The Salento 

specimen is in fruit only and the La Cumbre one is sterile; both have 

the middle leaf lobe prominent. In the Fendler specimen from 

Venezuela, which bears excellent flowers, the leaves are nearly glabrous 

above and have a prominent middle lobe, and the outer corona 

filaments are very slightly dilated just above the middle. 

Passiflora 

mollis, therefore, appears to be characterized by liguliform or slightly 

fusiform outer corona filaments, and by the usually 3-lobed leaves, 

which have a prominent intermediate lobe. 

This, also, is a rather rare species, known, however, from such 

widely separated localities as the middle part of the Central Cordillera 

of Colombia, the Santa Marta Mountains, and the northcentral 

part of Venezuela. 

Passiflora bogotensis. The outer corona filaments are abruptly 

dilated at the apex into a flat-topped knob. The specimens cited 

under this show great uniformity in indument and in the shape of 

the leaves, the principal difference lying in the degree of development 

of the central lobe. 

This plant proved to be quite common in 

the portions of the 

Eastern Cordillera visited by Mr. Smith and myself, and apparently 

extends as far north as the Santa Marta Mountains and eastward 

into east-central Venezuela. Passiflora Pala, described from the 

Santa Marta Mountains, is scarcely distinct. 

Passiflora alnifolia. Like P. bogotensis the outer corona filaments 

are abruptly dilated, but beyond this dilation they taper off 

into a filiform tip. A narrow nectar ring is usually present between 

the operculum and the limen. The limen is rather more prominent 

than in P. mollis or P. bogotensis, and usually is denticulate. 

In the type specimen at Paris the leaves are very shallowly 2- or 

3-lobed or are merely undulate along the truncate upper margin, thus 

closely approaching forms of P. bogotensis. Several of the specimens 

here cited correspond exactly with the type in leaf shape, but many 

of them have much more deeply bilobate leaves. In general, the 

pubescence is much lighter than in P. mollis or P. bogotensis. 

This is the common species of this relationship in the Colombian 

Central Andes. 

Passiflora bauhinifolia. The outer corona filaments are slenderer 

than in the above four species, are not dilated, and taper to an acute 

apex. A nectar ring is present, and the operculum is usually denticulate, 

as in P. alnifolia. The leaves are very similar to those of P. 

alnifolia.


It apparently is restricted to the extreme southwestern part of 

Colombia, and Ecuador. 

Passiflora Tatei. 

This has the coronal structure of P. bauhinifolia, 

the differences between the two lying in the bracts, calyx tube, 

and petals. This is known only from a single collection, from the 

mountains of Bolivia. 

65. Passiflora mollis HBK. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 137. 1817. 

Decaloba mollis M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 162. 1846. 

Passiflora mollis var. obtusiloba Planch. & Linden, Ann. Sci. Nat. 

V. Bot. 17: 164. 1873. 

Stem angulate, flexuous, densely and softly villosulous; stipules 

narrowly linear, 6 to 8 mm. long, falcate; petioles up to 1 cm. long, 

glandless; leaves oblong or ovate-oblong, 5 to 10 cm. long, 3 to 7.5 cm. 

wide, 3-lobed at apex (middle lobe subtriangular, rounded or acutish, 

the lateral lobes usually much shorter, rounded or rarely acutish, 

often obsolescent so that the leaf is subentire, rarely the lateral lobes 

subequal to the middle lobe), or sometimes lunately bilobed, rounded 

at base, subcoriaceous, finely pubescent or glabrescent above, densely 

and softly ferruginous- villosulous-tomentose beneath; peduncles 

solitary or in pairs, 5 to 10 mm. long; bracts setaceous, 2 to 3 mm. 

long, purplish, soon deciduous; flowers 3 to 3.5 cm. wide; sepals 

linear-oblong, 8 to 10 mm. long, about 2 mm. wide, reddish without, 

greenish white or yellowish within; petals linear, 

4 to 5 mm. long, 

1 to 1.5 mm. wide, greenish white or yellowish; corona filaments in 

2 series, the outer fusiform or liguliform, about 4 mm. long, the inner 

filiform, 2 to 3 mm. long, capitellate; operculum closely plicate, 

denticulate; limen annular; ovary globose, densely villous; fruit 

globose, about 1 cm. in diameter, pilosulous; seeds obovate, about 

3 mm. long and 2 mm. wide, transversely 5-6-sulcate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Rio Cuello, Quindio Mountains, Colombia. 

DISTRIBUTION: Aragua, Venezuela; Central Cordillera of Colombia 

and the Santa Marta Mountains, 1,500 to 3,200 meters 

altitude. 

VENEZUELA: Aragua: Colonia Tovar, Fendler 478 (Bo, Brux, 

Gen, K, Mo, P). 

COLOMBIA: Goajira: Taquina Arriba, 3,250 meters, Schlim 830 

(Brux, type of P. mollis var. obtusiloba, Gen). Tolima: Rio Cuello, 

Humboldt & Bonpland (P, type); Killip 9725 (N), 9728 (N). San 

Miguel, New Quindio trail, Killip 9743 (N). Azufral, Quindio


trail, Kittip & Hazen 9592 (N), 9607 (N). Honda, Humboldt & 

Bonpland (B). Quindio trail, Goudot (P). Caldas: Salento, Kittip 

10101 (N). El Valle: La Cumbre, Killip 5687 (B, G, N, Ph, Y). 

66. Passiflora pilosissima Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 21: 

348. 1931. 

Plant up to 10 meters long, much branched; stem subquinquangular, 

striate, the younger portions densely pilose; stipules 

narrowly linear-falcate, 3 to 4 mm. long, 1 mm. wide at base, purplish, 

deciduous; petioles 5 to 15 mm. long, glandless, pilose, purplish; 

leaves ovate, 5 to 12 cm. long, 2 to 7 cm. wide, 3-lobed at apex 

(middle lobe triangular, acute or subacute, cuspidate or mucronulate, 

much larger than the lateral lobes which sometimes are reduced to 

mere cusps), rounded at base, entire, 3-nerved, obscurely ocellate 

beneath, membranous, densely appressed-pilose on both surfaces; 

peduncles in pairs; bracts narrowly linear, subverticillate or one borne 

just below the 2 others, 5 to 6 mm. long, 0.5 mm. wide, dark purple; 

flowers (in bud only in type specimen) "greenish white"; sepals 

ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, fleshy; petals ovate, obtuse, thin-membranous; 

corona filaments in 2 series, the outer linear-lanceolate, 

tapering gradually from base to apex, half as long as sepals, the inner 

filiform, minute; operculum closely plicate, denticulate; limen 

annular, prominent; ovary globose, densely hirsute. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Between San Gregorio and Narino, Department 

of Antioquia, Colombia. 

DISTRIBUTION: Western Colombia, between 1,500 and 2,100 

meters altitude. 

COLOMBIA: Antioquia: Between San Gregorio and Narino, 

Lehmann 7630 (B, G, K, N, type). El Valle: La Cumbre, Kittip 

11342 (N). 

The Lehmann collection was distributed as P. mollis, but the 

nature of the indument is wholly unlike that of P. mollis. Although 

the flowers of this specimen are in bud only, the outer corona filaments 

are sufficiently developed to show that they are linear-lanceolate, 

tapering from the base to the apex, whereas in P. mollis they are 

liguliform or slightly fusiform. 

67. Passiflora bogotensis Benth. PI. Hartw. 184. 1845. 

Decaloba bogotensis M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 158. 1846. 

Passiflora Pala Planch. & Linden, Ann. Sci. Nat. V. Bot. 17: 162. 

1873.


Plant ferruginous- villosulous to densely villous-tomentose; stem 

angulate; stipules setaceous, 4 to 5 mm. long, deciduous; petioles 

6 to 10 mm. long, glandless; leaves oblong, occasionally triangularovate 

or almost oval, 4 to 9 cm. long, 3 to 4.5 cm. wide, shallowly 

2-lobed at truncate apex, occasionally with a small intermediate lobe 

or subentire and undulate at apex (lobes not more than 1.5 cm. long, 

obtuse or rounded, often emarginate), rounded or cordulate at base, 

conspicuously 3-nerved (nerves subparallel, impressed above), 

subcoriaceous, villosulous-tomentose or nearly glabrous, dull or 

lustrous above, ferruginous-hirsutulous-tomentose beneath, especially 

on nerves; peduncles solitary or in pairs, up to 3 cm. long; 

bracts setaceous, 3 to 5 mm. long, purplish; flowers up to 4 cm. wide; 

sepals narrowly lance-oblong, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, about 5 mm. wide at 

base, obtuse, green or purplish without, white within, sparsely 

pilosulous or hirsute without; petals linear-oblong, 0.6 to 0.8 cm. 

long, obtuse, white; corona filaments in 2 series, the outer filaments 

narrowly liguliform, 4 to 5 mm. long, subangular, dilated into a 

capitate apex, yellow-green, purple-banded, the inner filaments 

filiform, 2 to 3 mm. long, subcapitate, grass-green; operculum strongly 

plicate, minutely denticulate, grass-green; nectar ring none; limen 

annular, green; ovary globose, densely white-pilose; fruit globose, 

1 to 1.5 cm. in diameter; seeds ovate or cuneate-obovate, about 

3 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, transversely 6-sulcate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Between Bogota and Zipaquira, Colombia. 

ILLUSTRATION: Mutis, Icon. PI. Ined. 26: pi. 23. 

DISTRIBUTION: Santa Marta Mountains and Eastern Cordillera 

of Colombia, 2,000 to 3,000 meters altitude; mountains of northeastern 

Venezuela (?). 

VENEZUELA: Monagas: Cerro de Turumiquire, G. H. H. Tate 

137 (N). 

COLOMBIA: Triana 527 (N). Goajira: Santa Marta Mountains, 

Linden 1661 (EM, Gen, P, type of P. Palo). Magdalena: Santa 

Marta Mountains, Simmons 8 (BM). Santander: Las Vegas, 

Kittip & Smith 15506 (A, G, N, Y), 16111 (A, G, N, Y). Surata, 

Killip & Smith 16607 (A, G, N, Y). La Baja, Kittip & Smith 17196 

(A, G, N, Y), 18146 (G, N, Y). Between California and Vetas, 

Kittip & Smith 18000 (A, G, N, Y). Charta, Kittip & Smith 19234 

(A, G, N, Y), 19248 (A, G, N, Y). Boyaca: Monifuira, Dawe in 

1919 (K). Cundinamarca: Between Bogota and Zipaquira, Hartweg 

1021 (K, type). Zipaquira, Lehmann 7628 (B, G, K, N, S); Pennell


2562 (G, N, Y). Chuquinquira, Apollinaire Marie (G). Ubate\ 

Goudot in 1844 (Bo, K, P). Tequendama Falls, Lehmann 2538 

(B, Bo, G, K, N). Quetame", Andre 1011, in part (K). Cajica, 

Ariste Joseph A511 (N). Subachoque", Ariste Joseph B38 (N). 

Bogota, Ariste Joseph B110 (N); Schultze 56 (B), 225 (B). Une, 

Dawe 353 (K, N); Apollinaire Marie in 1925 (Bog, N). Fusagasuga, 

Dawe in 1919 (K). Suba, Institute de La Satte (Bog). Guasca, 

Perez 1149 (N); Ariste Joseph 908 (Bog). Serrezuelita, Tracey 

439 (K). 

The extension of range of this species to northeastern Venezuela 

is based upon Tate 137 from the Cerro de Turumiquire. This specimen 

is in young bud only, the corona filaments not being developed 

sufficiently for its positive identification. In shape of the leaves 

and bracts and in indument the plant is identical with typical 

P. bogotensis. 

Passiflora Pala appears to be indistinguishable from P. bogotensis. 

Masters referred to it a number of Andr specimens from 

western Colombia and one from Ecuador, but all of them represent 

P. alnifolia or P. bauhinifolia. 

68. Passiflora alnifolia HBK. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 136. 1817. 

Decaloba alnifolia M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 

2: 158. 1846. 

Stem stout, sub triangular, glabrescent to densely pubescent; 

stipules linear-falcate, up to 7 mm. long, 1.5 to 1.8 mm. wide, acuminate; 

petioles up to 3 cm. long; leaves ovate or ovate-oblong, 6 to 10 

cm. long, 4 to 7 cm. wide (lower leaves up to 15 cm. long and 12 cm. 

wide), 2-lobed at apex (intermediate lobe often present; lobes acute 

or occasionally rounded, mucronate), broadly truncate at base, 

subcoriaceous, glabrescent or finely puberulent above, sparsely 

pubescent to subtomentose beneath ; peduncles up to 6 cm. long; bracts 

borne near apex of peduncle, setaceous to narrowly oblanceolate, 

up to 1 cm. long and 0.9 mm. wide; flowers up to 5 cm. wide; sepals 

ovate-lanceolate, up to 2 cm. long, 1 cm. wide at base, obtuse, 

puberulent or densely pubescent and green without, white within, 

often violet-tinged at base; petals ovate, up to 1.5 cm. long, 4 to 5 

mm. wide, obtuse, white or often violet-tinged at base within; 

corona filaments in 2 series, the outer cultrate, 6 to 8 mm. long, 

yellow at apex, green or green and purple-maculate below, the inner 

series filiform, 5 to 6 mm. long, obscurely capitellate, bright grassgreen; 

operculum closely plicate, bright grass-green or often paler 

at margin, the margin slightly incurved, minutely fimbrillate; nectar


ring annular, entire, situated at base of preceding; limen saucershaped, 

2 mm. high, outside pink-maculate toward base, inside 

streaked with pink, the margin denticulate or subentire; anthers and 

styles deep purple; ovary globose or subovoid, densely villous; fruit 

globose, up to 1.5 cm. in diameter, at length glabrous; seeds obovoid, 

3 to 4 mm. long, 2 to 3 mm. wide, tapering at base, lustrous, transversely 

4-6-sulcate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Rio Cuello, Quindio Mountains, Colombia. 

DISTRIBUTION: Central Cordillera of Colombia to mountains of 

southern Colombia, 1,500 to 3,000 meters altitude. 

COLOMBIA: Triana 526 (N). 

Tolima: Rio Cuello, Quindio Trail, 

Humboldt & Bonpland (B, Gen, P, type). New Quindio Trail, 

Hazen 9673 (G, N, Ph, Y); Kittip 9748 (N). Murillo, Dawe 771 

(K, N, Y). Antioquia: El Jardin, Lehmann 7627 (B, G). Caramanta, 

Pennell 10780 (G, N). Caldas: Salento, Pennell, Killip & 

Hazen 8744 (G, N, Ph, Y); Killip & Hazen 10117 (G, N, Y); Andre 

2323, in part (K, Y). Calarca, Kittip 9794 (G, N, Ph, Y). San 

Clemente, Pennell 10666 (G, N, Ph, Y). El Valle: Cuesta de Tocota, 

Pittier 689 (N). Rio Dagua, Lehmann 2758 (B, Bo, K, N); Perez 

4719 (HNC). Canitas, Andre 1011, in part (K). El Cauca: Cuatro 

Esquinas, Pennell & Killip 6349 (N). Slopes of Mt. Purac^, Pennell 

& Killip 6450 (G, N, Ph, Y), 6620 (G, N). Coconuco, Kittip 6869 

(G, N, Ph, Y). Popayan, Pennell & Killip 7190 (N) ; 

Lehmann 3459 

(B, Bo, G, K), 8021 (B, G, K). Santa Rosa de Cabal, Lehmann 3057 

(Bo, N). Dolores, Andre 2838 (K). Narino: Tuquerres, Triana 

2949 (EM, K, P). Pasto, Lehmann 674 (B, Bo, N), 4840 (B, K), 

6156 (B, N);Karsten (V). 

Only slight variations are noticeable among the large number of 

specimens of this species that have been examined. Both obtuse and 

acute leaf lobes are to be found; the depth of the lobation varies; 

and the flowers apparently are either white or bluish. 

69. Passiflora bauhinifolia HBK. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 132. 1817. 

Cieca bauhiniaefolia M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 

2: 145. 1846. 

Passiflora Andreana Mast. Journ. Linn. Soc. 20: 37. 1883. 

Stem angulate, compressed, striate, densely and softly pubescent; 

stipules linear-subulate, 5 to 7 mm. long, subfalcate, purplish; 

petioles 1 

to 2.5 cm. long, glandless; leaves oblong or ovate-oblong 

in general outline, 5 to 9 cm. long, 4 to 6.5 cm. wide, shallowly 

bilobed at apex (or with a short intermediate lobe, the lobes obtuse


or acutish, mucronulate), rounded, sub truncate, or shallowly cordate 

at base, 3-nerved, ocellate (ocellae in lines between midnerve and 

lateral nerves), membranous, glabrous above, minutely puberulous 

on nerves and veins, densely and softly appressed-pilosulous beneath; 

peduncles solitary or in pairs, 3.5 to 5 cm. long, articulate near apex; 

bracts linear-setaceous, 4 to 5 mm. long, purplish, borne above 

middle of peduncle; sepals oblong-lanceolate, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, 3 to 4 

mm. wide, obtuse, 3-nerved, pilosulous without; petals ovatelanceolate, 

0.5 to 0.7 cm. long, 0.3 to 0.4 cm. wide, obtuse, deep pink, 

glabrous; corona filaments in 2 poorly marked series, the outer 

narrowly liguliform, almost filiform, 5 to 7 mm. long, subtrigonous, 

attenuate at apex, the inner capillary, 3 to 4 mm. long; operculum 

borne close to the corona, plicate, slightly incurved; nectar ring annular; 

limen membranous, about 1 mm. high, erect, denticulate or 

nearly entire, slightly incurved at margin; ovary globose, densely 

yellowish-villous; fruit globose, 1 cm. in diameter, or slightly larger; 

seeds ovate-orbicular, 2.5 to 3 mm. long, 2 to 2.5 mm. wide, slightly 

asymmetrical, transversely sulcate, with 6 or 7 rugulose ridges 

broken near center of face. 

TYPE LOCALITY: "Regni Quitensis" (Ecuador). 

DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of southwestern Colombia, Ecuador, 

and northern Peru, from 2,000 to 3,100 meters altitude. 

COLOMBIA: El Cauca: Naranjo, Rio Dagua, Andre 1807, in part 

(K). Jimenez, Rio Dagua, Andre 2323, in part (K), 251 8 (K). 

Narino: La Laja, near Ipiales, Andre 3478 (K, type of P. Andreana, 

Y). 

Tuquerres, AndrS 1011, in part (K, Y). 

ECUADOR: Couthouy (G); Bourcier in 1851 (P); Mille (N). 

Pichincha: Quito, Humboldt & Bonpland (B, type); Mille 222 (N); 

Hall 11 (B, K) ; 

Jameson (K) ; 

Benoist 2102 (P). Rio Pilaton, Sodiro 

562 (B, N), in 1908 (N). Verdecruz, Firmin 310 (N). Guapulo, 

Stevens 258 (N). Tungurahua: Mt. Tungurahua, Lehmann 675 (Bo, 

N). Banos, Lehmann 8020 (B, G, N, S); Spnwe (K). Chimborazo: 

Mt. Chimborazo, Mille in 1914 (N). Chambo, Mille in 1914 (N). 

PERU: Cajamarca: Huambo, Raimondi 2233 (B). 

Passiflora bauhinifolia was described as apetalous, and has heretofore 

been treated as an apetalous species. The single flower of the 

type specimen at Berlin is not in condition to show whether or not 

petals are present. Stevens' specimen, also in bud, was compared 

with it, however, and the two seem to be identical. Petals are


readily discernible in this Stevens plant, though it is not possible 

to form a satisfactory concept of the corona structure. 

Mille 222 from Quito, the type locality of P. bauhinifolia, is in 

good flower and fruit. In leaves, stipules, and bracts it agrees 

exactly with Stevens' plant, and likewise, in every detail, including 

flower structure, with a specimen of the type of P. Andreana in the 

herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden. 

Masters described the corona filaments of P. Andreana as oneranked. 

Apparently, though, they are in two ranks. The inner filaments 

are very slender and rather longer than elsewhere in this group. 

In the type specimen of P. Andreana the limen is noticeably denticulate, 

but in others it is subentire. 

The foliage of P. bauhinifolia is much like that of the more 

common P. alnifolia. In the latter species, however, the outer 

corona filaments are conspicuously cultrate, not narrowly ligulate 

and of nearly uniform width as in P. bauhinifolia. 

The Andr collections are confusing because of the fact that 

Andre" often assigned the same number to specimens collected at 

different localities which he considered as belonging to one species. 

This confusion is notable in the citations given by Masters (Journ. 

Linn. Soc. 20: 25-44. 1883) in reporting upon Andrews Passifloraceae. 

Thus, Andre 1011 consists of three collections, representing three 

species: the Quetame" one is P. bogotensis, that from Canitas 

P. alnifolia, and that from Tuquerres P. bauhinifolia. No. 1807 

from the Rio Dagua is P. bauhinifolia, from Mt. Corazon P. cheledonea, 

and from Tocaima P. rubra. 

70. Passiflora Tatei Killip & Rusby, Phytologia 1: 66. 1934. 

Stem trigonous, densely pilosulous; stipules narrowly linearfalcate, 

7 to 10 mm. long, 0.5 mm. wide, purplish; petioles 1 to 2.5 

cm. long, glandless, pilosulous; leaves oblong or suborbicular in 

general outline, 3.5 to 10 cm. long, 3 to 7 cm. wide, obsoletely 2-3- 

lobed at the truncate apex, rounded or shallowly cordate at base, 

entire, 3-nerved, subcoriaceous, lustrous and minutely puberulous 

above, dull red, densely pilosulous on the nerves and veins beneath; 

peduncles solitary or in pairs, 3.5 to 4 cm. long, slender; bracts dissitate, 

6 to 9 mm. long, setaceous, deeply 2-3-cleft, purplish; flowers 

2.5 to 3.5 cm. wide; calyx tube broadly campanulate, 7 to 10 mm. 

wide at base; sepals linear or lanceolate, about 1.5 cm. long, 0.4 cm. 

wide, obtuse, greenish white; petals narrowly-linear, 7 to 9 mm. 

long, 1.5 mm. wide, obtuse, white; corona in 2 series, the outer


narrowly liguliform, about 8 mm. long, the inner filiform, 2 to 3 mm. 

long; operculum closely plicate, about 1.5 mm. high, denticulate, 

incurved; nectar ring annular; limen cupuliform, about 2 mm. high; 

ovary globose, densely lanate-villose; fruit globose; seeds ovateorbicular, 

transversely sulcate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Nequejahuira, Bolivia. 

DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of western Bolivia. 

BOLIVIA: La Paz: Nequejahuira, 2,500 meters, G. H. H. Tate 654 

(N, Y, type). 

This has the general appearance of P. bauhinifolia. In P. Tatei, 

however, the bracts are deeply cleft, in P. bauhinifolia entire; the 

calyx tube is much broader in P. Tatei, and the petals are narrowly 

linear, rather than ovate-lanceolate. 

71. Passiflora cuneata Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 696. 1809. 

Decaloba cuneata M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 

2: 158. 1846. 

Passiflora furcata Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 550. 1872. 

Passiflora bifurca Tr. & Planch. Ann. Sci. Nat. V. Bot. 17: 162. 

1873. 

(t)Passiflora luciensis Urban, Symb. Antill. 3: 324. 1902. 

Passiflora flexicaulis Killip ex Knuth, Repert. Sp. Nov. Beih. 

43: 496. 1927 (name only). 

Stem stout, strongly compressed and angulate, usually flexuous, 

glabrous or finely pilosulous; stipules narrowly linear or setaceous, 

up to 6 mm. long; petioles up to 2.5 cm. long, slender, glandless, 

pubescent; leaves variable, oblong or ovate-oblong, 4 to 8 cm. long, 

3.5 to 5 cm. wide, 2-lobed (lobes one-fifth to one-third length of 

blade, or rarely up to two-thirds, oblong, ovate-oblong, or rarely 

linear, rounded or obtuse at apex, the sinus rounded, truncate, 

or occasionally with a minute intermediate lobe), or 3-lobed (middle 

lobe equaling or shorter than the lateral lobes), cuneate or rounded 

at base, 3-nerved, reticulate-veined, membranous, glabrous or finely 

pilosulous; peduncles solitary or in pairs, slender, elongate, up to 

5 cm. long; flowers 3.5 to 4 cm. wide; sepals linear-lanceolate, 1 to 1.5 

cm. long, 3 to 4 mm. wide, obtuse, green without, white within; 

petals lanceolate, about 5 mm. long, 4 mm. wide at base, white; 

corona filaments in 2 series, the outer cultrate or spatulate, 3 to 5 mm. 

long, dilated at or above middle, conspicuously 3-angled, yellowgreen, 

banded with purple, the inner filiform, about 2 mm. long, 

grass-green; operculum membranous, plicate, incurved, grass-green;


limen annular; ovary subglobose, glabrous or densely pilose, 

especially along the obscure ribs; fruit globose, about 1.5 cm. in 

diameter, pilosulous, at length glabrate; seeds ovoid, about 2.5 mm. 

long, 1.5 mm. wide, transversely sulcate with 5 or 6 ridges. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Caracas, Venezuela. 

DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of central Venezuela; Santa Marta 

Mountains and Eastern Cordillera of Colombia; ascending to 3,800 

meters altitude in Colombia, and found in the valleys as low as 700 

meters. Also on St. Lucia(?). 

ST. LUCIA(?) W Duss : 

(B, type of P. luciensis). 

VENEZUELA: Burchell (K, type of P. furcata}-, Ernst 926 (BM), 

927 (K). Federal District: Caracas, Bredemeyer (BW, type); 

Pittier 6197 (N), 7570 (B, Gen, N), 9512 (N, Y), 9591 (N), 9833 

(N, Y). Los Venados de Galipdn, Pittier 10440 (G, Gen, N, Y). 

Aragua: Colonia Tovar, Monte 791 (B, BM), 1898 (K, V); Fendler 

483 (Bo, Brux, G, Gen, K, Mo, P), 484 (G, K, Mo). Me"rida: 

Monte 1316 (B, BM). Paramo del Morra, John 1072 (N). Tabay, 

Gehriger 464 (N). 

COLOMBIA: Magdalena: Santa Marta Mountains, H. H. Smith 

1594 (CM, G, K, Ma, N, Y), 1697 (B, BM, G, Gen, K, N, P, Y). 

Sierra del Libano, H. H. Smith 1761 (A, B, BM, Brux, CM, F, Gen, 

K, N, P, Ph, S, Ut, Y). San Lorenzo Mountains, Viereck 25 (N). 

Norte de Santander: Loso, Killip & Smith 20408 (N). Santander: 

Bucaramanga, Killip & Smith 15454 (A, G, N, Y), 16228 (A, BM, 

G, N, Y), 16340 (N, Y), 16344 (A, G, N, Y). Las Vegas, Kittip & 

Smith 15951 (A, G, N, Y). Florida, Kittip & Smith 16175 (A, G, N, 

V, Y). Surata Valley, Kittip & Smith 16412 (N, Y), 16452 (A, G, N, 

Y), 16527 (A, G, N, Y). Below Paramo Rico, Killip & Smith 17717 

(N, Y). Below Paramo de Romeral, Kittip & Smith 18599 (N). 

El Roble, Kittip & Smith 19420 (A, G, N, Y). Cundinamarca: 

Ubala, Triana 2934 (BM, type of P. bifurca, HNC, P). 

As noted by Willdenow in describing the plant, the leaves of this 

species are quite variable. Willdenow's type specimen is most 

closely duplicated as to leaf shape by Pittier 7570. The lobation 

here is about one-third the blade, the lobes being nearly erect; the 

leaves are fully twice as long as broad. In one extreme, John 1072, 

the leaves are nearly as broad as long, and are lobed only one-fifth. 

At the other extreme is Fendler 484 in the Gray Herbarium, in which 

the leaves are lobed two-thirds the length of the blade, and the lobes 

are linear less than 5 mm. wide and somewhat divergent. The


latter specimen was cited by Masters as P. furcata, and certainly in 

shape of leaves bears slight resemblance to typical P. cuneata. However, 

in the Missouri Botanical Garden there is a sheet of Fendler 484 

with the typical leaves of P. cuneata. 

This species was found to be quite common in the parts of the 

Eastern Cordillera of Colombia visited by Mr. Smith and myself, 

and showed the same marked variation in leaf shape. Sometimes the 

same plant had 3-lobed leaves with the central 

lobe the longest, 

2-lobed leaves, with both erect, rather broad lobes as in typical 

P. cuneata, and narrow, divaricate lobes as in the form described 

as P. furcata. Likewise, individual plants had both glabrous and 

pilose ovaries. 

The outer corona filaments are distinctly trigonous, though in 

dried specimens this is often scarcely discernible. 

Passiflora luciensis I am unable to distinguish from P. cuneata. 

The leaves of the type specimen are essentially identical with typical 

forms of P. cuneata as represented by Viereck's specimens from the 

Santa Marta Mountains, Colombia. The occurrence of this species 

of the northern Andes on the island of St. Lucia is remarkable. 

Possibly the St. Lucia plant is a form of P. Andersonii, a little known 

species with transversely oblong leaves, or possibly P. cuneata, P. 

Andersonii, P. luciensis, and perhaps P. rotundifolia are forms of a 

polymorphic species of widespread distribution. The study of living 

material from the Lesser Antilles is necessary before finally adopting 

such a treatment, however. 

72. Passiflora lyra Planch. & Linden ex Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. 

Sci. 20:377. 1930. 

Stem sharply angular, puberulent; stipules setaceous, 5 to 10 

mm. long, deciduous; petioles stout, up to 2.5 cm. long, glandless; 

leaves ovate-lanceolate or broadly ovate in general outline, 6 to 10 

cm. along the midnerve, 6 to 12 cm. along the lateral nerves, 5 to 

10 cm. wide, narrowed toward the apex, sub truncate, shallowly 2-3- 

lobed (lobes acute or acuminate, the sinus lunate), rounded at the 

base, subcoriaceous, shining and very dark green (when dry) and 

finely and sparsely puberulent above, reddish when dry and densely 

and softly tomentulous beneath, bearing 2 conspicuous, white, subcrustaceous 

glands in the angles of the nerves; flowers white, 3.5 to 

4 cm. wide, borne on axillary branches up to 10 cm. long which bear 

much reduced leaves; bracts setaceous, about 5 mm. long; sepals 

lanceolate, about 1.5 cm. long and 5 mm. wide, subacute, petals


linear, about 5 mm. long and 2 mm. wide, very slender; corona filaments 

in 2 series, the outer filiform, 4 to 5 mm. long, slightly torulose, 

the inner capillary, 2 mm. long, capitellate; operculum membranous, 

slightly plicate, erect, irregularly lacerate to the middle, about 2 mm. 

high; limen annular; ovary ovoid, densely sericeous-pilose with 

brownish or whitish hairs. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Cumbre de Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela. 

DISTRIBUTION: Northern Venezuela. 

VENEZUELA: Aragua: Cloud forests of the Ocumare Valley, 800 

meters, Pittier 13958 (N). Carabobo: Cumbre de Valencia, Funck 

& Schlim 552 (Bo, Gen, P, type). 

The leaves of this species are much like those of P. chelidonea in 

general outline, though less deeply lobed. The dense indument on 

the ovary and under surface of the leaves and the position of the 

flowers on short, axillary branches are the most obvious characters 

by which P. lyra may be distinguished from P. chelidonea. In 

Pittier's recent collection the leaves are proportionately broader. 

73. Passiflora talamancensis Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 12: 

260. 1922. 

Stem angulate, striate, minutely puberulent; stipules linearsubulate, 

3 to 8 mm. long; petioles 1 

tomentellous, glandless; 

to 2 cm. long, puberulent or 

leaves cuneate-obovate or cuneate-oval in 

outline, 6 to 12 cm. long, 3 to 7 cm. wide, very shortly 3-lobed or 3- 

toothed at apex (middle lobe normally longest, 5 to 10 mm. long, 

usually deltoid), cuneate or rounded at base, narrowed above middle, 

subcoriaceous, glabrous and lustrous above, dull and puberulent 

beneath, strongly 3-nerved, ocellate beneath; peduncles slender, 2 to 

4 cm. long; bracts setaceous, 2 mm. long, deciduous; flowers 2.5 

to 3.5 cm. wide; sepals oblong, obtuse, about 1.5 cm. long, 0.5 cm. 

wide, green without, white within; petals two-thirds as long as the 

sepals, white; corona filaments in 2 series, those of the outer series 

falcate-ligulate, 5 to 7 mm. long, white(?), those of the inner series capillary, 

1.5 mm. long, white, purple at tips; operculum close to the 

corona, membranous, plicate, 2 mm. long, erect, the margin minutely 

crenulate, slightly recurved; limen annular; ovary globose, densely 

tomentellous; fruit globose, about 1 cm. in diameter, villosulous; 

seeds ovate, 5 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, transversely rugose with 6 or 7 

minutely rugulose ridges, asymmetrical, the margin bearing a single 

knob on one side just below the apex. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Shirores, Talamanca, Costa Rica.


DISTRIBUTION: Eastern Costa Rica, up to 200 meters altitude. 

COSTA RICA: Shirores, Talamanca, Tonduz 9329 (Brux, N, type). 

Tsaki, Tonduz 9593 (Bo, Brux, N). Carmen, Limon, Standley & 

Valeria 48349 (N), 48364 (N). 

This is a well marked species, quite unlike any other in Central 

America. The leaves are remotely suggestive of some forms of P. 

cuneata, but the lobes are acute. The flowers are very different from 

those of P. cuneata. 

74. Passiflora popayanensis Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 20: 

377. 1930. 

Stem angular, compressed, tortuous, glabrous; stipules linearsetaceous, 

about 2 mm. long; petioles up to 1.5 cm. long, minutely 

pilosulous, glandless; leaves oblong or ovate-oblong, 5 to 7 cm. long, 

3 to 3.5 cm. wide, bilobed a third to a half their length (lobes lanceolate, 

2 to 2.5 cm. long, acuminate, mucronulate, the sinus truncate, 

often with a small, triangular, intermediate lobe present), rounded at 

base, 3-nerved, membranous, glabrous, dark green, usually paler 

along nerves above, glaucous beneath; peduncles slender, up to 3 cm. 

long, articulate just below apex; bracts setaceous, 2 to 4 mm. long, 

borne above middle of peduncle; flowers 3 to 3.5 cm. wide; sepals 

oblong-lanceolate, 1.2 to 1.5 cm. long, about 0.4 cm. wide, obtuse; 

petals spatulate, 6 to 7 mm. long, about 3 mm. wide, obtuse, reticulate-veined 

toward apex, white, the veins darker; corona filaments in 

2 series, filiform, the outer 6 to 7 mm. long, the inner 4 to 5 mm. long; 

operculum slightly plicate, 

the margin minutely fimbrillate; nectar 

ring annular; limen cushion-like, closely surrounding the base of the 

gynophore; gynophore very slender; ovary ovoid, glabrous. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Sotara Volcano, near Popayan, Colombia. 

ILLUSTRATION: Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 21: 499. 

/. 230 C, D. 


in southwestern 

Colombia. 

COLOMBIA: El Cauca: Sotara Volcano, near Popayan, 2,400 to 

2,900 meters, Lehmann 3731 (B, Bo, K, N, type). 

This collection is cited by Masters as P. ckelidonea Mast, in a 

report on Lehmann's Passifloraceae (Bot. Jahrb. 8: 218. 1887) and 

is apparently the original of a detailed drawing of "P. chelidonea" 

(Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 21: 499. /. 230 C, D. 1925). 

The thinner, more deeply lobed leaves (glaucous beneath), the longer


peduncles, more slender corona filaments, the two series of which 

are of nearly equal length, and the smaller flowers distinguish P. 

popayanensis from P. chelidonea. The ovary of the plant, moreover, 

is glabrous, that of P. chelidonea densely puberulent. The leaves 

resemble those of forms of P. alnifolia, which also grows in southern 

Colombia, but the corona filaments differ and the ovary is glabrous. 

75. Passiflora chelidonea Mast. Card. Chron. 12: 40. 1879. 

Stem angulate, glabrous, scabrous; stipules narrowly linear, 

acuminate; petioles up to 2 cm. long, purplish; leaves oblong-lanceolate, 

up to 14 cm. long and 8 cm. wide, 2-3-lobed at apex (lateral 

lobes lanceolate, acute, suberect, the intermediate lobe very small), 

rounded or subcordate at base, coriaceous, glabrous; peduncles up to 

2 cm. long; bracts setaceous, 4 to 6 mm. long, borne above middle of 

peduncle; flowers up to 5 cm. wide; sepals oblong-lanceolate, 2.5 cm. 

long, 1.2 cm. wide, light yellow-green and lustrous on both surfaces; 

petals 1.2 cm. long, 0.4 cm. wide; corona filaments in 2 series, the 

outer terete, tapering above middle, 1 cm. long, radiate, white, 

spotted with dull bluish violet at base, dull bluish violet at center, 

mustard-yellow at apex, the inner series grass-green, narrowly linearclavate, 

3 mm. long; operculum 2 mm. high, plicate with about 45 

folds, grass-green; nectar ring annular; limen annular, 3 mm. high, 

fleshy, white, finely spotted externally with pink, the margin white; 

gynophore dark green, becoming purple; filaments reddish purple; 

styles deep purple; ovary green, short-strigillose; stigmas green; 

fruit globose, 1.5 cm. in diameter; seeds obovoid, about 4 mm. long, 

2.5 mm. wide, transversely sulcate, the broken ridges 6 to 8. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Mt. Corazon, Ecuador. 

ILLUSTRATION: Gard. Chron. 12: 40. 1879. 

DISTRIBUTION: Western Cordillera of Colombia and mountains 

of northern Ecuador; Eastern Cordillera of Colombia(?); between 

1,600 and 3,000 meters altitude. 

COLOMBIA: Mutis 4411 (Ma, N). 

Anque, Lehmann XIV (Bo). 

Santander: Below Paramo Santurban, Killip & Smith 17923 (A, G, 

N, Y). Charta, Killip & Smith 19031 (A, G, N, Y). Caldas: Rio 

San Rafael, below Cerro Tatama, Pennell 10336 (N). Santuaria, 

Pennell 10600 (G, N, Y). El Valle: La Cumbre, Pennell & Killip 

5752 (G, N, Ph, Y). 

ECUADOR: Pichincha: Quito, Andre 1110 (K, Y). 

Plant cultivated 

in England, originally from Mt. Corazon (K, type); Andre 1807, in 

part (K).


In Pennell 10336 the leaves are proportionately much narrower 

than in typical P. chelidonea, resembling those of P. tribolophylla, 

but since flowers are lacking it is impossible to determine positively 

to which species this specimen should be referred. The specimens 

from Santander in the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia, and Mutis 

44^1, probably also from the Eastern Cordillera, may represent 

another species with strikingly similar foliage. The flowers are not 

sufficiently developed for positive identification. 

76. Passiflora tribolophylla Harms, Repert. Sp. Nov. 18: 297. 

1922. 

Stem densely and softly pilosulous; stipules setaceous, 4 to 5 mm. 

long; petioles 5 to 12 mm. long, glandless; leaves lanceolate, oblonglanceolate, 

or linear-lanceolate in general outline, 3 to 12 cm. long, 

1 to 4 cm. wide, 2-3-lobed (lateral lobes suberect, 12 mm. long, 

acute, the middle lobe equaling the lateral lobes or much reduced), 

rounded or shallowly cordate at base, 3-nerved, closely reticulateveined, 

coriaceous, dull sea-green, lustrous and glabrous above, sublustrous 

and finely pilosulous beneath; peduncles 1.5 to 2.5 cm. long, 

articulate near apex; bracts setaceous, about 2 mm. long; sepals 

lanceolate, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, 5 to 7 mm. wide, obtuse, puberulent and 

green without, violet at base, white within; petals linear-oblong, 

subequal to sepals, white, violet at base; corona filaments in 2 series, 

the outer falcate-ligulate, 6 to 7 mm. long, greenish yellow, purplebanded, 

the inner capillary, about 3 mm. long; the operculum 

membranous, plicate, 3 mm. high; nectar ring a low ridge; limen 

cupuliform; ovary pilosulous. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Western Cordillera, west of Popayan, Colombia. 

DISTRIBUTION: Western Colombia, at elevations up to 1,700 

meters. 

COLOMBIA: Antioquia: Santa Elena, Archer 1246 (N). El 

Cauca: West of Popaydn, 1,300 to 1,900 meters, Lehmann 5420 

(B, type, F, K, N; probably B.T.859; K, Y). La Gallera, Micay 

Valley, KiUip 7918 (N, Y). 

The general outline of the leaves of this species suggests 

P. chelidonea. The outer corona filaments, however, are proportionately 

shorter and the stem densely pilosulous. 

77. Passiflora Dawei Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 20: 375. 1930. 

Stem triangular, striate, minutely puberulous, at length glabrate; 

stipules narrowly linear-falcate, 9 to 10 mm. long, 1 mm. wide;


petioles 3.5 to 4 cm. long, glandless; leaves broadly ovate-oblong in 

general outline, 8 to 10 cm. along midnerve, 10 to 14 cm. along lateral 

nerves, 8 to 10 cm. wide at middle, 6 to 7 cm. wide between the tips 

of the lobes, 2-lobed about a third their length (lobes lanceolate, 

acute, the sinus deeply sinuate, mucronulate at base), rounded or 

subtruncate at base, 3-nerved, ocellate beneath, subcoriaceous, 

essentially glabrous, bright green (when dry) on both surfaces; 

peduncles 5 to 7 cm. long, articulate about 1 cm. below apex; bracts 

narrowly linear, 5 to 6 mm. long, 0.5 to 1 mm. wide; flowers 4 to 5 

cm. wide; sepals oblong-lanceolate, 2 to 2.5 cm. long, 0.8 to 1 cm. 

wide, obtuse, white within; petals similar to the sepals, about 1.5 

cm. long and 0.9 cm. wide, pink-tinged; corona filaments in 2 series, 

the outer trigonous, about 1 cm. long, conspicuously dilated at and 

above middle, dark purple, the inner filiform, half as long, minutely 

capitellate, grass-green; operculum closely plicate; limen annular; 

ovary globose, densely white-pilose. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Department of Cundinamarca, Colombia. 

DISTRIBUTION: Southeastern Colombia. 

COLOMBIA: Cundinamarca: Dawe 57 (K, N, type). Caqueta: 

Florencia, 420 meters, Perez 669 (N). 

This species is distinguished from P. chelidonea by proportionately 

broader leaves, longer peduncles, larger bracts, and the shape of the 

outer corona filaments. It might be confused with P. alnifolia, a 

species common in the Central Cordillera of Colombia, but that has 

quite differently shaped outer corona filaments, shorter peduncles, 

and smaller leaves. 

78. Passiflora ichthyura Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 587. 

1872. 

Stem compressed, striate, pulverulent; stipules linear-subulate, 

4 to 5 mm. long, deciduous; petioles up to 3 cm. long, glandless; 

leaves oblong, 7 to 7.5 cm. long (midnerve), 10 to 11 cm. (lateral 

nerves), 9 to 10 cm. (between apices of lobes), bilobed (lobes ovateoblong, 

2 to 2.5 cm. wide, acute, often with an intermediate lobe, the 

sinus lunate or subtruncate), subcuneate at base, membranous, 

ocellate, glabrous above, pulverulent and stellate-glandular beneath; 

peduncles solitary or in pairs, 1.5 to 3 cm. long; bracts subulate; 

flowers about 3 cm. wide; sepals oblong, obtuse; petals shorter than 

the sepals, obtuse, white; corona filaments in 2 series, the outer 

narrowly liguliform, 7 to 9 mm. long, the inner filiform, about 2 mm.


long, capitellate; operculum membranous, slightly plicate, fimbrillate, 

inflexed; limen annular; ovary obovoid, glabrous. 

TYPE LOCALITY: State of Goyaz, Brazil. 

(K, 

DISTRIBUTION: Bolivia and central Brazil. 

BOLIVIA: La Paz: Antahuacana, 750 meters, Buchtien 4651 

(N). 

BRAZIL: Sello 2129 (B), 2149 (B). Goyaz: Gardner 3191 

type). 

Gardner's type specimen shows no vestige of an intermediate 

leaf lobe, but in the Sello material and the Bolivian specimen this is 

rather strongly developed. 

79. Passiflora Candollei Tr. & Planch. Ann. Sci. Nat. V. Bot. 17: 

161, footnote. 1873. 

lunata Juss. ex DC. Prodr. 3: 331. 1828. Not P. 

Passiflora 

lunata J. E. Sm. or P. & E. 

Decaloba lunata M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 158. 1846. 

Plant glabrous or usually finely pulverulent; stem angular, compressed, 

striate, subflexuous, glabrous below, finely pulverulent 

toward the apex; stipules linear-subulate, 5 to 7 mm. long, 1 to 1.2 

mm. wide, falcate, acuminate, coriaceous; petioles up to 6 cm. long, 

glandless; leaves 5 to 10 cm. along midnerve, 7 to 15 cm. along 

lateral nerves, 7 to 15 cm. wide, bilobed (lobes lanceolate, 3 to 4 cm. 

long, 2.5 to 3.5 cm. wide at their base, acuminate, mucronulate, the 

sinus broadly lunate, with an intermediate lobe sometimes present, 

or the upper margin sub truncate), rounded at base, entire, conspicuously 

3-nerved, reticulate, ocellate, coriaceous or subcoriaceous, 

bright green, shining, and glabrous above, dull and finely pulverulent 

or minutely pilosulous beneath; peduncles solitary or in pairs, up to 

2 cm. long, articulate at middle; bracts setaceous, 2 to 3 mm. long, 

borne near middle of peduncle; flowers 3 to 5 cm. wide; sepals broadly 

oblong, 1.5 to 2 cm. long, 1 to 1.5 cm. wide, puberulent without, 

fleshy, light green without, white within; petals ovate-oblong, 8 to 

12 mm. long, about 10 mm. wide, obtuse, white, pink-tinged; corona 

filaments in 2 series, the outer 8 to 10 mm. long, slender, subtrigonous, 

yellow, the inner filiform, 3 to 4 mm. long, minutely capitellate, 

light green ; operculum closely plicate, light green ; ovary globose, 

white-sericeous; fruit globose, 1.5 to 2 cm. in diameter, densely 

pilosulous; seeds obovate or obcordate, about 2 mm. long and 1.5 

mm. wide, transversely sulcate with about 7 rugulose ridges. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Peru.


DISTRIBUTION: Amazon basin of Peru and Bolivia; frequent up 

to 700 meters altitude, ascending to 1,100 meters in the Department 

of Huanuco. 

PERU: Dombey 742 (B, Gen, Ma, P, type); Pavdn (B, BM, Bo, 

Gen, P). Hacienda Chalhuapuquio, Stevens 146 (N). Amazonas: 

Chachapoyas, Mathews (BM, Bo, Gen, K, Y). Loreto: Iquitos, 

Kittip & Smith 27143 (N), 27438 (N);Klug 1306 (F, N); L. Williams 

8070 (N). Rio Itaya, Kittip & Smith 29375 (F, N, Y), 29503 (F, N, 

Y), 29693 (F, N, Y), 29734 (F, N, Y), 29735 (N); Tessmann 5273 

(B, Bas). Mouth of Rio Santiago, Tessmann 4942 (B). Lower Rio 

Huallaga, Kittip & Smith 27825 (F, N, Y); L. Williams 4175 (N). 

Fortaleza, King 2788 (F, Gen, N). Rio Paranapura, King 3945 (N). 

Mishuyacu, Klug 1581 (F, N). Huanuco: Pampayacu, Macbride 

5123 (F, N). Chinchao, Ruiz & Pavdn (Ma). Junin: La Merced, 

Killip & Smith 23517 (N, Y). Colonia Perene", Killip & Smith 25000 

(F, N, Y). Puerto Yessup, Killip & Smith 26308 (F, N, Y). Puerto 

Bermudez, Killip & Smith 26607 (N, Y). 

BOLIVIA: Beni: Rio Chapare", Werdermann 2164 (B, S). 

De Candolle assigned a manuscript name of Jussieu's, P. lunata, 

to this Peruvian plant, overlooking the earlier use of the name by 

several authors. 

Many of the specimens listed above, that were seen 

in European herbaria, bear various names; the Mathews plant was 

cited by Masters as P. indecora HBK., a wholly different species. 

Perhaps this is too closely related to P. ichthyura. In that species 

the leaves are noticeably longer than broad, with a cuneate base, 

and the indument on their under surface is very dense. 

80. Passiflora yucatanensis Killip, Field Mus. Bot. 8: 26. 1930. 

Stem 4-5-angulate, striate, puberulent; stipules falcate-subulate, 

2 to 3 mm. long, 0.5 mm. wide; petioles 1 to 1.5 cm. long, puberulent, 

glandless; leaves variable, truncately 2-3-lobed at apex (4 to 5 cm. 

long, 6 to 8 cm. wide) or deeply 2-lobed, with an obsolescent intermediate 

middle lobe (2 to 4 cm. along midnerve, 5 to 8.5 cm. along 

lateral nerves, 6 to 10 cm. between apices of lobes; lobes rounded at 

apex), rounded or truncate at base, ocellate beneath, membranous 

or subcoriaceous, glabrous above, minutely puberulous beneath, 

especially at margin; peduncles solitary, 

about 3 cm. long, slender; 

bracts setaceous, 1 to 2 mm. long, borne about 5 mm. below flower; 

flowers 2.5 to 3.5 cm. wide; sepals oblong-lanceolate, 1.3 to 1.6 cm. 

long, 4 mm. wide, obtuse; petals oblong-lanceolate, 8 to 9 mm. long, 

4 mm. wide, obtuse; corona filaments in 2 series, the outer 4 to 5 mm.


long, erect, 3-angled, slightly dilated at middle, the inner capillary, 

2 mm. long; operculum membranous, plicate, incurved, minutely 

fimbrillate; gynophore 1 to 1.2 cm. long, slender, striate; ovary 

narrowly ovoid, densely white-villous. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Cozumel Island, Yucatan, Mexico. 

DISTRIBUTION: Yucatan, Mexico. 

MEXICO: Yucatan: E. P. Johnson (Y). Cozumel Island, Gaumer 

101 (F, type, G, N). 

The type collection of this species was reported (Field Mus. Bot. 

1: 134. 1895) as "Passiflora Andersonii DC.?," a plant of the islands 

of St. Lucia and Dominica, related to P. rotundifolia and quite distinct 

from P. yucatanensis. The foliage of P. yucatanen&is suggests 

that of forms of P. biflora, but the species has relatively longer, 

reflexed outer corona filaments, a shorter and thicker gynophore, 

and much shorter peduncles. 

81. Passiflora punctata L. Sp. 

PI. 957. 1753. 

Decaloba punctata M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 156. 1846. 

Plant glabrous throughout; stem sub triangular, compressed, 

striate; stipules linear-falcate, 3 to 5 mm. long, subpersistent; petioles 

3 to 6 cm. long, slender, glandless; leaves transversely oblong in 

general outline, 2 to 5 cm. along midnerve, 3 to 7 cm. along lateral 

nerves, 6 to 12 cm. between apices of lobes, truncate and very 

shallowly 3-lobed at apex or rather conspicuously bilobed (lobes 

broadly rounded and emarginate, rarely acutish, minutely mucronulate), 

truncate or subcordate at base, 3 (or obscurely 5)-nerved, thinmembranous, 

glaucescent beneath; peduncles 5 to 8 cm. long, very 

slender, articulate about 1 cm. from apex; bracts setaceous, 1 to 2 

mm. long, scattered, deciduous; flowers 2.5 to 4 cm. wide; calyx tube 

campanulate, 10-sulcate; sepals oblong-lanceolate, 1.5 to 1.8 cm. 

long, 0.8 to 1 cm. wide at base, obtuse, hyaline at margin, light yellowgreen 

and slightly lustrous externally, duller internally; petals oblonglanceolate, 

1 to 1.2 cm. long, 4 to 6 mm. wide, recurved, greenish 

white; corona filaments in 2 series, the outer liguliform, falcate, flat, 

dilated near middle, 7 to 10 mm. long, up to 1.5 mm. wide (the 4 or 5 

filaments opposite the sepals, erect at base, the apices recurved, the 

2 or 3 opposite the petals incurved from the base), pale yellow-green 

at apex, varying from deep purple to pale magenta at center, white 

at base, the inner series of filaments filiform, 4 to 5 mm. long, capitellate, 

purplish; operculum membranous, plicate, 3 to 4 mm. high, 

incurved and minutely denticulate at apex, purple and white; limen


a narrow ridge, white, purple-maculate, undulate at margin; gynophore 

slender, deep purple below, white above; ovary narrowly 

ovoid or ellipsoidal, brownish- or whitish-puberulent or villosulous; 

fruit ellipsoidal, 2 cm. long (not fully developed)); seeds ovate, about 

3 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide, transversely 6-sulcate, the ridges rugulose. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Peru (based on a Feuilte plant from a garden at 

Malambo, then a suburb of Lima). 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Amoen. Acad. 1: pi. 10, f. 

12; Cav. Diss. 10: pi. 

269; Poepp. & Endl. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: pi. 178; Bot. Mag. 132: 

pi. 8101. 

DISTRIBUTION: Specimens examined from a wide area (Panama 

to central Peru and Bolivia), many of them certainly from plants in 

cultivation; perhaps native in Ecuador and northern Peru. 

PANAMA: Duchassaing in 1851 (P); Hayes 596 (Y). 

COLOMBIA: El Valle: La Manuelita, near Palmira, cultivated, 

Pennell & Killip 6173 (G, N, Ph, Y). Buga, cultivated, Lehmann 801 

(Bo), 3049 (B, Bo, K, N). Cartago, Lehmann 4615 (B, K), B.T.1123, 

in part (K); Andre 4143 (K), 4143bis (K). Narino: Naranjo, Andre 

78, in part (Y). 

ECUADOR: Eggers 15270 (F). Ayabamba, Lehmann 4832 (Gen, 

K). Manabi: El Recreo, Eggers 15582 (B, F, K, N, P). Guayas: 

Guayaquil, Eraser (BM); Nee (Ma); cultivated, Mille 200 (N); 

Hall (K). Naranjito, Sodiro in 1908 (N). 

PERU: Pavdn (B, BM, Bo, Gen, P); Dombey 736 (B, Gen, P); 

"Richard" (BW). Tumbez: Hacienda Chicama, Weberbauer 7637 

(F). San Martin: Tarapoto, L. Williams 5922 (N). Libertad: 

Chinchin, Nee (Ma). Lima: Lima, cultivated, Killip & Smith 

21527 (F, N, Y); Nee (Ma). Barrana, Wawra 527 (V). Cuzco: 

Santa Ana Valley, Herrera 941 

BOLIVIA: D'Orbigny 563 (P). 

(B). 

From P. biflora this is distinguished by its longer, very slender 

peduncles, which are usually solitary, its thinner leaves, and its 

longer, predominantly purple or blue, rather than yellow, outer 

corona filaments, which are flat, not trigonous. The leaves are less 

variable than in the case of P. biflora, being always much broader 

than long and of nearly uniform lobation. The flower details here 

given are based on Pennell & Killip 6173. 

The two Brazilian collections cited by Masters as P. punctata are 

better referred to other species. A specimen in the Linnean Her-


barium labeled "punctata" by Linnaeus but not at hand in 1753 is 

P. biflora. 

LOCAL NAME: "Norbo" (Peru). 

82. Passiflora biflora Lam. Encycl. 3: 36. 1789. 

Passiflora lunata J. E. Smith, Icon. PL Rar. 11: pi. 1. 1790; Willd. 

Sp. PI. ed. 4, 3: 612. 1800. Not P. lunata Juss., or Veil., or 

Poepp. & Endl. 

Passiflora glabrata HBK. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 135. 1817. 

Cieca glabrata M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 

2: 143. 1846. 

Decaloba biflora M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 161. 1846. 

Decaloba biflora var. major M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 

1846. 

Decaloba biflora var. mexicana M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 

1846. 

2: 161. 

2: 161. 

Passiflora lunata var. costata Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 

552. 1872. 

Passiflora spathulata Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1 : 552. 1872. 

Passiflora Brighami Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 21: 473. 1887. 

Passiflora normalis L. sensu Sesse* & Moc. PI. Nov. Hisp. 155. 

1887. Not P. normalis L. 

Passiflora transversa Mast. Bot. Gaz. 16: 7. 1891. 

Stem 5-angled, strongly grooved, more or less tortuous, green or 

purplish, glabrate; stipules narrowly linear-subulate or setaceous, 

often subfalcate, 1.5 to 3 mm. long; petioles 0.5 to 1 cm. long or those 

of the lower leaves occasionally up to 3 cm., glandless, glabrate or 

minutely puberulent; leaves extremely variable in outline, transversely 

linear or transversely oblong to suborbicular (ranging from 

0.8 cm. long and 8 cm. wide to 10 cm. long and 10 cm. wide), or 2- 

lobed with an intermediate third lobe frequently present (lobes 

acuminate or rounded, usually apiculate, lanceolate or ovate, widely 

divergent or subapproximate, often one-half the length of the blade, 

usually much less), truncate, rounded, subcordate, or cuneate at 

base, 3-nerved (a secondary pair of nerves arising near the apex of 

the midnerve), reticulate-veined (nerves and veins conspicuous), 

glabrous above, glabrous or minutely puberulent beneath, ocellate 

with about 4 pairs of ocellae, coriaceous or subcoriaceous; peduncles 

in pairs, usually from 1 to 1.2 cm. long, rarely the lower up to 3 cm., 

articulate slightly above middle; bracts setaceous, 2 mm. long; 

flowers 2.5 to 3.5 cm. wide; sepals ovate-lanceolate, 9 to 12 mm. long,


5 to 7 mm. wide, obtuse, green and puberulent or glabrate without, 

white and glabrous within; petals about 8 mm. long, 5 mm. wide, 

white; corona filaments in 2 series, the outer 3-angled, dilated near 

middle, about 7 mm. long, yellow, the inner filiform, about 5 mm. 

long; operculum membranous, closely plicate, the margin incurved; 

limen annular; gynophore 5 to 8 mm. long; ovary subglobose or ovoid, 

terete or angled, glabrate, puberulent, or densely tomentose; fruit 

globose or subglobose, 1 

to 2 cm. in diameter, glabrous to densely 

puberulent; seeds obovoid, 2.5 to 3 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide, transversely 

sulcate with 6 or 7 ridges, the ridges parallel, or the uppermost 

and lowermost curved. 

TYPE LOCALITY: "L'Ame'rique me'ridionale," and the type a 

cultivated plant. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Martyn, Hist. PI. Rar. pi. 50. 1728; Cav. Diss. 

10: pi 288; J. E. Sm. Icon. Pict. 1, pt. 1: pi. 1; Trans. Linn. Soc. 2: 

pi. 5; Andr. Rep. 10: pi 657; Lodd. Bot. Ca.b. 2: pi 181; Ann. G


7495 (Y), 7496 (Cal, N), 8905 (Cal), in 1923 (N); Seler 5181 (N); 

Galeotti 3662 (Brux). Tampico, Palmer 416 (G, N). Guerrero: 

Acapulco, Palmer 616 (F, N). Oaxaca: Ghiesbreght 80 (P). Plunia, 

Nelson 2477 (G, N), 2481 (N). Tabasco: San Juan Bautista, 

Rovirosa 102 (N, Ph). Chiapas: Zuluzu, Linden (Gen, P). Tapachula, 

Van Ufford 38 (Ut). Campeche: Tuxpena, Lundell 1351 

(Mich, N). 

GUATEMALA: Tactic, Lehmann 1422 (Bo, K). Rio Choc6n, 

Watson 97 (G, type of P. Brighami). Jinotepe, Friedrichsthal 1188 

(V, type P. lunata var. costata). Petn: Uaxactun, Bartlett 12360 

(Mich), 12510 (Mich, N). El Paso, Lundell 1490 (Mich). Alta 

Verapaz: Cubilquitz, Turckheim 8218 (N). Quezaltenango: Colomba, 

Skutch 2044 (N). Izabal: Quirigua, Standley 24210 (N). 

Escuintla: San Juan Mixtan, J. D. Smith 

Livingston, Deam 66 (G). 

2083 (N). Masaqua, J. D. Smith 2099 (G, K, type of P. transversa, N). 

HONDURAS: Tela, Standley 53575 (N), 55291 (N), 56827 (N). 

San Pedro Sula, Thieme 5245 (N). Laguna Quemada, Wilson 626 

(Y), 628 (N). 

BRITISH HONDURAS: Gentle 346 (Mich). Toledo, Peck 505 (G). 

El Cayo, Bartlett 11446 (N), 12025 (N), 12074 (N). Belize River, 

Lundell 3835 (N), 3840 (N). 

Belize, Lundell 1837 (N), 1944 (N), 

70SS (N); Gentfe 3 (Mich). La Libertad, LundeM 2271 (Mich), 0272 

(Mich), WO (N); Aguilar 165 (N). Northern River, Gentle 877 

(N). Corozal, Gentle 378 (Mich, N), 520 (N). New River, O'NeiU 

8802 (CU). 

SALVADOR: Sonsonate, Standley 21953 (N). 

NICARAGUA: Managua, Maxon 7458 (N). Chontales, R. Tate 110 

COSTA RICA: Pittier 1224 (Bo), 3908 (Brux) ; 

Tonduz 8467 (Brux). 

Alajuela, Pittier 538 (Brux); Tonduz 7307 (Brux). Puntarenas, 

Pittier 497 (Brux); Tonduz 1704 (Brux). Lim6n, Tonduz 14844 

(Gen); Standley 36684 (N), 37016 (N). Guapiles, Standley 87370 

(N). San Juan, Tonduz 9777 (N). Alajuelita, Tonduz 9081 (Brux, 

N). Juan Vinas, Tonduz 10417 (N) ; 

Calvert in 1909 (Ph). Turrialba, 

J. D. Sww'to 6528 (N); Tonduz 8396 (Brux). Tuis, Pittier (Tonduz) 

12292 (B, G, K, N, P, Y). Nicoya, Tondwz 13851 (N). Hacienda 

Robles, Pittier 1673 (B, BM, Bo, Brux, N). Las Pavas, San Jose", 

Standley 36087 (N); Pittier 5671 (N). Rio Changuinola, Stork 276 

(N). Cartago, Oersted (Cop). Ugares, Oersted 4105 (Cop). La 

Estrella, Standley 39355 (N). Dulce Nombre, Standley 35823 (N).


Pejivalle, Standley 46833 (N). Orosi, Standley 39820 (N). San 

Ram6n, Brenes 6158, in part (F). 

PANAMA: Duchassaing in 1851 (B, P); Sinclair (K); Nee (Ma). 

Chiriqui: El Boquete, Killip 3608 (Roch). David, Killip 3640 

(Roch). Code": Penonome", R. S. Williams 226 (Y). Canal Zone: 

Chagres, Fendler 121 (F, G, K, N). Ancon, Pittier 2578 (N); Killip 

12107 (N) ; 

Blancher in 1922 (N). Culebra, Pittier 2091 (N) ; Standley 

25982 (N). Empire, Piper 5520 (N). Fort Sherman, Standley 31040 

(N), 31184 (N); Stevens 1046 (N). Lion Hill, Hayes 601 (BM, K). 

Frijoles, Piper 5806 (N). Barro Colorado Island, Bailey & Bailey 

311 (N). Colon: Porto Bello, Billberg 293 (S); Pittier 2461 (N). 

Catival, Standley 30349 (N). Panama: Las Sabanas, Standley 25834 

(N), 29802 (N). Taboga Island, Standley 27844 (N) ; 

Pittier 3607 (N). 

BAHAMAS: Brace 487 (Y). Great Cistern, Brace 1762 (F, Y). 

Pigeon Cay, Brace 1664 (F, Y). Marsh Harbor, Brace 1809 (Y). 

Eleuthera Island, Fairchild 30 (N). 

VENEZUELA: Federal District: La Guayra, Otto 474 (B, V); 

Andre 154 (K). Merida: Moritz 1315 (BM). Tovar, Pittier 12764 

(N). 

Tachira: Capacho, Archer 3182 (N). 

COLOMBIA: Lehmann B.T.I 123 in part (Y); Triana (N). 

Magdalena: 

Mamatoca, H. H. Smith 1597 (B, CM, F, G, K, N, P, Ph, Y), 

1956 (Y). "Santa Marta, Jamaica," Purdie (K). Bolivar: Turbaco, 

Humboldt & Bonpland (B, type of P. glabrata, P); Kittip & Smith 

14650 (A, G, N, Y). Cartagena, Dawe 890 (K, Y). Norte de 

Santander: Chinacota, Kittip & Smith 20868 (G, N, Y). 

Cucuta, 

Cundinamarca: Tequendama, Triana 

Killip & Smith 21012 (A, N). 

2945 (HNC, P). La Esperanza, Cuatrecasas 3243 (Ma). Guaduas, 

Karsten (V). Tolima: Honda, Goudot (P). Mariquita, Oslo 474 (V). 

Timina, Lehmann 2291 (Bo). Socononzo, Dawe in 1919 (K). 

Caldas: San Jose", Pennell 10245 (N). El Valle: La Cumbre, Kittip 

& Hazen 11146 (G, N). Narino: Naranjo, Andre 78, in part (Y). 

The specimens cited above show great diversity in leaf form, 

degree of pubescence on the ovary, and size of fruit. It is impossible, 

however, to segregate any species or even to recognize any well 

defined varieties. These variants are probably best considered races 

of a single, widely distributed species. The outer filaments of the 

corona are in every case trigonous and dilated just above their middle; 

the stem and leaves are glabrous or sometimes minutely puberulent. 

The report of this species as occurring in Jamaica on the basis 

of a Purdie specimen is clearly an error. This collection, at Kew,


bears the data "May 1844, Santa Marta, Jamaica," and some 

commentator has noted on the sheet that Purdie left Jamaica in 

April, 1844, and arrived in Santa Marta, Colombia, in May. In 

the Swartz Herbarium there is a sheet of P. biflora labeled "Ind. 

Occ."; there is a possibility that this specimen came from Jamaica, 

but I doubt that it did. Many specimens from other parts of 

South America have been referred to P. biflora, but all these which 

I have examined prove to be P. punctata, P. Candollei, P. vespertilio, 

or some other species of this relationship. 

The earliest illustration of this species is in Martyn's work, 

published in 1728, and it was based upon a plant grown in the 

Chelsea Gardens, England, from seeds sent from Veracruz by 

Houston. Linnaeus cited this plate under P. vespertilio. However, 

in view of Linnaeus' other citations and the figure in the Amoenitates, 

it is clear that the name P. vespertilio should be applied to the plant 

common in the Guianas. 

In proposing P. biflora, Lamarck cited the Martyn reference, 

though the specimen upon which he based the description was from 

a plant in cultivation at Paris of "Ame'rique meYidionale" origin. 

LOCAL NAMES: "Camacarlata," "calzoncillo" (Central America); 

"ala de murcie'lago" 

(Salvador); "sandia cimarrona" (Costa Rica); 

"guate-guate" (Panama); "parche" (Venezuela). 

83. Passiflora glaucescens Killip, sp. nov. 

Planta glaberrima, 

ovario puberulo excepto; stipulae setaceae; 

petioli eglandulosi; folia transverse oblonga, breviter trilobata, lobis 

rotundatis vel truncatis, membranacea, subtus glaucescentia; 

bracteae setaceae; sepala petalaque linearia; coronae filamenta 

biseriata, exteriora clavato-dolabriformia, interiora filiformia; operculum 

plicatum; fructus globosus. 

Plant glabrous throughout except the ovary; stem subtriangular, 

striate; stipules setaceous, about 1.5 mm. long; petioles very slender, 

1 to 2 cm. long, glandless; leaves transversely oblong in general outline, 

shallowly 3-lobed (the lateral lobes rounded, slightly emarginate, 

the middle lobe truncate, emarginate), 3 to 5 cm. along 

the midnerve, 3.5 to 6.5 cm. along the lateral nerves, 5 to 9 cm. 

wide, rounded or truncate at base, membranous, glaucescent 

beneath; peduncles in pairs, 2 to 3 cm. long; bracts dissitate in upper 

half, setaceous, about 2 mm. long; flowers 2 to 2.5 cm. wide, purplish 

red(?); sepals linear, about 1 cm. long, 3.5 to 4 mm. wide, obtuse; 

petals linear, about 1 cm. long, 4 to 5 mm. wide, obtuse; corona


filaments in 2 series, the outer clavate-dolabriform, about 3 mm. long, 

0.8 mm. wide at apex, purplish red(?), the inner filiform, about 2 mm. 

long; operculum plicate, 2.5 mm. high, incurved, minutely crenulate; 

limen annular; ovary globose or subglobose, grayish-puberulent; 

fruit globose, about 1 cm. in diameter. 

Type in the herbarium of the British Museum (Natural History), 

collected in Brazil by F. Sello (No. 894). 

In leaf shape this species resembles rather closely forms of P. 

punctata, and certainly it is closely related to that species. The 

peduncles are much shorter, the sepals and petals narrower, and the 

outer corona filaments are of a different shape. 

84. Passiflora anadenia Urban, Symb. Ant. 3: 323. 1902. 

Stem wiry, subterete, glabrous or minutely appressed-pilosulous; 

stipules linear-subulate, 5 to 6 mm. long, persistent; petioles 2 to 5 

mm. long, glandless; leaves bilobed to within 8 mm. of base (lobes 

linear, 3 to 7 cm. long, 0.1 to 0.4 cm. wide, obtuse, apiculate, divaricate 

at 45 degrees, or less, from midrib, a small intermediate lobe or 

cusp usually present in sinus), cuneate at base, prominently 3-nerved, 

revolute at margin, coriaceous, minutely hispidulous above, glabrous 

beneath; peduncles solitary or in pairs in the axils of the leaves, 8 to 

12 mm. long, articulate near apex; bracts linear-subulate, 3 to 4 mm. 

long, borne below middle of peduncle; flowers up to 2.5 cm. wide, 

greenish; sepals lanceolate, about 10 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide, obtuse; 

petals lanceolate, 5 to 7 mm. long, about 2.5 mm. wide; corona filaments 

in 2 series, filiform, the outer 8 to 10 mm. long, the inner 

barely 1 mm.; operculum membranous, plicate, incurved, inciseddentate, 

the teeth triangular; limen annular, close to base of 

gynophore; ovary globose, glabrous; fruit globose, about 1 cm. in 

diameter. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Potion ville, 

Haiti. 

DISTRIBUTION: Haiti, up to 600 meters altitude. 

HAITI: P


85. Passiflora stenoloba Urban, Repert. Sp. Nov. 22: 40. 1925. 

Plant glabrous throughout; stem angulate, striate; stipules 

lanceolate-linear, about 2 mm. long; petioles up to 3 mm. long, 

glandless; leaves bilobed to within 4 mm. of base (lobes linear, 3.5 

to 6 cm. long, 1 to 2.5 mm. wide, acute, revolute at margin, a middle 

lobe sometimes present as a cusp 1 

to 3 mm. long), subcoriaceous, 

brittle; peduncles in pairs in the axils of the leaves, up to 2.5 cm. long, 

filiform, articulate near apex; bracts borne at point of articulation of 

peduncle; flowers purple-violet; sepals and petals lanceolate-linear, 

"17 mm. long"; corona filaments in 2 series(?), filiform, "11 mm. 

long"; operculum plicate, the margin subentire, densely papillose; 

limen annular. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Sierra de Nipe, Cuba. 


in eastern 

Cuba. 

CUBA: Oriente: Sierra de Nipe, 975 meters, Ekman 3116a 

(B, type,S). 

This species is similar to P. anadenia, particularly in the long, 

narrow leaf lobes. The Haitian plant, however, has longer stipules 

and peduncles, bracts borne near the base of the peduncle, smaller 

flowers, and a differently margined operculum. The differences between 

P. stenoloba and P. nipensis, as noted in the key, are chiefly 

those of dimension. 

86. Passiflora nipensis Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 44: 17. 1917; 

Urban, Repert. Sp. Nov. 22: 41. 1925. 

Passiflora intermedia Urban, Repert. Sp. Nov. 22: 40. 1925. 

Plant glabrous throughout; stem wiry, slightly angulate, striate; 

stipules setaceous, 2 to 3 mm. long; petioles up to 6 mm. long, glandless; 

leaves bilobed one-half (or slightly more) their length, 0.5 to 1 

cm. along midnerve, 1.5 to 3 cm. along lateral nerves, 1.5 to 2.5 cm. 

between apices of lobes (lobes lanceolate, 3 to 7 mm. wide, acute, 

mucronulate, the middle lobe oblong, up to 1.5 cm. long, or reduced 

to a short cusp), cuneate at base, slightly revolute at margin, strongly 

3-nerved (2 or 3 secondary nerves present), inconspicuously fewveined, 

subcoriaceous; peduncles solitary or usually in pairs, 1 to 2 

cm. long, very slender, articulate; bracts setaceous, borne at point 

of articulation of peduncle, 0.5 mm. long, deciduous; flowers purplish 

when dry; sepals linear-lanceolate, about 15 mm. long, 4.5 mm. wide, 

subobtuse; petals 2 mm. wide at base; corona filaments in 2(?) series, 

the outer filiform, 1 cm. long; operculum membranous, plicate,


irregularly crenulate and minutely papillose; fruit globose, about 1 

cm. in diameter; seeds oblong, 2 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, transversely 

about 5-sulcate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Sierra de Nipe, near Woodfred, Cuba, altitude 

500 to 650 meters. 

DISTRIBUTION: Eastern Cuba, between 500 and 1,000 meters 

altitude. 

CUBA: Oriente: Sierra de Nipe, Shafer 3554 (Y, type); Ekman 

31161) (S), 3174 (S). Monte Libanon, Ekman 10293 (B, type of 

P. intermedia, S). 

The type specimen consists of foliage and a single fruit only. 

Flowering material has recently been collected by Ekman, and Urban 

has thus been able to supplement the original description. 

Passiflora intermedia seems to differ from P. nipensis only in the 

slightly narrower leaf lobes, with a development of the intermediate 

lobe. The type specimen of P. nipensis does not permit diagnosis of 

a flower, and it is impossible to say positively that the two are the 

same. In this group of Plectostemma the degree of development of 

the middle lobe varies so greatly within a species, or even in the case 

of individual plants, that this character alone hardly warrants the 

recognition of distinct species. 

87. Passiflora bilobata Juss. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 6: 107. 1805. 

Astephananthes bilobata Bory, Ann. Ge"n. Sci. Phys. Brux. 2: 138. 

1819 (as Asephananthes) 

. 

Tacsonia bilobata Spreng. Syst. Veg. 3: 44. 1826. 

Cieca bilobata M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 146. 1846. 

Stem angulate, striate, purplish with age, glabrous or finely 

pilosulous; stipules linear-subulate, 2 to 5 mm. long; petioles 5 to 10 

mm. long, glandless; leaves bilobed about two-thirds their length, 

0.5 to 1.5 cm. (midnerve), 2.5 to 7 cm. (lateral nerves), 2 to 7 cm. 

between apices of lobes (lobes linear to linear-oblong, 0.5 to 1.5 cm. 

wide, usually broadest at apex, sometimes emarginate), rounded at 

base, slightly revolute, coriaceous or subcoriaceous, lustrous and 

scabrellous above, dull, glabrous beneath; peduncles solitary or in 

pairs, 0.8 to 3 cm. long, slender, articulate just below apex; bracts 

linear-subulate, 2 to 3.5 mm. long, borne near base of peduncle; 

flowers up to 1.5 cm. wide, greenish yellow; sepals ovate-lanceolate, 

6 to 8 mm. long, 3 to 4 mm. wide, slightly keeled near apex; petals 

4 to 6 mm. long, 3 mm. wide, obtuse, membranous; corona 

linear,


filaments in 2 series, filiform, the outer about 8 mm. long, the inner 

2 to 3 mm. long; operculum plicate, dentate, the teeth triangular; 

limen annular; ovary subglobose, glabrous; fruit globose, about 

1 cm. in diameter; seeds oblong, 2 to 2.5 mm. long, about 1.5 mm. 

wide, transversely sulcate, the ridges dark, about 6. 

TYPE LOCALITY: "Saint-Domingue." 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 6: pi. 37, f. 

Sci. Phys. Brux. 2: pi. 22, f. 5. 

DISTRIBUTION: Hispaniola and Puerto Rico. 

2; Ann. Ge"n. 

in 

HAITI: Trou d'Eau, 600 meters, Ekman H2256 (S). 

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Poiteau (P, type). Barahona, Fuertes 

1912 (B). 

PUERTO Rico: Read (B). 

Pefion, Shafer 1995 (Y). 

This species was placed by Bory in a monotypic genus Astephananthes 

because of Jussieu's statement, rather doubtfully expressed, 

that the flowers were without a corona. I have not dissected the 

flowers of the type specimen but am convinced that it is conspecific 

with material collected by Ekman in excellent condition and with 

the other specimens listed above. These all are petaliferous, though 

Jussieu described the flowers likewise as apetalous. 

This entire group of West Indian Passiflora, including P. bilobata, 

P. bicrura, P. anadenia, P. Ekmanii, P. stenoloba, and P. nipensis, 

may represent a single species with extremely variable leaves. 

88. Passiflora bicrura Urban, Symb. Ant. 3: 323. 1902. 

Stem strongly compressed, striate, purplish with age, glabrous or 

minutely pilosulous; stipules linear-subulate, 2 to 4 mm. long, often 

glandular-puberulent; petioles 5 to 10 mm. long, glandless; leaves 

bilobed to middle, 2 to 4 cm. along midnerve, 5 to 7 cm. along lateral 

nerves, up to 7 cm. between apices of lobes (lobes oblong-lanceolate, 

1.5 to 2.5 cm. wide, broadly rounded at apex, the sinus rounded at 

base or with a short or more or less developed intermediate lobe), 

rounded at base, subcoriaceous, lustrous and glabrous above, dull 

and pilosulous beneath, especially on the nerves and veins; peduncles 

solitary or in pairs, borne on short, leafless branchlets, 0.8 to 3 cm. 

long, slender, articulate just below apex; bracts linear-subulate, 2 to 

3 mm. long, slightly glandular-puberulent, borne near base of 

peduncle, persistent; flowers up to 2 cm. wide, greenish yellow; sepals 

ovate-lanceolate, 8 to 10 mm. long, about 4 mm. wide, slightly keeled 

near apex; petals 5 to 7 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, obtuse, membranous;


corona filaments in 2 series, filiform, the outer about 8 mm. long, 

the inner 2 to 3 mm. ; operculum membranous, plicate, dentate, the 

teeth triangular; limen annular; ovary subglobose, glabrous. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Morne Fourmi, Haiti. 

DISTRIBUTION: Hispaniola. 

HAITI: Morne Fourmi, 1,000 meters, Buck 693 (B, type). 

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Samana Peninsula, Abbott 2364 (B, 

Monte Ciprian, Valeur 888 (N). 

N). 

This may be only a form of P. bilobata, one of the principal differences 

between the two noted by Urban the absence of petals in P. 

bilobata having to be disregarded, as that species undoubtedly is 

petaliferous. The smaller flowers of P. bicrura these borne on short, 

leafless branchlets and the less deeply lobed leaves, pubescent 

beneath, with a broader and non-emarginate apex to the lobes, are 

the main differences between the two. 

89. Passiflora tenella Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 20: 375. 1930. 

Plant very slender, 

essentially glabrous throughout; stem subangular, 

striate; stipules setaceous, 1.5 mm. long; petioles very 

slender, 1 to 2.5 cm. long, glandless, sparingly pilosulous toward 

apex; leaves transversely oblong in general outline, 1.5 to 3 cm. long, 

4 to 7 cm. wide, shallowly 3-lobed at the truncate apex (lobes obtuse 

or truncate; rarely the leaves distinctly 3-lobed about a third their 

length), retuse at base, 3-nerved, not ocellate beneath, bright green 

above (when dry), glaucous beneath, thin-membranous; peduncles 

solitary, 1-flowered, very slender, 2 to 3 cm. long, articulate just 

below apex; bracts setaceous, 2 mm. long, soon deciduous; flowers 

about 1.5 cm. wide, greenish white; sepals narrowly lanceolate, 8 to 

9 mm. long, 1.5 to 2 mm. wide at base, acutish, 3-nerved, reticulateveined, 

thin-transparent; petals linear, 2 to 3 mm. long, obtuse, 

thin-transparent; corona filaments filiform, in 2 series, the outer 

filaments equaling the sepals, the inner barely 2 mm. long; operculum 

membranous, about 1 mm. high, very slightly plicate; ovary narrowly 

ellipsoidal, glabrous; fruit ellipsoidal, about 3 cm. long, 0.8 cm. in 

diameter, tapering to a stipitate base, acuminate at apex, 6-ribbed; 

seeds narrowly obovate, about 2.5 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, transversely 

4-5-sulcate, the ridges rugulose. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Hacienda La Choza, Tumbez, Peru. 

DISTRIBUTION: Northwestern (and perhaps eastern) Peru.


PERU: Tumbez: Hacienda La Choza, 100 to 200 meters, Weberbauer 

7704 (B, F, type, Gen, K, N). Lima: Lima Botanical Garden, 

said to have come from forests of eastern Peru, Pennell 14801 

(Ph). 

This interesting species probably belongs to the subgenus Plectostemma, 

although the low operculum, scarcely plicate, and the 

angular, capsule-like fruit suggest a relationship with P. tryphostemmatoides 

and P. gracillima, of Tryphostemmatoides. The flowers, 

as well as the fruits, resemble those of P. gracilis, a wholly different 

species without petals and with reticulate seeds and glandular 

petioles. The leaves are shaped much like those of P. punctata, 

another Peruvian species, but the far more delicate flowers, with 

filiform corona filaments and a glabrous ovary, clearly separate it. 

90. Passiflora erythrophylla Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 

553. 1872. 

Passiflora erubescens Tr. & Planch. Ann. Sci. Nat. V. Bot. 17: 

161. 1873. Not P. erubescens Macf. (1850). 

Stem slender, angulate, slightly compressed, striate, drying 

yellowish, glabrous, or the younger portions finely appressed-pilosulous; 

petioles 4 to 8 mm. long, slender, glandless; leaves truncately 

3-lobed (lateral lobes ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, minutely 

mucronulate, the middle lobe reduced or wanting), 1 to 2 cm. along 

midnerve, 2 to 3 cm. along lateral nerves, 2 to 4 cm. between apices 

of lateral lobes, rounded or subtruncate at base, ocellate, thin-membranous, 

drying purplish red, glabrous or sparsely appressed-pilosulous 

on the nerves beneath; peduncles solitary or in pairs, filiform, 

up to 1.2 cm. long; bracts setaceous, 1 to 1.5 mm. long; flowers 1.2 

to 2 cm. wide, yellowish white; sepals linear, 5 to 9 mm. long, 1.5 to 

2 mm. wide, obtuse; petals linear, 4 to 5 mm. long, 1 to 1.5 mm. wide, 

obtuse; corona filaments in 2 series, the outer filiform, 3 to 4 mm. long, 

the inner capillary, about 1 mm. long; operculum closely plicate, 1 to 

1.5 mm. high, lobulate; ovary ovoid or subglobose, tapering to a 

short stipe, glabrous, or pilosulous when young; fruit ovoid or 

obovoid, 1.5 to 2 cm. long, 1 cm. wide, glabrous. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Colombia. 


DISTRIBUTION: Eastern Cordillera of Colombia. 

COLOMBIA: Goudot 2 (K, type, P); Mutis 2270 (Ma, N), 2278 

(Ma, N); collector uncertain (Bog). Cundinamarca: San Fortunate,


near Bogota, 2,500 meters, Triana 2951 

Tr. & Planch., HNC, P). 

(BM, type of P. erubescens 

Fusagasuga, Lindig 642 (P). 

I am unable to find any important differences between P. erythrophylla 

and P. erubescens Tr. & Planch., both names referring to 

the reddish hue of the leaves, a character by which this species may 

be readily recognized. 

91. Passiflora Ekmanii Killip & Urban, Arkiv Bot. 21A, No. 5: 

15. 1926. 

Plant scandent, the tendrils slender; stem subangular, striate, 

short-villosulous; stipules setaceous, 2 to 3 mm. long; petioles up to 

4 mm. long, densely villosulous, glandless; leaves 5 to 20 mm. along 

midnerve, 10 to 25 mm. along lateral nerves, 15 to 30 mm. wide, 

bilobed (usually with a short intermediate lobe in the sinus; lobes 

5 to 10 mm. wide, rounded, mucronulate, suberect), broadly rounded 

at base, entire at margin, 3-nerved, subcoriaceous, above bright 

green and sublustrous, finely villosulous on nerves and veins, beneath 

dull, densely villosulous on nerves and veins; peduncles solitary or in 

pairs on the main stems, 8 to 10 mm. long, articulate above ;_bracts 

setaceous, 2 to 3 mm. long, dissitate in lower half of peduncle, glabrous 

or minutely villosulous; flowers small, about 1.5 cm. wide, 

whitish; calyx tube short-campanulate; sepals linear-oblong, 6 to 8 

mm. long, 2 to 2.5 mm. wide, obtuse, villosulous without; petals similar 

to the sepals, 4 to 5 mm. long; corona filaments in 2 series, the outer 

narrowly linear below, subulate-attenuate at apex, 4 to 5 mm. long, 

the inner minute, capillary, about 0.5 mm. long; operculum membranous, 

plicate, erect, about 1 mm. high, lobulate and minutely fimbrillate 

at margin; limen disk-shaped; ovary subglobose, glabrous. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Morne Tranchant, Massif de la Selle, Haiti. 

DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of Haiti, about 1,700 meters altitude. 

HAITI: Morne Tranchant, Massif de la Selle, Ekman Hi 339 

(B, N, type); Buck 2153 (B). Morne Cabaio, Ekman H1676 

(B, N, S). 

This differs from P. bilobata in the narrower bracts, dissitate on 

the peduncle, and in the shape of the leaves. 

92. Passiflora micrantha Killip, sp. nov. 

Ubique glaberrima, floribus exceptis; stipulae setaceae; petioli 

filiformes, eglandulosi; folia profunde bilobata, lobis late divergentibus, 

lobo parvulo saepe inter jecto, membranacea; pedunculi bini, 

bracteis setaceis; flores parvi, sepalis petalisque linearibus; coronae


filamenta biseriata, exteriora filiformia, interiora setacea; operculum 

conferte plicatum, fimbrillatum; ovarium ovoideum ; 

fructus globosus, 

seminibus paucis obovatis. 

A slender, herbaceous vine, glabrous throughout except the 

flowers; stem subangular, striate; stipules setaceous, 2 mm. long; 

petioles filiform, 5 to 10 mm. long, glandless; leaves 1 to 3 cm. 

along midnerve, 2 to 6 cm. along lateral nerves, 4 to 7 cm. between 

apices of lateral lobes, deeply bilobed (lobes lanceolate, divergent 

at an angle of about 45 degrees, acute or subacute, a smaller intermediate 

lobe usually present), rounded at base, ocellate beneath, 

membranous, drying green; peduncles in pairs, about 1 cm. long, 

filiform, articulate near apex; bracts setaceous, 1.5 mm. long, 

scattered, soon deciduous; flowers 1.2 to 1.5 cm. wide, greenish 

white or greenish yellow; sepals linear, 5 to 7 mm. long, 1.5 to 2 

mm. wide, obtuse, sparingly pubescent without when young; petals 

linear, 3 to 4 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, obtuse; corona filaments in 

2 series, the outer filiform, 2 to 3 mm. long, white, those of the inner 

series setaceous, 1 mm. long, purplish; corona about 1 mm. high, 

closely plicate, 

densely and minutely fimbrillate with white hairs, 

purplish toward base; limen annular, closely surrounding base of 

gynophore; ovary ovoid; fruit globose, 6 to 8 mm. in diameter, fewseeded; 

seeds obovate, 3 mm. long, transversely sulcate, the ridges 

rugulose. 

Type in the herbarium of the Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques, 

Geneva, collected at Chinquinquira, Boyaca, Colombia, in 1909, 

by Brother Apollinaire Marie. Duplicate in the United States 

National Herbarium and the herbarium of the Institute de La 

Salle, Bogota. Specimens from this locality, collected by Brother 

Tome'on-Felix (No. 58} are in the herbarium of the Museum d'Histoire 

Naturelle, Paris, and the United States National Herbarium. 

Additional material examined, all from Colombia: Cundinamarca: 

Between Caqueza and Rio Sananie, 1,600 meters alt., 

Pennell 1329 (Y). 

Choachi, Brother Apollinaire Marie in 1901 (Bog). 

Although the leaves resemble those of certain forms of P. misera, 

this species is closely related to P. erythrophylla and P. bucaramangensis. 

93. Passiflora affinis Engelm. Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. 6: 233. 1850. 

Plant glabrous throughout; stipules linear-subulate, 1.5 to 2 mm. 

long, falcate, deciduous; petioles 1 to 3.5 cm. long, slender, glandless; 

leaves 2 to 10 cm. long, 3 to 14 cm. wide, usually lobed from a half


to two-thirds their length, rarely about one-third (lobes variable, 

oblanceolate, oblong, or ovate, rounded or obtuse, mucronulate, the 

middle lobe slightly longer than the lateral lobes, the latter sometimes 

bilobulate), cordulate or subtruncate at base, 3-nerved, minutely 

ocellate beneath, membranous or subcoriaceous; peduncles solitary 

or in pairs, 1 to 3 cm. long;' bracts setaceous, 1 to 3 mm. long, dissitate 

in upper half of peduncle, subpersistent; flowers 2 to 2.5 cm. wide, 

greenish yellow; sepals oblong-lanceolate, 1 to 1.2 cm. long, 2 to 3 

mm. wide, obtuse; petals linear, 6 to 8 mm. long, 1.5 to 2 mm. wide; 

corona filaments in 2 series, the outer filiform, 7 to 9 mm. long, 

knobbed at apex, the inner filiform, 1.5 to 2.5 mm. long; operculum 

membranous, closely plicate, incurved; limen annular; ovary globose 

or ovoid, glabrous; fruit subglobose, 8 to 10 mm. long, purplish 

black; seeds obcordate, about 3 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, transversely 

sulcate, the grooves 6 or 7. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Comanche Spring, Texas. 

DISTRIBUTION: Southern Texas and New Mexico to northern 

Tamaulipas, Mexico. 

TEXAS: Wright 217 (Bo, G, Gen, N), 218 (G, N); Havard (N). 

Comanche Spring, Lindheimer 817 (type, B, BM, Bo, Brux, Cop, 

F, G, Gen, K, N, P, Penn, V) Fort Clark, M earns 1439Q3) Fayette 

. . 

County: Matthes 274 (P,V). Kimble County: Telegraph, E. J. Palmer 

10942 (N). Bexar County: San Antonio, E. D. Schulz 401 (N). 

NEW MEXICO: Dona Ana County: Parry (N). 

MEXICO: Tamaulipas: El Milagro, Bartlett 11094 (N). Nuevo 

Leon: Monterrey, Mueller & Mueller 100 (F). 

This species, confined almost wholly to river valleys of southern 

Texas, is often confused with P. lutea. In the type specimen the 

leaves are lobed to much below the middle, the lobes being oblanceolate, 

narrowed at the base, quite unlike any leaf forms of P. lutea. 

In other specimens, however, the leaves occasionally are shaped 

much as in typical P. lutea. The most satisfactory distinguishing 

character between the two is the absence of bracts in P. lutea and 

their presence in P. ajfinis, persisting longer than in many of the 

species of this section. The presence of a distinct knob at the tips 

of the outer corona filaments of P. affinis and its apparent absence 

in P. lutea is another point of differentiation. 

In Bartlett 11094 the uppermost bract on some of the peduncles 

is oval, about 4 mm. long and 2 mm. wide, and is of the coloring, 

texture, and venation of the leaves an unusual development.


94. Passiflora bucaramangensis Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 

20: 376. 1930. 

Plant essentially glabrous throughout; stem slightly trigonous, 

striate, minutely scabrid; stipules narrowly linear-falcate or almost 

setaceous, 1 to 2 mm. long, reddish purple; petioles slender, 1 to 2.5 

cm. long, glandless; leaves transversely oblong, 1 to 3 cm. long, 3 to 

7 cm. wide, 3-lobed about a third their length (lobes subequal or 

the middle lobe slightly the longest, 1 to 2 cm. wide, rounded or 

truncate, sometimes emarginate at apex), truncate or cordate at 

base, 3-nerved (nerves and veins usually prominent beneath), 

ocellate beneath, subcoriaceous, drying green; peduncles in pairs, 

about 1.5 cm. long, very slender; bracts setaceous, about 1 mm. 

long, scattered, persistent; flowers about 2 cm. wide; sepals linearoblong, 

about 10 mm. long, 

3 mm. wide, obtuse, grass-green, pale 

at margin; petals oblong, 5 to 6 mm. long, 3 mm. wide, obtuse, white; 

corona filaments in 2 series, the outer filaments narrowly linearclavate, 

4 to 5 mm. long, 

deep purple below, green at the slightly 

enlarged tip, the inner filaments filiform, 2 to 3 mm. long, grassgreen; 

operculum closely plicate, denticulate, deep purple; limen 

annular, green; ovary globose; fruit globose, 8 to 9 mm. in diameter; 

seeds obcordate, 3 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide, transversely 5-sulcate, 

the ridges rugulose. 

TYPE LOCALITY: La Baja, north of Bucaramanga, Colombia. 

DISTRIBUTION: Eastern Cordillera of Colombia, in the general 

vicinity of Bucaramanga, between 1,500 and 2,400 meters altitude. 

COLOMBIA: Eastern Cordillera, Dawe 332 (K, N). Santander: 

Mesa de Los Santos, Killip & Smith 15364 (N). La Baja, Killip 

& Smith 16787 (A, G, N, type, Y). California, Killip & Smith 

17046 (G, N, Y), 18842 (BM, G, N, Y). Tona, Killip & Smith 19508 

(G,N). 

This is distinguished from P. erythrophylla by the smaller, 

globose fruit, the rounded or truncate leaf lobes, the intermediate 

one being well developed, and the absence of the reddish hue to the 

foliage. The outline of the leaves of P. bucaramangensis and P. 

obtiisiloba is very similar, but the coronal structure is different. 

95. Passiflora obtusiloba Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 554. 

1872. 

Passiflora Niorbo Planch. Ann. Sci. Nat. V. Bot. 17: 156, footnote. 

1873.


Stem angulate, striate, finely pilosulous or glabrescent below, 

densely pubescent toward ends; stipules setaceous, 3 to 4 mm. 

long; petioles up to 6 mm. long, glandless; leaves 1 to 2.5 cm. long, 

2 to 5 cm. wide, 3-lobed about one-third their length (lobes subequal, 

up to 2.5 cm. wide at base, rounded), slightly cordate at base, 3- 

nerved, conspicuously reticulate- veined, ocellate, coriaceous, lustrous 

above, glabrous, sometimes very sparingly pilosulous on the nerves 

beneath; peduncles in pairs, up to 1 cm. long, slender, hirtellous; 

bracts setaceous, about 1.5 mm. long; flowers small, 1.5 to 2 cm. 

wide; calyx tube brownish purple without; sepals narrowly 

oblong, 7 to 9 mm. long, 3 to 4 mm. wide, obtuse, yellowish 

green, without finely pilosulous or glabrescent; petals linear-spatulate, 

4 to 7 mm. long, about 2 mm. wide, obtuse, light green; corona 

filaments in 2 series, the outer terete, not dilated, about 4 mm. long, 

yellow-green, the inner 1.5 to 2 mm. long, filiform, minutely capitellate; 

operculum closely plicate, purple, white at margin; limen 

annular, purple; ovary obovoid, glabrous. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Peru. 

DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of central Peru, between 2,500 and 


PERU: Pavdn (BM, type, Bo). Junin: Tarma, Weberbauer 1735 

(B); Killip & Smith 21943 (F, N, Y). Palca, Stevens 40 (N). 

Huasahuasi, Dombey 735 (B, Gen, Ma, P, type of P. Niorbo). 

Ayacucho: Quinua, Weberbauer 5545 (B). 

Passiflora obtusiloba closely resembles P. Lobbii in leaf form and 

general habit. The leaves of P. obtusiloba are blunter; there are no 

petiolar glands; the corona is 2-ranked, not 3-ranked; and the outer 

filaments are green throughout, not purple in the lower half. 

This species 

19: 25. 1923). See also discussion under P. Lobbii. 

LOCAL NAME: "Niorbo." 

has been redescribed by Harms (Repert. Sp. Nov. 

96. Passiflora Standleyi Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 14: 110. 

striate, 

1924. 

Plant essentially glabrous throughout; stem subquadrangular, 

minutely pubescent above; stipules narrowly linear-falcate, 

2 mm. long, 0.3 mm. wide; petioles 1.5 to 2.6 cm. long, glandless; 

leaves oblong, bilobed one-half to two-thirds their length, 2.5 to 5 

cm. along midnerve, 6 to 12 cm. along lateral nerves, 4 to 5 cm. 

between apices of lobes (lobes lanceolate, 1.5 to 2 cm. wide, obtuse


or acutish, apiculate), rounded or subcuneate at base, 3-nerved, 

ocellate, reticulate-veined; peduncles slender, 2 to 3 cm. long; bracts 

setaceous, 2 to 3 mm. long, borne within 1 cm. of apex of peduncle; 

flowers 3 to 4 cm. wide, bluish purple; sepals ovate-lanceolate, 1 to 

1.5 cm. long, 4 to 5 mm. wide, obtuse; petals half as long as sepals, 

obtuse; corona filaments capillary, in 2 series, the outer 4 to 7 mm. 

long, blue at base, white, spotted with blue at apex, the inner very 

numerous, 4 to 5 mm. long, white; operculum membranous, closely 

plicate, minutely fimbrillate; limen annular, 1 mm. high; ovary subglobose; 

fruit globose, 1 to 1.5 cm. in diameter; seeds ovate or ovateoblong, 

about 3 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide, transversely sulcate with 

about 7 straight, rugulose ridges. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Volcan de San Salvador, Salvador. 

DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of Salvador and Costa Rica, between 

1,000 and 2,000 meters altitude. 

SALVADOR: Volcan de San Salvador, Standley 22821 (N, type); 

Calderdn in 1922 (N). Ahuachapan, Paditta 162 (N). Volcan de 

San Vicente, Standley 21475 (N). 

COSTA RICA: Between Aserri and Tarbaca, San Jose", 

34146 (N). 

Standley 

In foliage P. Standleyi resembles P. ornithoura and P. tuberosa. 

From these it differs in its bluish purple flowers and the elongate, 

filiform filaments of the outer corona. Both P. ornithoura and P. 

tuberosa have white flowers with short, strap-shaped filaments. 

From P. Salvador ensis, P. Standleyi is distinguished by its proportionally 

narrower leaves and a totally dissimilar coronal structure. 


97. Passiflora mexicana Juss. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 6: 108. pi. 38, 

f. 2. 1805. 

Passiflora Contrayerva J. E. Sm. in Rees, Cyclop. 26: Passiflora 

No. 23. 1819. 

Monactineirma mexicana Bory, Ann. Ge"n. Sci. Phys. Brux. 2: 

138. pi. 22, /. 6. 1819. 

Cieca mexicana M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 146. 1846. 

Plant glabrous throughout; stem subquinquangular, grooved; 

stipules setaceous or narrowly linear, 1.5 to 2 mm. long; petioles 1 to 

2 cm. long, glandless; leaves bilobed one-half or more their length 

(lobes oblong, occasionally linear, 0.5 to 4 cm. wide, obtuse, rarely 

dilated near apex and slightly emarginate, suberect and nearly


parallel or slightly divergent; length along midnerve 0.5 to 4 cm., 

along lateral nerves 3 to 8 cm.), 3 to 8 cm. wide, rounded or truncate 

at base, 3-nerved, ocellate (1 to 3 pairs) beneath, glabrous, dark 

green above, paler beneath; peduncles solitary or in pairs, 2 to 3 cm. 

long; bracts minute, setaceous, deciduous; flowers 2.5 to 4 cm. wide; 

calyx patelliform, about 1 cm. wide, deep reddish purple within; 

sepals narrowly lanceolate, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, 4 to 5 mm. wide, green 

to red without, white within; petals much shorter than the sepals, 

recurved; corona filaments in 2 series, filiform, the outer about 1.5 

cm. long, nearly as long as the sepals, rich pink to deep crimson, subreflexed, 

the inner 2 mm. long, erect; operculum closely plicate, strongly 

incurved, white, pink-tinged toward margin, minutely fimbrillate; 

limen annular, 1.5 mm. or less high, white; ovary globose, glabrous; 

fruit globose, 0.6 to 1.2 cm. in diameter; seeds ovate, 3 mm. long, 2 

mm. wide, transversely sulcate with 7 or 8 irregular ridges. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Acapulco, Mexico. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Hernandez, Rer. Medic. Nov. Hisp. Thes. 301; 

Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 6: pi. 38, /. 2; Ann. Ge"n. Sci. Phys. Brux. 2: 

pi 22, f. 4, 6. 

DISTRIBUTION: Southern Arizona to central Mexico. 

ARIZONA: Griffiths 6997 (Mo). Titcomb Lake, Stalmach 191 (N). 

Galluro Mountains, Tourney in 1894 (N). Rillita Valley, Pringle 274 

(G). Tucson, Peebles & Harrison 2664 (N); Lemmon 44 (F, G). 

Huachuca, Peebles, Harrison & Kearney 3511 (N). Santa Rita 

Mountains, Griffiths & Thornber 81 (N). Santa Catalina Mountains, 

J. A. Harris C16517 (Minn, N); Thornber 225 (Minn); Lemmon in 

1881 (K,N). 

MEXICO: Nee (Ma) ; 

Haenke 871 (Pr). Tacubaya, Ehrenberg 1084 

(B). Sonora: Northwest mountains, Pringle in 1884 (Bo, Brux, F, 

G, N, Penn, Ph, Y), in 1885 (B, Gen, K). San Jose* de Guaymas, 

Palmer 260 (Cop, N, S). Arroyo Hondo, Hartman 214 (G, K, N, 

Penn). Tubac, Thurber 704 (F, G, Y). San Rafael, Wiggins 5929 

(N). Sinaloa: Mazatlan, Wright 1229 (Cal, F, G, N), 1230 (G, N); 

Ortega 6376 (N, Ph); Brandegee 1231 (Cal); Rose 13753 (G, Gen, 

N), in 1897 (N). Culiacan, Palmer 1794 (F, G, N, S, Y). Choix, 

Monies & Salazar 877 (N). Cofradia, Brandegee in 1904 (Cal). 

Jalisco: Between Bolanos and Guadalajara, Rose 3017 (G, K, N). 

Veracruz: Zordillo, Liebmann 4112 (Cop). Monserrate, Purpus 

10211 (B, K, N, S, Y). Puebla: Between Piaxtla and Amolac, 

Nelson 2020 (G, N). Mexico: Ypericones, Hinton 3652 (N).


Colima: Manzanillo, Ferris 6154 (N). Guerrero: Acapulco, Humboldt 

& Bonpland (B, P, type); Thiebaut 1118 (P); Palmer 314 

(Cal, F, G, K, N); Jolis in 1866 (Bo). 

The earliest reference to this plant is apparently that of Hernandez 

in 1651 (Rer. Medic. Nov. Hisp. Thes. 301), who described and 

illustrated it under the name coanenepilli or contraverva. Linnaeus 

(Amoen. ed. 3, 

1: 234. 1768) cited this reference under P. normalis 

L., a Jamaican species. Later Jussieu pointed out that Linnaeus' 

description of P. normalis could not possibly apply to the Mexican 

plant figured by Hernandez, which was probably still undescribed. 

He accordingly described, as a new species, P. mexicana, basing his 

description upon material collected at Acapulco by Humboldt and 

Bonpland, and citing Hernandez's plant as an additional example. 

He stated that, according to Bonpland's observation, P. mexicana 

was apetalous and the corona filaments were in a single series only, 

a condition indicated by an illustration accompanying the description. 

Although I did not dissect flowers of the type specimen in the 

Jussieu Herbarium, there can be little doubt that Jussieu was in 

error, and that the plant in reality bears petals and a 2-ranked corona. 

The large number of specimens cited above show great uniformity, 

though in a few (as Thiebaut 1118 and Pur pus 10211) many of the 

leaves are lobed nearly to the base, the lobes being very slender; 

in this respect they closely resemble Jamaican specimens of 

"P. normalis" (P. perfoliata var. normalis). 

98. Passiflora anfracta Mast, ex Andre", Journ. Linn. Soc. 20: 38. 

1883. 

Stem subangular, flexuous, striate, densely grayish-pilosulous; 

stipules setaceous, soon deciduous; petioles 3 to 6 mm. long, glandless; 

leaves transversely oblong in general outline, 3 to 4 cm. along 


of lateral lobes, truncately bilobed (lobes ovate- triangular, divergent), 

cordulate, ocellate, biglandular at margin at insertion on petiole, 

coriaceous, glabrous above, densely grayish-pilosulous beneath; 

peduncles solitary, about 3 mm. long, stout; bracts linear-setaceous, 

2 to 3 mm. long, slightly lobed; flowers white or yellowish; sepals 

oblong, obtuse; petals similar to the sepals, smaller; corona filaments 

liguliform, subequaling the petals; operculum fleshy; limen wanting. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Mt. Chimborazo, Ecuador. 

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type specimen.


ECUADOR: Chimborazo: Rio de La Mona, western slope of Mt. 

Chimborazo, Andre 4066 (K, type). 

The position of this species must remain in doubt until more 

material has been collected. The type specimen includes a very 

young bud and a single, badly preserved flower, which, presumably, 

was in a little better condition at the time Masters drew his diagnosis. 

The shape of the leaves is almost identical with that of typical 

P. vespertilio but, according to Masters, the corona is quite dissimilar. 

Masters mentions only a single rank of corona filaments, 

but a second rank may originally have been present. 

99. Passiflora Andersonii DC. Prodr. 3: 326. 1828. 

Decaloba Andersonii M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 158. 1846. 

Plant glabrous throughout; stem angulate, compressed, somewhat 

flexuous; stipules setaceous, 2 to 3 mm. long, deciduous; 

petioles up to 3 cm. long, glandless; leaves 2 to 5 cm. along midnerve, 

4 to 6.5 cm. along lateral nerves, 5 to 8 cm. at greatest width, truncate 

at upper margin or shallowly 2 (rarely 3)-lobed (lobes rounded, 

mucronulate), rounded or subtruncate at base, 3-nerved, ocellate, 

membranous, glaucous beneath; peduncles solitary or in pairs, up to 

3 cm. long, articulate just below apex; bracts setaceous, 2 to 3 mm. 

long, dissitate; flowers 3 to 3.5 cm. wide; sepals ovate-lanceolate, 

about 1.5 cm. long and 5 mm. wide, obtuse; petals linear-oblong, 

about half as long as the sepals, 2 mm. wide, white; corona filaments 

in 2 series, the outer narrowly ligulate, about 5 mm. long, dilated 

just above middle, those of the inner series filiform, 

about 3 mm. 

long, flat, slightly dilated at apex; operculum closely plicate, denticulate; 

limen narrowly annular; ovary globose, glabrous; fruit globose, 

1 to 1.5 cm. in diameter; seeds ovate-obcordate, about 4 mm. long, 

2 mm. wide, transversely 9-11-sulcate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: St. Lucia. 

(Bo). 

DISTRIBUTION: Lesser Antilles. 

GUADELOUPE: Duss 2227 (F, N, Ph, Y), 3871 

(Y); L'Herminier 

MARTINIQUE: Hahn 177, in part (B, BM, Gen), 865 (BM, Gen, 

P); Isert in 1787 (Cop); Duss 871, in part (B, F, N); Mouret 211 (P); 

Belanger 684 (P). 

ST. LUCIA: Anderson (BM, K, type). 

ST. VINCENT: H. H. Smith 1876 (Y); G. W. Smith 736 (K). 

Most of this material has been referred to P. rotundifolia, and 

the specific name P. Andersonii has generally been overlooked.


Passiflora Andersonii is glabrous throughout, and the leaves are 

broader than long; P. rotundifolia is densely pubescent, and the 

leaves are nearly orbicular. The Duss specimens are confusing, as 

he distributed specimens of both species with a single label bearing 

two or more collection numbers. 

100. Passiflora micropetala Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 

585. 1872. 

Stem compressed, flexuous, glabrous; petioles 4 to 6 mm. long, 

glandless; leaves semi-orbicular, about 6.5 cm. long and 9 cm. wide, 

truncate at apex, obsoletely 3-lobed, mucronate, cordate at base, 

ocellate with 2 glands near base, membranous, green above, winered 

beneath, glabrous(?); peduncles solitary or in pairs; bracts 

unknown; flowers white; sepals triangular, broad, erect; petals ovate, 

small, white; corona filaments in 2 series, the outer clavate, obtuse, 

white, green at base, the inner ones few, filiform; operculum plicate, 

fimbriate at the apex; ovary globose; fruit globose, about 1.5 cm. 

in 

diameter. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Rio Japura, State of Amazonas, Brazil (type 

collected by Martius). 

This is one of the few species maintained as valid by Masters in 

the Flora Brasiliensis that I know only from description. The semiorbicular, 

obscurely 3-lobed leaves suggest several species in Plectostemma, 

but all these differ in one or more details from other characters 

given by Masters. The position it should occupy in the present 

treatment is doubtful. 

101. Passiflora rotundifolia L. Sp. 

PI. 957. 1753. 

Decaloba rotundifolia M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 159. 1846. 

Plant densely ferruginous-tomentose nearly throughout, or the 

older portions becoming merely pilosulous; stem angulate; stipules 

setaceous, 2 to 3 mm. long, deciduous; petioles 1 to 3 cm. long, glandless; 

leaves suborbicular, 3 to 7 cm. long and wide, obscurely 3-lobed 

at apex (lobes rounded, mucronulate, the middle one subequaling 

or shorter than the lateral), rounded or subtruncate at base, 3-nerved, 

ocellate, membranous or subcoriaceous, minutely pilosulous and 

dull above, densely pilosulous beneath, especially on nerves, or 

ferruginous-tomentose; peduncles usually in pairs, 1 to 2.5 cm. 

long, articulate near apex; bracts setaceous, 2 to 3 mm. long, at 

length deciduous; flowers 2.5 to 3 cm. wide, white; sepals linearlanceolate, 

4 to 5 mm. wide at base, obtuse, dorsally green at center,


white at margin, white within; petals linear, about one-third as 

long as sepals, barely 2 mm. wide, obtuse, white; corona filaments 

in 2 series, the outer narrowly linear or almost filiform, 3 to 4 mm. 

long, subequal to the petals, flat, white, the inner filiform, 2 to 2.5 

mm. long, not dilated at apex, very numerous, green; operculum 

closely plicate, denticulate at margin; nectar ring a fleshy ridge 

close to limen; limen annular, similar to but narrower than nectar 

ring; ovary globose, densely brown-pilose; fruit globose, about 1 cm. 

in diameter. 

TYPE LOCALITY: "America australiori," but probably one of the 

Lesser Antilles. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Plum. PL Amer. ed. Burm. pi. 138, f. 1; Cav. 

Diss. 10: pi. 290. 

DISTRIBUTION: Lesser Antilles. 

GUADELOUPE: Duchassaing (Cop, Gen); Duss 605 (P), 2228 

(B, Y), 3605 (B, Y); Stehle 123 (Y). 

MARTINIQUE: Siebert 

part (BM, Bo, K, P, Gen, V). 

(V); Duss 871, in part (Y); Hahn 177, in 

ST. VINCENT: H. H. Smith 732 (B, G, J); Guilding (K); 

Bertero (V). 

GRENADA: Miller 317 (N). 

A number of variable specimens from widely separated localities 

have been referred to P. rotundifolia. Linnaeus' description in the 

Species Plantarum says merely: 

"Passiflora foliis subtrilobis obtusis subrotundis. 

"Granadilla folio hederaceo, flore albo, fructo globoso villoso. 

Plum. spec. G.Barr. obs. praef. 1. titul. f. 2. 

"Habitat in America australiori." 

The Plumier plate cited by Linnaeus shows a plant with nearly 

orbicular leaves and a pilose ovary. The Brazilian specimens and 

those from northern South America often referred to this species 

differ not only in leaf shape and in indument but also in various 

other details, and are referable mainly to P. Pohlii and P. cuneata, 

respectively. The glabrous plant from the West Indies, described 

by Swartz as "P. rotundifolia," and considered by De Candolle 

a variety of P. rotundifolia L., is P. penduliflora. The Jamaican 

specimen in the Linnean Herbarium labeled "P. rotundifolia" by 

Solander is P. penduliflora; it was not in Linnaeus' possession in 

1753. Passiflora rotundifolia apparently is confined to the Lesser


Antilles, and is characterized by nearly orbicular leaves, a dense 

indument, and a brown-pilose ovary. Urban has called attention 

(Symb. Ant. 3: 325) to the inaccurate description of the flower parts 

given by Masters in Flora Brasiliensis. 

102. Passiflora Pohlii Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 586. 1872. 

(1} Passiflora ofawsa Veil. Fl. Flumin. 9: pi. 81. 1827, plate only. 

(t)Decaloba obtusa M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 

2: 155. 1846. 

Passiflora rotundifolia L. sensu Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 

587. 1872, in greater part. Not P. rotundifolia L. 

Passiflora tristis Mart, ex Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 

587. 1872, as synonym. 

Stem sub triangular, finely pilosulous or villosulous; stipules 

linear-subulate, 2 to 3 mm. long, subfalcate; petioles 1 to 2.5 cm. 

long, glandless, finely pilosulous or villosulous; leaves 3 to 7 cm. 

along midnerve, 4 to 8 cm. along lateral nerves, 3.5 to 9 cm. between 

apices of lobes, variable in outline, suborbicular to ovate-oblong, 

truncate at apex, undulately 3-lobed, or distinctly 3-lobed (lobes, 

if present, rounded or subacute, mucronulate), rounded or subacute 

at base, 3-nerved, reticulate-veined (veins pale and usually minutely 

scabrellous above), ocellate with a pair of conspicuous, black glands 

at base, sparingly ocellate elsewhere, membranous, glabrous above, 

densely pilosulous or villosulous beneath; peduncles solitary or in 

pairs, 1 to 2 cm. long; bracts setaceous, 2 to 4 mm. long; flowers 

2 to 2.5 cm. wide; sepals linear-lanceolate, 10 to 15 mm. long, 4 to 5 

about 

mm. wide, obtuse, densely pilosulous without; petals linear, 

7 mm. long and 3 mm. wide, white; corona filaments in 2 series, the 

outer filiform or very narrowly ligulate, subequal to the petals, the 

inner filiform, 2 to 3 mm. long; operculum plicate, denticulate; limen 

fleshy, lobulate, nearly 1 mm. high; ovary subglobose, glabrous; 

fruit globose, up to 1.2 cm. in diameter; seeds ovate, about 4 mm. 

long and 2 mm. wide, transversely 6-sulcate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Cavalcante, Goyaz, Brazil (type, Pohl 2186}. 

ILLUSTRATION: (?)Vell. Fl. Flumin. 9: pi. 81. 

DISTRIBUTION: Eastern Bolivia to central and southern Brazil. 

BRITISH GUIANA: Cultivated at Botanic Gardens, Jenman 

4221 (EG). 

BOLIVIA: Santa Cruz: Velasco, 200 meters, Kuntze in 1892 

(N, Y).


BRAZIL: Hoffmannsegg (BW); Sello 2128 (B). Alto Macache", 

Glaziou 18254 (B, Cop, K). Copa Caboma, Nadeaud in 1862 (P). 

Matto Grosso: Cuyaba, Martins 1220 (B, BM, Brux, Gen, K, S, Y); 

Malme in 1902 (S), in 1903 (S); Weddell 2896 (P). Minas Geraes: 

Claussen 376 (P, S); St. Hilaire 1955 (P). Lagoa Santa, Warming 

1160 (Cop, N); Barreto 878 (N); Glaziou (P); Archer 3608 (NA). 

Tejuco, Burchell 5904 (K, P). Botanical .Garden, Bello Horizonte, 

Barreto 877 (N), 880 (N). Sao Paulo: Araroguara, Lofgren 1015 

(Cop). 

Tatuly, Hoehne 1387 (B). 

I am in doubt as to whether all the specimens here listed represent 

a single species and whether any of them are correctly referable to 

P. Pohlii. This species is described very briefly by Masters, the 

type specimen not being in flower, and is represented in the Kew 

Herbarium only by a drawing of a single leaf and an ovary. The 

dimensions of this leaf are 6.5 cm. long, 9.5 cm. wide, a proportion 

which holds true for Warming 1160-3 and Lofgren 1015. In this 

form the upper margin is almost a straight line. Martins 1220 has 

nearly orbicular leaves, subcuneate at the base, and the upper margin 

is undulately 3-lobed. In Warming 1160-2 the leaves are proportionately 

longer, distinctly and subacutely 3-lobed, and subcuneate 

at the base. The pubescence, leaf venation, and flower structure, the 

latter being imperfectly shown in the Martius and Lofgren specimens, 

seem essentially the same in all of this material. The variation in 

foliage is not sufficient to justify the recognition of separate species. 

This species is easily confused with P. tricuspis, but the inner 

corona filaments are far slenderer than in P. tricuspis, the indument 

is denser, and the stem is not at all roughened. Both have much 

the same variation in the form of the leaves. 

Many of these sheets were cited as P. rotundifolia L. by Masters, 

and bear the names "P. rotundifolia L." and "P. tristis Mart." in 

Masters' handwriting. In indument, leaf venation, glabrous ovary, 

size of flowers, and coronal structure the specimens differ greatly 

from typical P. rotundifolia L., confined to the Lesser Antilles. 

Passiflora obtusa Veil, is perhaps this species. From the drawing 

it appears to be a glabrous plant, and may be a form of P. organensis, 

to which it was doubtfully referred by Masters. 

Section 4. Xerogona 

103. Passiflora cobanensis Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 14: 

111. 1924. 

Stem slender, 4-5-angulate, finely pubescent with curved, grayish 

hairs; tendrils weak, densely pubescent; stipules lanceolate, sub-


falcate, 8 to 9 mm. long, 1.5 to 2 mm. wide, acuminate, conspicuously 

5-7-nerved; petioles 8 to 10 mm. long, glandless, pubescent; leaves 

ovate-lanceolate, 7 to 10 cm. long, 2.5 to 3.5 cm. wide, unlobed, 

attenuate-acuminate, rounded at base, 3-nerved, faintly reticulateveined, 

without ocellae, membranous, glabrous and sublustrous 

above, finely pubescent beneath with curved, grayish brown hairs; 

peduncles 1.5 cm. long; bracts none; flowers about 2.2 cm. wide, 

greenish; sepals linear-lanceolate, 

10 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, acute, 

pubescent without; petals lanceolate, 5 mm. long, 2 to 3 mm. wide, 

obtuse; corona filaments in a single series, linear-clavate, 2.5 mm. 

long; operculum membranous, plicate; limen annular; ovary obovoid, 

subangulate, densely tomentellous. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Between Chama and Coban, Alta Verapaz, 

Guatemala. 


Guatemala. 

in northern 

GUATEMALA: Alta Verapaz: Between Chama and Coban, 950 

meters, H. Johnson 1^.11 

(N, type). 

Although this specimen is not in fruit, the absence of glands either 

on the petioles or in the form of ocellae on the leaf blades and the 

absence of bracts indicate the relationship of P. cobanensis with 

P. capsularis. There is a specimen in the National Herbarium, 

collected near San Jose", Costa Rica, by H. Pittier (Inst. Phys. 

Geog. Costa Rica 16675), which closely resembles P. cobanensis, but 

its leaves are unequally 2-lobed to below the middle. The lobes of 

this specimen are lanceolate, acuminate, 1.5 to 2 cm. wide, the 

distance between the tips of the lobes being about 7 cm. 

In the present arrangement this is the first species of a well 

marked section of Plectostemma, for which I have used Rafinesque's 

name Xerogona, typified by P. capsularis. The correlation of glandless 

petioles and transversely sulcate seeds characterizes this section 

as it does Decaloba, but the ridges of the seeds are smooth, the peduncles 

are always bractless, and the fruit is decidedly elongate. 

104. Passiflora brevipes Killip, Carnegie 

312. pi. 2. 1936. 

Inst. Wash. Publ. 461: 

Plant closely short-velutinous throughout; stem triangular; 

stipules linear-lanceolate, 5 to 7 mm. long, 1 to 1.5 mm. wide, coriaceous, 

persistent; petioles 8 to 10 mm. long, glandless; leaf blades 

ovate-lanceolate, 5 to 8 cm. long, 2.5 to 4 cm. wide, acute or acuminate, 

cordulate, entire, thickened at margin, 3-nerved, conspicuously


reticulate (nerves and veins elevated beneath), coriaceous, light 

green in color when dry; the flowers 1 to 1.5 cm. wide, greenish 

white, in pairs on the main stem or on short, axillary, and 

nearly leafless branches 4 to 5 cm. long, the pedicels 4 to 5 

mm. long, bractless; sepals linear, 8 to 9 mm. long, 2 to 2.5 mm. 

wide; petals narrowly linear, 3 to 4 mm. long, about 1 mm. wide; 

corona filaments in a single series, subulate, 2.5 to 3 mm. long; 

operculum 1 mm. high, plicate, slightly incurved; ovary narrowly 

ovoid; fruit ovoid, about 4 cm. long, 1.8 cm. in diameter, attenuate 

at base, short-stipitate, hexagonal; seeds ovate, 4 to 5 mm. long, 

2 mm. wide, transversely sulcate with 6-7 smooth ridges, black, 

and lustrous. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Jacinto Hills, British Honduras. 

ILLUSTRATION: Carnegie Inst. Wash. Publ. 461: pi. 2. 

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 

BRITISH HONDURAS: Jacinto Hills, 120 meters, Schipp 1304 (F, 

type, G, Gen, Mich). 

The only other species with unlobed leaves in this small group 

is P. cobanensis, which differs in indument, shape and texture of 

the leaves, and shape of the corona filaments. 

105. Passiflora costaricensis Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 12: 

257. 1922. 

Stem 3-angled, flattened, hirsute, at least along the angles, with 

long, spreading, light brown hairs, glabrescent below; stipules subulate, 

6 to 8 mm. long; petioles 1.5 to 2 cm. long, densely hirsute, 

glandless; leaves oblong, ovate, or suborbicular-ovate in general 

outline, 9 to 13 cm. long, 7 to 11 cm. wide, 2-lobed (lobes deltoid, 

acute or acuminate, mucronate, extending about one-third the length 

of blade, ascending, the terminal sinus lunate or nearly semicircular), 

at base rounded, 3-nerved, membranous, hirsute, especially beneath; 

peduncles solitary, 1.5 cm. long, articulate at middle, sparingly 

pilose; bracts none; flowers 4.5 to 5 cm. wide; sepals linear-lanceolate, 

2 cm. long, 0.4 cm. wide, obtuse, hirsute without, glabrous within, 

the central portion dark green, the margin hyaline, white; petals linearoblong, 

8 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, obtuse, hyaline; corona filaments 

in a single series, narrowly ligulate, as long as the petals; operculum 

membranous, closely plicate, the margin incurved; limen annular; 

ovary minutely puberulent; fruit ellipsoidal, 7 to 8 cm. long, 1 to 

1.5 cm. in diameter at middle, long-tapering at both ends, at length 

glabrous; seeds slightly flattened, narrowly oblong, 3 mm. long, 1.5


mm. wide, black, shining, transversely sulcate with 6 or 7 ridges, 

the ridges smooth, parallel, the axis curved, the beak 0.9 mm. long, 

recurved. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Shirores, Talamanca, Costa Rica. 

DISTRIBUTION: Guatemala to Costa Rica, near sea level. 

GUATEMALA: Alta Verapaz: Cubilquitz, Turckheim 7877 (G, N). 

HONDURAS: Tela, Atlantida, Standley 52806 (N). 

COSTA RICA: Tonduz 9594 (Brux). Shirores, Talamanca, Tonduz 

9327 (Brux, N, type). Las Vueltas, Tucurrique, Tonduz 13146 

(B, Bo, N, V). La Colombiana Farm, Limon, Standley 36989 (N). 

Livingston, Rowlee & Stork 723 (N, Y). Florida, Rowlee & Stork 

619 (N). 

The fruit of this species and the seed sculpturing indicate a close 

relationship with Passiflora capsularis, the principal differences 

lying in the shape of the leaves and character of the indument. In 

P. costaricensis the leaves are longer than broad and are round at 

the base; they have a nearly semicircular sinus, formed by relatively 

approximate lobes. In P. capsularis the leaves are broader than long, 

and are cordate at the base; they have an irregularly shaped sinus, 

formed by widely divergent lobes, and a more or less prominent 

intermediate lobe. The pubescence of the former is usually much 

denser and of much longer hairs than that of the latter. 

106. Passiflora goniosperma Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 17: 

424. 1927. 

Plant densely hirsutulous throughout, the hairs of the stem often 

recurved or retrorse; stem subtriangular, tortuous; stipules linearlanceolate, 

4 to 6 mm. long, up to 1 mm. wide, aristate, subfalcate; 

petioles 5 mm. long or less, glandless; leaves oblong in general outline, 

2-lobed one-quarter to one-third their length, 1.5 to 4.5 cm. 

along midnerve, 2 to 6 cm. along lateral nerves, 2 to 4 cm. between 

tips of lobes (lobes obtuse, mucronulate, the sinus truncate or slightly 

rounded, occasionally emarginate, often mucronulate at end of 

midnerve), scabrellous and densely hirsute above with subappressed, 

white hairs, swollen at base, usually pilose-hirsute and paler beneath; 

flowers in pairs on short (2 cm.), axillary, leafy branches, rarely 

on the main stem; bracts none; flowers 1.5 cm. wide or less; sepals 

lanceolate, about 7 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, acute, hirsutulous without; 

petals narrowly linear, 3 to 4 mm. long, 1 mm. wide; corona filaments 

in a single series, liguliform, 2 mm. long; operculum membranous,


'closely plicate, white; limen annular; ovary ovoid, longitudinally 

6-grooved, white-puberulent; fruit asymmetrically ellipsoidal, up to 

4 cm. long and about 1 cm. wide, sharply 6-angled, long-tapering 

at ends; seeds obovate, 3 to 4 mm. long, 1.5 to 2 mm. wide, blackish, 

lustrous, narrowed at both ends, the axis more or less curved, the 

lateral margins thin-winged, the central portion of each face elevated, 

forming a sharp-toothed ridge (hence the seed quadrangular in 

cross section). 

TYPE LOCALITY: Nina de Dolores, Oaxaca, Mexico. 

DISTRIBUTION: Southern Mexico. 

MEXICO: Oaxaca: Sierra San Pedro Nolasco, Jurgensen 866 

(BM, K). Nina de Dolores, Liebmann 4076 (Passiflora No. 29; Cop, 

type). Santa Gertrudis, Liebmann 4075 (Passiflora No. 30; Cop). 

Sierra de Ixtlan, Conzatti in 1913 (G, Mo, N). Tepanzacuales, 

Conzatti (G). 

The seeds of P. goniosperma differ markedly from those of other 

American species of Passiflora. Each of the two faces has the appearance 

of being compressed laterally to form a narrow, longitudinal 

ridge; the transverse ridges, normally extending from margin to 

margin in the species of the subgenus Plectostemma with sulcate 

seeds, are reduced to a row of teeth along this longitudinal ridge. 

The ellipsoidal, 6-angled fruit, the absence of bracts, and the general 

aspect of the plant, however, show a rather close relationship with 

P. capsularis, the species to which the type specimen of P. goniosperma 

was referred by Masters. In addition to the seed characters, 

other marks which distinguish it from P. capsularis are the smaller 

leaves, with rounded, subparallel lobes (lobes usually acute, divergent 

in P. capsularis). 

107. Passiflora Conzattiana Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 17: 

425. 1927. 

Stem slender, terete, pilosulous, becoming glabrate, reddish; 

stipules setaceous, about 4 mm. long; petioles 0.8 to 2 cm. long, 

densely pilosulous, glandless; leaves 2 to 5 cm. long, 3 to 8 cm. wide, 

2-lobed (lobes acute, rarely subobtuse, widely divergent, the sinus 

shallowly semilunate or the upper margin nearly truncate, an 

intermediate lobe occasionally present), cordate, 3-nerved (nerves 

often terminating in a short cusp), thin-membranous, sparingly 

setose above, densely grayish-pubescent beneath, especially on the 

nerves and veins; peduncles solitary or in pairs, slender, up to 2 cm. 

long; bracts none; flowers small, 1 to 1.8 cm. wide, greenish white,


densely spotted with red; sepals linear-lanceolate, 8 to 10 mm. 

long, 2 mm. wide; petals linear-lanceolate, 4 to 5 mm. long, 1.5 mm. 

wide; corona filaments in a single series, 

relatively few, liguliform, 

3 to 4 mm. long, 0.4 mm. wide, deep purple in the lower two-thirds, 

yellow in the upper third; operculum membranous, erect, closely 

plicate, red below, pale yellow or white above, minutely fimbrillate; 

limen incurved, denticulate; ovary narrowly ovoid, densely puberulent 

or tomentulose; fruit narrowly ellipsoidal, about 5 cm. long 

(including the long, slender stipe and the caudate tip), 1 cm. in 

diameter, 6-angled, finely pubescent, at length glabrous; seeds 

broadly obcordate or suborbicular, 1.5 to 2 mm. long and wide, 

transversely 5-6-grooved, the ridges smooth. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Mirador, Veracruz, Mexico. 

DISTRIBUTION: East-central Mexico. 

MEXICO: Haenke 879 (Pr). San Luis Potosi: Las Canoas, 

Pringle 8638 (G). Hidalgo: Chapulhuacan, Lundell & Lundell 7156 

(N). Veracruz: Mirador, Purpus 8804 (F, G, N, type, Y); Galeotti 

3658 (Brux); Ghiesbreght 62 (P); Linden 752, in part (K). Jalapa, 

1,200 meters, Rose & Hough 4260 (N), 4938 (N); Pringle 7840 (N); 

Schiede (B, cited by Schlechtendal and Chamisso as "Passiflora 

rubra? L." in Linnaea 5: 88. 1830). 

Tortula, Liebmann 4154 (Passiflora 

No. 28; Cop). 

The principal points of difference between this species and P. capsularis 

and P. rubra are much smaller flowers, smaller leaves nearly 

truncate at the upper margin, and nearly orbicular rather than oblong 

seeds. Several of the specimens here cited were distributed as 

P. rubra, a species frequent in the West Indies and South America 

but apparently not found in Mexico. 

108. Passiflora Rovirosae Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 12: 

259. 1922. 

Stem 5-angled, striate, glabrate below, pilosulous above; stipules 

falcate-subulate, 8 to 10 mm. long, soon deciduous; petioles 1.5 to 

2 cm. long, densely pubescent, glandless; leaves subtruncate-ovate 

in general outline, 8 to 15 cm. long, 6 to 9 cm. wide, bilobate (lobes 

one-eighth to one-quarter the length of blade, suberect, acute, 

mucronulate), deeply cordate, slightly narrowed toward apex, membranous, 

above dark green, glabrate, or puberulent on the nerves, 

pale and grayish-villosulous beneath; peduncles 1 to 1.5 cm. long, 

1-flowered, in pairs on short, axillary, sometimes leafy, puberulent 

branches 1 to 2 cm. long, the inflorescence thus appearing racemose;


bracts none; flowers 3 to 4 cm. wide, yellowish green; sepals oblong, 

1.3 to 1.5 cm. long, 0.4 cm. wide, obtuse; petals oblong, obtuse, 

8 to 10 mm. long, 3 mm. wide; corona filaments in 2 series, the outer 

filiform, about 1 cm. long, the inner capillary, barely 4 mm. long; 

operculum membranous, erect, 4 to 5 mm. high, closely plicate; 

limen annular; ovary narrowly ovoid, sharply 6-angled, canescentpuberulent; 

fruit fusiform or ellipsoidal, 3 to 4 cm. long, 1.5 to 2 cm. 

in diameter, sharply 6-angled; seeds* obovate, about 4 mm. long 

and 3 mm. wide, black, lustrous, transversely sulcate, with 5 or 6 

smooth ridges. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Atasta, Tabasco, Mexico. 

DISTRIBUTION: Southeastern Mexico, northeastern Guatemala, 

and British Honduras, at low elevations. 

MEXICO: Sesse & Mocino 4452 (Bo, Ma), 4453 (Bo, Ma). 

Veracruz: Misantla, Purpus 5881 (BM, Cal, G, Mo, N). Chinantla, 

Galeotti 3671 (Brux, Gen, P). Tabasco: Atasta, Rovirosa 813 

(Ph, type). 

GUATEMALA: Pete"n: Uaxactun, Bartlett 12691 (N). 

BRITISH HONDURAS: Paraiso, Gentle 810 (N). Corozal, Gentle 

434 (N), 608 (N). 

This species is readily distinguished from P. capsularis by the 

leaves being longer than broad and by the flowers being borne on 

short, axillary branches rather than on the main stem. 

109. Passiflora capsularis L. Sp. PI. 957. 1753. 

Granadilla capsularis Medic. Malvenfam. 96. 1787. 

Passiflora pubescens HBK. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 132. 1817. 

Passiflora capsularis var. acutiloba DC. Prodr. 3: 325. 1828. 

Xerogona biloba Raf. Fl. Tellur. 4: 103. 1838. 

Passiflora piligera Gardn. Lond. Journ. Bot. 1: 173. 1842. 

Cieca pubescens M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 141. 1846. 

Decaloba capsularis M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 

2: 154. 1846. 

Decaloba Smithii M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 161. 1846. 

Decaloba piligera M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 161. 1846. 

Passiflora paraguayensis Chod. Bull. Herb. Boiss. 7, App. 1: 74. 

1899. 

Passiflora Hassleriana Chod. Bull. Herb. Boiss. 7, App. 1: 74. 

1899. 

Passiflora Hassleriana var. grandifolia Chod. & Hassl. Bull. 

Herb. Boiss. II. 4: 62. 1904.


Passiflora Hassleriana var. paraguariensis Chod. & Hassl. Bull. 

Herb. Boiss. II. 4: 62. 1904. 

Passiflora quinquangularis Calderon, Passifloras Dilobatas del 

Salvador 6. 

Stem 3-5-angled, striate, 

glabrate or pubescent; stipules linearsubulate, 

slightly falcate, 5 to 7 mm. long; petioles 1 to 3 cm. long, 

glandless; leaves 2 to 7 cm. along midnerve, 4 to 10 cm. along lateral 

nerves, bilobed (lobes occasionally asymmetrical, lanceolate, acute, 

rarely subobtuse, apiculate, the sinus acute or occasionally truncate 

at base), cordate, 3-nerved, glabrate or pilosulous above, paler and 

densely pubescent beneath; peduncles solitary, 1 to 6 cm. long, 

often very slender, articulate about 1 cm. from apex; bracts none; 

flowers 2 to 6 cm. wide, greenish white or pale yellow-green; sepals 

linear-lanceolate, 

1 to 3 cm. long, 2.5 to 4 mm. wide, acute, pilose 

without; petals narrowly oblong-lanceolate or subspatulate, 6 to 

15 mm. long, 2 to 4 mm. wide, obtuse; corona filaments in 1 or 2 

series, the outer filiform, 1.2 to 1.5 cm. long, united at base into a 

thin, transparent membrane, violet, carinate at base, the inner series 

(sometimes wanting) capillary, barely 3 mm. long, violet; operculum 

membranous, plicate, 1 to 1.2 mm. high; limen annular; ovary 

narrowly ovoid or slightly obovoid, minutely puberulent or rarely 

glabrate, hexagonal; fruit ellipsoidal or fusiform, sharply hexagonal, 

5 to 6 cm. long, 1.5 to 2 cm. in diameter; seeds ovate, 3.5 mm. long, 

transversely sulcate, with 5 or 6 smooth ridges. 

TYPE LOCALITY: "Gallia aequinoctiali." 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Plum. PI. Amer. ed. Burm. pi. 188, f. 2. 1757; 

Ann. Ge*n. Sci. Phys. Brux. 2: pi. 22, f. 10; Bot. Mag. 55: pi. 2868; 

Calderon, Passifloras Dilobatas del Salvador /. 1-8; Mutis, Icon. 

PI. Ined. 26: pi. 22. 

DISTRIBUTION: Greater Antilles; Guatemala to Costa Rica; 

Colombia; central Brazil to Paraguay; up to 1,900 meters altitude. 

GUATEMALA: Santa Rosa: Guachipilin, Heyde & Lux (J. D. 

Smith 6141, B, Bo, G, Gen, N). Cuajiniquilapa, Heyde & Lux 

(J. D. Smith 6142, B, G, N). 

HONDURAS: Hjalmarson in 1852 (S). 

BRITISH HONDURAS: Corozal, Gentle 224 (Mich). 

SALVADOR: San Salvador, Calderdn 851 (type collection of P. 

quinquangularis, G, N). Ahuachapan, Standley 19733 (G, N); 

Calderdn 2438 (F).


COSTA RICA: Pittier 8921 (Brux). La Palma, Tonduz 7426 (N). 

Las Nubes, Standley 38366 (N). San Francisco, Pittier 8032 (Brux). 

CUBA: Santa Clara: Soledad, Jack 6316 (N). 

Ekman 10073 (S). 

HAITI: Pe"tionville, Leonard 4882 (B, N). 

Oriente: Bayate, 

Port au Prince, Leonard 

2839 (N). St. Michel de 1'Atalaye, Leonard 7010a (N). Ennery, 

Leonard 9465 (N). Terre Neuve Mountains, Ekman H5055 (N). 

COLOMBIA: Magdalena: Cincinnati, Seifriz 15 (N). 

Surata, Killip & Smith 16477 (A, G, N, Y), 19044 (G, N, Y). 

Santander: 

Charta, 

Kittip & Smith 19037 (G, N, Y). Bucaramanga, Killip & Smith 

19340 (N). San Juan Valley, Haught 1768 (N). Boyaca: Muzo, 

Goudot 4 (K, P). Cundinamarca: La Mesa, Lehmann 4828 (K). 

La Esperanza, Archer 3284 (N). Tolima: league", Goudot (P). 

Libano, Pennell 3424 (G, Mo, N, Y). Antioquia: Santa Barbara, 

Pennell 10895 (N). Salamina, Lehmann 4723 (B, K, N). Hatillo, 

Daniel 941 (N). Caldas: Bele"n, Pennell 10613 (N). Piedra de 

Moler, Andre 2418 (K). El Valle: Cisneros, Killip 5371 (N). La 

Manuelita, near Palmira, Pennell & Killip 6167 (G, N, Y). 

BRAZIL: Burchell 2552 (K), 9096 (K); Boaz (K). Goyaz: Goiabeira, 

Chase 11517 (N). Matto Grosso: Aquidanana, Chase 11060 

(N). Minas Geraes: Regnell III.639 (B, N, P, S). Lagoa Santa, 

Warming 1159 (Cop), 1161 (Cop). Caldas, Mosen 4150 (S); Glaziou 

(P). Serra do Caparao, Chase 9631 (N). Juiz de Fora, Chase 8618 

(N). Lavras, Chase 8801 (N). Barroso, Mexia 5402 (Gen, N). 

Rio de Janeiro: Gardner 49 (BM, K); St. Hilaire 18bis (P), 716 (P); 

Widgren in 1844 (S); Riedel & Luschnath 718 (N); Miers 3980 (BM, 

K). Gavia Mountain, Gardner (BM, type of P. piligera}. Cantagallo, 

Peckholt 184 (V); Martins (Brux). Novo Friburgo, Glaziou 

10871 (B, K, P). Tijuca, Glaziou 3990 (Cop, P). Rio de Janeiro, 

Wilkes Expedition (N); Pohl 3521 (V). Sao Paulo: Perdonnet 264 

(Bo); Brade 5525 (S); St. Hilaire 704bis (P). Serra de Caracol, 

Mosen 1329 (S). Parand: Jaguariahyva, Dusen 11631 (Gen, S). 

San Juan, Dusen 13574 (S). Ypiranga, Dusen 9891 (S). Santa 

Catharina: F. Mutter 429 (K). Herval, Dusen 11893 (N, S). Rio 

Grande do Sul: Sello 598 (B). Santo Angelo, Lindman 1141 (N, S); 

Malme 542B (S). 

URUGUAY: Herter 2606 (B). 

PARAGUAY: Tacural, Hassler 1202 (Bo, type of P. Hassleriana, 

K, P). Sierra de Amambay, Hassler 10388 (B, BM). Rio Apa, 

Hassler 7913 (A, B, BM, Bo, type of P. Hassleriana var. grandiflora,


Gen, K, P, V) ; Fiebrig 4108 (B, Gen, K). Cordillera de Altos, Fiebrig 

194 (B, Gen), 426a (B, F, Gen); Hassler 3166 (Bo, type of P. paraguayensis, 

Gen), 11531 (B, BM, Cop, Gen, N). Rio Alta Parana, 

Fiebrig 6027 (B, BM, G, Gen, N, P). Villa Rica, Jorgensen 3792 (N). 

Rio de La Plata, Palmer in 1854 (N). Asuncion, Balansa 2201 (Gen). 

San Lorenzo, Archer 4761 (NA). 

Passiflora capsularis has its origin in Plumier's brief description 

(Cat. PI. Amer. 6. 1703), "Granadilla fructu rubente, folio bicorni," 

and this is the first reference cited by Linnaeus under P. capsularis 

in the 1753 edition of the Species Plantarum. The species was 

often confused by early authors with its close relative, P. rubra. 

The points of difference between the two are discussed under P. rubra 

in the present paper, and there seems little need now to deal with 

these early misconceptions other than to point out the status of 

Decaloba Smithii and Passiflora capsularis var. geminiflora. 

J. E. Smith in Rees' Cyclopedia (species No. 22) cited Plumier's 

Plantae Americanae (ed. Burmann) page 129, pi. 138, and Plumier's 

Plantes de I'Amerique page 68 (pi. 83}, calling attention to the absence 

of bracts in this species. He then discussed a Jamaican plant at 

hand, which he said agreed perfectly with Plumier's first plate 

except that the leaves were scarcely cordate and the flowers were 

borne in pairs; the rest of Smith's description applied well to the 

first of Plumier's plates. To the element with paired peduncles 

De Candolle gave the name P. capsularis var. geminifolia, an obvious 

error for geminiflora. Roemer, who usually dealt with literature 

rather than with herbarium specimens, assigned the name Decaloba 

Smithii to Smith's description of P. capsularis, adding "non L." and 

citing De Candolle's varietal name in synonymy. Points which 

Roemer gives in his key to D. Smithii apply to true P. capsularis. 

This rather complicated matter is easily explained. The first 

Plumier plate is P. capsularis (the second, apparently playing no 

part in Smith's description, is P. rubra). The plant with peduncles 

in pairs is P. sexflora. 

The name Decaloba Smithii, eliminating the 

"geminiflora" citation, is a synonym of P. capsularis. 

LOCAL NAMES: "Calzoncillo" (Salvador); "maracuja branco 

miudo" (Brazil). 

110. Passiflora rubra L. Sp. PI. 956. 1753. 

Granadilla rubra Moench, Meth. PI. Suppl. 15. 1802. 

(?) Passiflora bilobataVell Fl. Flumin. 9: pi. 78. 1827. Not P. 

bilobata Juss.


(?) Password lunata Veil. Fl. Flumin. 9: pi. 80. 1827. Not P. lunata 

J. E. Sm. or Willd. or Juss. 

(?) Passiflora obscura Lindl. Trans. Roy. Hort. Soc. London 7: 48. 

1830. 

Decaloba rubra M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 

2: 153. 1846. 

(t)Decaloba bilobata M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 154. 1846. 

(l)Decaloba semilunaris M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 154. 1846. 

(t)Decaloba obscura M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 

2: 157. 1846. 

Passiflora cisnana Harms, Bot. Jahrb. 18: Beibl. 46: 5. 1894. 

Stem 3-5-angled, striate, densely grayish-pubescent, rarely glabrescent; 

stipules setaceous, 5 to 8 mm. long; petioles up to 5 cm. 

long, glandless; leaves 2 to 8 cm. along midnerve, 4 to 10 cm. along 

lateral nerves, bilobed (occasionally with an intermediate third 

lobe nearly equal to the lateral lobes, but this usually reduced to a 

cusp, the lobes acute or obtuse, usually widely divergent), cordate 

at base, membranous, finely pubescent or rarely softly hirsute; 

peduncles solitary, very rarely in pairs, subequaling the petioles, 

articulate near apex; bracts none; flowers up to 5 cm. wide; sepals 

linear-lanceolate, 1 to 3 cm. long, 3 to 6 mm. wide, acutish, conspicuously 

3-nerved, more or less pubescent and reddish or greenish 

without, glabrous and white within; petals half as long as the sepals, 

2 to 4 mm. wide, white; corona filaments in 1 or 2 series, the outer 

narrowly liguliform or nearly filiform above middle, 5 to 10 mm. 

long, purple or lavender proximally, green or white distally, frequently 

a second series of minute (barely 2 mm. long) filaments 

present; operculum membranous, very slightly plicate, minutely 

fimbrillate; limen annular, subcupuliform; ovary subglobose, densely 

hirsute with long, white or brownish hairs; fruit ovoid or obovoid, 

2 to 2.5 cm. long, 1.5 to 1.8 cm. wide (at times up to 5.5 cm. long 

and 2.5 cm. wide), rounded or abruptly acute at apex, tapering at 

base, sub-10-angled, hirsute, at length glabrate, reddish; seeds ovate, 

about 4 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, mucronate, black, transversely 

sulcate, the ridges about 6, smooth. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Jamaica (first locality given in Species Plantarum, 

1753). 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Plum. PI. Amer. pi. 83; Amoen. Acad. 1: pi. 10, 

f. 9; Jacq. Icon. PI. Rar. 1: pi. 186; Cav. Diss. 10: pi 268; Bot. Reg. 

2: pi. 95; Ann. G


DISTRIBUTION: Throughout West Indies; Colombia and Venezuela 

to Peru and Bolivia; eastern Brazil. Sea level to 1,500 meters, 

rarely to 2,000 meters. 

BAHAMAS: Curtiss 56 (B, BM, F, G, Gen, HV, K, Minn, N, P, Y); 

Wilson 8377 (F, Y) Britton & Brace 271 

; (F, Y) ; Millspaugh 2228 

(F); E. G. Britton 3301 (F, Y); Eggers 1*235 (B); Coker 274 (Y). 

CUBA: Wright 133 (G), 201 

(Bo, Brux, G, Gen, K, S, Y); Rugel 

351 (B, BM, Y), 838 (Y); Eggers 5061 (B, K, N); De la Sagra 

(P). Limonal, Poeppig in 1822 (V). Pinar del Rio: Ledn 12535 (Y), 

12588 (HS), 12912 (HS), 12924 (HS); Ekman 10661 (S). Habana: 

Roig & Leon 4683 (HV); Shafer 465 (Y). Santa Clara: Leon 4024 

(HS), 5329 (HS, Y); Luna 17 (HS); Ekman 18854 (B, S); Jack 5971 

(N); Bailey 12379 (N); Clement 46 (N); Pringle 52 (G); Combs 279 

(B, F, G, Y); Britton & Wilson 4905 (Y); L. B. Smith et al. 3382 

.(N). Camaguey: Acuna 4417 (HV); Shafer 178 (F, Y); Britton, 

Britton & Shafer 415 (Y). Oriente: Linden 1791 (B, BM, Brux, Gen, 

K, P), 1821 in part (BM); Shafer 3054 (Y), 3492 (B, F, N, Y); 

Ekman 1986 (S), 5864 (S), 5881 (S), 6646 (S), 7263 (S); Ledn 10341 

(HS), 10556 (HS), 12360 (HS); Bailey 15150 (N). 

SWAN ISLAND: G. Nelson 24 (G, N). 

HAITI: Jacquemont in 1827 (B, K, P); Cook 15 (N); Miller 287 

(N}; Jaeger 138 (B, N, V); Ehrenberg (E); Leonard 3668 (N, Ph, Y), 

8685 (N), 4767 (BM, F, G, N, Y), 7570 (N), 7394 (N), 8047 (N), 

8319 (N, Y), 9265 (N); Leonard & Leonard 11367 (N), 11549 (N, Y), 

13376 (N), 13535 (N), 1.4120 (N); Ekman H53 (B, S), H444 (B, S), 

H0520 (N); Picarda 1723 (B); C/m's* 2053 (B), 2084 (B); Buc/i 105 

(B), 167 (B), 203 (B); Nash 418 (Y), 552 (Y), 7.45 

183 (N). 

(Y), 1208 (Y); 

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Poiteau (Gen, Ph); Meyerhoff 144 (B); 


Wight 198 (F, Y); Lloyd 1073 (F); Lang 215 (Ph); S. Brown 29 

(Ph, Y); Crawford 701 (Ph), 738 (Ph};0rcutt 3438 (N). 

PUERTO Rico: Underwood & Griggs 39 (N, Y), 362 (N); Heller 

1218 (F, K, N, Y); Shafer 2987 (N, Y); Cook & Collins 303 (N), 374 

(N); Britton & Cowell 824 (N, Y); Britton & Shafer 1698 (Y); J. R. 

Johnston 257 (Y), 262 (Y), 668 (Y); Wilson 279 (Y); Stevenson 153 

(N); Krwg 4&> (B); Stahl 391 (B); Sintenis 341 (B, G, Gen, K, N, 

P, S), W& (B), 341c (B), ii2 (B), J7&4 (B), 1810 (B), 25O4 (B, N), 

275S (B), 230 (B), 6017 (B), 6070 (B); Hfyfler 258 (Gen); Kwntee 

400 (Y). 

ST. CROIX: L. C. Richard (P). 

ST. THOMAS: Eggers 962 (B, Brux, G, N, P); 

1216 (N,Y). 

ST. JAN: Britton & Shafer 584 (N, Y). 

Britton & Marble 

ST. KITTS: Britton & Cowell 103 (Y). 

SABA: Boldingh 1488 (Ut), 1494 (Ut), 1764 (Ut), 20*7 (Ut, Y). 

ST. EUSTATIUS: Boldingh 2024 (Ut). 

ST. MARTIN: Boldingh 3292 (Ut). 

ANTIGUA: Rose, Fitch & Russell 3459 (B, G, N, Y). 

MONTSERRAT: Shafer 358 (F, N, Y), 619 (F, N, Y). 

GUADELOUPE: Duss 600 (P), 2231 (B, Cop, F, N, Y) ; Duchassaing 

in 1849 (B, P); Isert in 1787 (Cop). 

DOMINICA: L. C. Richard (Py,Ramage in 1888 (K); Lloyd 553 (Y). 

MARTINIQUE: Plee (P); Hahn 868 (P), 910 (P); Zte 872 (B, Y). 

ST. VINCENT: H. H. Smith 607 (B, G, K, Y). 

TRINIDAD: Britton & Hazen 1605 (G, K, N, Y); J. R. Johnston 11 

(G); Crueger (K); Siefcer 241 (B, BM, Gen, P, V); Fendler 379 (BM, 

K}; Trinidad Herb. 2981 (K, T), 0424 (T), 9373 (T), 10065 (T), 11173 

(T); Broadway 6995 (K, Mo, Ph); tfimtee 7S0 (Y). 

VENEZUELA: Fendler 1877 (K). Federal District: Caracas, 

Moritz 230 (B). Aragua: Ocumare', Pittier 11387 (N). MeYida: 

Monte 1314 (B). 

COLOMBIA: Cundinamarca: Anolaima, Dawe in 1919 (K); Archer 

3309 (N). Caldas: Salento, Pennell 9084 (N). Rio Campoalegre, 

Pennell 10183 (G, N, Y). San Jose", Pennell 10240 (N, Ph). El 

Valle: Zarzal, Pennell, Killip & Hazen 8541 (N). Restrepo, Killip 

11257 (N). Versailles, Dawe 839 (K, N). El Cauca: Rio Ojar, 

Lehmann 3364 (K).


ECUADOR: Jameson in 1871 (K, S). 

Manabi: El Recreo, Eggers 

15584 (F). Guayas: Teresita, Stevens 198 (N). Barraganetal, 

Stevens 328 (N). Bolivar: San Miguel, Stevens 202 (N). Chimborazo: 

Huigra, Rose 22275 (N, Y); Hitchcock 20747 (G, N, Y). 

Azuay: Cumbre, Rose 22984 (N). Loja: Cuesta de Cisna, 1,200 to 

1,500 meters, Lehmann 4833 (B, type of P. cisnana, K). Loja, Rose 

23343 (G, N, Y). 

PERU: Ruiz & Pavdn (Ma). Tumbez: Hacienda Chicama, 

Weberbauer 7653 (F, N). San Martin: San Roque, L. Williams 7088 

(N). Tarapoto, Vie 6546 (B, Gen, Go). Huanuco: Mima, Macbride 

4162 (F, N). Junin: La Merced, Killip & Smith 23400 (F, N, Y), 

23432 (N, Y), 25371 (N). Yapas, Pichis Trail, Killip & Smith 25441 

(N, Y). Ayacucho: Aina, Killip & Smith 22800 (F, N, Y). Cuzco: 

Uchumayo, Bues (Herrera 2129; N). Echarato, Bues in 1928 (N). 

BOLIVIA: Bang 2836 (B, BM, F, Gen, Minn, N, Ph, V, Y). 

La Paz: Coroico, Buchtien 3852 (N), 3872 (N). Milluguaya, Buchtien 

636 (N). Santa Cruz: Buenavista, Steinbach 8045 (G, Y). 

BRAZIL: Ceara: Campo Grande, Lofgren 314 (S). Pernambuco: 

Rio de Janeiro: Widgren 117 (S). 

Tapera, Pickel 2625 (N). 

The leaves of P. rubra and P. capsularis are so similar that in 

the absence of flowers or fruits it is almost impossible to distinguish 

the two. The ovary of P. rubra is densely clothed with long, white 

or rarely brownish hairs, which usually persist on the fruit; in 

P. capsularis the ovary is merely puberulent, 

this indument often 

disappearing as the fruit matures. The fruit of P. capsularis is 

always much elongated, tapering at both ends; in P. rubra it shows 

more variation in relative length and width, though it is always 

more or less obovoid. In Archer 3309, from Colombia, the old fruits 

are 5.5 cm. long and 2.5 cm. in diameter near the apex. The principal 

corona filaments of P. capsularis are slenderer than those of 

P. rubra, though in a dried state this difference is not readily 

discernible. 

In both these species there may or may not be a second series 

of corona filaments, an unusual condition as, apparently, all other 

species of Plectostemma are definitely one- or two-ranked. Even 

if present, the inner series consists of only a few filaments. 

Passiflora cisnana appears to be rrflrely a form in the mountains 

of Ecuador with a denser indument and smaller leaves. The type 

in Berlin is a poor specimen with few flowers and leaves badly 

pressed. An excellent specimen at Kew, collected by Jameson,


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. 

t 


ILLUSTRATIONS: A. DC. Dess. Fl. Mex. 1: pi. 32; Oersted, AmeY. 

Centr. pi. 17; Mutis, Icon. PI. Ined. 26: pi. 30.


DISTRIBUTION: Mexico to Venezuela; eastern Peru. Foothills 

and lower mountain slopes, 900 to 1,600 meters altitude. 

MEXICO: Sesse & Mocino 4478 (Bo, Ma, type; probably also type 

collection of P. aspera). Tumbala, Nelson 3378 (N). Veracruz: 

Pital, Liebmann 4072 (Cop). 

Atoyac, Kerber 155 (B, BM, Bo, Brux, 

Cop, Gen, K, N). Cualtepec, Liebmann 4071 (Cop). Orizaba, 

MuMer in 1855 (Y) ; Bourgeau 3168 (Brux, K, P), 3262 (Bo, P), 3263 

(G, Gen, K, P). Barranca de Tenampa, Purpus 4337 (B, BM, Cal, 

F, G, Mo, N), 8904 (Cal, Y). Cerro de Chiquihuite, Conzatti 12 (G). 

Cerro de Boqueron, Purpus 6989 (Cal), 7098 (Cal). Jalapa, Schiede 

85 (B). Cordoba, Hahn 1617 (Bo, P). Mexico: Tenancingo, 

Reddick 349 (N). 

GUATEMALA: Finca Mocca, H. Johnson 80 (N). Pete"n: Uaxactun, 

Cook & Martin 142 (N); Bartlett 12130 (N). Santa Rosa: 

Cuajiniquilapa, Heyde & Lux 6143 (B, Bo, G, Gen, N). 

BRITISH HONDURAS: El Cayo, Chanek 2 (N). 

COSTA RICA: Pittier 8460 (Brux). Mt. Jaris, Oersted 4151 (Cop, 

type of Ceratosepalum micranthum). Cartago, Standley 35450 (N); 

Cooper 5773 (G, N); Torres 204 (N). Tuis, Tonduz 11411 (N, V). 

PANAMA: Chiriqui: El Boquete, Seemann 1626 (BM, K). 

VENEZUELA: Federal District: Caracas, Pittier 9930 (Gen, N, Y). 

Aragua: Colonia Tovar, Fendler 471 (Brux, G, Gen, K, Mo, P, Y); 

Moritz 1719 (BM, K, V); Karsten in 1849 (B). 

COLOMBIA: Magdalena: Santa Marta, H. H. Smith 1529 (A, B, 

BM, Brux, CM, F, G, Gen, N, P, Ph, S, Ut). Maria Teresa, Giacometto 

6 (Ph). Boyaca: El Humbo, Lawrance 520 (Gen, S). Cundinamarca: 

Dawe in 1919 (K); Goudot 3 (Bo). Tolima: Rio Cuello, 

Killip 9736 (G, N). Ibague", Goudot 4 (P). Antioquia: Medellin, 

Archer 1018 (N). Salgar, Toro 1041 (Y). Caldas: Armenia, Pennell, 

Killip & Hazen 8601 (G, N, Ph, Y), 8633 (G, N, Ph, Y). Beten, 

Pennell 10614 (N). 

PERU: Junin: La Merced, Macbride 5561 (F, N). 

The correct name to apply to this plant and its taxonomic position 

were long in doubt. De Candolle's brief description of Passiflora 

adenopoda was insufficient to establish the identity of the species, 

and Schlechtendal and Chamisso's name P. acerifolia was used for 

this rather common plant, even at the time of Masters' monograph. 

The publication, in 1874, of plates of certain of these earlier described 

De Candollean species proved P. adenopoda and P. acerifolia to be 

the same.


In Oersted's flora of Central America (Ame>. Centr. pi. 17} 

there is a detailed drawing, unaccompanied by description, of a 

plant to which the name Ceratosepalum micranthum is assigned. 

Masters transferred (in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 555; through 

error Masters referred to Oersted's plant as Ceratosepalum parviflorum} 

this to Passiflora under the name Passiflora ceratosepala, 

formulating a description from the drawing but citing no specimens. 

This drawing is suspiciously like the common P. adenopoda, though 

the flowers are smaller and the sepals rather more prominently 

horned than in that species. However, in the herbarium of 

Universitetets Botaniske Museum, Copenhagen, there is a specimen 

labeled, in Oersted's handwriting, "Ceratosepalum glandulosum 

Oerst.," with a single, badly dried flower and a small flower penciled 

in, which probably is the original of Oersted's drawing, and which 

unquestionably is Passiflora adenopoda. 

Passiflora adenopoda was placed by De Candolle in the section 

Granadilla, presumably because of its foliaceous bracts. 

acerifolia was described as a species of Dysosmia. 

Passiflora 

Passiflora ceratosepala 

was treated as a species of Plectostemma (section Decaloba) 

by Masters. Triana and Planchon also referred the plant (as P. 

acerifolia} to Plectostemma. Finally, Harms created (Engl. & Prantl, 

Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 21: 500. 1925) a monotypic subsection, Pseudodysosmia, 

of Decaloba for the species. 

The flower structure, position 

of the bracts, and the general aspect of the plant suggest P. bryonioides 

and its allies. 

LOCAL NAMES: "Granadilla de monte" (Colombia); "comida de 

culebra" (Costa Rica). 

Section 6. Pseudogranadilla 

112. Passiflora pulchella HBK. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 134. 1817. 

(t}Passiflora bicornis Mill. Gard. Diet. Passiflora No. 13. 1768. 

Passiflora rotundifolia Jacq. Obs. Bot. 2: 26. pi. 46, f. 1. 1767. 

Not P. rotundifolia L. or Swartz. 

Passiflora rotundifolia var. Jacquinii DC. Prodr. 3: 326. 1828. 

Decaloba Jacquini M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 156. 1846. 

Passiflora divaricata Griseb. Bonplandia 6: 7. 1858. 

Passiflora pulchella var. bifidata Mast. Bot. Jahrb. 8: 220. 1887. 

Passiflora mucronata Sesse" & Moc. Fl. Mex. 228. 1887 (as 

muchronata). Not P. mucronata Lam.


Passiflora Murucuia L. sensu Sess & Moc. Fl. Nov. Hisp. 155. 

1887. Not P. Murucuia L. 

"Passiflora subtriangularis beta" Calderon, Passifloras Dilobatas 

del Salvador 11. 

Plant glabrous throughout, or the stem minutely pilosulous; 

stipules narrowly linear, subfalcate, 5 to 7 mm. long; petioles 1 to 2 

cm. long, glandless; leaves 2 to 6 cm. along the midnerve, 3 to 9 cm. 

along lateral nerves, 5 to 10 cm. between apices of lobes, bilobate 

one-fourth to one-half their length (or with a small third lobe 

occasionally present in the sinus, the lobes divaricate or suberect, 

truncate or rounded, often mucronulate, sometimes deeply bilobed), 

at base truncate, rounded, or somewhat cuneate, 3-nerved (a secondary 

pair arising near the middle of the central nerve), prominently 

reticulate-veined, ocellate beneath, coriaceous; peduncles solitary, 

5 to 8 cm. long, divaricate; bracts suborbicular or ovate, 1 to 1.5 cm. 

long, 8 to 10 mm. wide, acutish or obtuse, abruptly tapering at base, 

flabellate-veined, membranous, borne about 2 mm. below base of 

flower, purplish red; flowers 4.5 to 5.5 cm. wide, deep blue; sepals 

oblong, obtuse, about 2 cm. long, 7 to 9 mm. wide; petals ovatelanceolate 

or oblong-lanceolate, 1.3 to 1.5 cm. long, 4 mm. wide; 

corona filaments in several series, filiform, the outermost as long as 

the petals, those of the inner 3 or 4 series 4 to 5 mm. long, capitellate; 

operculum membranous, closely plicate, fimbriate, incurved; limen 

annular; ovary subglobose, glabrous; fruit globose, 1 to 1.5 cm. 

in diameter; seeds obovate, 2 to 3 mm. long, about 1 mm. wide, 

transversely sulcate with about 6 rugulose ridges. 

TYPE LOCALITY : Near Cura, Aragua Valley, Venezuela. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Jacq. Obs. Bot. 2: pi. 46, f. 1; Calderon, 

Passifloras Dilobatas del Salvador opp. p. 12. 

DISTRIBUTION: Southern Mexico to the northern coast of Colombia 

and Venezuela; cultivated in Hawaii. Near sea level. 

MEXICO: Sesst & Mocino 4454 (Bo, Ma, type of P. muchronata 

Sess4 & Moc.), 4455 (Bo, Ma, labeled "P. Murucuia"); Haenke 875 

(Y). Yucatan: Sisal, Gaumer 23285 (F, G, N, Y). Izamal, Gaumer 

796 (Bo, F, N, Y). MeYida, Schott 405 (BM, F). Chichen Itzd, 

Steere 1111 (N). Uxmal, Steere 2033 (N). 

GUATEMALA: Chiquimula: Chiquimula, 400 meters, Lehmann 

1708 (Bo, type of P. pulchella var. bifidata). 

SALVADOR: Ahuachapan, Padilla 161 (N), 161 a (N). 

Standley 23228 (G, N, Y). 

Acajutla, Calderdn 1659 (G, N). 

La Libertad,


NICARAGUA: Corinto, Maxon 7210 (N). 

COSTA RICA: Puntarenas, Lehmann 1730 (Bo), 1735 (Bo, G, K); 

Rowlee & Stork 995 (N, Y). 

PANAMA: Hayes 92 (BM, K); Fendler 2330 (K); Duchassaing 

(P, type of P. divaricata?). Panama: Bella Vista, Killip 12028 

(N); Heriberto 218 (N). Las Sabanas, Standley 40781 (N). 

VENEZUELA: Aragua: Cura, Aragua Valley, Humboldt & Bonpland 

(B, type, BW). Carabobo: San Joaquin, Pittier 7908 (N). 

Angostura: Ciudad Bolivar, Bailey 1603 (N), 

COLOMBIA: Magdalena: Santa Marta, H. H. Smith 1590 (N), 

1596 (B, BM, Brux, CM, F, G, Gen, K, Ma, N, P, Ph, S, Ut, Y), 

1696 (Y); Karsten (V); Purdie (K). Rio Frio, Salt JJ (G, N); 

Walker 1234 (N). Lake Sapatoza, Allen 355 (K). Atlantico: 

Salgar, Pennell 12058 (G, K, N, Ph, Y). Barranquilla, Elias 254 

(N). Bolivar: Cartagena, Schott 3 (Y); Heriberto 187 (N). 

This and the following five species have the foliaceous bracts of 

the subgenus Granadilla and the plicate operculum of Plectostemma. 

Passiflora pulchella was placed by Masters in a section of Granadilla, 

but, as Triana and Planchon quite correctly pointed out (Ann. Sci. 

Nat. V. Bot. 17: 155. 1873), it should be referred to Plectostemma. 

Harms has proposed (Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 21: 500. 

1926) the name Pseudogranadilla for this group of large-bracted 

species with a plicate operculum, ranking it as a subdivision of his 

section Decaloba (i.e., subgenus Plectostemma, in part, of the present 

treatment). Pseudogranadilla admittedly is an artificial section, the 

species here referred to it having little in common other than the 

foliaceous bracts. Probably P. pulchella is more closely related 

to P. biflora, P. indecora to P. cuneata, P. menispermacea to P. erythrophylla, 

P. Kalbreyeri to P. bogotensis, and P. porphyretica to 

P. sexflora. 

This may well be the plant, collected by Houston at Cartagena, 

to which Miller gave the name Passiflora bicornis, and if so that 

prior name should be used. But Miller's description is indefinite, 

and applicable, almost as well, to P. biflora and forms of P. cuneata, 

and in the absence of a type specimen, it seems best to maintain the 

name that is in general use. 

LOCAL NAMES: "Calzoncillo," "camacarlata," and "granadilla" 

(Salvador). 

Calderon reports the plant as having diuretic properties.


113. Passiflora indecora HBK. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 134. 1818. 

Passiflora involucellata Harms, Bot. Jahrb. 18: Beibl. 46: 10. 1894. 

Stem subtriangular, flexuous, puberulent; stipules narrowly 

linear, 7 to 9 mm. long, falcate, purplish; petioles up to 3 cm. long, 

glandless; leaves 3 to 7 cm. long, 3 to 6 cm. wide (or up to 9 cm. 

long, 6.5 cm. wide), 2-lobed one-third to one-half their length (lobes 

lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or acute), rounded at base, 

puberulent on both surfaces; peduncles solitary or in pairs, up to 

4 cm. long; bracts broadly triangular-ovate, 10 to 12 mm. long, 9 to 

10 mm. wide, abruptly acute at the base, puberulent, reddish purple; 

flowers 4 to 4.5 cm. wide; sepals oblong, about 1.5 cm. long, 

obtuse, subcoriaceous; petals about 1 cm. long, oblong, obtuse, 

membranous; corona filaments in 2 series, the outer liguliform, 

falcate-dilated at apex, 4 to 5 mm. long, distally purple, the inner 

series filiform, 3 to 4 mm. long, capitellate; operculum plicate; 

limen annular; ovary subglobose or obovoid, densely villous; fruit 

globose, about 1.5 cm. in diameter; seeds oblong, about 3.5 mm. 

long, 3 mm. wide, transversely sulcate, the ridges about 6. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Near Loja, Ecuador. 

DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of southern Ecuador, at an altitude 

of about 2,000 meters. 

ECUADOR: Jameson (N). Loja: Loja, Humboldt & Bonpland 

(type, B, BW, P) ; 

Lehmann 4835 (B, type of P. involucellata, G, N, 

S); Rose 23266 (G, N). Tablon de Ona, Rose 23129 (N). 

Passiflora indecora is a well marked species, with rather deeply 

bilobed leaves much like those of P. cuneata, but with large bracts. 

The species has not been well understood, owing to the fact that 

certain important details were lacking in the original description. 

Masters referred here a specimen of P. Candollei collected at Chachapoyas, 

Peru, by Mathews, and Harms described a specimen of 

Lehmann's, which clearly is P. indecora, as P. involucellata. The 

bracts have fallen off the specimen at Berlin from which Kunth 

evidently drew up the original description. Regarding these he 

merely says, "Bracteae caducae; tres ovatae teste Bonplandio." 

The specimen of the type collection in the Bonpland Herbarium at 

Paris bears relatively large bracts, identical with those of the type 

of P. involucellata. 

114. Passiflora rugosissima Killip, sp. nov. 

Ubique dense brunneo-velutina; stipulae lineari-subulatae; petioli 

eglandulosi folia bilobata vel 

; 

subtrilobata, lobo medio obsolete, lobis


triangularibus acutis, coriacea, supra rugosissima; pedunculi bini, 

2- vel 3-furcati, floribus confertis; bracteae bracteolaeque similes, 

foliaceae, flabellato-laceratae; sepala anguste lanceolata; petala 

linearia; corona biseriata; operculum plicatum; ovarium breviter 

villosum; fructus subglobosus; semina transverse sulcata. 

Vine, densely brunneo-velutinous throughout; stem terete, 

2 to 

3 mm. in diameter; tendrils axillary, stout; stipules linear-subulate, 

7 to 9 mm. long, 0.7 to 0.8 mm. wide, subfalcate, purplish; petioles 

stout, up to 1.5 cm. long, glandless; leaves 3 to 6 cm. along the midnerve, 

4 to 9 cm. along the lateral nerves, 5 to 10 cm. between the 

apices of the lobes, bilobed (lobes triangular, acute, the sinus shallow, 

usually with an obscure lobe), cordulate at the base, coriaceous, 

strongly rugose above, 3-nerved, reticulate-veined, the nerves and 

veins elevated on the under surface; peduncles in pairs, 1.5 to 2 cm. 

long, 2 or 3 times forked, the branches short and the flowers crowded, 

the ultimate branches or pedicels slender, 1 to 1.5 cm. long; bracts 

and bractlets similar, broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate in general 

outline, in 3's, 

membranous, green, 7 to 10 mm. long, 3 to 12 mm. 

wide, irregularly flabellate-lacerate, 

the segments acuminate; calyx 

patelliform, up to 5 mm. in diameter; sepals narrowly lanceolate, 

9 to 10 mm. long, about 3 mm. wide, subacute, greenish yellow; 

petals linear, 6 to 7 mm. long, 2 to 2.5 mm. wide, thin, white; corona 

filaments filiform, in 2 series, subequal, 2 to 2.5 mm. long; operculum 

membranous, closely plicate, about 1 mm. high; limen a low, annular 

ridge; gynophore about 5 mm. long; ovary globose, short- villous; 

styles 3, free to the base; fruit subglobose, about 1 cm. in diameter, 

lustrous, black, short- villous; seeds ovate, about 3 mm. long and 2 

mm. wide, transversely sulcate with about 7 narrow, rugulose ridges. 

Type in the United States National Herbarium, No. 1,685,159, 

collected on Mt. Orando, State of Chiapas, Mexico, December 20, 

1936, by E. Matuda (No. 477). Also collected at Finca Juarez, in 

the same state (Matuda 1754; N). 

The compound inflorescence and the shape of the leaves of 

P. rugosissima suggest P. sexflora, but the large, lacerate bracts at 

once differentiate it from that species. As already has been pointed 

out in the comments on P. pulchella, Pseudogranadilla is an artificial 

group, the species having little to bring them together other than 

foliaceous bracts. 

The description of P. pannosa Hook. & Arn. (not J. E. Sm.) 

applies to the present species in certain details, but on the whole 

is better for P. porphyretica var. angustata.


115. Passiflora menispermacea 

V. Bot. 17: 168. 1873. 

Tr. & Planch. Ann. Sci. Nat. 

Plant reddish throughout when dry; stem angulate, sulcate, 

appressed-puberulent; stipules subulate, 3 mm. long, early deciduous; 

petioles 1 to 2 cm. long (probably longer), slender, glandless, puberulent; 

leaves suborbicular or somewhat broader than long, 2 to 4.5 

cm. long, 2.5 to 6 cm. wide, shallowly 3-lobed at apex (lobes rounded, 

mucronulate, the middle 1.5 to 2 cm. wide at base, subequaling or 

slightly longer than lateral lobes), rounded at base, sparingly ocellate 

beneath, membranous, glabrous; peduncles 1 to 1.5 cm. long, puberulent; 

bracts foliaceous, oblong, 1.5 to 2 cm. long, 1 to 1.5 cm. wide, 

free to the cordate base, obtuse, mucronulate, obscurely serrulate 

in lower half, sessile, membranous, bright green when dry; sepals 

linear-oblong, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, about 0.5 cm. wide, obtuse; petals 

oblong, 0.8 to 1 cm. long, 0.4 to 0.6 cm. wide, obtuse, thinner than 

sepals; corona filaments in 2 series, the outer ligulate, subequal to 

petals, dilated above, the inner filiform, about 2 mm. long; operculum 

plicate, minutely denticulate at margin; limen annular; ovary subglobose, 

densely rufo-sericeous. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Quebrada Azufral, Quindio Trail, Colombia. 

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality in the Central 


COLOMBIA: Tolima: Quebrada Azufral, Quindio Trail, Goudot 9 

(P, type). 

This plant is much unlike the other species of Pseudogranadilla. 

Except for the three shallow lobes the leaves are nearly circular in 

outline and of a decidedly reddish color when dry; the bracts are 

much larger than those of P. pukhella or P. Kalbreyeri, more like 

those of P. laurifolia; the peduncles and petioles are much shorter 

and the flowers much smaller than in the case of most of its relatives. 

It is evidently very scarce, even at the type locality. I looked carefully 

for this particular species along the Quindio Trail near the 

crossing of the Quebrada Azufral, but failed to find it. A sterile 

plant (Killip 11813} collected at Cordoba, in the Pacific coastal 

region of Colombia, appears to be this species, but definite extension 

of the range on such unsatisfactory evidence is hardly justifiable. 

116. Passiflora Kalbreyeri Mast. Journ. Bot. Brit. & For. 21: 

36. 1883. 

Plant densely ferruginous- tomentose throughout; stem subquadrangular; 

stipules linear-subulate, 5 to 7 mm. long, falcate,


purplish; petioles up to 1.5 cm. long, glandless; leaves suborbicular, 

becoming broadly oblong, 3 to 10 cm. long, 3 to 9 cm. wide, truncate 

and shallowly 3-lobed (lobes obtuse, usually mucronulate) or merely 

sinuate at apex, rounded or subcuneate at base, subcoriaceous; 

peduncles in pairs, 2 to 4 cm. long; bracts oblanceolate, 6 to 8 mm. 

long, 2 to 3 mm. wide, 3-4-toothed toward apex, deep purple; 

flowers up to 4 cm. wide; sepals lanceolate-oblong, about 1.5 cm. 

long, 5 to 6 mm. wide, obtuse, pinkish white within; petals lanceolate, 

5 to 7 mm. long, 2 to 4 mm. wide, pinkish white; corona filaments 

in 2 series, the outer filiform, slightly dilated above, 5 to 6 mm. long, 

proximally white, distally purple, radiate, the inner filiform, 4 to 5 

mm. long, white, erect; operculum closely plicate, minutely fimbrillate; 

limen annular; ovary globose, densely setose; fruit globose, 

about 1.5 cm. in diameter, sparingly setose; seeds broadly ovoid, 

transversely sulcate, the ridges 5 or 6. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Ocafia, Colombia. 

DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of central Venezuela to the eastern 

part of the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia, between 1,500 and 2,500 


VENEZUELA: Federal District: E. Pittier 167 (G, Gen). Catuche, 

Pittier 6196 (B, N, Y), 9590 (Gen, N). Upper Cotiza, near Caracas. 

Pittier 7344 (N), 7567 (N). 

COLOMBIA: Norte de Santahder: Espiritu Santo, Kalbreyer 1253 

(B, K, type). Pamplona, Kittip & Smith 19775 (A, G, N, Y), 19801 

(A, G, N, Y). Tapata, Kittip & Smith 20284 (A, G, N, Y), 20493 

(A, G, N, Y). Between Toledo and Pamplona, Kittip & Smith 20557 

(A, G, N,Y). 

This well marked species is apparently of limited range, although 

Mr. Smith and I found it quite common in the Zulia drainage basin 

of eastern Colombia. In describing the plant as "pubescent" 

Masters rather understated the character of the indument, for in 

reality the plant is very densely ferruginous-tomentose. 

117. Passiflora porphyretica Mast. Bot. Gaz. 20: 538. pi. 36. 1895. 

Stem terete, 

densely pubescent or hirsute; stipules cordate, 8 to 

10 mm. long, 5 to 7 mm. wide, more or less chartaceous, reddish 

or violet-purple, glabrate above, sparsely pilosulous below, the margin 

densely ciliate; petioles 1 to 2.5 cm. long, glandless, densely hirsute; 

leaves orbicular in general outline (those of the main stem 5 to 10 cm. 

in length and breadth, those of the branches 2 to 3 cm. long and 3.5 

to 4 cm. wide), shallowly 2-3-lobed (lobes obtuse or sometimes


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.


Type in the United States National Herbarium, No. 1,318,700, 

collected at Puerto Vallasta, Jalisco, Mexico, altitude 100 meters, 

December 17, 1926, by Ynes Mexia (No. 1306) 

. 

Duplicate at Geneva. 

DISTRIBUTION: West-central Mexico. 

MEXICO: Jalisco: San Sebastian, 1,500 meters, Mexia 1526 (Gen, 

N, Y). Tuxpan, Purpus 486 (N). Mexico: Ixiapan, Hinton 2936 

(K, N). Anonas, Hinton 3569 (K, N). 

Except for the narrow stipules, these plants seem to be identical 

with typical P. porphyretica. They represent undoubtedly the 

plant, likewise collected in Jalisco, referred questioningly by Hooker 

and Arnott to P. pannosa J. E. Sm., a species that is synonymous 

with P. sexflora. Hooker and Arnott describe their plant as having 

lanceolate-subulate stipules, a 5-parted calyx (i.e., apetalous), and 

three orbiculate, short-acuminate, concave bracts, entire or fewtoothed 

at the apex. With the exception of the statement that the 

flowers are apetalous, this description answers very well the above 

specimens. However, as already noted in the case of other species, 

inconspicuous petals were frequently overlooked by early botanists. 

Section 7. 

Ilahniopathanthus 

118. Passiflora Hahnii (Fourn.) Mast, in Mart. FI. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 

569. 1872. 

Disemma Hahnii Fourn. Rev. Hort. 41: pi. 430. 1869. 

Passiflora guatemalensis Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 22: 473. 1887. 

Plant glabrous throughout; stem wiry, terete, angulate above, 

striate; stipules reniform, 1 cm. long, 1.2 to 1.7 cm. wide, setiferously 

toothed; petioles 1.5 to 3 cm. long, glandless; leaves broadly ovatelanceolate 

in general outline, 5 to 8 cm. long, 3.5 to 7 cm. wide, entire 

or usually inconspicuously lobed 1.5 to 3 cm. from the apex (lobes 

setosely tipped), peltate, 3-5-nerved, membranous, rarely subcoriaceous; 

peduncles solitary, up to 7 cm. long; bracts 2, cordate, 2.5 

to 3 cm. long, 1.5 to 2 cm. wide, denticulate toward base, the teeth 

and the apex setosely tipped or subentire; flowers 4 to 6 cm. wide; 

sepals and petals similar, oblong, 2 to 3 cm. long, 0.7 to 0.9 cm. wide, 

obtuse, radiate, white or cream-colored; corona filaments yellow, in 

2 series, the outer up to 1.5 cm. long, dilated at apex, spreading, the 

inner up to 5 mm. long, clavate, erect; operculum membranous, 

closely plicate, 2.5 to 3 mm. high, the margin incurved; limen annular; 

ovary bluish black, glaucous, subglobose or ovoid; fruit globose, 

3 to 3.5 cm. in diameter; seeds ovate-oblong, slightly flattened,


curved, about 5 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, each face reticulate, 

with 

about 40 reticulations. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico (type a specimen cultivated in the Jardin 

des Plantes, Paris, introduced by Hahn). 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Rev. Hort. 41: pi 430; Bot. Mag. 115: pi. 7052; 

Gard. Chron. n. ser. 10: 305. /. 55. 1878; 12: 504. /. 81. 1879; Mutis, 

Icon. PI. Ined. 26: pi. 19. 

DISTRIBUTION: Central Mexico to Costa Rica; Central Cordillera 

of Colombia; between sea level and 1,400 meters altitude. 

MEXICO: Hahn (K, type collection). Chiconguraco, Schiede (B). 

Veracruz: Orizaba, Bourgeau 3337 (P). Guerrero: Acapulco, 

Liebmann 4095 (Cop). Chiapas: Between Tumbala and El Sal to, 

Nelson 3395 (N). 

GUATEMALA: Rio Dulce, Chocon, Watson 81 (G, type of P. 

guatemalensis, K), 249 (G). Pete"n: Tikal District, Cook & Martin 67 

(N). Remate, Lundell 2015 (N). Izabal: Izabal, Watson 405 (G). 

HONDURAS: San Pedro Sula, Santa Barbara, Thieme 5246 (N). 

Progreso, Yoro, Standley 54992 (N). 

BRITISH HONDURAS: El Cayo, Chanek 3 (N). Mountain Pine 

Ridge, El Cayo District, Bartlett 13080 (Mich). 

COSTA RICA: Llanuras de Santa Clara, J. 

D. Smith 6529 (N). 

COLOMBIA: Caldas: Armenia, Pennell, Killip & Hazen 8670 

(B, G, N, Ph, Y). San Jose", Pennell 10218 (G, N). Quindio, Andre 

2143bis (K). 

This is the type species of Harms' subsection Hahniopathanthus, 

of Decaloba. Under the present arrangement of the subdivisions of 

Passiflora it becomes a section of the subgenus Plectostemma. To 

the original species I am adding P. Cookii, which obviously is 

closely allied to it, and P. membranacea. The latter has usually 

been referred to Granadilla but, as will be noted later, it is better 

placed with P. Hahnii. In these three species there are no nectarsecreting 

glands in any form, either as petiolar appendages, ocellae 

on the leaf surfaces, or marginal glands on the bracts or leaves. 

The seeds are reticulate, as in the case of species of Plectostemma, 

section Cieca. 

The South American specimens here cited are without flowers, 

but the vegetative parts are identical with those of Mexican and 

Central American specimens. This is an interesting extension 

of range.


119. Passiflora Cookii Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 12: 256. 

1922. 

Plant glabrous throughout; stem terete, striate, glaucous; stipules 

reniform, 1.5 cm. long, 3 to 4 cm. wide, crenate, glaucous; petioles 

3 to 4 cm. long, glandless; leaves broadly ovate, 7 to 8 cm. long, 6 to 

7 cm. wide, very obscurely 3-lobed (middle lobe deltoid, obtuse, 

mucronulate), or with a single lateral lobe, peltate about 1.2 cm. 

from the truncate base, quintuplinerved, dark green above, glaucous 

beneath; peduncles about 8 cm. long; bracts 2, cordate, about 5 cm. 

long and 4 cm. wide, entire, thin-membranous; flowers 3.5 to 4.5 

cm. wide, white; sepals ovate-lanceolate, 1.5 cm. long, 1 to 1.2 cm. 

wide, obtuse, radiate; petals ovate-lanceolate, 1.5 cm. long, 0.8 cm. 

wide, abruptly narrowed at base, obtuse, white, spotted with red; 

corona filaments in 2 series, the outer 1 cm. long, dilated at apex, 

the inner barely 3 mm. long, capitate; operculum membranous, 

plicate, the margin incurved, fimbrillate; limen annular; ovary 

subglobose. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Finca Sepacuite", Department of Alta Verapaz, 

Guatemala. 

DISTRIBUTION: Southern Mexico and northern Guatemala. 

MEXICO: Veracruz: Rio de Puerto Moneda, Sierra Grande del 

Sur, Purpus 10357 (N). 

GUATEMALA: Alta Verapaz: Finca Sepacuite*, Cook & Griggs 

593 (type). 

At the time this species was described its bracts were unknown, 

though its relationship with P. Hahnii was obvious. The Purpus 

specimen has an involucre of two large bracts, which completely 

lack the setiferous lobes of those of P. Hahnii. Additional points 

of differentiation are the larger crenate stipules and the smaller flowers 

of P. Cookii. 

120. Passiflora membranacea Benth. PL Hartw. 83. 1841. 

Cieca membranacea M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 140. 1846. 

Plant glabrous throughout; stem terete or subangulate, striate; 

stipules cordate-reniform, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, 1.5 to 3 cm. wide, 

obscurely crenulate; petioles 2 to 4 cm. long, glandless; leaves orbicular 

in general outline, 5 to 10 cm. long and wide, obscurely 3-lobed 

at apex, peltate about 5 mm. from base, 3-nerved, membranous; 

peduncles solitary, 9 to 15 cm. long, very slender; bracts 2 or 3, 

cordate-ovate or cordate-reniform, 3 to 5 cm. long, 2 to 4 cm. wide,


obtuse or rounded at apex, red, purple-red, or rose-color, borne 5 to 

10 mm. below base of flower, chartaceous; flowers pea-green or cream; 

calyx tube broadly campanulate, about 2 cm. wide at base; sepals 

oblong-lanceolate, 3.5 to 4 cm. long, about 1 cm. wide, obtuse, 

erect; petals oblanceolate, 3.5 to 4 cm. long, about 0.8 cm. wide; 

corona filaments in 2 series, the outer 0.8 to 1 cm. long, filiform, 

deep red, the inner capillary, barely 2 mm. long, capitellate; operculum 

membranous, closely plicate, incurved, lobed one-third its 

length, the lobes obtuse, minutely fimbrillate; limen annular, near 

base of gynophore; gynophore about 4 cm. long; ovary narrowly 

ellipsoidal, 3-grooved; fruit ovoid, about 4 cm. long and 3 cm. wide, 

coriaceous; seeds oblong-ovate, about 4.5 mm. long, 3 mm. wide, 

finely reticulate, the walls between the areoles thick (hence, punctate), 

the axis strongly curved. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Volcan de Agua, Guatemala. 

DISTRIBUTION: Southern Mexico to Costa Rica, 1,900 to 3,000 


MEXICO: Chiapas: Ghiesbreght 118 (K), 863 (G). Cerro del 

Boqueron, Purpus 7028 (Cal). 

GUATEMALA: Savage in 1846 (P). Cuesta de Argenta, Hartweg 

(K). Quiche" : Chiul, Heyde & Lux (J. D. Smith 3092, B, G, N). 

Volcan Santa Maria, Nelson 3728 (G, N). Quezaltenango: Vaght 

288 (N). Sacatepe"quez: Volcan de Agua, Hartweg (K, type); 

Maxon & Hay 3754 (N, Y); Kellerman 4773 (N); Lehmann 1492 

(Bo, K, N). Chimaltenango: Santa Elena, Skutch 274 (N). 

Suchitepe"quez: Volcan Atitlan, Skutch 2129 (N). 

HONDURAS: Pimiento, Niederlein 208 (B). 

COSTA RICA: Cuesta de Los Borucas, Pittier 10537 (Brux, N). 

Barba, Pittier 1957 (Brux). Volcan de Poas, Standley 34627 (N). 

Las Nubes, Standley 38746 (N), 38765 (N). El Copey, Standley 

41928 (N), 42780 (N). San Jose, Werckle (B). Cerro de Las Lajas, 

Heredia, Standley & Valeria 51571 (N). Yerba Buena, Heredia, 

Standley & Valeria 49955 (N). Volcan Irazu, Cufodontis 404 (N, V). 

Masters placed P. membranacea in Granadilla; Harms treated it 

as the sole representative of his section 5 (unnamed) of Granadilla. 

The 2-ranked corona, plicate operculum, and annular limen, however, 

are characteristic of Plectostemma, and indeed the general outline 

of the leaves and the shape and coloring of the bracts are much as 

in P. Hahnii and P. Cookii. 

I am, therefore, placing it in the section


Hahniopathanthus of that subgenus, though the erect sepals and 

petals are not characteristic of these two other species of that 

group, and the large flowers are more suggestive of Granadilla. 

In my account of the Passifloraceae of the Mayan area the color 

This error was due to collectors' 

The 

of the flowers was given as red. 

notes, which clearly had reference to the color of the bracts. 

actual color has been noted by Cufodontis and Skutch. 

Subgenus VI. CHLOROPATHANTHUS 

121. Passiflora viridiflora Cav. Icon. PI. 5: 15. pi. 424- 1799. 

Tacsonia viridiflora Juss. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 6: 389. 1805. 

Passiflora tubiflora HBK. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 139. 1817. 

Murucuja viridiflora Spreng. Syst. Veg. 3: 43. 1826. 

Synactila viridiflora Raf. Fl. Tellur. 4: 104. 1838. 

Psilanthus viridiflorus M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 198. 1846. 

1 to 3 mm. in diameter; leaves 4 to 7 cm. long, 6 to 

Plant glabrous throughout; stem wiry, angulate, flattened; 

stipules linear-lanceolate, about 5 mm. long, acute; petioles up to 

6 cm. long, biglandular at or slightly below middle, the glands saucershaped, 

sessile, 

9 cm. wide (the lowermost up to 16 cm. long and 25 cm. wide), 

deeply 3-lobed (lobes ovate, ovate-oblong, or nearly orbicular, 

obtuse or rounded, rarely acutish, the middle lobe narrowed at its 

base, the lateral lobe widely divergent), 3-7-nerved, reticulateveined, 

peltate, entire and thickened at margin, coriaceous, dark 

green and lustrous above, paler beneath; peduncles solitary or in 

pairs, 1 to 2 cm. long, articulate at or slightly above middle; bracts 

apparently none; flowers green; calyx tube cylindric, 1 to 1.5 cm. 

long, 3 to 7 mm. wide at the swollen and strongly sulcate base; 

sepals linear, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, 2 mm. wide, acute; petals none; 

corona filaments in a single series, filiform, 2.5 to 3 mm. long, borne 

at the throat of the tube, erect; operculum membranous, not plicate, 

2.5 to 3 mm. long, minutely fimbrillate, borne at the base of the 

narrowed portion of the tube; limen membranous, 0.8 to 1 mm. 

long, crenulate; ovary narrowly ellipsoidal; fruit subglobose, 1.5 

to 2 cm. in diameter; seeds obovate, 4 to 5 mm. long, 3 mm. wide, 

abruptly acute at base, flattened, each face reticulate at center with 

3 or 4 circular meshes, reticulate toward the margin with about 12 

oblong meshes. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Acapulco, Mexico. 

ILLUSTRATION: Cav. Icon. PI. 5: pi. 424.


DISTRIBUTION : 

Southern Mexico, at low elevations. 

MEXICO: Sesse & Mocino 4474 (Bo, Gen, Ma); Haenke 870 (Pr), 

873 (Pr). Veracruz: San Agustin, Liebmann 4136 (Cop), 4139 (Cop). 

Mirador, Liebmann 4134 (Cop). Guerrero: Acapulco, Nee (Ma, type) ; 

Humboldt & Bonpland (P, type of P. tubiflora) ; 

Palmer 237 (B, Cal, 

F, G, K, N, Y); Beechey (K); Le Jolis (Bo); Barclay 1966 (BM). 

Between Juchitango and Ometepec, Nelson 2317 (N). El Ocote, 

Langlasse 552bis (Gen, K). Oaxaca: Between Mixtepec and Colotepee, 

Nelson 2446 (G, N). Pochutla, Reko 3753 (N); Popenoe 818 

(NA). Tututepec, Conzatti 4501 (N). 

This species has been placed variously in Tacsonia, Murucuja, 

and Psilanihus. From all these it differs in several important details. 

Harms has recently made it the type of a new section (Chloropathanthus), 

a solution suggested by Triana and Planchon. It is a well 

marked species, with no close relatives other than P. lancifolia, of 

Jamaica. 

LOCAL NAME: "Flor del aresillo." 

122. Passiflora lancifolia Desv. in Hamilt. Prodr. 48. 1825. 

Passiflora regalis Macf. Fl. Jamaica 2: 151. 1850. 

Passiflora lanceolata [error] Desv. ex G. Don, Hist. Dichl. PI. 3: 

54. 1834. 

Decaloba lancifolia M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 159. 1846. 

Plant densely or sparingly pilose with yellowish or grayish white 

hairs, becoming glabrate; stem compressed; stipules linear-subulate, 

4 to 7 mm. long; petioles 1 to 2 cm. long, biglandular near apex, 

the glands stipitate, 1 to 1.2 mm. long; leaves lanceolate, subentire 

or 3-lobed (lobation variable, the middle lobe produced, lanceolate, 

3 times as long as lateral, or the blade deeply lobed with oblong or 

obovate lobes, the lobes acute or rounded), rounded or cordulate 

at base, 3-5-nerved, entire at margin, subcoriaceous, subappressedpilose 

to glabrous; peduncles solitary or in pairs, filiform, 2 to 4 cm. 

long, articulate near apex; bracts filiform, 1 to 2 mm. long, borne 

above middle of peduncle, deciduous; flowers maroon or scarlet; 

calyx bowl-shaped, 5 to 8 mm. long, 7 to 10 mm. wide, ventricose 

at base; sepals linear, about 2 cm. long, 2 to 4 mm. wide, acute, erect; 

5 to 7 mm. 

petals none; corona filaments in a single series, filiform, 

long, red below, yellowish(?) above; operculum membranous, 1.5 

to 2 mm. long, erect, crenulate at margin, white, borne at throat of 

tube, subadnate to corona filaments; limen apparently wanting; 

ovary elliptic, tapering at apex, glabrous.


TYPE LOCALITY: "Antilles." 

DISTRIBUTION: Liguanea Plain and lower slopes of Blue Mountains, 

Jamaica. 

JAMAICA: Luchy Valley and Drummond Castle, Port Royal 

Mountains, Macfadyen (type of P. regalis; BM, K). St. David, 

Wilson (BM). Newcastle, Harris 1440 (J); Hart (BM). Silver Hill, 

Harris 6536 (BM). Between Chestervale and Silver Hill, Britton 358 

(Y). Farm Hill, Orcutt 3437 (N). Arntully, Orcutt 3841 (N). Moy 

Hall, Orcutt 6884 (N). "Antilles" (probably Jamaica), Desveaux 

Herbarium (P, type). 

No satisfactory place is provided for this rare Jamaican species 

among Harms' subdivisions. Although it has the highly colored 

flowers of the West Indian Murucuja and Pseudomurucuja, the 

absence of petals and the gland-bearing petioles 

indicate a closer 

relationship with the green-flowered Mexican species, P. viridiflora. 

The leaves of the type specimen of P. regalis, which probably is 

only a variant of P. lancifolia, 

P. viridiflora. 

Subgenus VII. MURUCUJA 

greatly resemble those of forms of 

123. Passiflora orbiculata Cav. Diss. 10: 456. pi. 286. 1790. 

Murucuja orbiculata Pers. Syn. 

PI. 2: 222. 1807. 

Peremis orbiculata Raf. Fl. Tellur. 4: 104. 1838. 

Pentaria orbiculata M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 187. 1846. 

Stem subtriangular, striate, glabrous or very sparingly pilosulous 

toward end; stipules linear-subulate, 2 to 4 mm. long, slightly falcate; 

petioles 1 to 3 cm. long, glandless; leaves suborbicular, 2 to 7 cm. 

long and wide, shallowly 3-lobed at the truncate apex (lobes rounded 

at apex, often mucronulate, occasionally emarginate, the middle 

lobe usually slightly longer than the lateral lobes), subtruncate or 

cordulate at base, 3-nerved, reticulate-veined (nerves and veins 

impressed above), few-ocellate, coriaceous, sublustrous and glabrous 

above, dull and essentially glabrous beneath; peduncles solitary or 

in pairs, 3 to 5 cm. long, articulate above middle; bracts borne at 

point of articulation, linear, 1 to 2 mm. long, subcoriaceous; flowers 

red, reddish, or violet-purple; calyx cylindric-campanulate, 6 to 8 

mm. long, 7 to 9 mm. in diameter, strongly introrse-sulcate at 

base; sepals linear-oblong, 2.5 to 4 cm. long, 0.6 to 0.8 cm. wide, 

obtuse; petals linear or linear-oblong, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, 0.2 to 0.3 

mm. wide, obtuse; corona an erect, cylindric membrane 1.5 to 2 cm.


long, reddish, crenulate or subentire, the margin yellowish; operculum 

borne at margin of tube, about 5 mm. long, dependent from base, 

white, irregularly lacerate-filamentose; limen none; ovary globose, 

glabrous; fruit globose, 1 to 1.5 cm. in diameter; seeds obovate, about 

3 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, transversely sulcate, with about 6 grooves. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Dominican Republic, the original description 

based upon a drawing of Thouin's. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Cav. Diss. 10: pi. 286; G. Don, Hist. Dichl. PI. 3: 

56. /. 5. 

DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of Hispaniola, above 1,400 meters 

altitude. 

HAITI: Christ 1753 (B), 1753b (B); Jaeger 173 (B). Morne 

Tranchant, Picarda 772 (B, Y). Furcy, Leonard 4682 (BM, G, N, 

Y); Buck 1947 (B). Pe"tionville, Ekman Hi 330 (B, N, S). Morne de 

la Hotte, Ekman Hi 21 (B, S). Mt. Ma Blanche, Ekman H617 (S). 

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: San Juan, Cordillera Central, Ekman 

Hi 3501 (N). 

Masters was in error in identifying this species with P. Murucuja. 

As Urban has pointed out (Symb. Ant. 3: 326), the two are quite 

distinct, P. orbiculata having not only nearly orbicular leaves but 

a much more prominent, deeply lacerate operculum and different 

bracts. The corona is yellowish at the margin in P. orbiculata, 

red throughout in P. Murucuja. 

124. Passiflora Shaferi Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 44: 17. 1917. 

Plant glabrous throughout; stem triangular, striate, slightly 

flexuous; stipules linear-setaceous, 2 to 3 mm. long, falcate; petioles 

up to 7 mm. long, glandless; leaves obovate or elliptic-obovate, 2.5 

to 9 cm. long, 2 to 4.5 cm. wide, shallowly 3-lobed (lobes obtuse, 

the middle lobe slightly produced, the lateral lobes often obsolete, 

or truncate at apex), rounded at base, strongly 3-nerved, reticulateveined, 

inconspicuously few-ocellate, entire at margin, subcoriaceous, 

sublustrous above, dull beneath; peduncles solitary or usually in 

pairs, up to 2 cm. long, articulate just above middle; bracts setaceous, 

1.5 to 2 mm. long; flowers red; calyx bowl-shaped, 3 to 7 mm. long, 

8 to 9 mm. wide at the 10-sulcate base; sepals spatulate, 1.5 to 2 cm. 

long, 0.5 to 0.7 cm. wide, obtuse, narrowed to a width of 2 to 3 mm. 

at base; petals spatulate, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, 2 to 4 mm. wide, obtuse; 

corona an erect, tubular membrane, the margin entire; operculum 

membranous, erect, 2 to 3 mm. long, fimbrillate; limen fleshy,


annular, 1 

to 1.5 mm. long; ovary subglobose; fruit globose, about 

1 cm. in diameter; seeds broadly obovate, 2 to 2.5 mm. long, 1.5 to 

2 mm. wide, transversely sulcate with 6 or 7 grooves. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Between Navas and Buena Vista, Oriente, Cuba. 

DISTRIBUTION: Province of Oriente, Cuba, at an altitude of about 

500 meters. 

CUBA: Oriente: Navas, Shafer 4466 (Y, type). Loma de La 

Zambumbia, Le6n 12581 (HS, Y). Alto de Las Marias, Le6n 12753 

(Y). Paso Estancia, Shafer 1744 (F). Baracoa, Acuna 5168 (HV); 

Ekman 4333 (S). 

The spatulate sepals and petals at once distinguish this from 

other species of Murucuja. The shape of the leaves suggests P. cuprea 

and forms of P. cubensis. 

125. Passiflora Murucuja L. Sp. 

PI. 957. 1753. 

Murucuja lunata Medic. Malvenfam. 97. 1787. 

Murucuja ocellata Pers. Syn. PL 2: 222. 1807. 

Plant glabrous throughout; stem angular, deeply grooved, wiry; 

subfalcate, persistent or 

stipules linear-setaceous, 2 to 4 mm. long, 

deciduous; petioles up to 1.5 cm. long, glandless; leaves variable, 

transversely linear-oblong (1 cm. along midnerve, 4 cm. greatest 

width) to obdeltoid (2.5 cm. along midnerve, 3.5 cm. between apices 

of lobes), bilobed (lobes rounded or obtuse, often emarginate, the 

sinus lunate or truncate, occasionally with short intermediate third 

lobe), rounded or subtruncate at base, 3-nerved, reticulate-veined, 

subcoriaceous, lustrous above, dull beneath; peduncles solitary or 

in pairs, 1 to 2.5 cm. long, articulate just below base of flower; 

bracts setaceous, 2 to 4 mm. long, borne below middle of peduncle; 

flowers red, bright purple, or reddish purple; calyx bowl-shaped, 5 to 

7 mm. long, 8 to 10 mm. wide at throat, introrsely 10-sulcate at 

base; sepals linear-oblong, or lance-oblong, 1.5 to 3 cm. long, 3 to 

7 mm. wide at base, obtuse; petals linear-oblong, 1 to 2 cm. long, 

2.5 to 4 mm. wide, obtuse; corona a cylindric membrane 1 to 1.5 cm. 

long, subentire or crenulate, reddish or purplish throughout; operculum 

membranous, borne at throat of tube, dependent from base, 

2.5 to 4 mm. long, subentire; limen none; ovary ovoid, glabrous; 

fruit globose, 1 to 1.5 cm. in diameter; seeds obovate, about 2.5 mm. 

long, 1.5 to 2 mm. wide, transversely 6-7-sulcate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: "Dominica" (Hispaniola).


ILLUSTRATIONS: Amoen. Acad. 1: pi. 10, f. 10; Plum. PI. Amer. 

pi. 87; Bot. Reg. 7: pi. 574; G. Don, Hist. Dichl. PI. 3: 56. /. 6. 

DISTRIBUTION: Hispaniola; known in Puerto Rico from two 

collections; between sea level and 1,000 meters altitude. 

LOCALITY UNCERTAIN: Linnean Herbarium (type). "West 

Indies," Jacquin (Ma). 

PUERTO Rico: Quebradillas, Stevens 1818 (Y). Between Lares 

and Arecibo, Cowles in 1925 (Y). 

HAITI (throughout): Leonard 3008 (N), 3069 (N), 7203 (N), 

7319 (N), 7384 (N), 7683 (N), 7690 (N), 8057 (N), 8803 (N), 8857 

(N), 8869 (N), 9056 (N), 9772 (N); Leonard & Leonard 11137 (N), 

11518 (K, N), 11573 (N), 12739 (N), 12940 (N), 13910 (N), 14077 

(N), 14768 (N), 1.4W (N), 15-477 (N); Ekman H344 (B, S), #073 

(B, S), #310 (B, S), H225.4 (B), H225.4& (B, N, S), #07-41 (N); 

Miller 208 (N); Eyerdam 325 (N); Afasfc 567 (Y), 70.4 (Y); Nash & 

Taylor 1656 (Y); Picarda 1381 (B); Cftn'sJ 2058 (B), 2220 (B); Bwcfc 

172 (B); Jaeger 221 (B); Bailey 106 (N). 

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC (throughout): Swartz (S); Miller 1025 (N), 

1003 (N), 1118 (N); Bredemeyer (BW); Meyerhoff 35 (B); Rathsack 

(Cop) ; 

Raunkiaer 769 (Cop) ; Wngr/if cfe Parr# 29 (F, Mo, N) ; flose, 

Fitch & Russell 3787 (N), 3911 (B, N), -4131 (N); Abbott 507 (B, N), 

11.40 (N), 1913 (N), 2205 (N), 2694 (N); Turckheim 2628 (B), 267P 

(B, BM, Brux, G, Gen, N, S, Ut, V, Y), 3190 (B); Paris 122 (N); 

Duchemin 82 (P); Eggers 15.40 (B, Gen), 3378 (B); Poiteau in 1802 

(B, Gen, P); Ridley (Gen); Richard (P); /toter (V);Fuertes 1167 (B), 

11076 (B, Gen, V); Jacquemont (N, P); Schomburgk 92 (B, BM); 

Tas/tor 38 (B, F, Y); Valeur 134 (N); Preneloup 227 (B, Gen). 

To this, one of the three Linnean species of the general group 

of murucujas, several plants now recognized as distinct species have 

been referred. True P. Murucuja is known only from Hispaniola 

and Puerto Rico. 

As noted in the description, the foliage of this species is quite 

variable, but the leaves are always much broader than long, thus 

differing from the allies with which the species is confused. Other 

differences are discussed in connection with the various segregates. 

LOCAL NAME: "Liane calecon" (Haiti). 

126. Passiflora Tulae Urban, Symb. Ant. 1: 374. 1899. 

Plant glabrous; stem angular, striate; stipules linear-subulate, 

1 to 2 mm. long, early deciduous; petioles 1 to 3 cm. long, glandless;


leaves semi-ovate or semi-elliptic, variable, 

1.5 to 7 cm. along midnerve, 

5 to 9 cm. along lateral nerves, 5 to 10 cm. at greatest width, 

shallowly, sometimes deeply, 2-3-lobed (lobes acute or rounded, the 

middle lobe, if present, usually shorter than the lateral lobes), 

rounded at base, 3-nerved, reticulate-veined, ocellate, subcoriaceous 

or membranous, sublustrous above; peduncles solitary or in pairs, 

2 to 6 cm. long, articulate above middle; bracts setaceous, 2 to 3 

mm. long; flowers rose-colored; calyx bowl-shaped, 4 to 5 mm. 

long, 6 to 8 mm. wide, 10-sulcate; sepals linear-oblong, 3 to 4 cm. 

long, 5 to 6 mm. wide, obtuse; petals linear-oblong, 2.5 to 3 cm. long, 

3 to 4 mm. wide; corona an erect, cylindrical membrane 1.5 to 2 cm. 

long, crenulate, yellowish; operculum membranous, borne at throat 

of tube, dependent from base, 3 to 3.5 mm. long, lacerate, white; 

limen saucer-shaped, fleshy; ovary subglobose; fruit globose, 1 to 

1.5 cm. in diameter; seeds ovate, 3.5 to 4 mm. long, about 2 mm. 

wide, acutish at either end, transversely 10-12-sulcate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Puerto Rico. 


/. 231A-C. 

DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of Puerto Rico. 

PUERTO Rico: Plee 869 (P); Eggers 1306 (B, type Cop, N); 

Britton, Cowell & Brown 5539 (F, N, Y); Britton & Cowell 937 

(N, Y); Britton, Stevens & Hess 2588 (N, Y); Sintenis 343 (B), 1171 

(B, Bo, F), 2597 (B), 4176 (B, BM, G, Gen, HV, N, P, V), 5278 

(G, N, V), 6010 (B, P, S), 6081 (B, HV, J, Minn), 6479 (B). 

This is very closely related to P. Murucuja. The distinctive 

characters of P. Tulae are: proportionately longer leaves, with 

shallower lobation; petals nearly equal to sepals, not half so long; 

longer operculum; presence of a limen; more numerous grooves on 

the seeds. The second of these characters can not be relied upon too 

fully, as the numerous specimens of both species examined show 

much the same variation in the relative length of the petals and 

sepals. The corona of P. Tulae is yellowish; that of P. Murucuja 

reddish or purplish. Passiflora Tulae apparently is restricted to 

Puerto Rico; P. Murucuja is common in Hispaniola, but very rare 

in Puerto Rico. 

Subgenus VIII. PSEUDOMURUCUJA 

127. Passiflora perfoliata L. Sp. 

PI. 956. 1753. 

Murucuja perfoliata Spreng. Syst. Veg. 

3: 43. 1826. 

Pericodia perfoliata Raf. Fl. Tellur. 4: 104. 1838.


Decaloba perfoliata M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 

2: 157. 1846. 

Stem angular, striate, glabrous or pilosulous; stipules linearsubulate, 

1.5 to 3 mm. long; petioles up to 5 mm. long, glandless, 

glabrous or puberulous; leaves deeply bilobed (lobes widely divergent, 

often as much as 90 degrees from the midnerve, oblong or slightly 

lance-oblong, 2 to 6 cm. along lateral nerve, 1.5 to 2.5 cm. wide, 

rounded, mucronulate, and often emarginate at apex, a small intermediate 

lobe sometimes present in the sinus, the midnerve 0.5 to 

1.5 cm. long), deeply cordate at base (the basal lobes clasping about 

stem), 3-nerved, ocellate, subcoriaceous; peduncles solitary or in 

pairs, 2 to 3 cm. long, sulcate, articulate just above middle; bracts 

setaceous, 2.5 to 3 mm. long, borne at point of articulation; flowers 

purple-red; calyx tube obconic toward base, cylindric above, 0.7 to 

1.3 cm. long, 0.6 to 0.8 cm. wide at throat, more or less conspicuously 

10-ribbed; sepals linear-subulate, 1 to 2 cm. long, 0.2 to 0.3 cm. wide 

at base; petals oblanceolate, slightly longer than the sepals, 0.5 to 

0.7 cm. wide, acute; corona filamentose, the filaments in a single 

series, linear, 3 to 5 mm. long, 0.5 to 0.7 mm. wide, yellow; operculum 

membranous, borne at throat of tube, deflexed from base, 4 to 6 mm. 

long, lacerate at the margin; limen none; ovary ovoid, subangulate, 

glabrous; fruit globose, up to 1.5 cm. in diameter; seeds ovate or 

slightly obovate, about 3 mm. long, 1.5 to 2 mm. wide, transversely 

5- or 6-sulcate. 


ILLUSTRATIONS: Amoen. Acad. 1: pi. 10, f. 8; Ann. Ge"n. Sci. 

Phys. Brux. 2: pi 22, f. 1; Andr. Bot. Repos. 8: pi. 547; Bot. Reg. 

1: pi. 78; Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 21: 501. /. 281D, E. 

DISTRIBUTION: Jamaica; sea level to about 1,000 meters altitude. 

JAMAICA: P. Browne (Linn, type); Bertero (Gen); Wullschldgel 841 

(B); Churchill in 1897 (G); Linden 1698 (Brux). St. Ann's Bay, 

Perkins 585 (B). Devil's Cookroom, Fawcett 2128 (J). Kingston, 

Crawford 681 (Ph); Lang 560 (Ph), 561 (Ph), 625 (Ph); Orcutt 4957 

(Gen, N); S. Brown 863 (Ph), 384 (Ph); Harris 9516 (B, BM, J). 

Rockfort, Killip 3 (N, Roch) ; Campbell 6291 (B, J). Hope Gardens, 

Maxon 2114 (N). Port Royal Mountains, Norman 190 (BM). 

Newcastle, Perkins 191 (B). Malvern, Harris 9918 (B, J). Santa 

Cruz Mountains, Brittonl209 (N, Y) ; 

Perkins 831 (B). Mavis Bank, 

Fawcett (J). Morant, Oersted 4152 (Cop), 4153 (Cop). Hope River, 

Eggers 3469 (B). 

Arntully, Orcutt 2644 (N).


This is the first species cited by Harms in proposing his section 

Pseudomurucuja, two other species, P. oblongata and P. cuprea, 

being included in it. The flowers of the group are characterized by 

Harms as having a tubular-campanulate or campanulate calyx, a 

filamentose corona, at the base of which (i.e., at the apex of the tube) 

there is a dependent membrane, constituting the operculum, which 

is rather deeply lacerate. I am adding to the section, which is a 

subgenus in the present scheme, two additional species, P. cubensis 

and the poorly known P. tacsonioides. The subgenus is not so well 

defined as are Chloropathanthus, Murucuja, and Psilanthus, and 

perhaps should be subdivided. Passiflora perfoliata is distinguished 

from all other murucujas by the linear-subulate sepals and oblanceolate 

petals much broader than the sepals, and possibly Pseudomurucuja 

should be treated as a monotypic subgenus containing it alone. 

However, more study of the material generally referred to P. 06- 

longata is necessary, and the identity of P. tacsonioides should be 

definitely established before a reclassification is attempted. 

127a. Passiflora perfoliata var. normal is (L.) Fawe. & Rendle, 

Fl. Jamaica 5: 242. 1926. 

Passiflora normalis L. Syst. ed. 10, 1248. 1759. 

Granadilla normalis Gaertn. f. Fruct. & Sem. 2: 479. 1791. 

Passiflora cephaleima Bory, Ann. Ge'n. Sci. Phys. Brux. 2: 152. 

pi. 22, f. 11. 1819. 

Cieca normalis M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 144. 1846, in part. 

Leaf lobes linear or linear-oblong, 2 to 8.5 cm. long, 0.4 to 1 cm. 

wide, the base of the blade cordate, emarginate, or rounded, the 

basal lobes not overlapping. Otherwise as in the typical form. 


ILLUSTRATIONS: Jacq. Hort. Schonbr. 2: pi. 182; Ann. Gen. 

Sci. Phys. Brux. 2: pi. 22, f. 11. 

JAMAICA: Browne (Linn, type); Houston (BM); Bancroft (K); 

cultivated in Hort. Schonbrunn (BM, V); cultivated at Brussels 

(Brux, type of P. cephaleima'); Bertero in 1821 (Gen, V). Mavis 

Bank, Maxon & Killip 1402 (N). 

The plant described as P. normalis is probably best treated as a 

variety of P. perfoliata, as proposed by Fawcett and Rendle. The 

name was first applied by Linnaeus to a plant described by Browne, 

and a barren specimen of Browne's is in the Linnean Herbarium. 

Later the name was misapplied to the Mexican plant now known


as P. mexicana. The only flowering specimens I have seen are those 

from plants cultivated at the Schonbrunn Gardens, Vienna, and these 

flowers do not differ from those of typical P. perfoliata. 

128. Passiflora cuprea L. Sp. 

PI. 955. 1753. 

Passiflora Cavanillesii DC. Prodr. 3: 323. 1828. 

Cieca cuprea M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 

2: 139. 1846. 

Cieca Cavanillesii M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 140. 1846. 

Passiflora cuprea var. Cavanillesii Mast. Trans. Linn. Soc. 27: 


Plant essentially glabrous; stem angulate, flattened, striate; 

stipules setaceous, 2 to 3 mm. long, early deciduous; petioles 0.5 to 

1 cm. long, glandless; leaves oval or ovate-oblong, 2.5 to 7 cm. long, 

1.5 to 5 cm. wide, not lobed, rounded and usually mucronulate at 

apex, rounded, often slightly emarginate, at base, 3-nerved, ocellate 

or without ocellae, subcoriaceous or membranous; peduncles solitary 

or in pairs, up to 2.5 cm. long, enlarged at base of flower, articulate 

above middle; bracts setaceous, 0.5 to 1 mm. long, soon deciduous; 

flowers red-brown; calyx bowl-shaped, 4 to 6 mm. long, 4 to 7 mm. 

wide, usually narrowed to peduncle; sepals linear-oblong, 1.5 to 2 

cm. long, 3 to 4 mm. wide, obtuse; petals linear, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, 

2 to 3 mm. wide, obtuse; corona filamentose, the filaments in a single 

series, 3 to 4 mm. long, 0.5 to 1 mm. wide, yellowish; operculum 

membranous, scarcely 0.5 mm. long, borne at throat of tube, deflexed, 

entire at margin; limen none; ovary ovoid; fruit globose, about 1 cm. 

in diameter; seeds obcuneate, about 4 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, transversely 

7-8-sulcate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: New Providence, Bahamas. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Martyn, Hist. PI. Rar. pi 37; Amoen. Acad. 

1: pi. 10, f. 3; Jacq. Icon. PI. Rar. 3: pi. 606; Cav. Diss. 10: pi. 273 

(inaccurate). 

DISTRIBUTION: Bahamas, eastern Cuba, and Tortue Island, 

Haiti; near sea level. 

"WEST INDIES": Jacquin (Ma). 

BAHAMAS (throughout): Brace 1597 (F), 4195 (F, N, Y), 4687 

(F), 4943 (F), 5099 (F), 6705 (F), 6778 (F), 6825 (F), 7037 (F); 

Wilson 7177 (F), 71 83 (F), 7856 (F), 7887 (F), 7996 (F), 8003 (F), 

8091 (F), 8274 (F); Millspaugh 2273 (F), 2305 (F), 2319 (F), 2359 

(F), 9123 (F); Britton & Millspaugh 5880 (F, Y); Nash & Taylor


958 (F, Y); Northrup 243 (B, Bo, F, G); E. G. Britton 6480 (Y); 

Rothrock 379 (Penn, Ph), 568 (F), 577 (F); Curtiss 43 (B, BM, Cal, 

F, Gen, HV, Minn, N, P, Y); Smatt & Carter 8449 (B, CM, F, N, P, 

Ph, Y); Eggers 3927 (B), 3927a (B), 4050 (B, BM, Bo, Cop, Gen, 

N, P); Wight 129 (B, F, G). 

CUBA: Rangel, Wright 2605 (B, Bo, G, Gen, P). Matanzas: 

Rugel 243 (BM). Santa Clara: Carari


one-half length of blade, the intermediate lobe, if present, less than 

half as long as the lateral lobes, rarely subtruncate at apex and the 

intermediate lobe exceeding the lateral lobes; lobes long-acuminate, 

acute, or rounded, mucronulate), rounded or acute at base, strongly 

3-nerved, reticulate-veined, ocellate, coriaceous or subcoriaceous, 

lustrous above; peduncles solitary or usually in pairs, about 1 cm. 

long (1.5 cm. in fruit), more or less enlarged and becoming distinctly 

striate toward apex, borne on elongate, leafless (or with much reduced 

leaves) branches, the inflorescence thus appearing racemose; bracts 

setaceous, about 2 mm. long; flowers crimson, scarlet, or rose-colored; 

calyx cylindric or tubular-campanulate, 1 to 2 cm. long, 6 to 8 mm. 

at greatest diameter, abruptly or gradually narrowed to the peduncle 

or scarcely narrowed and even enlarged at the base; sepals linearoblong, 

1.5 to 3 cm. long, 0.4 to 0.5 cm. wide, obtuse; petals linear, 

about one-quarter as long as the sepals, obtuse; corona filamentose, 

the filaments borne at throat of calyx tube, subulate, 1 to 1.5 mm. 

long, a second row of minute filaments (0.8 to 1 mm. long) sometimes 

borne about 2 mm. below the preceding (at base of operculum); 

operculum membranous, slightly plicate, 3 to 5 mm. long, magenta, 

strongly incurved from base, the margin lacerate; limen none; 

gynophore slender, magenta; ovary obovate, strongly 6-angled 

(appearing nearly terete in herbarium specimens); stigmas reniform; 

fruit globose, about 1 cm. in diameter; seeds orbicular-ovate, 3 to 

3.5 mm. long, nearly as wide, transversely 6-8-sulcate. 


ILLUSTRATION: Tussac, Fl. Antill. 1: pi. 4. 

DISTRIBUTION: Throughout Jamaica, ascending to 900 meters 

altitude. 

JAMAICA: Swartz (S, type) ; 

Tussac in 1807 (P, type of P. lyrifolia) ; 

Bertero in 1821 (B, V); W. Wright (BM). Mandeville, Crawford 

690 (CM, Ph), 788 (CM, Ph, Y). Troy, Perkins 1397 (B, G). Mt. 

Diabolo, Maxon & Killip 418 (N). Catadupa, Maxon & Killip 1557 

(G, N, Y). Cuna Cuna Pass, Maxon 1700 (N). Priestman's River, 

Maxon 2508 (N). St. Thomas Parish, Maxon 9099 (B, BM, F, G, 

K, N, Y), 9132 (N), 9220 (N), 9253a (N), 9503 (N). St. George's, 

Harris 5758 (B, BM, F, J). Dolphin Head, Britton & Rollick 2226 

(Y). Bath, Boughton 35 (Roch); Norman 221 (BM). John Crow 

Mountains, Britton 3964 (Y), 4134 (N, Y). Portland, Fawcett (J). 

Lacovia, Tomlinson (J). 

There are three sheets labeled Passiflora oblongata in the Swartz 

Herbarium. Two are clearly the Jamaican plant commonly referred


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." 


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.


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,


Gen, HA). La Madelina, Wright 1615 (Bo, G, Gen, HA, P, S). 

Holguin, Ekman 3256 (N, S), 15729 (B, Gen, S). Nipe, Ekman 3428 

(S), 9948 (S). Antilla, Button, Britton & Cowell 12505 (N, Y); 

Shafer 3772 (N, Y). 

This plant has been confused with the Jamaican P. oblongata by 

Masters and others. As Urban points out, the shorter calyx tube, 

the erect (not dependent) operculum, much shorter petioles, and the 

fact that the flowers are not in 

separate P. cubensis from its near relative. 

a raceme-like inflorescence readily 

In Wright 198a and Shafer 871 the leaves are scarcely lobed; 

the flowers, however, appear to be identical with those of typical 

P. cubensis. In Shafer 3772 the leaves are deeply bilobate, resembling 

forms of P. ornithoura. 

Subgenus IX. PSILANTHUS 

132. Passiflora bicuspidata (Karst.) Mast. Trans. Linn. Soc. 27: 


Tacsonia cuneata Benth. PL Hartw. 183. 1845. 

Willd. 

Not P. cuneata 

Distephana cuneata M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 200. 1846. 

Tacsonia bicuspidata Karst. Linnaea 30: 160. 1859-60. 

Stem angular, longitudinally sulcate, glabrous or minutely pilosulous; 

stipules setaceous, 2 to 3 mm. long; petioles up to 1.5 cm. long, 

slender, glandless; leaves cuneate-oblong, 4 to 8 cm. long, 1 to 2.5 

cm. wide, 2-lobed at apex (lobes deltoid, less than 1 cm. long, acute, 

erect), prominently 3-nerved, closely reticulate-veined, ocellate, 

subcoriaceous, glabrous; peduncles solitary or in pairs, up to 2 cm. 

long, slender, articulate near apex; bracts setaceous, 3 to 4 mm. long, 

borne on upper half of peduncle; flowers red-brown or rose-purple; 

calyx cylindric, 2.5 to 4 cm. long, 2.5 to 6 mm. wide, dilated at base, 

up to 1 cm. wide, glabrous; sepals oblong-lanceolate, 1.5 to 2 cm. long, 

5 mm. wide, obtuse; petals linear, 0.8 to 1 cm. long, 3 to 4 mm. wide; 

corona filaments filiform, 3 to 4 mm. long, very slender, in a single 

series at throat of tube, pale; operculum membranous, 4 to 5 mm. 

long, borne at base of tube, erect, fimbrillate at margin; limen none; 

ovary ovoid, glabrous; fruit subglobose. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Bogota, Colombia. 


/. 231 F, G.




COLOMBIA: Norte de Santander: Paramo de Las Cruces, Funck & 

Schlim 1382 (Bo, Gen, P). Cundinamarca: Bogota, Karsten (V, 

type); Lindig 554 (BM); Goudot (P). Fusagasugd, Lehmann 2498 

(Bo, K); Triana 2959 (BM, Gen, K). Choachi, Lindig 686 (P). 

Sibate", Popenoe 1114 (N); Pennell 2408 (G, N, Y); Lehmann 7429 

(B, K, N); Dawe in 1919 (K). 

Zipaquira, Pennell 2562A (Y). 

Passiflora bicuspidata, P. hyacinthiflora, and P. trinervia constitute 

a well marked group of Passiflora, apparently confined to the 

Central and Eastern Cordillera of Colombia, and connecting Murucuja 

and its allies to Tacsonia and its allies. 

133. Passiflora hyacinthiflora Planch. & Linden, Ann. Sci. Nat. 

V. Bot. 17: 179. 1873. 

Passiflora hyacinthiflora var. bilobata Planch. & Linden, Ann. 

Sci. Nat. V. Bot. 17: 180. 1873. 

Passiflora hyacinthiflora var. tridentata Planch. & Linden, Ann. 

Sci. Nat. V. Bot. 17: 180. 1873. 

Stem flattened, striate, finely pilosulous; stipules setaceous, 

about 3 mm. long; petioles up to 8 mm. long, glandless; leaves oblong 

or elliptic, 5 to 7 cm. long, 1 to 2 cm. wide, shallowly 2-3-lobed 

(lobes deltoid, acute), subcuneate or rounded at base, 3-nerved 

(nerves nearly parallel), coarsely reticulate, ocellate, lustrous and 

glabrous above, appressed-pubescent on nerves beneath; peduncles 

solitary or in pairs, up to 3 cm. long, articulate above middle; 

bracts setaceous, about 3 mm. long, borne on upper half of peduncle; 

flowers purple(?); calyx cylindric, 3 to 4 (or up to 7?) cm. long, 0.5 

to 0.7 cm. wide, slightly dilated below, rounded at base or tapering 

to peduncle, densely pilosulous without; sepals linear-subspatulate, 

2 to 2.5 cm. long, about 1 cm. wide, obtuse; petals about one-third 

as long as the sepals; corona filamentose, the filaments few (about 

16 to 20), in a single series; operculum borne a short distance above 

base of tube, fimbriate above, the threads strongly flexuous; ovary 

hirsute-tomentose. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Paramo de Las Cruces, Department of Norte de 

Santander, Colombia. 



and 3,300 meters altitude.


COLOMBIA: Norte de Santander: Paramo de Las Cruces, Funck & 

Schlim 1383 (Gen, type collection). Between Pamplona and Toledo, 

Killip & Smith 19849 (G, N). Santander: Las Vegas, Kittip & 

Smith 15935 (N). Slopes of Paramo Rico, Kittip & Smith 17753 (N). 

Slope of Paramo de Las Puentes, Killip & Smith 18158 (G, N, Y). 

This closely resembles the preceding, and the few points of difference 

between the two perhaps are not of sufficient 

importance to 

justify the separation. The authors of the species stress the fact 

that the calyx of P. hyacinthiflora is attenuate at the base, whereas 

in P. bicuspidata it is rounded. The specimen of the type collection 

at Geneva, evidently not seen by Planchon, has flowers with both 

attenuate and rounded bases. Other differences noted are the more 

deeply fringed operculum of P. hyacinthiflora, the pilosulous calyx 

tube, hirsute-tomentose ovary, and a slightly different venation of 

the leaves. 

134. Passiflora trinervia (Juss.) Poir. in Lam. Encyl. Suppl. 2: 

843. 1811. 

Tacsonia trinervia Juss. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 6: 390. pi. 58. 1805. 

Stem stout, angulate, densely grayish-tomentose; stipules setaceous, 

up to 1 cm. long; petioles up to 1.5 cm. long, glandless; leaves 

oblong, 6 to 10 cm. long, 3.5 to 5 cm. wide, 3-lobed at apex (middle 

lobe deltoid, acute, much the largest, the lateral lobes obtuse or 

acutish, often nearly obsolete), rounded or subcordate at base, 3- 

nerved, reticulate-veined, 

glabrescent or pilosulous above, densely 

ferruginous-tomentose beneath; peduncles slender, up to 10 cm. long, 

pendulous; bracts setaceous, 1 cm. long, borne slightly below middle 

of peduncle; calyx cylindric, up to 12 cm. long, 1 cm. wide (at 

throat), dilated just above base, abruptly narrowed to peduncle, 

rose-colored without, yellow-green proximally, cream-colored distally 

within, glabrous; sepals oblong-lanceolate, 3 cm. long, 6 mm. wide, 

rose-colored, marginally banded with white within; petals linearoblong, 

1.5 cm. long, 3 mm. wide, deep rose; corona filamentose, the 

filaments 35 to 40, 2 to 3 mm. long, cream-colored; operculum borne 

about 3 cm. above base of tube, reduced to about 12 weak, pink 

threads 4 mm. long; limen none; anthers purplish black, 

green at 

center; ovary narrowly ovoid, densely ferruginous-hirsute; fruit 

ovoid, 3.5 to 4 cm. long, 2 cm. in diameter, densely ferruginoushirsute; 

seeds obovate or obcordate, 4 to 6 mm. long, 2.5 to 3 mm. 

wide, transversely sulcate with 8 or 9 rugulose ridges. 

TYPE LOCALITY: "Sur les bords du fleuve Cassiquiare."


ILLUSTRATION: Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 6: pi. 58. 

DISTRIBUTION: Central part of Central Cordillera of Colombia, 

about 3,000 meters altitude; very doubtfully in southern Venezuela. 

COLOMBIA: Humboldt & Bonpland (B, P, type); Purdie (G, K, 

P). Tolima (Quindio Trail): Jervise (K); Karsten (V). La Ceja, 

Agua Bonita, Killip & 

Killip & Hazen 9512 (N); Goudot (Bo, P). 

Hazen 9524 (G, N, Ph, Y), 9542 (N). Gallegas, Triana 2952 (BM, 

Las 

Brux, N, Gen, HNC, P, Y); Linden 1127 (BM, Bo, Gen, P, V). 

Cruces, Andre 2280 (K, Y). Caldas: Lagunetas, Quindio Trail, 

Killip & Hazen 9097 (G, N, Ph, Y), 9411 (N), 9477 (G, N, Ph, Y); 

Holton 707 (Bo, Gen, K, Y). Cucarronera, New Quindio Trail, 

Hazen 9692 (G, N, Y). 

Both Jussieu and Kunth (in HBK. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 142) 

give the Cassiquiare River in Venezuela as the locality for the Humboldt 

and Bonpland type specimen. This species is fairly common 

at high elevations along the Quindio Trail, where its dependent, 

rose-colored flowers are a striking feature of the vegetation, and it 

could scarcely have been overlooked by Humboldt and Bonpland 

in following this historic trail. I believe that there must be a confusion 

in locality data, and that the type came from the Quindio; 

it is very unlikely that this plant of the mountains grows "along 

the banks of the Cassiquiare River" in southern Venezuela. 

The data on the size and coloring of the floral parts were obtained 

from a living plant (Killip & Hazen 9411}. 

135. Passiflora sanguinolenta Mast. Gard. Chron. 1868: 1162. 

1868. 

Passiflora Mastersiana Harms, Bot. Jahrb. 18: Beibl. 46: 8. 1894. 

Plant densely villous-hirsute throughout; stem angulate; stipules 

setaceous, 3 to 5 mm. long; petioles up to 1.5 cm. long, glandless; 

leaves lunate-bilobed (sinus rounded or truncate; lobes lanceolate 

or ovate-lanceolate, 1 to 2 cm. wide at base, mucronulate), cordate, 

membranous; peduncles slender, up to 5 cm. long, articulate above 

middle; bracts none or soon deciduous; flowers dull red or reddish 

violet; calyx tube cylindric, 1 to 2 cm. long, conspicuously nerved; 

sepals linear-oblong, 1.5 to 2 cm. long, 4 to 5 mm. wide; petals linear, 

0.8 to 1 cm. long, 2 to 3 mm. wide; corona in 2 series, one borne at 

the throat of the calyx, the filaments subulate, 4 to 5 mm. long, 

distally white, proximally red or violet, the other borne close to 

the operculum, consisting of a few, very slender, white(?) filaments


about 2 mm. long; operculum membranous, erect, irregularly incised; 

limen fleshy, about 1.5 mm. high, closely surrounding gynophore, 

crenulate at margin; ovary ovoid, densely pilose-hirsute; the fruit 

not known. 

TYPE LOCALITY: 

byWallis). 

"Colombia," perhaps Ecuador (type collected 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: pi. 128, f. 3; Card. 

Chron. 2: 227. /. 47. 1874; Journ. Hort. Soc. London n. ser. 4: pi 8; 

Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 3, 6a: 72. /. 256; ed. 2, 21: 477. /. 21 8C. 

DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of Ecuador, between 2,000 and 2,600 


ECUADOR: Lobb 151 (K). Chuquiribamba, Andre 4446 (Y). 

Loja: Las Juntas, Lehmann 4836 (B, type of P. Maslersiana, G, K, 

N, S) ; 

Rose 23233 (G, N, Y). Loja, Rose 23900 (N) ; 

Hitchcock 21470 

(N), 21494 (G, N). 

This is an anomalous species, very doubtfully referable to Psilanthus. 

The shape of the leaves, the indument, and the absence of 

bracts suggest an affinity with P. rubra, but the tubular calyx and 

the nonplicate operculum indicate that it does not belong to Plectostemma. 

Its fruit is unknown, and the ovules in the material at hand 

are not sufficiently developed to show the sculpturing. Were the 

mature seeds known to be transversely sulcate with smooth ridges, 

its relationship with P. rubra would be even more apparent. 

Subgenus X. ADENOSEPALA 

136. Passiflora Ernesti Harms, Repert. Sp. Nov. 19: 59. 1923. 

A woody vine, glabrous throughout; stem terete, striate; stipules 

linear-subulate, 4 to 5 mm. long, soon deciduous; petioles about 1 cm. 

long, biglandular near base, the glands sessile; leaves ovate or oblong, 

5 to 12 cm. long, 2 to 5 cm. wide, acute or acuminate, mucronulate at 

apex, rounded or subacute at base, entire, 1-nerved, reticulateveined, 

coriaceous, lustrous above, dull beneath; peduncles solitary 

or in pairs, 1 to 4 cm. long, slender; bracts narrowly lance-linear, 

about 8 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, biglandular on each side near base; 

flowers red; calyx tube urceolate-campanulate, 3 to 5 mm. long, 10 

to 12 mm. wide at throat; sepals linear, 2 to 2.5 cm. long, 4 to 5 mm. 

wide, dorsally short-corniculate just below apex, usually glandular 

on outside near margin, the glands oblong, 2 mm. long, sessile; petals 

narrowly linear, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, 3 to 4 mm. wide, obtuse, glandless; 

corona a thick, fleshy ring 3 to 4 mm. high, erect, cleft at margin into


triangular-dentiform processes about 2 mm. long, and bearing within 

a row of narrowly linear filaments 2 to 3 mm. long; operculum borne 

at middle of tube, membranous, suberect, plicate at base, denticulate 

or subentire; limen annular; gynophore slender; ovary ovoid, tapering 

above middle. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Rio Negro, Manaos, State of Amazonas, Brazil. 

DISTRIBUTION: Middle and upper Amazon Basin, Brazil. 

BRAZIL: Amazonas: Neumann (BM, N). Manaos, Ule in 1910 

(B, type); Ducke 23558 (Bo, K, N, S, Ut); Labroy 162 (P). Para: 

Rio Tapajoz, Ducke 6^8 (Bo, K, N, S, Ut). 

In describing this species Harms commented on the difficulty of 

placing it in either Granadilla or Plectostemma. The corona is a 

thick ring, cleft into dentiform processes at the margin, within which 

is a row of narrower filaments, the corona thus being quite unlike 

that of any other known species of Passiflora. Evidently the species 

represents a monotypic subgenus. The vegetative parts are very 

similar to those of P. glandulosa and P. variolata. 

Subgenus XI. TACSONIOPSIS 

137. Passiflora bracteosa Planch. & Linden, Ann. Sci. Nat. V. Bot. 

17: 137. 1873. 

Tacsonia infundibularis Mast. Journ. Bot. Brit. & For. 21: 34. 

1883. 

Plant glabrous throughout; stem angular; stipules foliaceous, 1 to 

1.5 cm. long, 0.7 to 1 cm. wide, cuspidate, oblique at base, irregularly 

glandular-serrate; petioles 2.5 to 4 cm. long, bearing 4 to 6 small 

glands; leaves 5 to 10 cm. long, up to 15 cm. wide between tips of 

lateral lobes, deeply 3-lobed (lobes ovate-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 

2 to 3.5 cm. wide, acuminate, the middle lobe the longest), rounded 

or cordulate at base, sharply serrate, 5-nerved; peduncles stout, up 

to 15 cm. long; bracts distinct to base, oblong-lanceolate, 4 to 5 cm. 

long, 2 to 2.5 cm. wide, evenly erose-denticulate or serrate, membranous, 

light green, borne slightly below base of flower; calyx tube 

orange-pink, greenish distally without, white within, cylindricfunnel-shaped, 

7 to 9 cm. long, slightly inflated at base, broadly 

campanulate above throat, 5-lobed, the lobes extending halfway 

down to throat, greenish without, white within; petals 5, ovateoblong, 

about 1.5 cm. long, 1 cm. wide, inserted between the lobes of 

the calyx (hence above throat); corona deep pink, consisting of 

2 rings, each sinuate-dentate or tuberculate (teeth or tubercles


about 10, those of the inner ring less prominent) ; 

operculum membranous, 

about 7 mm. long, deflexed, the margin lobulate; gynophore 

slender, white; fruit globose-ovoid, about 7 cm. long, 11 cm. at 

greatest circumference, bright orange, green proximally, densely 

covered with long (about 5 mm.) tubercles. 

TYPE LOCALITY: La Baja, Department of Santander, Colombia. 

DISTRIBUTION: Department of Santander, in 

the Eastern Cordillera 

of Colombia, between 2,500 and 3,000 meters altitude. 

COLOMBIA: Santander: La Baja, Funck & Schlim 1381 (BM, type 

of Tacsonia infundibularis, Bo, Brux, Gen, P, type) ; Killip & Smith 

18320 (A, G, N, Y). Las Vegas, Killip & Smith 15926 (A, G, N, 

V, Y). California, Killip & Smith 16889 (A, G, N, Y). 

This species may well be sufficiently distinct from Passiflora 

to constitute a separate genus. The sepals are free only halfway to 

the throat of the calyx tube, the petals being inserted at the base 

of the free sepals. The fruit is densely covered with tubercle-like 

protuberances, and is thus quite unlike that of any other known 

species of Passiflora. Triana and Planchon created for this species 

the subgenus Tacsoniopsis. 

The plant appears to be rare and local, confined to the Bucara- 

in the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia. 

manga region 

Tacsonia infundibularis Mast, was based on Funck & Schlim 1381, 

also the type of P. bracteosa. The flowers of the specimen examined 

by Masters were not in prime condition, and he evidently did not 

appreciate their peculiar structure. 

Subgenus XII. RATHEA 

138. Passiflora andina Killip, nom. nov. Figure 1, 6. 

Rathea floribunda Karst. Fl. Columb. 1: 77. pi. 38. 1859. 

Tacsonia floribunda Mast. Trans. Linn. Soc. 27: 628. 1871; in 

Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 538. 1872. 

Tacsonia floribunda var. major Mast. Journ. Linn. Soc. 20: 26. 

1883. 

Tacsonia Andreana Sodiro, Anal. Univ. Quito 18: 334. 1903. 

P. Andreana Mast. (1883). 

Not 

Passiflora floribunda Tr. & Planch, ex Harms in Engl. & Prantl, 

Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 21: 506. 1925. Not P. floribunda Lemaire 

(1848).


Plant glabrous throughout (except flowers); stem subquinquangular; 

stipules linear-lanceolate, 8 to 10 mm. long, about 2 mm. 

wide, glandular-serrulate, deciduous; petioles up to 5 cm. long, 

minutely 2-6-glandular; leaves 3-5-lobed to within 2 cm. of base 

(lobes narrowly lanceolate, 5 to 10 cm. long, 1 to 1.5 cm. wide, acute, 

serrulate above middle), 5 to 10 cm. wide between apices of lateral 

lobes, rounded or subcuneate at base, 

subcoriaceous; peduncles up 

to 10 cm. long, terete; bracts oblong-lanceolate, up to 4 cm. long, 

2 cm. wide, acute, free to base, serrulate; calyx tube cylindric or 

cylindric-funnel-shaped, 5 to 10 cm. long, 1.3 to 3 cm. wide at throat, 

5-ribbed, finely puberulent without, greenish yellow (or orange or 

red proximally, yellow distally); sepals oblong, one-third to onefourth 

as long as tube, obtuse, aristulate on outside just below apex; 

petals oblong or obovate-oblong, 3 to 6 cm. long, 0.8 to 1.2 cm. wide, 

obtuse, inserted at or slightly above middle of tube; corona none; 

operculum borne near base of tube, deflexed, denticulate; ovary 

elliptic, densely short-villous-tomentose, long-stipitate above the 

stamens; fruit ellipsoidal, 6 to 7 cm. long, 3 to 4 cm. in diameter, the 

pericarp brittle, somewhat puberulent; seeds narrowly elliptic, about 

6 mm. long, 3 mm. wide, slightly compressed, smooth at margin, 

obscurely transversely 2-3-sulcate at center of each face. 

TYPE LOCALITY: "In fruticetis altae planitiei Andium Pastoensium 

et Quitensium prope Guayan in valle Lloensi altitud. 2,700 metr." 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Karst. Fl. Columb. 1: pi. 38; Rev. Chil. Hist. 

Nat. 11: pi. 9; Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 20: pi. 19. 

DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of northern Ecuador, and perhaps in 

southwestern Colombia. 

ECUADOR or COLOMBIA: "Pasto, Quito, 2,800 m.," Karsten 

(V, type of Rathea floribunda). 

ECUADOR: Guayas: Jameson 593 (BM, P). Pichincha: Mt. 

Corazon, 2,500 meters, Andre 3679 (K, type of Tacsonia floribunda 

var. major, Y); Sodiro in 1908 (Mille 229; N). Tandacoto, Heilborn 

497 (B, S). 

This remarkable species, with the petals inserted below the throat 

of the calyx tube, is perhaps sufficiently distinct to justify the maintenance 

of Karsten's genus Rathea. Other details of the flower 

structure, however, seem characteristic of the tacsonias, and in view 

of the broad concept of Passiflora in the present work, it seems preferable 

to treat this as a subgenus.


In transferring this species to Passiflora it is necessary to adopt 

a new name, as the names Passiflora floribunda and P. Andreana are 

invalidated by earlier use. 

The plant described as a variety (var. major} by Masters and 

later as Tacsonia Andreana by Sodiro apparently differs from Karsten's 

description of Rathea floribunda only in having larger flowers 

with the tube more strongly dilated at the throat. The illustration 

accompanying Sodiro's description is very similar to that given by 

Karsten, the principal difference being the angular calyx tube. 

Karsten's statement of the type locality is uncertain, nor is the 

information on the type sheet of much assistance. There is no 

positive evidence of the occurrence of this species outside of Ecuador; 

the Purdie collection from Colombia cited as this by Masters belongs 

to another species. 

Subgenus XIII. TACSONIA 

139. Passiflora Parritae (Mast.) Bailey, Rhodora 18: 156. 1916. 

Tacsonia Parritae Mast. Gard. Chron. n. ser. 17: 218, 225. /. 34. 

1882. 

Passiflora salmonea Harms, Bot. Jahrb. 18: Beibl. 46: 11. 1894. 

Stem angulate, glabrous or slightly tomentulous at the nodes, 

dark reddish brown; stipules setaceous, 5 to 6 mm. long, remotely 

glandular-serrulate; petioles up to 2 cm. long, bearing 2 to 4 inconspicuous, 

sessile glands; leaves 5 to 7 cm. long, 5 to 7 cm. between 

tips of lateral lobes, 3-lobed about four-fifths their length (lobes 

lanceolate, 1 to 1.5 cm. wide, acuminate, apiculate), subcuneate at 

base, remotely denticulate, membranous, glabrous above, pilosulous 

beneath; peduncles 12 to 14 cm. long; bracts ovate, about 7 mm. 

long, 3 mm. wide (probably larger when developed), acute, apiculate, 

glandular-serrulate, free to base, early deciduous; flowers orange or 

salmon; calyx tube cylindric, 8 to 9 cm. long, ventricose and slightly 

sulcate at base, glabrous; sepals oblong, 6 to 7 cm. long, 2.5 to 3 cm. 

wide, obtuse, keeled, the keel broadly winged, about 1 cm. wide, 

terminating in an awn 7 to 8 mm. long; petals oblong, slightly shorter 

than the sepals, obtuse; corona minutely tuberculate; operculum 

deflexed, recurved at margin; ovary ellipsoidal, sericeous. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Department of Tolima, Colombia (type collected 

by Parra [Parrital). 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Gard. Chron. n. ser. 17: 225. /. 34. 1882; 111. 

Hort. 35: pi. 41; Mutis, Icon. PL Ined. 26: pi. 38.


DISTRIBUTION: Central Cordillera of Colombia, between 2,000 


COLOMBIA: Tolima: Carder (K). Libano, Pennell 3196 (G, N, Y). 

Antioquia: Pensilvania, Rio Dulce, Lehmann 7282 (B, type of 

P. salmonea, K). Paramo de Ruiz, Lehmann 6094 (K). 

The broad keel of the sepals at once distinguishes this from all 

other known species of Passiflora. The flowers are of a more decided 

orange, or salmon, color than in other tacsonias. Harms places 

this species in a subsection (Parritanae) of his section Tacsonia. 

140. Passiflora cremastantha Harms, Repert. Sp. Nov. 18: 294. 

1922. 

Plant hirsute-tomentose; stem terete, or the younger parts subangular; 

stipules linear, up to 1 cm. long; petioles up to 4 cm. long, 

bearing several minute glands imbedded in the dense indument; 

leaves ovate or ovate-oblong, 9 to 16 cm. long, 5 to 11 cm. wide, 

acute at apex, subcordate or rounded at base, serrate-dentate, 

pilosulous on the nerves and veins above, densely ferruginoushirsute-tomentose 

beneath; peduncles 10 to 30 cm. long, very 

slender; bracts free to base, ovate, 2.5 to 3 cm. long, 1 to 1.2 cm. 

wide, entire, acute; calyx tube cylindric, 4 to 6.5 cm. long, densely 

pilosulous without; sepals oblong, 4 to 4.5 cm. long, 1 to 1.2 cm. wide, 

aristulate; petals similar and subequal to sepals; corona 1-ranked, 

tuberculate, the tubercles about 0.5 mm. long; operculum dependent, 

recurved at margin; ovary hirsute-tomentose. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Alto de Pasares, between Popayan and Coconuco, 

Colombia. 

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from type locality, 

in the southern 

part of the Central Cordillera of Colombia, at 2,500 meters altitude. 

COLOMBIA: El Cauca: Alto de Pasares, between Popayan and 

Coconuco, Lehmann 5421 (B, type, F, G, K, Y). 

Among the long-peduncled tacsonias with a reduced corona this 

species is recognized by its dense, brown pubescence as well as by 

the shape of its leaves. 

The method of grouping the true tacsonias adopted in this revision 

is perhaps rather artificial, and may not represent actual relationship. 

Masters' classification on the basis of free or united bracts certainly 

does not bring related species into close proximity. Triana and 

Planchon relied on the character of the corona to subdivide their 

subgenus Tacsonia, but this is open to objection on the same grounds.


The coronal structure of the true tacsonias is very simple, and shows 

little 

of the variation occurring in Plectostemma, Murucuja and its 

related subgenera, and Granadilla. Passiflora cremastantha and the 

five following species, with long, slender peduncles and usually with 

polymorphic leaves, appear to represent a small, definite group. 

141. Passiflora leptomischa Harms, Repert. Sp. Nov. 18: 295. 

1922. 

Stem subangulate, conspicuously striate, glabrous; stipules linear, 

8 to 10 mm. long, spongiose- thickened toward apex; petioles up to 

2 cm. long, bearing 4 to 6 minute glands; leaves dimorphic, unlobed 

and lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 7 to 10 cm. long, 2 to 3.5 cm. 

wide, long-acuminate, or 3-lobed nearly to base (lobes lanceolate, 

up to 1.5 cm. wide), rounded or subcordate at base, serrate-dentate, 

puberulent on nerves and veins above, densely short-pilosulous 

beneath; peduncles slender, 15 to 25 cm. long; bracts free to base, 

oblong, 2 to 2.5 cm. long, about 8 mm. wide, acuminate, lacinulatedentate, 

deeply so at base; calyx tube cylindric, 5 to 8 cm. long, 

puberulent without; sepals oblong, 2.5 to 5 cm. long, 1 to 2 cm. 

wide, obtuse, aristulate; petals similar to sepals, slightly clawed at 

base; corona 1-ranked, tuberculate, the tubercles less than 0.5 mm. 

long; ovary fusiform, grayish-puberulent. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Andes west of Popayan, Colombia. 

DISTRIBUTION: Southern part of the Western Cordillera of 

Colombia, between 2,500 and 3,000 meters altitude. 

COLOMBIA: El Cauca: Cerro Munchique, Stubel 321b (B). Cordillera 

west of Popayan, Lehmann 5917 (B, type, F, K). El Derrumbo, 

Killip 7972 (G, N, Ph, Y). 

In leaf shape this species closely resembles certain forms of 

P. antioquiensis. The proportionately longer calyx tube at once 

differentiates it. 

142. Passiflora fimbriatistipula Harms, Bot. Jahrb. 18: Beibl. 

46: 11. 1894. 

Stem angulate, glabrous; stipules ovate, 1 to 1.3 cm. long, 5 mm. 

wide, laciniate-fimbriate; petioles up to 1.5 cm. long, minutely 

glandular, tomentellous; leaves ovate, 5 to 6.5 cm. long, 2.5 to 3.5 

cm. wide, acuminate, rounded or subcuneate at base, denticulateserrate 

(teeth 1 to 2 mm. long), subcoriaceous, dark green, lustrous, 

glabrous and subtomentellous on the nerves above, lanate-tomentose 

beneath; peduncles 8 to 15 cm. long; bracts 2 to 2.5 (or up to 4.5)


cm. long, united below middle, the free portions irregularly serrate; 

calyx tube cylindric, slightly enlarged at throat, 5 (or up to 8) cm. 

long, light scarlet without, black-brown within, finely pilosulous without; 

sepals oblong, about 3.5 cm. long and 1.5 cm. wide, rounded at 

apex, aristate (awn 6 mm. long); petals similar and subequal to 

the sepals, orange-scarlet; corona reduced to a mere ring with a 

slightly undulate margin; operculum dependent, the margin recurved, 

minutely fimbriolate; ovary elliptic-oblong, villosulous. 

TYPE LOCALITY: "Paramo of Las Delicias, 2,900 to 3,200 meters, 

Colombia." 

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality in the Central 

Cordillera of Colombia, east of Popayan, 2,900 to 3,000 meters 

altitude. 

COLOMBIA: El Cauca: Paramo de Guanacas, Lehmann 6001 

(B, type, K, N, Y). 

This rare species is distinguished by the deeply cut stipules. 

The 

peduncles are stouter than in other species of this immediate relationship, 

though when developed they are long and pendulous. 

The locality given for the type in Lehmann's field notes, deposited 

at Kew, is different from that mentioned at the place of publication 

of the species. 

143. Passiflora quindiensis Killip, nom. nov. 

Passiflora elegans Tr. & Planch. Ann. Sci. Nat. V. Bot. 17: 133. 

1873. Not P. elegans Mast. (1872). 

Stem terete, striate; stipules ovate, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, 5 to 7 mm. 

wide, cuspidate, oblique, incised-serrate; petioles up to 1.5 cm. long, 

minutely glandular; leaves 4 to 6 cm. long, up to 7 cm. wide between 

apices of lateral lobes, deeply 3-lobed (lobes about four-fifths the 

length of blade, ovate-oblong, 1 to 1.5 cm. wide, acuminate, cuspidate), 

subcordate at base, sharply ciliate-serrate, membranous, 

sparsely pilosulous above, grayish-tomentose and velutinous beneath ; 

peduncles 15 cm. long, or more; bracts ovate-oblong, united below 

middle, 2 to 3 cm. long, serrulate, puberulent on both surfaces, 

reddish; calyx tube cylindric, about 8 cm. long, 0.8 cm. wide, glabrous; 

sepals oblong, about 3 cm. long, 1 cm. wide, mucronulate; 

petals narrowly oblong, truncate at apex; corona a scarcely elevated 

ridge (margin not sinuate or tuberculate) ; operculum deflexed, the 

margin fimbriolate; limen none; ovary ovoid-ellipsoidal. 

TYPE LOCALITY: El Palmar, Quindio Trail, Colombia.


DISTRIBUTION: Known only from type locality, in the Central 


COLOMBIA: Tolima: El Palmar, Quindio Trail, Goudot 1 

(P, type 

of P. elegans Tr. & Planch.). 

The exact position that this species should occupy among the 

tacsonias is doubtful. The general aspect of the plant and the 

united bracts suggest P. mixta, but because of the long, slender 

peduncles it is perhaps better placed near P. leptomischa. In the 

type specimen, apparently the only collection known, the involucre 

is detached from the rest of the plant and, as Triana and Planchon 

suggest, may belong to another species. The obsolescent corona, 

neither sinuate nor tuberculate along the margin, calls to mind 

P. andina, of the subgenus Rathea. 

144. Passiflora coactilis (Mast.) Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 

14: 212. 1924. 

Tacsonia coactilis Mast. Bot. Jahrb. 8: 216. 1887. 

Tacsonia Mariae Sodiro, Anal. Univ. Quito 18: 407. 1903. 

Tacsonia Mariae var. 

18: 407. 1903. 

chimborazensis Sodiro, Anal. Univ. Quito 

Passiflora Mariae Harms in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 

21: 506. 1925. 

Stem subterete, rufo-lanate; stipules linear-subulate, 8 to 10 mm. 

long; petioles up to 2.5 mm. long, minutely glandular, rufo-lanate, 

often with numerous black hairs mixed with the tomentum; leaves 

6 to 12 cm. long and wide, 3-lobed to middle (lobes triangular-ovate, 

obtuse or acute, mucronulate, the middle lobe much the larger, up 

to 5 cm. wide), cordate or subrotund at base, denticulate, subcoriaceous, 

above puberulent on the nerves, otherwise glabrous, beneath 

densely rufo-lanate, often with numerous stiff, black hairs on the 

midnerve and mixed in the tomentum, rugulose above, the nerves 

impressed; peduncles slender, 10 to 20 cm. long; bracts oblonglanceolate, 

up to 5 cm. long, 1 cm. wide, acute, united for about 

5 mm. above the base, rufo-tomentose, entire or slightly serrulate; 

flowers rose-colored; calyx tube cylindric, 8 to 10 cm. long, rufolanate 

without; sepals oblong, 5 to 7 cm. long, 1 to 2.5 cm. wide, 

obtuse, aristulate; petals similar to and slightly shorter than the 

sepals, obtuse; corona filamentose, in 2 series, the outer up to 3 mm. 

long, the inner 1 mm. or less long; operculum dependent, recurved at 

margin; ovary ovoid, rufo-tomentose; fruit subpyriform, about 9 cm. 

long, 4 cm. in diameter, glabrescent; seeds obovate, 8 mm. long,


6 mm. wide, retuse at apex, flattened, punctate at middle of each 

face, smooth at margin. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Between Calicali and Mt. Corazon, Ecuador. 

DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of central Ecuador. 

ECUADOR: Andre 309 (K). "Andes, 2,200 to 2,300 meters," 

Jameson 249 (BM, G, Gen, K, P). Pichincha: Karsten (V). Mt. 

Corazon, Sodiro in 1902 (Mitte 230; N) ; 

Lehmann 368 (Bo, K, type); 

Andre 3654 (K). Chimborazo: Tambolona, Sodiro in 1881 (N, type 

of Tacsonia Mariae var. chimborazensis). 

This species is readily recognized by the shape of the leaves and 

the dense, brown indument which covers the stem, petioles, peduncles, 

and under surface of the leaves. 

145. Passiflora flexipes Tr.-& Planch. Ann. Sci. Nat. V. Bot. 17: 

142. 1873. 

Tacsonia flexipes Mast. Journ. Linn. Soc. 20: 26. 1883. 

Stem subangulate, tomentellous, the younger part densely tomentose; 

stipules linear-subulate, 5 mm. long; petioles up to 5 cm. long, 

obscurely glandular; leaves polymorphic, unlobed and lanceolate or 

oblong-lanceolate, 10 to 20 cm. long, 5 to 8 cm. wide, acuminate, or 

3-lobed to about 2 cm. from base (lobes ovate-oblong, 1 to 3 cm. wide, 

rarely one of the lateral lobes wanting), subcordate at base, sharply 

serrate, puberulent on the nerves and veins above, tomentose beneath; 

peduncles very slender, 25 to 40 cm. long; bracts free to base, oblong, 

cuspidate, incised-dentate; flowers pink; calyx tube cylindric, 8 to 11 

cm. long, ventricose at base, finely puberulent; sepals oblong, about 

5 cm. long, 1.5 cm. wide, aristate, deep rose-pink within, deep rosepink 

at margin, brownish at center, with greenish midrib without; 

petals ovate-oblong, about 4.5 cm. long, 2 cm. wide, obtuse, deep 

rose-pink; corona filamentose, 1-ranked, the filaments slender, 3 to 4 

mm. long, hyacinth-violet; operculum dependent, the recurved 

margin fimbrillate; ovary fusiform, closely sericeous. 

TYPE LOCALITY: La Palmilla, Colombia. 

DISTRIBUTION: Central part of the Central Cordillera of Colombia, 


COLOMBIA: Tolima: Mendiacion, eastern slope of Quindio mountains, 

Andre 2053 (K, Y). Quindio Trail, Goudot (P). Caldas: La 

Palmilla, Triana 2970 (BM, type, Gen, K, P). Salento, Pennell 

9332 (G, N, Ph, Y).


In several details this species strongly resembles P. antioquiensis. 

The elongate calyx tube and conspicuously filamentose corona are 

quite different, however. The detailed notes on the flowers are based 

on field observations made by Dr. Pennell. 

146. Passiflora insignis (Mast.) Hook. Bot. Mag. 99: pi 6069. 

1873. 

Tacsonia insignis Mast. Gard. Chron. 1873: 1113. /. 239. 1873. 

Stem terete, densely lanate; stipules about 2 cm. long, 1 cm. wide, 

bipinnatisect, the segments acute; petioles up to 2 cm. long, obscurely 

2-4-glandular, densely lanate; leaves ovate-lanceolate, 15 to 25 cm. 

long, 7 to 12 cm. wide, acute at apex, cordulate at base, denticulate, 

3-5-nerved, coriaceous, above glabrous, lustrous, and rugulose, 

beneath densely ferruginous-lanate; peduncles 15 to 20 cm. long, 

stout; bracts ovate-oblong, distinct to base, 3.5 to 4 cm. long, 1 to 

1.5 cm. wide, obtuse at apex, narrowed at base, short-fimbriate, 

concave; calyx tube cylindric, 3 to 4 cm. long, about 8 mm. wide, 

enlarged at base to about 15 mm., slightly ferruginous-tomentose 

without; sepals violet-crimson, oblong, 7 to 9 cm. long, nearly 2 cm. 

wide, obtuse, concave, keeled dorsally, the keel terminating in an awn 

1.5 to 2 cm. long; petals oblong, 6 to 7 cm. long, about 1.5 cm. wide, 

obtuse, rose-purplish; corona in a single series, filamentose, the filaments 

erect, 8 to 10 mm. long, blue and white; operculum attached 

about 1 cm. above base of tube, dependent, about 7 mm. long, 

shallowly lacerate, the margin not recurved; ovary subglobose, 

obscurely 3-angled, densely rufo-lanate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Described from a plant grown in England "from 

seeds sent from South America (probably Peru)"; type seen at Kew. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Gard. Chron. 1873: 1113. /. 239; Bot. Mag. 99: 

pi 6069; Garden 10: opp. p. 12. 1876; Fl. des Serres II. 10: pi. 2083, 

2084; Belg. Hort. 24: 217. 

DISTRIBUTION: Uncertain, perhaps Bolivia. 

I strongly suspect that this is a horticultural hybrid, and am 

including it in the present treatment mainly because of the fact that 

Harms has created for the species a monotypic subsection of Tacsonia, 

Insignes. The Index Londinensis lists eight illustrations of this 

plant, but I have seen no herbarium material other than four speci- 

of which apparently came from the type plant in 

mens at Kew, all 

cultivation. The vegetative parts are almost identical with those 

of P. callimorpha, a species of Distephana with a very short calyx


tube and a second series of corona filaments borne well below the 

first series, and this perhaps is one of the parents of P. insignis. 

147. Passiflora adulterina L. f. Suppl. 408. 1781. 

Tacsonia adulterina Juss. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 6: 393. 1805. 

Stem angulate, floccose with grayish or brownish wool, at length 

glabrescent; stipules linear-subulate, 8 to 10 mm. long, 1 to 1.5 mm. 

wide, glandular-denticulate, coriaceous, deciduous; petioles up to 

1 cm. long, minutely glandular; leaves oblong, 4 to 10 cm. long, 1.5 

to 5 cm. wide, rounded and often emarginate at apex, rounded or 

subcordate at base, subentire and usually revolute at margin, 1- 

nerved (secondary nerves 5 to 7 to a side), glabrous above, densely 

lanate with brown wool beneath, thick-coriaceous, rugose above, 

the nerves impressed; peduncles up to 3 cm. long; bracts distinct to 

base, oblong-elliptic, about 2.5 cm. long, 1 cm. wide, abruptly acute 

at apex, tapering at base, flocculose or glabrescent without, purplish 

when dry; calyx tube cylindric, 5 to 8 cm. long, 0.8 to 1 cm. wide, 

glabrous; sepals oblong, 2.5 to 3 cm. long, 0.8 to 1 cm. wide, obtuse; 

petals similar and equal to the sepals; corona reduced to a mere ring; 

operculum dependent, the margin recurved, minutely denticulate; 

ovary obovoid, glabrous. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Colombia. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: J. E. Sm. PI. Icon. Ined. 1: pi. 24; Cav. Diss. 

10: pi. 278; G. Don, Hist. Dichl. PI. 3: 57. /. 7; Mutis, Icon. PI. Ined. 

26: pi. 36. 

DISTRIBUTION: Department of Cundinamarca, Eastern Cordillera 

of Colombia, between 2,500 and 3,000 meters altitude. 

once from the Central Cordillera. 

Reported 

COLOMBIA: Mutis 2271 (type collection; Ma, N), 5615 (Ma, N). 

Cundinamarca: Bogota, Triana 186 (K), 2968 (BM, Brux, Gen, P, 

Y); Goudot 2 (K, P); Holton in 1854 (K, Y); Karsten (V); Hartweg 

183 (K); Lehmann 8772 (B); Kalbreyer 1998 (B); Apollinaire Marie 

303 (Bog); Dawe 170 (N); Schultze 58 (B). Canaos, Ariste Joseph 

A162 (Bog, N). Usme, Ariste Joseph B36 (N). Uribe, Ariste Joseph 

B3b (N). Guadalupe, Instituto de La Salle (Bog); Goudot (Bo). 

Tolima: Quindio Trail, Linden 1223 (P). 

This is readily recognized among the entire-leaved, short-peduncled 

species by its thick, blunt leaves, with a nearly entire margin. 

Passiflora adulterina and its close relative, P. lanata, are common 

about Bogota. Each is reported from the Quindio Trail, across the


Magdalena Valley, by a single collector. Both Humboldt and Linden, 

who respectively report the occurrence of P. adulterina and P. lanata 

along the Quindio, collected also at Bogota, and it is possible that 

there may be a confusion in their locality data. 

148. Passiflora lanata (Juss.) Poir. in Lam. Encycl. Suppl. 2: 843. 

1811. 

Tacsonia lanata Juss. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 6; 392. pL 59, f. 1. 

1805. 

Stem subangulate, glabrous, the younger part flocculose; stipules 

linear-subulate, 1 to 1.2 cm. long, thickened at apex, the margin 

glandular-denticulate, revolute; petioles up to 1 cm. long, minutely 

glandular; leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 6 to 11 cm. long, 3 to 5 

cm. wide, acute, subcordate at base, subentire and slightly revolute 

at margin, glabrous above, densely lanate with brown wool beneath, 

thick-coriaceous, rugose above, the nerves impressed; peduncles up 

to 5.5 cm. long; bracts distinct to base, ovate-lanceolate, about 1.5 

cm. long, 0.6 to 0.8 cm. wide, acuminate, rounded at base, densely 

lanate without; flowers salmon-pink ("white," Masters'); calyx tube 

cylindric, 7 to 8 cm. long, glabrous; sepals oblong, 2.5 to 3 cm. long, 

0.8 to 1 cm. wide, obtuse, aristulate; petals similar and equal to the 

sepals; corona reduced to a mere ring without tubercles or filaments; 

operculum dependent, the margin recurved, minutely denticulate; 

ovary obovoid, glabrous. 

TYPE LOCALITY: "Andibus Quindiuensis," according to report 

of Humboldt. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 6: pi 59, f. 1; J. E. Sm. 

Icon. Pict. PI. Rar. pi. 1 . 1790-1793. 

DISTRIBUTION: Department of Cundinamarca, Eastern Cordillera 

of Colombia, between 2,500 and 3,000 meters altitude. Locality 

for the type doubtful. 

COLOMBIA: Cundinamarca: Wagner (Bo). Bogota, Institute de 

La Salle (Bog). Penon, Popenoe 1116 (N, Y). Guadalupe, Goudot 

(P); Ariste Joseph B71 (Bog, N). Manzanos, Lindig 628 (BM). 

Sibate", Lehmann 7632 (B, K). Paramo de Guasca, Cuatrecasas 3248 

(Ma). Tolima: Mt. Quindio, Humboldt & Bonpland (B, type). 

This species is similar to P. adulterina and grows in the same 

general locality. 

It is distinguished from that by the ovate-lanceolate, 

acute leaves, the longer peduncles, and the rounded base of the 

bracts, characters which appear to be constant.


149. Passiflora truxillensis Planch. & Linden, Ann. Sci. Nat. V. 

Bot. 17: 135. 1873. 

Stem terete or subangulate, densely ferruginous-tomentous; 

stipules subulate, 5 to 6 mm. long, coriaceous, strongly revolute; 

petioles up to 1 cm. long, minutely glandular; leaves ovate or ovatelanceolate, 

5 to 9 cm. long, 3 to 4 cm. wide, acuminate, cordate or 

subcordate at the base, unequally callous-serrate and slightly revolute 

at margin, glabrous above, densely lanate beneath, rugulose above, 

the nerves and veins impressed; peduncles up to 7 cm. long; bracts 

free to base, oblong-lanceolate, about 2 cm. long, 0.5 cm. wide, acute, 

pilosulous without; flower red(?); calyx tube cylindric, 4.5 to 5 cm. 

long, glabrous; sepals oblong, 2 to 3 cm. long, about 1 cm. wide, 

obtuse; petals similar and equal to the sepals; corona reduced to a 

ring, the margin sinuate; operculum dependent, the margin recurved, 

minutely denticulate; ovary narrowly ovoid, glabrous. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Agua de Obispo, Trujillo, Venezuela. 


Venezuela, altitude about 2,300 meters. 

in western 

VENEZUELA: Trujillo: Agua de Obispo, Linden 286 (Gen, P, type) ; 

John 11 81 (N). 

This species resembles P. lanata, but is distinguished by the 

thinner, serrate leaves, a tomentose rather than a lanate indument, 

and a shorter, narrower calyx tube. 

150. Passiflora pamplonensis Planch. & Linden, Ann. Sci. Nat. 

V. Bot. 17: 137. 1873. 

Stem terete, tomentose; stipules setaceous, about 1 cm. long, 

denticulate, often thickened at apex; petioles 8 to 10 mm. long; 

leaves lance-oblong, 7 to 10 cm. long, 1.5 to 2.5 cm. wide, acuminate, 

obtuse or subcuneate at base, shallowly repand-dentate, penninerved, 

above glabrous, pubescent on nerves, beneath densely and 

softly pubescent, the nerves and veins impressed above; peduncles 

about 4 cm. long; bracts free to base, oblong-lanceolate, 3 to 3.5 cm. 

long, 1 cm. wide, acuminate, serrulate, slightly pubescent; flowers 

"yellow and red;" calyx tube cylindric, 6 to 8 cm. long, subglobose 

at base, pubescent without; sepals oblong, about 3 cm. long, obtuse; 

petals oblong, slightly shorter than sepals; corona sinuate or shorttuberculate; 

operculum deflexed, the margin recurved, subentire; 

ovary oblong, appressed-tomentose. 

TYPE LOCALITY: La Baja, Department of Santander (formerly 

Province of Pamplona), Colombia.


DISTRIBUTION: Known only from type locality in the Eastern 

Cordillera of Colombia, altitude about 2,300 meters. 

COLOMBIA: Santander: La Baja, Funck & Schlim 1385 (BM, 

type, Gen). 

From P. truxillensis, its nearest relative, this species 

is distinguished 

by proportionately narrower, less deeply toothed, larger 

bracts, and by the indument on the calyx tube and ovary. 

151. Passiflora lanceolata (Mast.) Harms, Bot. Jahrb. 18: Beibl. 

46: 11. 1894. Not P. lanceolata G. Don, an inadvertent use of 

the specific epithet for lancifolia. 

Tacsonia lanceolata Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1 : 536. 1872. 

Passiflora acutissima Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 17: 428. 

1927. 

Stem subangular, pilosulous; stipules lanceolate, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, 

about 0.3 cm. wide, deeply pinnatisect, the segments few; petioles 

5 to 7 mm. long, minutely biglandular at apex; leaves lanceolate, 4 

to 8 cm. long, 1 to 1.5 cm. wide, attenuate-acuminate at apex, 

rounded or subacute at base, subentire, slightly revolute, 1 -nerved 

(nerve deeply impressed above), coriaceous, glabrous; peduncles 5 

to 5.5 cm. long; bracts lanceolate, distinct to base, 1.5 to 2 cm. long, 

4 to 7 mm. wide, acute, laciniate, the teeth up to 3 mm. long; calyx 

tube cylindric, 7 to 8 cm. long, 1 cm. wide, dilated at base, glabrous; 

sepals oblong, 3 to 3.5 cm. long, about 1 cm. wide, obtuse, aristate 

dorsally; petals oblong, subequal to sepals; corona apparently 

tubsrculiform; ovary glabrous. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Mountains of Peru. 

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type, probably from the 

mountains of northern Peru, in the Department of Amazonas. 

PERU: Mathews 1252 (K, type). 

This appears to be the only species of the group of tacsonias with 

entire leaves and relatively short peduncles occurring outside of 

Venezuela and eastern Colombia. The pinnatisect stipules and free, 

laciniate bracts distinguish it at once from its allies. 

Masters was in error in stating that the calyx tube was 18 to 20 

cm. long. In the type, apparently the only specimen known, 

in no case is 

developed. 

the tube over 7.5 cm. long, and the flowers are fully


152. Passiflora rugosa (Mast.) Tr. & Planch. Ann. Sci. Nat. V. 

Bot. 17: 136. 1873. 

Tacsonia rugosa Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 538. 1872. 

Stem terete, densely rufo-villous; stipules narrowly linear, about 

1 cm. long, deciduous; petioles 4 to 6 mm. long; leaves ovate-lanceolate, 

4 to 7 cm. long, 2 to 4 cm. wide, acute at apex, rounded or 

shallowly cordate at base, repand-serrate, 1-nerved (principal secondary 

nerves 6 or 7 to a side), reticulate-veined (nerves and veins 

strongly impressed above, hence the leaves rugose, the nerves prominent 

beneath), coriaceous, glabrous above, densely rufo-tomentose 

beneath; peduncles 4 to 10 cm. long, villous; bracts 3 to 5 cm. long, 

united to middle into a broadly campanulate tube (free portions 

ovate-lanceolate, 1 to 1.5 cm. wide, minutely glandular-serrulate), 

rufo-tomentose without and within; calyx tube cylindric, 5 to 7 cm. 

long, about 1.3 cm. wide, glabrous or very sparingly pilosulous, 

yellow-green without, purple-pink within, paler toward base; sepals 

oblong, 3 to 4 cm. long, 1 to 1.5 cm. wide, obtuse, aristulate, red-pink 

without, darker at center, light pink within; petals oblong, slightly 

narrower than the sepals, light pink; corona in 2 red-purple, membranous 

bands with a few undulations; operculum dependent, white, 

pink at the recurved margin ; ovary ellipsoidal, villous. 

TYPE LOCALITY: San Pedro, near Ocana, Colombia. 

DISTRIBUTION: Eastern Cordillera of Colombia. 

COLOMBIA: Norte de Santander: Paramo de San Pedro, near 

Ocana, Schlim 301 (BM, Bo, Brux, Gen, K, type, N, P). Between 

Pamplona and Toledo, 3,000 meters, Killip & Smith 19871 (A, G, 

N,Y). 

This and the following species are intermediate between the 

species with rugose, entire leaves and those with large, connate 

bracts, of which P. mixta is the best known representative. 

153. Passiflora eriocaula Harms, Repert. Sp. Nov. 18: 295. 1922. 

Stem terete, densely rufo-hirsute- villous; stipules linear, 7 to 10 

mm. long, thickened at apex, deciduous; petioles 0.5 to 1.5 cm. long, 

with 3 or 4 glands imbedded in the indument; leaves ovate or lanceolate-ovate, 

5 to 12 cm. long, 2.5 to 7 cm. wide, acute at apex, rounded 

or cordulate at base, dentate-serrate, 1-nerved (principal secondary 

nerves 6 to 9 to a side, prominulous), somewhat rugulose and essentially 

glabrous above, densely villous beneath, coriaceous; peduncles 

8 to 10 cm. long, villous; bracts reddish brown, conspicuously nerved


(nerves deep red), 4 to 5.5 cm. long, united below middle, the free 

portions ovate-lanceolate, acute, denticulate; calyx tube cylindric, 

8 to 10 cm. long, about 1 cm. in diameter, glabrous or finely pilosulous, 

reddish pink, yellow-green proximally without, deep purple, 

pure white proximally within; sepals oblong, 4 to 5.5 cm. long, about 

2 cm. wide, obtuse, aristulate, reddish pink but true pink at margin 

without, true pink distally and at margin within, pinkish white at 

center; petals similar and subequal to the sepals, true pink; corona 

reduced to a single (or sometimes a second) low, black-purple, 

etuberculate ridge; operculum dependent, recurved at margin, white; 

nectar very sweet; gynophore white; ovary ellipsoidal, short- villous; 

styles pink; stigmas olive-green. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Sisabita, 

Department of Santander, Colombia. 

DISTRIBUTION: Department of Santander, Eastern Cordillera of 

Colombia, 3,000 to 3,600 meters altitude. 

COLOMBIA: Santander: Sisabita, 3,000 meters, Kalbreyer 1112 

(B, type). Western slope of Paramo Rico, Kittip & Smith 17200 

(G,N,Y). 

This is distinguished from P. rugosa by larger, less rugose leaves, 

much larger flowers, and differently shaped bracts. The corona is not 

even slightly undulate, as in P. rugosa. The color details given above 

are derived from field notes made by Killip and Smith. 

154. Passiflora ampullacea (Mast.) Harms in Engl. & Prantl, 

Pflanzenfam. 3, 6a: 91. 1893. 

Tacsonia ampullacea Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1 : 539. 1872. 

Passiflora Hieronymi Harms, Bot. Jahrb. 18: Beibl. 46: 12. 1894. 

Stem terete, striate, densely villous; stipules linear, 1 cm. long, 

about 0.2 mm. wide, 2-cleft near base; petioles 2 to 3.5 cm. long, 

villous, bearing near middle 1 or 2 rudimentary glands (or glandless?) ; 

leaves 6 to 11 cm. long, 6 to 12 cm. wide, 3-lobed about to middle 

(lobes oblong-lanceolate, 2.5 to 4 cm. wide, acute or acuminate), 

subcordate or rounded at base, closely serrate, membranous, minutely 

pubescent and densely brown-villous on veins above, tomentose 

beneath; peduncles 8 to 12 cm. long, villous; bracts ovate, 3 to 4 cm. 

long, 1.5 to 2 cm. wide, abruptly acuminate, free to base or united 

toward base, the margin entire or serrulate below, densely puberulent 

without, glabrescent but tomentose at margin within; flowers white 

or greenish white; calyx tube narrowly cylindric-funnel-shaped, 7 to 

9 cm. long, 8 to 10 mm. wide at throat, gradually narrowed to a


width (near base) of 3 mm., abruptly dilated at base to a width of 

7 mm., villosulous without, glabrous within; sepals oblong-ovate, 2 to 

2.5 cm. long, 1 to 1.5 cm. wide, obtuse, minutely awned; petals 

similar to the sepals and slightly shorter; corona in 2 series, the upper 

tuberculate (tubercles up to 1.5 mm. long), the lower about 1 mm. 

distant, a mere ring; operculum dependent, the margin recurved; 

ovary ovoid, sericeous-villosulous; fruit ovoid, about 6'cm. long, 3.5 

cm. in diameter, pubescent; seeds obovate, 5 to 6 mm. long, 3 to 4 

mm. wide, reticulate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Cuenca, Ecuador. 

DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of southern Ecuador, 2,600 to 2,800 


ECUADOR: Canar: Canar, Rose 22697 (G, N, Y). Azuay: Cuenca, 

Jameson 94 (K, type); Lehmann 1*602 (B, type of P. Hieronymi, 

K, N, S) ; 

Rose 24090 (N). "Columbia," but probably near Cuenca, 

Lobb (K). 

The white or greenish white flowers of P. ampullacea are apparently 

unique in the subgenus Tacsonia. The species does not key 

out readily in the present treatment, as the bracts are wholly free 

in some specimens and united at the base in others. The peduncles 

are rather longer than in most of the species with which it is here 

associated, yet they are much stouter than in the group of species 

with long peduncles, and the foliage does not exhibit the dimorphism 

characteristic of that group. 

155. Passiflora gracilens (Gray) Harms in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 

3, 6a: 91. 1893. 

Tacsonia gracilens Gray, U. S. Expl. Exped. 639. 1854. 

Tacsonia boliviana Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 3, pt. 3: 37. 1893. 

Passiflora boliviana Harms, Repert. Sp. Nov. 19: 28. 1923. 

Plant essentially glabrous: stem sharply quadrangular; stipules 

setaceous, 2 to 4 mm. long, purplish; petioles 5 to 10 mm. long, very 

slender, glandless or with 2 small glands at the apex, these often 

actually borne on the lateral nerves; leaves 1 to 4 cm. long, 2 to 5 cm. 

wide, 3-lobed nearly to base (lobes narrowly ovate-oblong, the basal 

divaricate), minutely serrulate or subentire, usually pale at margin, 

subcoriaceous, glabrous, or minutely puberulous above; peduncles 

up to 3 cm. long, slender, articulate near apex; bracts ovate, 5 to 8 

mm. long, 2.5 to 5 mm. wide, acute or acuminate, minutely serrulate 

or entire, distinct to base, borne near base of flower, often early


deciduous; calyx tube narrowly cylindric, 1.5 to 2 cm. long, 0.3 to 0.5 

cm. wide, slightly enlarged at base, without green at base, pink above, 

within bluish green; sepals oblong-lanceolate, 0.8 to 1.5 cm. long, 0.4 

to 0.5 cm. wide, pink, narrowly keeled dorsally, the keel terminating 

in a filiform awn; petals subequal to the sepals, pink; corona reduced 

to a shallowly sinuate, purplish ridge; operculum white, about 5 mm. 

long, 

dependent, the margin recurved; ovary ovoid, glabrous; fruit 

ovoid, 2 to 3.5 cm. long, 1.5 cm. in diameter, subacute; seeds 

cuneate, 4 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide, reticulate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Huariana, Peru. 

DISTRIBUTION: Central Peru to central Bolivia, between 2,500 


PERU: Huanuco: Huariana, Mathews 915 (BM, G, K, type). 

Junin: Ingahuasi, Mantaro Canyon, Killip & Smith 22177 (F, N, 

Y). Huancavelica: Iscuchaca, Mantaro Valley, Weberbauer 5679 

(B); Raimondi 11585 (B). Cuzco: Herrera 487 (V). Paucartambo, 

Pennett 14170 (Ph). Colquipata, Pennell 13791 (N, Ph, Y). Hacienda 

Ccapana, Herrera 1061 (N). Hacienda Fanccac, Herrera 2108 

(N). Oropeza Valley, Herrera 2599 (N). Hacienda Cutija, Bues 

(Herrera 2126; N). Huasao, Herrera 3101 (N). Ollantaitambo, 

Herrera 3342 (N). Urubamba Valley, Herrera 1660 (B), 2243 (B). 

BOLIVIA: Cochabamba: Cochabamba, Bang 880 (B, BM, Bo, 

CM, K, Mo, N, Ph, Y, type of Tacsonia boliviano,). Araca, Herzog 

2365 (B, S). 

Passiflora gracilens is readily distinguished from other tacsonias 

by the small flowers. It bears a close general resemblance to species 

of the subgenus Tacsonioides, but the reduced corona and dependent 

operculum are characteristic of Tacsonia. Peruvian material recently 

collected by Pennell and by Herrera differs from type specimens of P. 

boliviana only in having a slightly (3 or 4 mm.) longer calyx tube. 

The length of the tube was given by Masters as about 3 cm., though 

in the type, the only collection cited by him, it is in reality not over 

1.5 cm. long. 

LOCAL NAMES: "Jukucha-jampajhuai," "pichincho-jampajhuai" 

(Inca). 

156. Passiflora Trianae Killip, nom. nov. 

Passiflora trisecta Planch. & Linden, Ann. Sci. Nat. V. Bot. 17: 

134. 1873. Not P. trisecta Mast. (1872). 

Plant essentially glabrous throughout; stem subangulate, striate; 

stipules linear, minutely glandular-serrulate, sometimes ciliate;


petioles glabrous or slightly pilosulous, 2-4-glandular, or the glands 

obsolete; leaves 2-lobed nearly to base (lobes linear, 1 to 5 mm. wide, 

suberect), cuneate or rounded at base, revolute at margin when dry, 

the nerves impressed above; peduncles shorter than the leaves; bracts 

borne just below the flower, oblong, about 2 cm. long, 7 to 8 mm. wide, 

acute, free to base, glandular-serrulate, membranous; calyx tube 

cylindric, 8 to 20 cm. long, inflated at base; sepals oblong, yellow; 

petals shorter than the sepals, rose-colored; corona in 1 series, repandsubtuberculate; 

operculum dependent, about 3.5 mm. long, recurved 

at margin, crenulate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: 

&Schliml403). 

La Baja, Colombia, 2,870 meters (type, Funck 


DISTRIBUTION: Known definitely only from the type locality, 

in the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia. 

COLOMBIA: Mutis 4324 (Ma). 

Santander: La Baja, 3,500 meters, 

Kittip & Smith 18100 (A, G, N, Y). 

The type specimen of this species I have not seen, but the Mutis 

specimen, in flower, and the sterile material collected by Mr. Smith 

and myself at the type locality agree well with the description. The 

leaf lobes are much narrower than in most other species of Tacsonia, 

more like those of P. anadenia and P. stenoloba, West Indian members 

of Plectostemma. Passiflora andina has relatively narrow lobes, but 

that plant, because of the unusual arrangement of the petals, is not 

closely related to P. Trianae. According to the authors' description, 

the calyx tube is exceptionally long, 20 cm., but in the Mutis specimen 

it is only 8.5 cm. long. 

157. Passiflora Purdiei Killip, sp. nov. 

Planta fere ubique glabra; stipulae lanceolatae, attenuato-acuminatae, 

inciso-glanduloso-serrulatae; petioli minute glanduliferi; 

folia ad % trilobata, lobis lineari-lanceolatis, serrulatis, subcoriacea; 

pedunculi 7 cm. longi ; 

bracteae liberae, ovato-lanceolatae, glandulososerrulatae; 

tubus calycis cylindricus; sepala oblonga, aristata, petala 

ad faucem emergentia; corona biseriata, annuliformis; operculum 

deflexum; ovarium fusiforme, dense breviter velutinum. 

Herbaceous vine, glabrous nearly throughout; stipules lanceolate, 

1 to 1.5 cm. long, 6 to 9 mm. wide, attenuate-acuminate at apex, 

cordulate at base, suboblique, incised-glandular-serrulate nearly to 

base; peduncles up to 2 cm. long, bearing numerous obscure glands;


leaves 3-lobed about three-quarters their length (lobes linear-oblong, 

1 to 2 cm. wide, acuminate, mucronulate, serrulate, the sinus acute), 

rounded at base, 3-nerved, subcoriaceous; peduncles slender, 7 cm. 

long; bracts distinct to base, ovate-lanceolate, 2.5 to 3 cm. long, about 

1 cm. wide, acuminate at apex, glandular-serrulate; calyx tube 

cylindric, 4 cm. long, about 1 cm. in diameter, slightly wider at throat; 

sepals oblong, 3 cm. long, 1 to 1.2 cm. wide, obtuse, dorsally awned 

just below apex, the awn about 4 mm. long; petals inserted at throat 

of tube, oblong, about 2.5 cm. long, 8 to 10 mm. wide, obtuse; 

corona 2-ranked, the outer merely a dark band, the inner a slightly 

fleshy ridge; operculum borne near base of tube, 1 mm. long, dependent, 

the margin very slightly recurved, subentire; ovary fusiform, 

densely short-velutinous. 

Type in the herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 

collected in Colombia by William Purdie. 

This specimen was cited by Masters under Tacsonia floribunda 

but from notes which he had made upon the sheet it is evident that 

he was rather doubtful of its being the curious plant described as 

Rathea floribunda Karst. These notes call attention to the fact 

that the petals are inserted at the throat of the tube, not at the middle 

as in T. floribunda (i.e., Passiflora andina Killip), and that the 

stipules are broader. In addition to these two differentiating 

characters, the calyx tube is shorter and much narrower than in 

P. andina and the lobes of the leaves are broader and somewhat 

longer. 

158. Passiflora trifoliata Cav. Icon. PI. 5: 16. pi 427. 1799. 

Tacsonia trifoliata Juss. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 6: 393. 1805. 

Tacsonia trigona DC. Prodr. 3: 334. 1828. 

Plant short-villous-hirsute throughout; stem terete, striate; 

stipules oblong-lanceolate or oblong, 1.5 to 3 cm. long, 0.8 to 1.5 cm. 

wide, acutish at apex, inequilaterally auriculate at base (basal 

lobes often overlapping), glandular-fimbriolate; petioles 1 to 3 cm. 

long, obscurely glandular; leaves trifoliolate, the leaflets ovateoblong 

or linear-oblong, 3 to 5 cm. long, 1.5 to 2.5 cm. wide, acute, 

apiculate, rounded or acutish at sessile base, entire or serrulate, 

revolute at margin, fleshy-coriaceous, villous above, densely ferruginous-villous-hirsute 

beneath, the nerves and veins impressed 

above; peduncles terete, up to 9 cm. long, very stout; bracts ovateoblong, 

2 to 3.5 cm. long, 1.5 to 2 cm. wide, rounded at apex, distinct 

to base, closely fimbriate or somewhat laciniate-fimbriate; flowers


pendent; calyx tube cylindric, 3 to 4 cm. long, enlarged at the deeply 

12-sulcate base, without villous, green, purple-tinged, within white, 

pink at base; sepals ovate-oblong, 2 to 3 cm. long, 1 to 1.5 cm. wide, 

obtuse, aristulate on outside just below apex, deep pink, white 

proximally ; petals ovate-oblong, as long as and slightly narrower than 

the sepals; corona tuberculate, 2-ranked, the tubercles minute; 

operculum dependent, recurved at margin, pink; ovary ovoid, densely 

white- or brownish-villous or hirsute; fruit ovoid, 4 to 6 cm. long, 

2.5 to 3.5 cm. in diameter, truncate at apex, longitudinally 3-grooved, 

villosulous; seeds obovate, about 6 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, reticulate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Guamantanga, Peru. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Cav. Icon. PL 5: pi. 427; Engl. & Prantl, 

Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 21: 505. /. 233, A, B. 

DISTRIBUTION: High mountains of central and southeastern Peru, 


PERU: Ruiz & Pavdn (BM, type of Tacsonia trigona, Bo, Gen, P); 

Lobb 20 (K) ; Savatier 490 (P) ; Gay 542 (P) ; Dombey 744 (B, Gen, P) ; 

Wilkes Expedition (G, N); Haenke 1847 (Pr); Raimondi 8597 (B). 

Guamantanga, Nee (Ma, type). Cajavilca Valley, Savatier 1631 (K). 

Ancash: Tallenga, Weberbauer 2878a (B). Province of Cajatambo, 

Weberbauer 2654 (B). Lima: "Lima," Weberbauer 261 

(B, Gen). Rio Blanco, Killip & Smith 21636 (F, N, Y). Huaros, 

Pennell 14723 (Ph). Rio Rimac, Forster in 1905 (BM). Huanuco: 

Piso, Macbride & Featherstone 579 (F). Junin: Tarma, Mathews 674 

(BM, G, V). Huancayo, Ledig 4 (N). Huariaca, Sawada P97 (N). 

Cuzco: Paucartambo, Herrera 485 (B). 

An excellently marked species, with trifoliolate leaves and 

covered throughout with a dense indument. The only species with 

which it might be confused is P. trisecta, of the subgenus Granadillastrum. 

From this it differs in a much longer calyx tube and in 

less deeply cut stipules and bracts. 

The Lobb specimen, upon which the occurrence of this species 

in Colombia is based, most certainly came from Peru. 

LOCAL NAME: "Naupa-machu-jamppajhuai" (Inca). 

159. Passiflora Jameson! (Mast.) Bailey, Rhodora 18: 156. 1916. 

Tacsonia Jamesoni Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 537. 1872. 

Plant glabrous throughout; stem angulate; stipules oblonglanceolate, 

1.5 to 2.5 cm. long, 7 to 8 mm. wide, obsoletely 2-3- 

glandular at summit or glandless; leaves 3 to 8 cm. long, 5 to 11 cm.


wide, 3-lobed to below middle (lobes subelliptic, 1.5 to 3.5 cm. wide, 

acute or subobtuse, mucronate, the lateral widely divergent), subcordate 

at base, spinulose-dentate, subcoriaceous, shining above; 

peduncles up to 10 cm. long; bracts ovate-oblong, 2.5 to 3.5 cm. long, 

1 to 1.5 cm. wide, laciniate-pectinate, borne about 1.5 cm. below base 

of flower; flowers rose-colored; calyx tube cylindric, 8 to 10 cm. long; 

sepals oblong, 3.5 to 5 cm. long, 1.5 to 2 cm. wide, obtuse, aristulate; 

petals similar and subequal to the sepals; corona minutely tuberculate, 

purplish; operculum dependent, recurved at margin, minutely 

fimbriolate; ovary ellipsoidal, 

glabrous. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Andes of Ecuador. 

DISTRIBUTION: High mountains of central Ecuador, about 4,000 


ECUADOR: Pichincha: Mt. Pichincha, Jameson 56 (BM, Bo, G, 

Gen, K, type, N, Y) ; Holmgren 655 (B, S). Mojanda, Sodiro in 1903 

(Mille 231; N). Chimborazo: Chambo, Mille in 1912 (N). 

This is a well marked species, characterized by deeply cleft 

bracts and stipules and unusually large sepals. 

160. Passiflora pinnatistipula Cav. Icon. PI. 5: 16. pi. 428. 1799. 

Tacsonia pinnatistipula Juss. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 6: 393. 1805. 

Passiflora pennipes J. E. Sm. in Rees, Cycl. 26: Passiflora No. 48 

1819. 

Passiflora chilensis Miers, Travels 2: 522. 1826. 

Tacsonia pinnatistipula var. pennipes DC. Prodr. 3: 334. 1828 

Tacsonia micradena DC. Prodr. 3: 334. 1828. 

Tacsonia pennipes M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 

2: 194. 1846. 

Tacsonia Purupuru DC. ex Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 

537. 1872, as synonym. 

Stem angulate, the younger parts white-tomentose or lanate, the 

older glabrate; stipules 5 to 7 mm. long, 4 to 5 mm. wide, pinnatisect 

or palmately parted into filiform divisions; petioles up to 3.5 cm. long, 

minutely 4-6-glandular, glands sessile; leaves 5 to 10 cm. long, 6 to 

13 cm. wide, 3-lobed about four-fifths their length (lobes lanceolate 

or oblong-lanceolate, 1 to 3.5 cm. wide, acute or acuminate, 

mucronate, the lateral divergent at about 45 degrees from the middle 

lobe), subcordate at base, sharply serrate, coriaceous, rugose and 

glabrous above, densely white- or grayish-lanate beneath; peduncles 

up to 7 cm. long; bracts entire to base, ovate, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, 1 to


1.3 cm. wide, acute, mucronate, remotely and sharply serrate, 

chartaceous, tomentose or glabrescent, usually reddish purple without, 

finely pubescent within; calyx tube cylindric, 4.5 to 5 cm. 

long, about 1 cm. in diameter, bright pink and densely cano-tomentose, 

rarely glabrous, without, white within and blue-tinged toward 

throat; sepals oblong, 3 to 4 cm. long, about 1 cm. wide, obtuse, 

awned dorsally just below apex, greenish or pinkish and canotomentose 

without, white within; petals subequal to sepals, obtuse, 

white, faintly blue-tinged corona in 2 

; 

series, the outer filamentose, 

1.5 to 2 cm. long, bright blue or purplish blue, or white, purple only 

toward base, the inner reduced to a ring of minute, deep purple 

tubercles 1 mm. or less long; operculum white, dependent, 5 mm. 

long, the margin recurved, minutely crenulate; ovary pyriform, 

white-tomentose; fruit subglobose, about 5 cm. in diameter, subtomentose 

or glabrate, yellow-green, edible; seeds oblong, 6 mm. 

long, 5 mm. wide, reticulate, the axis slightly curved. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Talcahuano, Chile. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Cav. Icon. PI. 5: pi. 428; Kerner, Hort. Sempervir. 

pi. 607; Bot. Mag. 70: pi. 4062; Bot. Reg. 18: pi 1536; Paxton, 

Mag. 1:249. 

DISTRIBUTION: Probably a native of Peru or Chile, but frequently 

cultivated in the Andes from eastern Colombia to central Chile and 

central Bolivia, at altitudes from 2,500 to 3,800 meters. 

CALIFORNIA: Pacific Beach, cultivated, Kumm in 1930 (N). 

COLOMBIA: Norte de Santander: Between Mutiscua and Pamplona, 

Killip & Smith 19700 (A, G, N,Y). Cundinamarca: Bogota, 

Karsten (V); Dawe 299 (N); Triana 2969 (EM); Holton 706 (Y). 

Zipacon, Lehmann 2509 (Bo, N). Nemocon, Popenoe 1078 (N). 

ECUADOR: Sodiro (Mille 236; N); Couthouy in 1855 (G). Pichincha: 

Quito, Lehmann 8256 (B, N, S); Hartweg 1015 (Bo, Gen, 

Y). Tambillo, Mille 232 (N). Pifo, Mille 135 (N). Tungurahua: 

Ambato, Pachano 89 (N). 

PERU: Dombey 743 (Gen, P); Pavdn (B, Gen); Mathews (BM). 

Junin: Tarma, Ruiz & Pavdn (BM, type of P. micradena, Bo); 

Killip & Smith 21938 (F, N, Y). Ocopa, Killip & Smith 22012 

(F, N, Y). Huancayo, Killip & Smith 22034 (F, N, Y); Ledig 5 (N). 

Between Tarma and Palca, Weberbauer 1733 (B). Cuzco: Saxaihuaman, 

Pennell 13567 (Ph). Pisac, Pennell 13732 (Ph). Cuzco, 

Herrera 295 (B). Paucartambo, Herrera 486 (N). Guispicanchi,


Herrera 2586 (N), 2605 (N). 

Tinta, Cook & Gilbert 228 (N). 

Ollantaitambo, Cook & Gilbert 475 (N). 

BOLIVIA: Ayopaya, Weddell 4130 (P); Cardenas 3184 (N). 

Tunari, Kuntze in 1892 (Y). Cochabamba: Cochabamba, Herzog 

2106 (B). Illimani, Julio 11.158 (N), 77.230 (N). Tiraque, Steinbach 

8722 (G). 

CHILE: Bridges (Gen); Hooker (Y); Cuming 50 (V). 

Aconcagua: 

Aconcagua, Philippi in 1876 (B, Gen, V). Valparaiso: Valparaiso, 

Nee (Ma); Bertero (G, P); Cuming 562 (BM, Gen), 565 (BM, 

Gen, Y). Concepcion: Talcahuano, Nee (Ma, type). Concepcion, 

Miers (BM, type of P. chilensis). Valdivia: Valdivia, Philippi (N). 

This well known, extensively cultivated species is one of those 

which connect the subgenera Tacsonia and Granadilla. Triana and 

Planchon placed this and certain other species with a filamentose, 

rather than tuberculate, corona in a separate section, but as all 

gradations are to be found from a short-tuberculate to a long-filamentose 

corona, it is difficult to delimit a section on this basis. 

The type of Tacsonia micradena differs in only slight details from 

typical P. pinnatistipula. 

LOCAL NAMES: "Tin-tin," "purupuru," "tacso" (Peru). 

160a. Passiflora rosea (Karst.) Killip, comb. nov. (Passiflora 

pinnatistipulaXP. mollissima.) 

Poggendorffia rosea Karst. Linnaea 28: 438. 1856. 

Tacsonia rosea Sodiro, Anal. Univ. Quito 18: 343. 1903. 

Stem terete (the younger parts subangulate), densely ferruginoustomentose; 

stipules linear-lanceolate, about 1 cm. long, 3 mm. wide 

at base, long-acuminate, denticulate toward base, laciniate-dentate 

above middle; petioles up to 2.5 cm. long, 6-8-glandular, the glands 

stipitate; leaves 5 to 10 cm. long, 6 to 12 cm. wide (between tips of 

lateral lobes), 3-lobed to slightly below middle (lobes ovate or ovateoblong, 

2 to 4 cm. wide, acute), shallowly cordate or subtruncate at 

base, sharply serrate, 5-nerved, subcoriaceous, finely and softly 

pubescent above, densely grayish-tomentose beneath; peduncles up to 

5 cm. long; bracts free to base, cordate-ovate, 2 to 2.5 cm. long, 1.5 

to 2 cm. wide, acutish, tomentose without and within; calyx tube 4.5 

to 5 cm. long, ventricose at base and near middle, dark green and 

densely pubescent without, cream-colored and glabrous within; 

sepals oblong-lanceolate, 2.5 to 3 cm. long, 0.8 to 1 cm. wide, obtuse, 

dorsally awned just below apex, dark green without, bright pink


within; petals similar and subequal to sepals, obtuse, pink; corona in 

2 series, filamentose, the outer 8 to 10 mm. long, pink at apex, shading 

through purple to deep blue at base, the inner borne 8 to 10 mm. 

above floor of tube, 3 to 6 mm. long, white; operculum dependent, 

the margin recurved, minutely crenulate; gynophore 3 to 4.5 

long, the filaments of the stamens arising below the middle, the lower 

part of the gynophore about 2 mm. thick, the upper part about 1 mm. 

thick, glabrous, except for a villous indument just below the filaments 

and just below the ovary; filaments of stamens 3 to 3.5 cm. 

long, erect; anthers basifixed, linear-oblong, about 1.5 cm. long, 0.5 

cm. wide, only a small portion near margin pollen-bearing; ovary 

ovoid, densely white-sericeous-tomentose; fruit ovoid, about 8 cm. 

long and 2.5 cm. in diameter, villosulous; seeds broadly obovate, 

about 6 mm. long and 5 mm. wide, closely reticulate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Bogotd, Colombia. 

cm. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Karst. Fl. Columb. 1: pi. 15; Rev. Chil. Hist. 

Nat. II: pi. 10. 1907. 

DISTRIBUTION: Eastern Cordillera of Colombia to 

southeastern 

Peru, between 2,800 and 3,200 meters altitude; cultivated, or occurring 

wild as a natural hybrid. 

COLOMBIA: Cundinamarca: Sabana de Bogota, Karsten (B, P, V, 

type); Lehmann 2624, in part (B, 

specimen, May, 1928; Bog, N). 

ECUADOR: Pichincha: Pifo, Sodiro in 1903. 

K); Apollinaire Marie (fruiting 

PERU: Junin: Tarma, Killip & Smith 21885 (N, Y). Huanacayo, 

Chavez 129 (B). Cuzco: Paucartambo, Herrera 2999a (N). 

Karsten and Triana first noticed this remarkable plant in a 

garden at Bogota, Colombia, .and Karsten based the genus Poggendorffia 

upon it, later figuring it in his Flora Columbiana. It differs 

from all other species of Passiflora in having the free portion of the 

stamen filaments begin just below the middle of the gynophore, 

rather than at its apex at the base of the ovary. Triana and Planchon 

(Ann. Sci. Nat. V. Bot. 17: 140, footnote) and Bentham and Hooker 

(Gen. PI. 1: 811) considered it an abnormal or monstrous form 

of Passiflora (Tacsonia) pinnatistipula. Masters merely listed "Poggendorffia 

rosea" as a synonym of Tacsonia pinnatistipula. Sodiro 

transferred the species to Tacsonia, and suggested that the plant 

was a hybrid between P. pinnatistipula and P. mollissima.


Karsten, in commenting adversely (Bot. Jahrb. 8: 352-353. 1887) 

on Bentham and Hooker's reduction to Tacsonia of his genera Poggendorffia 

and Rathea, says: 

"The reasons which persuaded Bentham-Hooker to consider Poggendorffia 

as a monstrous form of Tacsonia pinnatistipula DC. (not 

pinnatifida) are not given. In the description of the new species I 

pointed out the general similarity of Poggendorffia rosea to pinnatistipula 

and mentioned the more important differences between them 

in addition to the one in the construction of the stamens, on which 

the generic difference is based. The petioles of P. rosea have three 

glands on each side toward the apex, which in T. pinnatistipula are 

lacking; the stipules of the former are ovate-lanceolate and sharply 

serrate, those of the latter linear and long-setaceous-pinnatisect; the 

three involucral bracts subtending the flower are united at the base 

in Poggendorffia rosea, separate in Tacsonia pinnatistipula; in Poggendorffia 

the filaments are adnate to the gynophore for not quite half 

its length whereas in T. pinnatistipula they are adnate up to the 

ovary and are twice as long as the calyx tube; in Poggendorffia the 

anthers are attached at the base and terminate in a leaflike tip; 

in Tacsonia they are versatile; the fruit of Poggendorffia is ellipsoid 

(1:2. 25) ; 

that of T. pinnatistipula is described by Lindley (Bot. Reg. 

18: pi. 1536) as yellow, round, downy, about the size of a hen's egg. 

All the flowers of the Poggendorffia which I have studied are regularly 

and uniformly developed; all seeds contained an embryo capable of 

germination. I saw nothing monstrous in this plant." 

In spite of these observations, 

I am inclined to think that the 

solution suggested by Sodiro is the correct one. Mr. Smith and I 

found a roadside bank covered with this plant near Tarma, Peru, 

there being every indication that it was growing naturally. Close 

beside it was typical P. pinnatistipula, and a short distance away were 

plants of true P. mollissima. Most of the specimens cited above bear 

notes that they were from cultivated plants. 

161. Passiflora Mandoni (Mast.) Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 

14:213. 1924. 

Tacsonia Mandoni Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1 : 538. 1872. 

Passiflora Steinbachii Harms, Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 10: 815. 

1929. 

Stem angulate, floccose-tomentose; stipules 5 to 6 mm. long, 

pinnatifid into narrowly linear segments; petioles 1 to 1.5 cm. long, 

obscurely 6-glandular, the glands imbedded in the indument; leaves


ovate-oblong in general outline, 6 to 10 cm. long, 4 to 11 cm. wide, 3- 

lobed one-quarter to one-third their length (lobes deltoid-ovate, 1.5 

to 3 cm. wide at base, acute, apiculate, the middle lobe the longer), 

shallowly cordate, serrate, 3-nerved, coriaceous, rugose and glabrous 

or sparingly hirtellous above, ferruginous-tomentose beneath; 

peduncles terete, 4 to 14 cm. long; bracts oblong, about 3 cm. long, 

distinct to base, obtuse, serrate; calyx tube cylindric, 6 to 10 cm. 

long, 0.8 to 1 cm. wide, ventricose at base, ferruginous-tomentose 

without; sepals oblong, 3 to 3.5 cm. long, 0.8 to 1 cm. wide, obtuse, 

aristate, ferruginous-tomentose without; petals linear-oblong, 2 to 

2.5 cm. long, obtuse, glabrous, white; corona filamentose, 1-ranked, 

the filaments terete, up to 8 mm. long; operculum dependent, recurved 

at margin; ovary elliptical, densely ferruginous-hirsute-tomentose; 

fruit ovoid(?), the exocarp hard, brittle, at length glabrescent; seeds 

ovate, 7 to 8 mm. long, 4 to 5 mm. wide, reticulate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Near Sorata, Bolivia. 

DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of western and central Bolivia, 2,500 

to 4,000 meters altitude. 

BOLIVIA: La Paz: Cochipata, near Sorata, Mandon 609 (P). 

Mt. 

Chileca, near Sorata, Mandon 616 (Gen, K, type, P), 617 (G). Sorata, 

Tate 789 (Y). Cochabamba: Cerros de Incachaca, Steinbach 5765 

(B, type of P. Steinbachii, F); Werdermann 2068 (B). Chapare", 

Steinbach 9523 (B, G, S). 

Related to P. pinnatistipula, this species is at once distinguished 

by differently shaped leaves, a narrower calyx tube, and different 

indument. Passiflora Mandoni apparently is restricted to Bolivia, 

the Ecuador specimen of Jameson's, cited as this species in Masters' 

monograph, proving to be a wholly different plant (P. coactilis). 

162. Passiflora Matthewsii (Mast.) Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. 

Sci. 17: 428. 1927. 

Tacsonia Matthewsii Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 539. 1872. 

Stem terete, the younger parts subangular, tomentellous; stipules 

narrowly linear, 2.5 to 3 mm. long; petioles about 1 cm. long, 6- 

glandular; leaves 5 to 6 cm. along midnerve, 3.5 to 4 cm. along lateral 

nerves, 4 to 6 cm. between apices of lateral lobes, 3-lobed to or slightly 

below middle (lobes ovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 1 to 1.5 

cm. wide, acute), cuneate at base, serrulate, coriaceous, glabrous 

above, densely grayish-tomentose beneath; peduncles 1.5 to 2 cm. 

long, stout, articulate near apex; bracts about 2.5 cm. long, connate 

to middle, tomentellous, the free portions lanceolate, acute; flowers


rose, the sepals and petals densely spotted with deeper rose within; 

calyx tube cylindric, about 4 cm. long, tomentellous without, glabrous 

and densely streaked with purple within; sepals oblong, 2 to 2.5 cm. 

long, 7 to 8 mm. wide, obtuse, aristulate just below apex, pilose 

without; petals similar and subequal to the sepals; corona minutely 

tuberculate, the tubercles 1 

to 1.5 mm. long; operculum dependent, 

slightly recurved at margin; gynophore densely pilose. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Chachapoyas, Peru. 

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality, in the mountains 

of northern Peru. 

PERU: Amazonas: Chachapoyas, Matthews (BM, K, type). 

Among the few tacsonias with connate bracts and linear stipules 

this is readily recognized. 

163. Passiflora parvifolia (DC.) Harms in Weberbauer, Pflanzenw. 

Per. And. 253. 1911. 

Tacsonia parvifolia DC. Prodr. 3: 335. 1828. 

Passiflora brachychlamys Harms, Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 10: 

815. 1929. 

Plant glabrous throughout or pilosulous on the stem, petioles, 

bracts, and under surface of the nerves; stem 4-5-angular; stipules 

semi-ovate, 6 to 10 mm. long, 3 to 4 mm. wide, attenuate-acuminate, 

coarsely and remotely serrate; petioles 1 to 2 cm. long, slender, 

minutely 3-7-glandular; leaves 3-lobed to below middle, 2 to 3 cm. 

long, 3 to 6 cm. wide between apices of lateral lobes (lobes ovate, 

ovate-oblong, or ovate-lanceolate, 0.7 to 1.5 cm. wide, obtuse or 

acutish, the lateral divergent at slightly less than right angles from 

the middle lobe), rounded or subtruncate at base, sharply serrulate; 

peduncles 3 to 6 cm. long, rarely shorter, very slender; bracts 2.5 to 

3 cm. long, connate one-half to three-quarters their length, the tube 

subconical, about 1.5 cm. wide at base, reddish, the free portions 

ovate-lanceolate, acute; calyx tube cylindric, 6 to 9 cm. long, up to 

1 cm. wide, dull rose-green or rose-red, glabrous; sepals oblong, 2 to 

2.5 cm. long, 1 to 1.3 cm. wide, obtuse, aristulate on outside just 

below apex, brighter red than tube on outside; petals similar and 

subequal to the sepals; corona minutely tuberculate, 1-ranked; 

operculum dependent, recurved at margin; ovary narrowly ellipsoidal, 

glabrous. 


T-


DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of central and southeastern Peru, 


PERU: Ruiz & Pavdn 533 (BM, type, Bo, Gen, Ma); Lobb (K). 

Tambo, Pearce 309 (BM). Huanuco: Huanuco, Weberbauer 3329 

(B); Macbride & Featherstone 2198 (F, N). Tambo de Vaca, Macbride 

4405 (F, N). Mito, Macbride & Featherstone 1823 (F, N). 

Mufia, Pearce in 1863 (BM). Yanano, Macbride 5743 (F, N). 

Cuzco: Province of Paucartambo, 3,350 meters, Herrera 484 (B, type 

of P. brachychlamys). Hacienda Ccapana, Herrera 588 (B). 

Another well marked species, easily recognized by its small, 

deeply lobed leaves, very slender peduncles, and the broad tube 

formed by the cohesion of the bracts. It appears to be confined 

to Peru. The Colombian specimen collected by Lobb, cited as this 

by Masters, probably came from Peru, and Pearce's Ecuador plant 

(No. 35), also placed here by Masters, is P. cumbalensis. 

LOCAL NAME: "Samppajhuai" (Cuzco). 

164. Passiflora Roseorum Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 17: 

427. 1927. 

(l)Tacsonia cyanea var. pubescens Sodiro, Rev. Chil. Hist. Nat. 11: 

154. 1907. 

Stem angular, striate, densely tomentulous; stipules oblong, 1.5 

cm. long, 8 to 9 mm. wide, oblique and subcordate at base, fimbriatedentate, 

the teeth 2 to 3 mm. long, not gland-tipped; petioles up to 

1.5 cm. long, bearing 2 or 3 rudimentary glands, or glandless; leaves 

3.5 to 4 cm. long, 4.5 to 5 cm. wide, 3-lobed (lobes triangular-ovate 

or suborbicular, 1.5 to 2 cm. wide, rounded at apex, the angle at 

sinus between middle and lateral lobes about 90 degrees), truncate 

at base, 5-nerved, glandular-serrulate, thick-coriaceous, glabrous 

and sublustrous above, densely brown-tomentose beneath, the nerves 

and veins impressed above; peduncles up to 5 cm. long; bracts 4 cm. 

long, united two-thirds their length (free portions ovate-lanceolate, 

about 1.5 cm. wide, abruptly acuminate), puberulent without, tomentose 

within; flowers violet; calyx tube cylindric, 7 to 8 cm. long; 

sepals oblong, about 3 cm. long, 1.5 cm. wide, obtuse, minutely 

awned dorsally just below apex; petals subequaling the sepals, obtuse; 

corona reduced to a deeply crenulate ring, scarcely tuberculate; 

operculum dependent, the margin recurved, subentire; gynophore 

slender, not exserted ; ovary obovoid, glabrous. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Zaraguro, Ecuador.


DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality, in the mountains 

of southern Ecuador. 

ECUADOR: Loja: Zaraguro, Rose, Pachano & Rose 23154 (N, type). 

This may be a hybrid between P. Jamesoni and P. cumbalensis, 

the fringed stipules suggesting the former and the small, shallowly 

lobed leaves the latter. Unlike either of these, the under surface 

of the leaves and the involucre are covered with a dense, brown 

tomentum. 

165. Passiflora glaberrima (Juss.) Poir. in Lam. Encycl. Suppl. 

2: 843. 1811. 

Tacsonia glaberrima Juss. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 6: 394. 1805. 

Plant glabrous throughout; stem terete, 

the younger parts subangular; 

stipules semi-ovate, about 1 cm. long, 0.4 cm. wide, acuminate, 

callous-serrate; petioles up to 1.5 cm. long, 2-4-glandular 

at apex, the glands stipitate, 2.5 to 3 mm. long; leaves 3 to 5 cm. 

long, 4.5 to 7 cm. wide, 3-lobed four-fifths their length (lobes ovate, 

1 to 1.5 cm. wide, acute, mucronulate, sharply dentate, the lateral 

horizontally divaricate or slightly reflexed, nearly as long as the 

middle lobe), 3-nerved (nerves prominent beneath), coriaceous; 

peduncles about 1.5 cm. long, slender; bracts about 1.5 cm. long, 

connate below middle, the free portions ovate, 0.5 to 0.6 cm. wide 

at base, acute; flowers violet; calyx tube cylindric, 3.3 cm. long, 

5 to 6 mm. wide; sepals oblong, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, obtuse, aristate 

just below apex; petals subequal to the sepals; corona reduced to a 

low, etuberculate ring; operculum dependent, recurved at margin; 

ovary ellipsoidal. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Paramo de Guamani, Peru. 

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality, in 

part of Peru. 

northern 

PERU: Piura: Paramo de Guamani, Humboldt & Bonpland 

(B, P, type). 

This is the earliest described species of a small group of tacsonias 

with blue, violet, or magenta flowers. The plants are essentially 

glabrous throughout, and the glands, usually two in number, are 

borne at the apex of the petiole. 

Passiflora glaberrima is known apparently only from the single 

collection made by Humboldt and Bonpland, the second one cited 

by these authors, from Loja, being P. cumbalensis. The specimen 

in the Jussieu Herbarium at Paris is without flowers, but the one


in the Humboldt Herbarium there has a single, fully developed 

flower, the tube of which is 3.3 cm. long, the species thus being distinguished 

from P. cumbalensis, the commonest member of this group. 

166. Passiflora cumbalensis (Karst.) Harms, Bot. Jahrb. 18: Beibl. 

46: 13. 1894. 

Tacsonia glaberrima var. loxensis M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 

2: 195. 1846. 

Tacsonia cumbalensis Karst. Linnaea 30: 161. 1859 or 1860. 

Tacsonia glaberrima var. cumbalensis Mast. Trans. Linn. Soc. 

27: 628. 1871; in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 540. 1872. 

Passiflora glaberrima var. cumbalensis Tr. & Planch. Ann. Sci. 

Nat.V. Bot. 17:132. 1873. 

Passiflora Goudotiana Tr. & Planch. Ann. Sci. Nat.V. Bot. 17: 

132. 1873. 

Tacsonia hederacea Mast. Journ. Linn. Soc. 20: 29. 1883. Not P. 

hederacea Cav. (1790). 

(l)Tacsonia tungurahuae Sodiro, Anal. Univ. Quito 18: 345. 1903. 

Tacsonia cyanea Sodiro, Anal. Univ. Quito 18: 410. 1903. Not P. 

cyanea Mast. (1872). 

Tacsonia cyanea var. insignis Sodiro, Anal. Univ. Quito 18: 

410. 1903. 

Passiflora ecuadorica Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 14: 212. 1924. 

Plant glabrous throughout, except the inside of the bracts and 

sometimes the ovary; stem angulate, conspicuously striate; stipules 

semi-ovate, 5 to 15 mm. long, 3 to 5 mm. wide, attenuate-cuspidate, 

callous-serrate, coriaceous; petioles up to 2.5 cm. long, conspicuously 

2-4-glandular toward apex, the glands about 1 mm. thick; leaves 

3 to 9 cm. long, 4 to 13 cm. wide, shallowly to deeply 3-lobed (lobes 

variable, broadly triangular-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 2 to 4.5 cm. 

wide, acute or rounded, subequal, or the middle one produced, the 

lateral lobes subascending, divaricate, or reflexed), callous-serrate, 

truncate, rounded, or cordate, coriaceous, dark green above, paler 

beneath; peduncles 3 to 7 cm. long; bracts 3.5 to 5 cm. long, reddish, 

tomentulous within, connate to middle, the free portions acute, 

entire; flowers blue, magenta, or lilac-purple; calyx tube cylindric, 

7 to 11 cm. long; sepals oblong, 2.5 to 3.5 cm. long, 1 to 2 cm. wide, 

obtuse, dorsally aristulate just below apex; petals subequal to the 

sepals; corona tuberculate or subentire; operculum dependent, about 

8 mm. long, the margin recurved, minutely fimbriolate; ovary fusi-


form, glabrous or rarely puberulent; fruit narrowly ovoid, 6 to 10 cm. 

long, 2 to 3.5 cm. in diameter; seeds obovate, 6 to 8 mm. long, 3 to 4 

mm. wide, reticulate, the axis slightly curved. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Volcan Cumbal, Department of Narino, 

Colombia. 

DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of Colombia and Ecuador, 2,500 to 


COLOMBIA: Cundinamarca: Zipacon, Popenoe 1054 (N, Y). 

Between Sibate" and Fusagasuga, Lehmann 8269 (K). Bogota, 

Tracey 19 (K). Putumayo: Paramo del Tabano, Archer 3401 (N); 

Garcia 4645 (N). Tolima: Barsinal, Triana 2463 (BM). Lagunetas, 

Quindio Trail, Goudot in 1844 (P, type of P. Goudotiana) . 

Antioquia: Paramo de San Felix, Lehmann 8268 (K). Medellin, 

R. B. White (K). Caldas: Cerro Tatama, Pennell 10394 (N). 

Cucarronera, New Quindio Trail, Hazen 9691 (N, Y). El Cauca: 

Dryander 1059 (N). Mt. Santa Ana, Pennell & Killip 7441 (BM, G, 

N, Ph, Y). Andes west of Popayan, Lehmann 1067 (Y), 5916 (B, K). 

Paramo de Guanacas, Lehmann 8267 (K). Cerro Munchique, 

Stilbel 321a (B); Von Sneidern 1059 (S), 1060 (S). La Costa, Von 

Sneidern 438 (S). Narino: Volcan Cumbal, Karsten (B, V, type). 

Pasto, Triana 2966 (BM, Gen); Jameson 420 (BM, Bo, Gen, N). 

ECUADOR: Pearce 35 (K). Chonta Cruz, Poortmann 57, p.p. (P). 

Juantu, western slopes of the Andes, Andre 4012 (K, type of Tacsonia 

hederacea, Y). Carchi: Chimbal, Mexia 7616 (N). Pichincha: 

Mt. Corazon, Sodiro (N, type of Tacsonia cyanea}. Atacatzo, Sodiro 

in 1903 (N, type of Tacsonia cyanea var. insignis). Tandacoto, 

Holmgren 476 (S). Paramo de Mojamba, near Quito, Lehmann 8012 

(B, F, K). Azuay: Between Ofia and Cuenca, Hitchcock 21612 

(G, Y). Loja: Loja, Humboldt & Bonpland (B, P, type of Tacsonia 

glaberrima var. loxensis). Andes east of Loja, Lehmann 4841 

(B, K, N). 

There is much variation in the shape of the leaves in the material 

here cited, and possibly two species are represented. This was my 

opinion at the time I proposed a substitute for the specific names 

hederacea and cyanea that became invalid in making the transfer 

from Tacsonia to Passiflora. The prevailing form in Colombia has 

larger, deeply lobed, cordate leaves and the tubercles of the corona 

are so few and so reduced that it is almost a mere ring. Hitchcock 

21612, from southern Ecuador, is of this sort, however, whereas the 

type of P. cumbalensis, from southern Colombia, agrees with the


greater part of the Ecuadorean material. Should two species be 

recognized, P. Goudotiana would be the correct name for the commoner 

Colombian plant. 

The large, magenta flowers of this plant were a striking feature of 

the vegetation of the Andes west of Popayan at the time Dr. Fennel 1 

and I visited the region. 

Father Luis Mille, of Quito, has sent the National Museum a 

number of specimens of Passifloraceae, including several from Sodiro's 

herbarium. These, with the careful and complete descriptions 

of the Ecuadorean tacsonias which Sodiro has published, have been 

of great assistance in revising this rather difficult group. 

Sodiro's variety insignis, based on longer peduncles and longer 

calyx, acute leaf-lobes, and broader petals, merges into the typical 

plant. 

No authenticated specimens of Tacsonia tungurahuae have been 

examined. Sodiro stated that it closely resembled Tacsonia cyanea, 

differing in the bracts being free or more or less united at the base. 

LOCAL NAMES: "Curuba," "tacso" (Colombia). 

167. Passiflora macrochlamys Harms, Bot. Jahrb. 42: 130. 1908. 

Plant glabrous nearly throughout; stem sub terete; stipules early 

deciduous; petioles 2 to 3 cm. long, 5-glandular, the glands stipitate, 

about 1 mm. long, dissitate the entire length of the petiole; leaves 5 

to 6 cm. long, 6 to 9 cm. wide, 3-lobed more than half their length 

(middle lobe broadly ovate, 3 to 3.5 cm. wide at base, abruptly 

acuminate, the lateral lobes ovate, 1.5 to 2 cm. wide, shorter than 

and divergent at nearly right angles from middle lobe), subcordate 

at base, denticulate-serrate, coriaceous or subcoriaceous; peduncles 

3 to 5.5 cm. long; bracts 5 to 5.5 cm. long, glabrous without, pubescent 

within, connate two-thirds their length, the free portions ovate, 

short-acuminate; calyx tube cylindric, 6 to 6.5 cm. long, glabrous; 

sepals oblong, 3.5 to 4 cm. long, 1 to 1.3 cm. wide, obtuse, aristulate 

just below apex; petals subequal to sepals; corona minutely tuberculate; 

ovary ellipsoidal, glabrous. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Monz6n, Peru. 

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality, in the 

mountains of central Peru. 

PERU: Ruiz & Pavdn (P). Huanuco: Monzon, 2,000 to 2,500 

meters, Weberbauer 3541 (B, type, Gen). 

As noted by Harms, the leaves of this species have much the 

general outline of the leaves of P. cumbalensis. The involucre is


much larger, however, the petiolar glands are more numerous and are 

borne all along the petiole, and the calyx tube is much shorter. The 

color of the flower is not stated. 

168. Passiflora Schlimiana Tr. & Planch. Ann. Sci. Nat. V. Bot. 

17: 130. 1873. 

Stem terete, glabrous; stipules subreniform, about 2 cm. long 

and 1 cm. wide, glandular-serrate, coriaceous, glabrous above, villosulous 

beneath; petioles 2 to 2.5 cm. long, 6-8-glandular, the glands 

stipitate or subsessile; leaves 3-lobed about two-thirds their length, 

8 to 9 cm. long, 12 to 15 cm. between apices of lateral lobes (lobes 

ovate or ovate-lanceolate, up to 4 cm. wide, short-acuminate), 

cordulate at base, glandular-serrate, subcoriaceous, glabrous above, 

pilosulous on the nerves and veins beneath; peduncles stout, 4 to 4.5 

cm. long; bracts 3.5 to 4 cm. long, united one-half to two-thirds their 

length, purplish and sparingly pilosulous without, densely whitetomentose 

within, the free portions broadly ovate, short-acuminate; 

calyx tube cylindric, 5 to 5.5 cm. long, about 1.5 cm. in diameter at 

throat, densely cano-tomentose without; sepals oblong, about 3 cm. 

long and 1.2 cm. wide, obtuse, mucronulate; petals subequal to the 

sepals; corona 1-ranked, tuberculate; operculum dependent, recurved 

at margin; ovary ellipsoidal, densely cano-villose. 

TYPE LOCALITY: "Prov. de Rio-Hacha, Taquina Arriba, alt. 3,250 

to 3,575 m.," Santa Marta Mountains, Colombia. 

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the Santa Marta Mountains, 

in northeastern Colombia. 

COLOMBIA: Magdalena: Taquina Arriba, Schlim 829 (Gen, type 

collection). Above San Miguel, at edge of paramo, 3,000 meters, 

Seifriz 413 (N). Santa Marta, Schultze 1295 (B, N). 

Triana and Planchon suggest that this may be only a variant of 

P. mixta, noting as differences a much shorter calyx tube and longer 

The glands can not be relied upon, as there is wide 

petiolar glands. 

variation in the length of the glands in P. mixta, but the shorter 

calyx tube and, in addition, the fact that the stem is terete, not 

angular, indicate that the plants from the Santa Marta mountains, 

noted for their highly endemic flora, represent a separate species. 

169. Passiflora anastomosans (Lambert) Killip, Journ. Wash. 

Acad. Sci. 17: 428. 1927. 

Tacsonia anastomosans Lambert ex DC. Prodr. 3: 335. 1828.


Plant essentially glabrous throughout; stem terete or the younger 

parts subangulate; stipules semi-ovate, about 3 cm. long, 1.3 cm. 

wide, acute, aristulate, callous-serrate, thick-coriaceous, lustrous 

above; petioles about 2 cm. long, purplish when dry, stout, 2-4- 

glandular near apex, the glands subsessile; leaves 7 to 9 cm. along 


of lateral lobes, 3-lobed about to middle (lobes lanceolate, 2.5 to 3 

cm. wide, acutish), rounded or abruptly cuneate at base, callousserrate, 

3-5-nerved, conspicuously reticulate-veined, very smooth 

and lustrous above, duller beneath, the nerves and veins impressed 

above; peduncles 2.5 to 3 cm. long, stout, purplish when dry; bracts 6 

to 7 cm. long, tomentose within, connate one-half to two-thirds their 

length, the free portions deltoid, 1.5 to 2 cm. wide, acute; calyx tube 

cylindric, 8 to 9 cm. long, 0.6 to 1 cm. wide, scarcely enlarged at 

throat, glabrous; sepals oblong-lanceolate, about 2 cm. long, 1 cm. 

wide; petals similar to sepals and about two-thirds as long; corona 

minutely tuberculate; ovary ellipsoidal, glabrous; fruit ovoidellipsoidal. 



PERU: Huanuco: Posuso, Pavdn (BM, type, Bo). 

The thick-coriaceous, very shiny leaves at once distinguish this 

plant from its near relatives. The stipules and the bracts are 

unusually large. 

170. Passiflora psilantha (Sodiro) Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 

14:213. 1924. 

Tacsonia psilantha Sodiro, Anal. Univ. Quito 18: 417. 1903. 

Stem terete or slightly subangular, striate, softly pubescent; 

stipules subreniform, 8 to 10 mm. long, 5 mm. wide, aristate, glandular-dentate; 

petioles up to 2.5 cm. long, 8-10-glandular; leaves 6 to 8 

cm. long, 7 to 10 cm. wide, 3-lobed to from 1.5 to 2 cm. from the base 

(lobes oblong-lanceolate, 2 to 3 cm. wide, acuminate, the lateral 

divergent about 45 degrees from middle lobe), shallowly cordate at 

base, serrate-dentate, sparsely pilose or glabrate above, softly pubescent 

beneath, especially on the nerves and veins; peduncles up to 2.5 

cm. long; bracts united below middle into a tube about 8 mm. wide, 

the free portions lanceolate, about 6 mm. wide, acute; flowers pale 

red or white(?); calyx tube cylindric, 7 to 10 cm. long, slender, 4 to 5 

mm. in diameter, glabrous; sepals narrowly oblong, 2.5 to 3 cm. long, 

0.4 to 0.5 cm. wide, obtuse, long-awned dorsally just below apex;


petals subequaling the sepals, obtuse; corona minutely tuberculate; 

operculum dependent, margin recurved; ovary sericeous-tomentose; 

fruit ovoid, 5 cm. long, 2.5 cm. in diameter, softly pubescent; seeds 

obovate, 6 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, reticulate, axis slightly curved. 

TYPE LOCALITY: "Region interandina," Ecuador. 

DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of southern Ecuador. 

ECUADOR: Sodiro (Milk 226, N, type). Pichincha: Cotocallao, 

Mille in 1922 (N). Tungurahua: Ambato, 2,400 meters, Lehmann 

109a (Bo, K, N). Azuay 

: 

Cuenca, Rose 22827 (N) ; Popenoe 1336 (N). 

This species is 

intermediate between P. mollissima and P. tripartita 

and may be a hybrid of these two. The leaves resemble 

those of P. mollissima, and the slender flowers and general character 

of the pubescence suggest P. tripartita. The calyx tube and the 

involucre are, however, much narrower than in either of these species. 

171. Passiflora tripartita (Juss.) Poir. in Lam. Encycl. Suppl. 2: 

843. 1811. 

Tacsonia tripartita Juss. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 6: 395. pi. 60. 1805. 

Stem terete (or the younger portions subangular), pilosulous with 

grayish, curved hairs; stipules subreniform, 6 to 8 mm. long, 3 to 4 

mm. wide, aristate, few-toothed; petioles up to 2.5 cm. long, obscurely 

8-12-glandular, the glands sessile, or rarely glandless; leaves 6 to 8 

cm. long, 8 to 12 cm. wide (between apices of lateral lobes), 3-lobed to 

about 1 cm. above base (lobes linear-oblong, up to 2 cm. wide, 

acuminate, the lateral widely divaricate), truncate or subcordate at 

base, glandular-serrate, finely and softly grayish-pilosulous on both 

surfaces, especially on the nerves and veins; peduncles 2.5 to 4 cm. 

long; bracts 2.5 to 3 cm. long, united one-half to two-thirds their 

length (free portions lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 5 to 6 mm. wide, 

acute), softly pubescent without, tomentellous within; flowers rosecolored; 

calyx tube cylindric, 9 to 10 cm. long, about 1 cm. wide, often 

slightly enlarged toward throat, glabrous; sepals oblong, about 3 cm. 

long, 0.8 to 1 cm. wide, obtuse, aristate dorsally just below apex; 

petals subequal to sepals, obtuse; corona reduced to an inconspicuous 

ring, unevenly crenulate at margin; operculum dependent, recurved 

at margin, subentire; ovary narrowly ovoid, sericeous-tomentose. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Tungurahua, Ecuador. 

ILLUSTRATION: Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 6: pi. 60. 

DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of central Ecuador; perhaps also 

in Peru.


ECUADOR: Pichincha: Quito, Jameson in 1859 (Ph). Tungurahua: 

Tungurahua, Bonpland 3199 (B, P, type). Bafios, Popenoe 1284 

(N). Ambato, Pachano 168 (N, Y). Zambiza, Sodiro (N). 

PERU(?): Ruiz & Pavdn (BM, Gen). 

. 

This species is recognized most readily by its linear-oblong leaf 

lobes. A different indument further distinguishes the species from 

P. mollissima. 

Masters placed this among the tacsonias with nonconnate bracts, 

citing a single Peruvian plant collected by Pavon. In the Pavon 

plant seen at Geneva and in the British Museum as well as in the 

other specimens here listed, the bracts are distinctly connate below 

the middle. 

Except for the Pavon specimen, only material from central 

Ecuador has been examined. Possibly this is another instance of a 

plant in the Pavon Herbarium being wrongly attributed to Pavon 

as collector, and the specimen may actually have come from Ecuador. 

172. Passiflora mollissima (HBK.) Bailey, RhodoralS: 156. 1916. 

(?) Passiflora tomentosa Lam. Encycl. 3: 40. 1789. 

Tacsonia mollissima HBK. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 144. 1817. 

Murucuja mollissima Spreng. Syst. Veg. 3: 43. 1826. 

Tacsonia mixta subsp. tomentosa Mast. Trans. Linn. Soc. 27: 629. 


(l}Tacsonia mollissima var. glabrescens Mast, in Mart. Fl. 

13, pt. 1:541. 1872. 

Bras. 

Passiflora tomentosa var. mollissima Tr. & Planch. Ann. Sci. Nat. 

V. Bot. 17: 131. 1873. 

Stem terete, striate, densely and softly yellow-villous; stipules 

subreniform, 7 to 9 mm. long, 3 to 4 mm. wide, aristate, denticulate or 

subentire; petioles up to 3 cm. long, canaliculate, bearing on inner 

margin 8 to 12 sessile glands; leaves 5 to 10 cm. long, 6 to 12 cm. wide, 

3-lobed to about two-thirds their length (lobes ovate or ovate-oblong, 

3 to 4 cm. wide, acute, the sinuses acute), subcordate, sharply serratedentate, 

membranous, softly pubescent above, grayish- or yellowishtomentose 

beneath; peduncles 2 to 6 cm. long; bracts united one-half 

to one-third their length, 2.5 to 3 cm. long, acute, softly tomentose, 

the free portions entire at margin; calyx tube 6.5 to 8 cm. long, about 

1 cm. in diameter, usually glabrous, rarely pubescent, olive-green, 

often red-tinged without, white within; sepals oblong, 2.5 to 3.5 cm. 

long, 1 to 1.5 cm. wide, obtuse, aristulate below apex; petals sub-


equal to the sepals, obtuse, pink; corona reduced to a purple band 

with a few pinkish tubercles or crenulations; operculum white, 

dependent, recurved at margin, subentire; ovary oblong, sericeoustomentose; 

fruit oblong-ovoid, 6 to 7 cm. long, 3 to 3.5 cm. in diameter, 

yellowish, softly pubescent; seeds broadly obovate, to 6 cm. 

long, 5 cm. wide, asymmetrical, reticulate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Monserrate, near Bogota, Colombia. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Cav. Diss. 10: pi. 275, 276; Bot. Mag. 71: pi. 

4187; Bot. Reg. 32: pi. 11; Fl. des Serres 2: pi. 14; Paxton, Mag. 13: 

pi. 25; Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 24: pi. 44; Mutis, Icon. PI. Ined. 26: 

pi. 39. 

DISTRIBUTION: Western Venezuela and the Eastern Cordillera of 

Colombia to southeastern Peru and western Bolivia, between 2,000 

and 3,200 meters altitude, rarely at lower or higher elevations, often 

in cultivation; also cultivated in Europe, Mexico, and southern 

California. 

CALIFORNIA: Pacific Beach, cultivated, Kumm in 1930 (N). 

MEXICO: Puebla: Jalapasco, cultivated, Seler 3579 (B). 

Nanchititla, Hinton 3608 (N). 

Mexico: 

VENEZUELA: MeYida: San Rafael de Mucuchias, Pittier 12904 

(Gen, N, Y); Jahn 791 (N). Moconoque, Pittier 13234 (Gen, N, Y). 

COLOMBIA: Norte de Santander: Mutiscua, Killip & Smith 19681 

(A, G, N, Y). Pamplona, Archer 3220 (N). Santander: Slope of 

Paramo de Santurban, near Tona, Killip & Smith 19520 (A, G, N, 

Y). Cundinamarca: Bogota, Humboldt & Bonpland 1767 (type; B, 

P); Killip & Ariste Joseph (Killip 11925; N); Ariste Joseph B120 

(Bog, N) ; 

Karsten (V) ; 

Goudot (P) ; 

Lehmann 2489 (B, Bo) ; 

Triana 

2961 (BM, Brux, P, Y); Holton 708 (Y); Guevara A64 (N). Zipacon, 

Popenoe 1060 (N), 1139 (N). Tequendama, Popenoe 1120 (N). 

Chipaque", Ariste Joseph B42 (N). Meta: Isla Fuquene, Perez 92 

(N). Huila: Balsillas, cultivated, Pennell 691 (N, Y). El Cauca: 

Popayan, Lehmann 5422 (B, K, N). 

ECUADOR: Couthouy in 1855 (G, Y). Imbabura: Ibarra, Mexia 

7390 (N). Pichincha: Quito, Sodiro (Mille 225; N). Cotocallao, 

Millein 1923 (N). Tungurahua: Ambato, Rose 22343 (G, N), 23776 

(N); Popenoe 1223 (N). Chimborazo: "Interandean highland," 

Rimbach 151 (N). 

PERU: Huanuco: Huanuco, Macbride & Featherstone 2074 (F, N). 

Pampayacu, Kanehira 265 (G). Junin: Tarma, Killip & Smith


21868 (F, N, Y), 21942 (F, N, Y). Ocopa, Kittip & Smith 22011 

(F, N, Y). Carpapata, Kittip & Smith 24481 (N, Y). Huancayo, 

Valleriesta (N). Ayacucho: Ccarrapa, Kittip & Smith 23236 (F, N, 

Y). Cuzco: Ollantaitambo, Cook & Gilbert 270 (N). Guispicanchi, 

Henera 696 (N). Paucarcoto, Bues (Herrera 2127, N; 2128, N). 

Cuzco, Herrera 2943 (B); Popenoe 1355 (N). 

Rose 18979 (N, Y). 

Arequipa: Arequipa, 

BOLIVIA: Chivesivi, Pentland (P). La Paz: Sorata, cultivated, 

Mandon 615, in part (BM, Gen, P, S, V). La Paz, cultivated, 

Weddett (P); D'Orbigny (P); Buchtien 4650 (N). 

This species is extensively cultivated in the Andes under the name 

curuba, both for ornamental purposes and for its fruit. It doubtless 

hybridizes freely with other tacsonias. In its typical form it is most 

readily recognized by the terete stems, densely clothed with a short, 

soft, yellowish indument, and a glabrous calyx tube. Plants with a 

pubescent calyx tube may well be hybrids of this species and P. 

mixta. Among the specimens cited above, Lehmann 5422 and Mexia 

7390 are almost certainly hybrids of P. mollissima and P. mixta. 

Passiflora tomentosa may be identical with P. mollissima, in 

which case that name must be used for this species. However, the 

type specimen of P. tomentosa, in the Jussieu Herbarium, which is 

exactly matched by a Mathews specimen in the British Museum, 

suggests a plant different from that commonly passing as P. mollissima. 

The leaves are shaped more like those of P. ampullacea and 

The 

their dark brown indument also is like that of P. ampullacea. 

stipules, however, are of the broad, foliaceous type of P. mollissima 

and its allies. It is possible that the type of P. tomentosa was a hybrid 

between P. ampullacea and perhaps P. mollissima; in view of this 

uncertainty I hesitate to supplant the well known name P. mollissima 

by that of P. tomentosa (see Masters, Journ. Linn. Soc. 20: 30. 1883). 

Several specimens at Paris and Madrid referred by early authors 

to "P. tomentosa" actually represent P. mixta. One of these at 

Madrid is evidently the original of one of Ruiz and Pavon's unpublished 

plates (Fl. Peruv. Chil. 5 [ined.]: pi. 538), which bears the specific 

name "tomentosa," perhaps proposed independently of Lamarck. 

LOCAL NAMES: "Granadilla cimarrona" (Mexico); "curubd" 

(Colombia); "tacso," "tintin," "tumbo," "trompos" (Peru). 

173. Passiflora mixta L. f. Suppl. 408. 1781. 

Passiflora longiflora Lam. Encycl. 3: 39. 1789. 

Passiflora Tacso Cav. Diss. 10: 451. pi. 277. 1790.


Tacsonia mixta Juss. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 6: 394. 1805. 

Tacsonia longiflora Pers. Syn. PI. 2: 223. 1807. 

Tacsonia Tacso Pers. Syn. PL 2: 223. 1807. 

Tacsonia speciosa HBK. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 43. 1817. 

Murucuja speciosa Spreng. Syst. Veg. 3: 43. 1826. 

Tacsonia mixta var. longiflora DC. Prodr. 3: 335. 1828. 

Tacsonia quilensis Benth. PL Hartw. 184. 1845. 

Distephana quitensis M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 200. 1846. 

Tacsonia serrata Karst. Linnaea 30: 160. 1859 or 1860. 

Tacsonia mixta subsp. tomentosa var. speciosa Mast. Trans. Linn. 

Soc. 27: 629. 1871; in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 541. 1872. 

Tacsonia mixta subsp. quitensis Mast. Trans. Linn. Soc. 27: 629. 


Passi flora mixta var. subquinqueloba Tr. & Planch. Ann. Sci. 

Nat. V. Bot. 17: 129. 1873. 

Tacsonia urceolata Mast, in Mart. FL Bras. 13, pt. 1: 539. 1872. 

Tacsonia bicoronata Mast, in Mart. FL Bras. 13, pt. 1: 541. 1872. 

Tacsonia mixta subsp. normalis Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 

541. 1872. 

Tacsonia mixta var. bicoronata Mast. Journ. Linn. Soc. 20: 29. 

1883. 

Passiflora urceolata Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 17: 428. 1927. 

Stem angulate, glabrous or grayish-pubescent; stipules subreniform, 

1 to 2 cm. long, 0.5 to 1 cm. wide, cuspidate, callous-dentate or 

callous-serrate, the teeth unequal; petioles up to 3 cm. long, 4-8- 

glandular, the glands stipitate or subsessile; leaves 5 to 10 cm. long, 

6 to 13 cm. (or extremes up to 17 cm.) wide, 3-lobed to or to slightly 

below middle (lobes ovate-oblong, 2 to 6 cm. wide, acute or abruptly 

acuminate, the lateral lobes divaricate from the midlobe at about 

45 degrees, occasionally at a greater angle, rarely bilobate), truncate 

or subcordate at base, coarsely or finely callous-serrate, coriaceous, 

glabrous and impressed-nerved above, glabrous, grayish-pubescent, 

or tomentose beneath; peduncles stout, up to 6 cm. long; bracts 

united one-half to three-quarters their length into a tubulatecampanulate 

or nearly cylindric involucre 2 to 5 cm. long (free 

portions ovate-lanceolate, acute, entire, one fissure usually much 

deeper than the others), reddish, bright yellow-green when dry, 

glabrous to densely tomentose without, tomentose within; calyx tube 

cylindric, 8 to 11 cm. long, about 1 cm. wide, slightly enlarged at


throat, glabrous or pubescent and yellow-green to orange-red without, 

glabrous and cream-colored within; sepals oblong, 3 to 4 cm. long, 

about 1.5 cm. wide, obtuse, aristate on outside just below apex 

(awn 1 to 4 mm. long), yellow-green and pink or white at margin 

on outside, pink to orange-red and white at base on inside; petals 

subequal to sepals, obtuse, pink to orange-red, white at base; corona 

tuberculate (tubercles up to 1 mm. long, in 1 series or sometimes in 2, 

the inner tubercles shorter), deep lavender or purple; operculum 2 to 

3 mm. long, dependent, recurved at the crenulate margin; ovary 

ellipsoidal, glabrous or white-tomentose; fruit ovoid, 4.5 to 6 cm. 

long, 2 to 2.5 cm. in diameter, glabrous or pubescent; seeds obovoid, 

4 to 5 mm. long, 3 to 4 mm. wide, reticulate, the axis straight. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Colombia (type collected by Mutis). 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Cav. Diss. 10: pi. 277; J. E. Sm. PI. Icon. Ined. 

1: pi. 25; Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: pi. 128, f. 1; Bot. Mag. 96: pi. 

5876; Mutis, Icon. PI. Ined. 26: pi. 40. 

DISTRIBUTION: Central Venezuela through Colombia and 

Ecuador to southern Peru and central Bolivia, from 2,500 to 3,600 


VENEZUELA: Linden 287 (Gen). Federal District: Caracas, 

Gollmer in 1856 (B). Aragua: Colonia Tovar, Karsten (B, V, distributed 

as Tacsonia spkndens Hort.); Fendler 470 (Bo, G, Gen, Mo, 

P, Y); Pittier 9370 (G, N); Moritz 1322 (B, BM, N); John 1204 (N). 

Trujillo: Trujillo, Funck & Schlim 789 (BM, Gen, P). Me>ida: 

Silva Taf aye's, John 550 (N). Mucuruba, Gehriger 263 (Gen, N). 

COLOMBIA: Lehmann IX (Bo, N). Norte de Santander: Ocana, 

Schlim 418 (Bo, Brux, Gen, K, type of Tacsonia bicoronata, P). San 

Pedro, Kalbreyer 486 (B, K). Between Mutiscua and Pamplona, 

Killip & Smith 19685 (A, G, N, Y), 19712 (A, G, N, Y). Santander: 

Las Vegas, Killip & Smith 15576 (A, G, N, Y). La Baja, Killip & 

Smith 1 7148 (A, G, N, Y). Vetas, Killip & Smith 1 7235 (A, G, N, Y), 

17373 (A, N), 17920 (G, N, Y). Slope of Paramo Rico, Killip & 

Smith 17825 (A, G, N, V, Y), 17831 (N), 18501 (A, G, N, Y). Paramo 

de Las Puentes, Killip & Smith 18210 (A, G, N, Y). Cundinamarca: 

Bogota, Humboldt & Bonpland 1768 (B, type of Tacsonia speciosa); 

Karsten (V, type of Tacsonia serrata) ; 

Triana 2967 (BM, Brux, Gen, 

N, P, Y); Dawe 305 (N); Goudot (P); Schultze 35 (B). Sibate", 

Popenoe 1120a (N), 1158 (N). Zipacon, Popenoe 1140 (N, Y). 

Nemocon, Popenoe 1081 (N), 1083 (N, Y). Tequendama, Ariste 

Joseph Bl 12 (N). Chapinero, Killip 9720 (N). Fontibon, Lehmann


2624, P-P- (Bo, N), 6440 (B, K). San Cristobal, Institute de La Salle 

(Bog, G). Boyaca:Duitama, Toro 9 (Y),10 (Y). Tolima: Quindio 

Trail, Killip & Hazen 9510 (G, N, Y), 9535 (G, N, Ph); Karsten 

(V). New Quindio Trail, Hazen 9671 (G, N, Ph, Y), 9680 (G, N, Y); 

Killip 9755 (G, N, Ph, Y). El Salto, Cuatrecasas 3242 (Ma). 

Antioquia: Santa Rosa, Lehmann X (B, Bo, N). Caldas: Quindio 

Trail, Killip & Hazen 9149 (G, Gen, N, P, Ph, Y), 9163 (N). 

Salento, Pennell 9370 (G, N). El Valle: Paramo de Buena Vista, 

Pittier 1509 (N). El Cauca: Paletara, Pennell 7114 (G, N). Mt. 

Purace", Pennell & Killip 6615 (G, N, Ph, Y); Killip 6572 (G, N, Ph, 

Y), 6741 (G, N, Y). Pitayo, Pittier 1424 (N). Paramo de Guanacas, 

Lehmann K20 (F, K). Sotara, Lehmann 2840 (Bo). Narifio: 

Yacuanquer, Lehmann 371 (Bo, N). Pasto, Lehmann 102 (K). 

COLOMBIA, ECUADOR, or PERU: Lobb 121 (K, type 

of Tacsonia 

urceolata, V). 

ECUADOR: "Andes," Spruce 5493 (BM, Gen, Y); Bourcier in 1851 

(P). San Miguel, Schimpff 261 (Gen). Carchi: Tulcan, Hitchcock 

21000 (G, N). Pichincha: Mt. Pichincha, Heilborn 132 (Gen, S); 

Jameson in 1864 (K, N) ; 

Karsten (V) ; 

Sodiro (Mille 224; N) ; 

Firmin 

26 (N). Pifo, Mille 133 (N). Mt. Corazon, Sodiro (Mille 228; N), 

108 (N); Lehmann 370 (BM, Bo). Quito, Lehmann 104 (Bo); cultivated, 

Hartweg 1017 (Gen), 1019 (BM, type of Tacsonia quitensis); 

Johansen7 (N). Ungui, Firmin 653 (F, N). Antisanilla, Anthony & 

Tate 350 (N). Leon: Cotopaxi, Lehmann 53 (Bo), 418 (V). Tungurahua: 

Banos, Holmgren 392 (S). Casatagua, Pachano 28 (N). 

Tungurahua, Sodiro in 1901 (N). Chimborazo: "Eastern Cordillera," 

Rimbach 152 (N). Azuay: Cuenca, Lehmann 6581 (B), 

8266 (B). 

PERU: Jussieu (P, type of P. longiflora; also type of P. Tacso); 

Dombey 746 (P); Nee (Ma); Haenke 1957 (Pr), 2040 (Pr). Huanuco 

: 

Mito, Macbride & Featherstone 1615 (F) 

. 

Mufia, Macbride 431 5 

(F, N). Pillao, Ruiz & Pavdn (Bo, Brux, Gen, Ma, P). Cuzco: 

Lucumayo Valley, Cook & Gilbert 1348 (N). 

Panticalla Pass, Cook 

& Gilbert 1824 (N). Urubamba Valley, Cook & Gilbert 828 (N). 

Paucartambo, Herrera 2999 (N). Ayacucho: Tambo, Weberbauer 

5621 (B). Puno: Sandia, Weberbauer 872 (B). 

BOLIVIA: Teneria, Aracatal, Herzog 2489 (S, V). La Paz: 

Sorata, Mandon 614 (BM, Bo, Gen, P, V), 615, in part (Bo, P, S). 

Cochabamba: Ayopaya, Sailapata, Cardenas 3185 (N). 

From examination of the large number of specimens here cited, 

as well as from field observations, the writer agrees with Triana and


Planchon and Harms that it is impossible to recognize as distinct 

the many species that have been segregated from P. mixta L. f. 

The bases for these segregations have been, in general, the degree 

of pubescence on the stem, under surface of the leaves, bracts, and 

calyx tube; the character of the petiolar glands whether they are 

sessile or stipitate; and the shape of the involucre. Masters grouped 

these segregates into subspecies and varieties of "Tacsonia mixta," 

but the characters which he assigned to them do not appear to be 

constant, and it seems impossible to correlate any of the distinguishing 

marks. Doubtless this species hybridizes freely in nature with 

such species as P. mollissima and P. cumbalensis. 

In the great majority of the specimens examined the stems are 

distinctly 4-5-angular; in a few specimens, however, the older portions 

are subterete, as in the type of Tacsonia speciosa HBK., at 

Paris. The involucre varies greatly in length and in the degree to 

which it is connate. 

Some of the variations in the matter of pubescence may be noted : 

(1) Leaves, calyx tube, and ovary glabrous: Mandon 614, Cardenas 

3185, Bolivia; Killip 6572, Lehmann IX, Colombia; Lobb 121, 

Colombia(?). P. longiflora, P. Tacso, P. mixta var. subquinqueloba. 

(2) Leaves glabrous, calyx tube and ovary pubescent: Schlim 

418, Killip & Smith 18210, Triana 2967, Colombia; Cook & Gilbert 

828, Peru. Tacsonia speciosa, Passiflora bicoronata. 

(3) Under surface of leaves, calyx tube, and ovary pubescent: 

Killip & Smith 19685, Lehmann 2624, Colombia; John 550, Venezuela; 

Sodiro 224, Ecuador. Tacsonia quitensis. 

(4) A variant in Ecuador with dense, white wool on the calyx 

tube and under surface of the leaves is perhaps sufficiently well 

marked to merit varietal rank. 

Tacsonia urceolata was based upon Lobb 121, said to have been 

collected in Colombia. The only specimen now at Kew of this 

collection consists of the tip of the stem, bearing a few leaves and 

flowers, and is mounted on a sheet with P. cumbalensis. No stipules 

are present, though Masters describes them as linear and caducous, 

the species therefore being placed by him between Tacsonia ampullacea 

and T. Matthewsii. At Vienna there is a specimen bearing a 

printed label reading "Peru, leg. Lobb" which is a perfect match for 

the Kew specimen and which, indeed, appears to be the contiguous 

part of it. The Vienna specimen bears the subreniform, cuspidate 

stipules which characterize most tacsonias, and, in the present rather


broad interpretation of P. mixta, I fail to see why it should not be 

included. 

The presence of a second series of corona filaments, the basis of 

Tacsonia bicoronata, occurs in many of the specimens cited above. 

173a. Passiflora mixta var. eriantha (Benth.) Killip, comb. nov. 

Tacsonia eriantha Benth. PI. Hartw. 183. 1845. 

Tacsonia mixta subsp. quitensis var. eriantha Mast. Trans. Linn. 

Soc. 27: 629. 1871; in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 542. 1872. 

Stem glabrous; leaves densely white- or yellowish-lanate between 

the nerves and veins beneath; bracts white-lanate, at length glabrate; 

calyx tube grayish-lanate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Quito, Ecuador, where cultivated. 

ILLUSTRATION: Bot. Mag. 95: pi. 5750. 

DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of Ecuador, about 3,000 meters 

altitude. 

ECUADOR: Pichincha: Quito, cultivated, Hartweg 1016 (BM, type 

of Tacsonia eriantha, K). Mt. Pichincha, Jameson (K) ; Holmgren 666 

(S). Cotocallao, Holmgren 974 (S). Palalagua, Sodiro 567 (N). 

Calacali, Mille 136 (N). Chimborazo: Clurite Loja, Lehmann 108 

(Bo). Loja: Loja, Popenoe 1316 (N); Poorlmann 57, p.p. (P); 

Lehmann 484-2 (B, K). Zaraguro, Lehmann 8013 (B, K). 

LOCAL NAMES of 

P. mixta: "Tacso," "curuba" (Venezuela, Colombia); 

"curubita," "curubita de indio" (Bogota); "tumbo," 

"monte-tumbo" (Peru); "xamppajrrai" (Quechua, Peru); "guyan" 

(Ecuador). 

The fruit is edible, though not esteemed so highly as that of 

P. mollissima. 

174. Passiflora mesadenia Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 17: 

427. 1927. 

Stem subquadrangular, striate, pilosulous; stipules subreniform, 

1.5 to 2 cm. long, 0.5 to 0.8 cm. wide, aristate, glandular-dentate 

near base; petioles up to 2 cm. long, biglandular at middle, occasionally 

with an additional gland above or below middle, short-stipitate, 

1.5 to 2 mm. long, 1 to 1.5 mm. in diameter; leaves 4 to 6 cm. long, 

6 to 8 cm. wide, 3-lobed to middle (lobes acute, the middle lobe 

oblong-lanceolate, the lateral lobes ovate-lanceolate), subauriculate 

or cordulate at base (basal lobes slightly overlapping), shallowly and 

irregularly dentate-serrate, reticulate-veined (nerves and veins


impressed above), subcoriaceous, dark green and glabrous above, 

paler and pilosulous or densely villous beneath; peduncles 4 to 5.5 

cm. long, subquadrangular, stout; bracts 4 to 5 cm. long, acute, 

united about half their length (free portions entire at margin), 

glabrous; calyx tube cylindric, 7 to 8 cm. long, about 1 cm. in diameter, 

pink without, glabrous; sepals oblong, about 4 cm. long, 1 cm. 

wide, obtuse, concave toward apex, short-awned on outside just 

below apex, pink without, white within; petals oblong-spatulate, as 

long as the sepals, about 1.5 cm. wide, obtuse, white; corona reduced 

to a row of small, thick tubercles about 1 mm. long; operculum 5 to 6 

mm. long, the margin recurved, denticulate; limen closely surrounding 

base of gynophore, lobulate; ovary narrowly ovoid, glabrous, 

pruinose. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Rio Chinchao, Peru. 

DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of central Peru. 

PERU: Huanuco: Villcabamba, Rio Chinchao, 1,800 meters, 

Macbride 1*960 (F, type). Pampayacu, Kanehira 265a (G); Sawada 

PI (N). 

This species bears a general resemblance to P. macrochlamys, but 

is at once distinguished by the size and shape of the petiolar glands. 

The stipules are much smaller and the calyx tube longer. The very 

large petiolar glands also differentiate it from the many forms of 

P. mixta. 

Subgenus XIV. GRANADILLASTRUM 

175. Passiflora semiciliosa Planch. & Linden, Ann. Sci. Nat. V. 

Bot. 17: 145. 1873. 

Plant glabrous throughout; stem terete; stipules semi-ovate, up to 

4 cm. long, 2 cm. wide, oblique at base, sharply serrate; petioles 

bearing several elongate (about 3 mm.), filiform glands; leaves 3- 

lobed to about 2 cm. from base (lobes linear- or ovate-lanceolate, 6 

to 8 cm. long, 1.5 to 2 cm. wide, gradually acuminate, the middle lobe 

serrate-ciliate, the lateral lobes serrate-ciliate at inner margins); 

peduncles 20 to 25 cm. long, arcuate above; bracts oblong, about 1.5 

cm. long, 1 cm. wide, free to base, glandular-serrate; calyx tube 

urceolate-tubular, about 1.5 cm. long, 0.8 cm. wide; sepals linearlanceolate, 

about 4 cm. long, 0.6 cm. wide, obtuse, aristate dorsally 

just below apex; petals subequal to sepals; corona filamentose, the 

filaments 1 to 1.2 cm. long, in 2 series at throat of tube, the third 

about halfway down; operculum dependent, the margin recurved, 

fimbriate.


TYPE LOCALITY: La Cruz, Ocafia, Colombia. 

DISTRIBUTION: Eastern Cordillera of Colombia and the Santa 

Marta region; perhaps also in north-central Venezuela. 

VENEZUELA: Aragua: Colonia Tovar, Sydow 328 (N). 

COLOMBIA: Magdalena: Rio Frio, Kalbreyer 1960 (B). Norte 

de Santander: La Cruz, Schlim (K, type collection). Santander: 

Paramito, Kalbreyer 752 (B). 

This is the type species of the subgenus Granadillastrum. The 

Sydow specimen, from Venezuela, is without flowers and may belong 

to some other species. Among the species of Granadillastrum, all of 

which are characterized by the calyx tube being shorter than the 

sepals, P. semiciliosa is readily distinguished by the deep lobation 

of the leaves, the lobes being very narrow. The vegetative parts of 

P. semiciliosa have a close resemblance to P. gritensis, of Granadilla. 

176. Passiflora manicata (Juss.) Pers. Syn. PI. 2: 221. 1807. 

Tacsonia manicata Juss. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 6: 393. pi. 59, f. 2. 

1805. 

Passiflora manicata var. communis HBK. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 

139. 1817. 

Passiflora manicata var. macrophylla HBK. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 

139. 1817. 

Tacsonia manicata var. macrophylla M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 

2: 193. 1846. 

(l)Passiflora meridensis Karst. Linnaea 30: 165. 1859 or 1860. 

Passiflora rhodantha Harms, Bot. Jahrb. 21 : 324. 1895. 

Stem stout, angulate, densely strigillose or glabrate; stipules semiovate 

(attached at middle of side), 1.5 to 2 cm. long, 0.8 to 1 cm. wide, 

coarsely sharp-dentate; petioles up to 5 cm. long, 4-10-glandular, 

the glands stipitate or subsessile; leaves 4 to 8 cm. long, 5 to 9 cm. 

wide (or the lower up to 10 cm. long, 14 cm. wide), 3-lobed to or 

occasionally to slightly below middle (lobes ovate or oblong-ovate, 

2 to 5 cm. wide, obtuse or acutish, the middle lobe usually produced), 

rounded or subcordate at base, callous-serrulate or serrate, glabrous 

or pilosulous above, tomentose beneath; peduncles up to 7 cm. long; 

bracts free or united toward base, ovate, 2 to 3 cm. long, 1 to 1.5 cm. 

wide, acute, entire or serrulate, tomentellous without, tomentellous 

or rarely glabrescent within; calyx tube urceolate-campanulate, 1.5 

to 2 cm. long, 0.8 to 1 cm. in diameter, green without, light green or 

white within, sulcate at base; sepals oblong-lanceolate, 3 to 3.5 cm.


long, 6 to 7 mm. wide, obtuse, awned dorsally just below apex, green, 

pink-tinged without, scarlet within; petals oblong, obtuse, scarlet; 

corona in 3 or 4 series, the outer 2 or 3 filamentose, the filaments 

2 to 4 mm. long, blue, the next series tuberculate, 0.5 mm. long, the 

innermost series borne about 4 mm. below throat, white, lacerately 

cleft into narrowly linear divisions; operculum about 7 mm. long, 

white, dependent, the margin retrorse, minutely denticulate; limen 

membranous, erect, 3 to 4 mm. high, lobulate; ovary obovoid, glabrous; 

fruit ovoid or subspherical, 3.5 to 5 cm. long, 2.5 to 3.5 cm. 

wide, dark green, glabrous and shining; seeds ovate, 5 mm. long, 

3 mm. wide, finely reticulate, black when ripe. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Loja, Ecuador. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Card. & For. 7: pi. 

265, 267; Ann. Mus. Hist. 

Nat. 6: pi. 59, f. 2; Paxton, Fl. Gard. 1: pi. 26; Bailey, Stand. Cycl. 

Hort. 2486. /. 2775; Mutis, Icon. PI. Ined. 26: pi. 35a. 

DISTRIBUTION: Western Venezuela, Eastern and Central Cordilleras 

of Colombia to northern Peru, 1,500 to 2,500 meters altitude; 

sometimes cultivated. 

VENEZUELA: Me>ida: Bailadores, Funck & Schlim 1254 (Bo, 

Gen). Paramo de San Jose", John 966 (N). 

COLOMBIA: "Eastern Cordillera," Dawe 355 (N). Norte de 

Santander: Pica-Pica Valley, north of Toledo, Kittip & Smith 20022 

(A, G, N, Y). Labateca, Kittip & Smith 20547 (A, G, N, Y). 

Cundinamarca: Ubaque", Holton 705 (Y). Fusagasuga, Holton in 

1853 (Y). Boyaca: Leiva, Dawe in 1919 (K). Tolima: Quindio 

Mountains, Humboldt & Bonpland (type of P. manicata var. macrophylla, 

B, P). Gallegos, Quindio Trail, Kittip & Hazen 9551 (N), 

5557 (G, N). San Miguel, New Quindio Trail, Hazen 9665 (G, N), 

9667 (G, N, Ph, Y); Kittip 9742 (N, Y). El Moral, Goudot (P); 

Triana (BM, Brux, Gen). Mariquita, Triana (N, P, Y). Caldas: 

Salento, Pennell, Kittip & Hazen 9094 (G, N, P, Ph, Y). El Cauca: 

Stubel 159 (B). Jambalo, Pittier 1445 (N). San Isidro, Pennell & 

Kittip 6421 (G, N). Coconuco, Von Sneidern 1112 (S). Narino: 

Pasto, Triana 2962 (BM); Werner 15 (B). 

ECUADOR: Spruce 5171 (BM, Gen, V, Y); Bourcier in 1851 (P); 

Lehmann 107 (Bo). Imbabura: Ibarra, Humboldt & Bonpland 

(B, P, type of Tacsonia manicata}; Stubel 131a (B, type of P. rhodantha), 

ISlb (B) ; Popenoe 1250 (N) ; 

Lehmann 588 (Bo) ; 

Mexia 7360 

(N). Otavalo, Hitchcock 20815 (G, N). Pichincha: Quito, Sodiro 

(Mille 235, N); Holmgren 735 (S). Guapulo, Benoist 2159 (P).


Tumbaco, Mitte 134 (N). Tungurahua: Bafios, Holmgren 429 (BM, 

Gen, S); Schimpff 181 (Gen). Chimborazo: Huigra, Rose 22133 

(G, N, Y); Hitchcock 20631 (G, N). Guaranda, Remy (P). Azuay: 

Chagal, near Cuenca, Lehmann 4565 (B, N). Loja: Loja, Humboldt 

& Bonpland 3394 (type of P. manicata var. communis, B, BW, P); 

Rose 23286 (N, Y). Mt. Saraguru, near Loja, Humboldt & Bonpland 

3395 (B, P). 

PERU: Cajamarca Hacienda La Taj


Tacsonia Volxemi Funck, Journ. Hort. Prat. Belg. 5: 25. 1861. 

Tacsonia Van-Volxemii Lemaire, 111. Hort. 10: pi. 381. 1863. 

Passiflora Van Volxemii Tr. & Planch. Ann. Sci. Nat. V. Bot. 17: 

141. 1893. 

Stem terete 

(or the younger parts subangulate), rufo-hirtellous 

to rufo-tomentose; stipules subulate, 

5 to 7 mm. long; petioles up 

to 4 cm. long, stout, obscurely glandular; leaves dimorphic, unlobed, 

ovate, ovate-lanceolate, or lanceolate, 7 to 15 cm. long, 3.5 to 8 cm. 

wide, or 3-lobed to within 1 cm. of base (lobes lanceolate or ellipticlanceolate, 

up to 3 cm. wide), rounded or subcordate at base, unevenly 

and sharply serrate, puberulent on the nerves and veins above, densely 

pilose or strigillose on the nerves and veins and slightly tomentellous 

elsewhere beneath (or both surfaces glabrous?); flowers rose-red; 

calyx tube cylindric, 2.5 to 4 cm. long, ventricose at base, glabrous; 

sepals oblong-lanceolate, 5 to 6.5 cm. long, 1.5 to 2.5 cm. wide, 

obtuse, short-awned; petals similar to the sepals, obtuse, clawed 

at base; corona in 3 series, the outer 2 about 2 mm. apart, the outermost 

minutely tuberculate, the inner varying (often in the same 

flower) from minutely tuberculate (tubercles 0.5 mm. long) to filamentose 

(filaments slender, 5 mm. long), the third series situated 

about 1 cm. above base of tube, filamentose, the filaments 4 to 6 mm. 

long; operculum borne midway between preceding and base of tube, 

membranous, deflexed, the margin recurved, minutely denticulate 

or nearly entire; ovary narrowly ellipsoidal, glabrous or puberulent. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Department of Antioquia, Colombia, cultivated 

at Bogota. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Journ. Hort. Prat. Belg. 5: pi. 3; Lemaire, 111. 

Hort. 10: pi. 381; Bot. Mag. 92: pi. 5571; Karst. Fl. Columb. 1: 

pi. 71; Bailey, Cycl. Amer. Hort. 1765. /. 2457; Stand. Cycl. Hort. 

2485. /. 2773. 

DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of Colombia, 2,000 to 3,000 meters 

altitude. 

COLOMBIA: Cundinamarca: Bogota, cultivated, originally from 

the Department of Antioquia, Karsten (B, V, type); Triana 2971 

(BM, Gen). Boyaca: Duitama, Dawe in 1919 (K). Cultivated, 

Perez 3028 (HNC). Antioquia: La Sierra, near Medellin, Archer 

1109 (N). Caldas: Rio San Rafael, below Cerro Tatama, Pennell 

10390 (G, N). Tolima: Quindio Trail, Goudot (K). El Cauca: 

San Jose", west of Popayan, Pennell 7568 (G, N, Ph, Y), 7626 (G, N, 

Ph, Y).


This species is well known in horticulture, where it passes usually 

under the name Tacsonia Van Volxemii. Hooker, in an account of 

this plant (Bot. Mag. 92: pi. 5571. 1866), cites "Tacsonia (?Psilanihus) 

Van-Volxemii Funk, in Journ. of Hort. v. 5. Feb. 1861. Lemaire, 

Jard. Fleuriste t. 381." The latter was published in 1854, but 

plate 381 is Costus Verschaffeltianus. Hooker's reference probably 

should have been to the Illustration Horticole of Lemaire (1863), 

in which pi. 381 is Tacsonia Van Volxemii. Therefore Karsten's 

specific name antioquiensis (1859-1860) antedates Van Volxemii. 

The structure of the flower indicates that this species belongs to 

Granadillastrum, where apparently it is the only one with polymorphic 

leaves. The foliage and the long, slender peduncles are suggestive 

of one group of the tacsonias. 

LOCAL NAME: "Cumba quitefia" (Bogota). 

178. Passiflora peduncularis Cav. Icon. PI. 5: 15. pi. 426. 1799. 

Tacsonia peduncularis Juss. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 6: 395. 1805. 

Murucuja peduncularis Spreng. Syst. Veg. 3: 43. 1826. 

Tacsonia peduncularis var. Dombeyana DC. Prodr. 3: 334. 1828. 

Tacsonia Dombeyana M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 197. 1846. 

Stem stout, quadrangular, striate, tomentulous; stipules semiovate, 

5 to 8 mm. long, 3 to 5 mm. wide, acute, coarsely and irregularly 

serrate, membranous, glabrous or tomentulous, purplish; 

petioles 1 to 1.5 cm. long, 3-4-glandular, tomentose; leaves 3-lobed 

to below middle (lobes ovate, subequal, 3 to 6 cm. long, 2 to 3.5 cm. 

wide, obtuse or acute, narrowed at base, the lateral divergent at 

nearly right angles), deeply cordate, serrulate, subcoriaceous, above 

slightly lustrous, glabrous, the veins dark, impressed, beneath 

tomentulous on nerves and veins; peduncles stout, 10 to 15 cm. long, 

subangular, tomentulous; bracts 2 to 3 cm. long, tomentulous, 

united one-half to two-thirds their length into a turbinate tube, the 

free portions ovate, acute, crenulate or entire; flowers white (usually 

rose-tinted when dry); calyx tube short-cylindric, 1.5 to 2 cm. long, 

scarcely longer than the bracts, enlarged at base, tomentulous without; 

sepals oblong, 3 to 4 cm. long, 0.8 to 1 cm. wide, obtuse, aristulate 

dorsally just below apex; petals oblong, slightly shorter than 

sepals; corona in several series, the uppermost consisting of narrowly 

liguliform filaments about 2 mm. long, below this an erect membrane 

about 1 mm. long, lobulate half its length, below which are about 

6 indefinite rows of filiform threads 1 mm. long or less, the lowermost 

series of filaments, borne just above operculum, consisting of filiform


threads about 2 mm. long; operculum dependent, the margin recurved, 

minutely crenulate; ovary yellowish-tomentose; fruit 

spherical, 3 to 4 cm. in diameter. 

TYPE LOCALITY: "In Guayaquil, et in Regno Peruviano prope 

Valparaiso et Almendral." 

ILLUSTRATION: Cav. Icon. PI. 5: pi. 426. 

DISTRIBUTION: Probably restricted to the mountains of central 

and southern Peru, the only localities from which it is definitely 

known being on the upper western mountain slopes. 

PERU: Nee (Ma, type); Pavdn (B, BM); Mathews 480 (BM, G, 

Gen, P) ; Dombey (P, type of Tacsonia peduncularis var. Dombeyana) ; 

Haenke 2118 (Y). "Andes," Wilkes Expedition (N). Ancash: 

Ocros, Cajatambo, Weberbauer 2675 (B, Gen). Lima: Rio Chillon, 

above Obrajillo, 3,000 meters, Pennell 14393 (K, Ph, Y). Moquehua: 

Carumas, 3,300 meters, Weberbauer 7345 (F, K, N). 

The long peduncles, differently shaped leaves, and white flowers, 

and the numerous filaments on the inside of the calyx tube are 

the most obvious characters which distinguish this species from 

P. manicata. 

Triana and Planchon (Ann. Sci. Nat. V. Bot. 17: 143. 1873) 

have discussed at length two points in connection with Cavanilles' 

original description which have caused confusion. In Cavanilles' 

illustration each of the three bracts is 3-lobed, although in specimens 

studied by other writers each bract is entire and acute. Triana and 

Planchon suggest that, as the bracts doubtless are concave, they 

become more or less divided when pressed out. 

These authors also call attention to the localities which Cavanilles 

gives for P. peduncularis, "Guayaquil, et in Regno Peruviano prope 

Valparaiso and Almendral," suggesting that this is doubtless Valparaiso, 

Chile, and that Cavanilles merely chanced to mention it 

as a locality visited by Ne'e. The type at Madrid bears a label in 

Cavanilles' writing, reading "Habitat in Guayaquil, Valparaiso, 

Almendral, etc." The species is probably confined to the high mountains 

of central Peru. 

Cavanilles states that the flower is "rosea," though all other 

notes that have been made give it as white. It is possible that 

Cavanilles included notes on a specimen of the scarlet-flowered 

P. manicata, growing at Guayaquil, in his description of P. peduncularis.


179. Passiflora Weberbaueri Harms, Bot. Jahrb. 54: Beibl. 117: 

79. 1916. 

Plant essentially glabrous; stem subterete or slightly angulate, 

glabrous, stipules broadly semi-ovate or semi-cordate, 1.2 to 1.7 cm. 

long, lacerate at margin; petioles up to 2.5 cm. long, bearing above 

middle and at apex 2 pairs of stipitate glands; leaves 6 to 14 cm. long, 

2 to 5 cm. wide, 3-foliolate, the leaflets oblong or oblong-lanceolate 

to ovate-lanceolate, subequal or the lateral often shorter, subsessile 

or contracted to a short (up to 3 mm.) petiolule, acuminate, sharply 

serrate or dentate-serrate, strongly reticulate-veined, coriaceous, 

glabrous or subglabrous; peduncles 7 to 12 cm. long; bracts ovateoblong 

or oblong, 4 to 4.5 cm. long, nearly 2 cm. wide, acute or obtusish, 

rounded or subcordate at base, lacerate-serrate at margin, 

tomentellous or puberulent within; flowers white; calyx tube urceolate-campanulate; 

sepals narrowly lanceolate, 5 to 6 cm. long, 

aristate; petals broadly linear, 4 to 5.5 cm. long, obtuse; corona in 

3 series, the outer 2 ranks filamentose, the outermost filaments 1.5 

to 2 cm. long, white, faintly purplish, those of the second series shorter, 

below this a short, erect membrane, filamentose at margin; operculum 

dependent, recurved and filamentose at margin; ovary velutinous. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Cosnipata, Paucartambo, Cuzco, Peru. 

DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of southeastern Peru, 2,300 to 2,800 


PERU: Cuzco: Cosnipata, Weberbauer 6933 (B, type). 

Pennett 14040 (N, Ph, Y). 

Yanamayo, 

The only species to which this handsome plant is closely related 

is P. trisecta, which is densely tomentose and has much more deeply 

cleft bracts. The coronal structure of P. Weberbaueri is very similar 

to that of P. semiciliosa. 

180. Passiflora trisecta Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 564. 

1872. 

Passiflora thaumasiantha Harms, Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 10: 

813. 1929. 

Stem terete, striate, sparsely or densely short-ferruginous-villous; 

stipules ovate-lanceolate, 1 to 2.5 cm. long, 0.5 to 1 cm. wide, acuminate, 

strongly oblique at base, laciniate-serrate (serrations terminating 

in a gland-tipped awn and more or less glandular along their 

margin), ferruginous-villosulous; petioles 2 to 5 cm. long, bearing 

2 or 3 long, filiform glands at apex and 3 or 4 shorter, similar glands


near middle; leaves 3-foliolate, the leaflets oblong-lanceolate, 4 to 9 

cm. long, 1.5 to 3 cm. wide, acuminate at apex, narrowed at base 

to a petiolule 1 to 3 mm. long, serrate, penninerved (secondary 

nerves 10 to 14 to a side, subimpressed above), yellowish green and 

densely short-villosulous above, densely yellowish-gray-tomentose 

beneath; peduncles 8 to 15 cm. long, stout, pubescent as stem; 

bracts ovate, 2.5 to 3.5 cm. long, 1.5 to 2.5 cm. wide, distinct to 

base, acuminate, deeply fimbriate-laciniate; calyx tube tubular-campanulate, 

1 to 1.5 cm. long, 1.5 to 2 cm. wide, villous-tomentose 

and light green without, white within; sepals narrowly oblong, 2 to 4 

cm. long, about 1 cm. wide, light green without, white within, 

in a foliaceous awn 

slightly keeled dorsally, the keel terminating 

about 1 cm. long; petals linear-lanceolate, 2 to 2.5 cm. long, 3 to 

5 mm. wide, obtuse, white; corona in 3 series, all borne at throat 

of tube, the outer 2 filamentose, the filaments about 2 mm. long 

(probably longer in more fully developed specimens), white, the 

inner series consisting of minute, dentiform processes; operculum 

white, dependent, the margin recurved, crenulate; limen apparently 

none; ovary obovoid-oblong, densely ferruginous-sericeous-villous; 

fruit globose, about 5 cm. in diameter; seeds reticulate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Bolivia. 

ILLUSTRATION: Rev. Chil. Hist. Nat. 34: 251. /. 47. 1930. 

DISTRIBUTION: South-central Peru to Bolivia, 2,400 to 2,800 


PERU: Junin: La Mejorada, Killip & Smith 23345 (N, Y). 

Ayacucho: Anco, Rio Mantaro Valley, Killip & Smith 22178 (N, Y). 

Huanta, Killip & Smith 23332 (F, N, Y). Cuzco: Urubamba 

Valley, Cook & Gilbert 824 (N) ; 

Herreral673 (B, type of P. thaumasiantha). 

Mollepata, Herrera 1223 (B). Arequipa: Huaspa, Raimondi!1479(B). 

BOLIVIA: Pentland (K, type). 

An interesting species, placed by Masters among the granadillas 

though doubtless better referred to Granadillastrum. The foliage 

suggests P. trifoliata, but the flowers are quite different. The only 

close relative of this species, P. Weberbaueri, is a glabrous plant 

with differently shaped and toothed bracts and stipules, and longer 

corona filaments. 

LOCAL NAME: "Montetumbos" (Peru).


Subgenus XV. DISTEPHANA 

181. Passiflora glandulosa Cav. Diss. 10: 453. pi. 281. 1790. 

Tacsonia glandulosa Juss. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 6: 391. 1805. 

Tacsonia canaliculata Juss. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 6: 392. 1805. 

Tacsonia glandulosa var. canaliculata DC. Prodr. 3: 335. 1828. 

Tacsonia Rohriana DC. Prodr. 3: 335. 1828. 

(?)Tocsonm Stoupyana DC. Prodr. 3: 335. 1828. 

Tacsonia Fockeana Miq. Linnaea 18: 364. 1844, as Tacksonia. 

Distephana glandulosa M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 198. 1846. 

Distephana glandulosa var. 

Syn. 

2: 198. 1846. 

canaliculata M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. 

(I) Distephana Stoupyana M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 199. 1846. 

Distephana Rohriana M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 199. 1846. 

Distephana Fockeana M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 199. 1846. 

Tacsonia subcoriacea Garcke, Linnaea 22: 62. 1848. 

(?) Passiflora glandulosa var. Stoupyana Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 

13, pt. 

1: 600. 1872. 

Passiflora glandulosa var. canaliculata Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 

13, pt. 1: 600. 1872. 

Passiflora im Thurnii Mast. Card. Chron. III. 23: 305, 307. 

/. 114- 1898. 

Passiflora silvicola Barb. Rodr. Contr. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 

4: 91. pi. 14. 1907. 

Stem terete or subangulate, glabrous or rarely minutely puberulent, 

purplish; stipules linear-subulate or setaceous, very soon 

deciduous; petioles up to 2.5 cm. long, biglandular at or below 

middle, the glands sessile; leaves ovate-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 

6 to 15 cm. long, 4 to 10 cm. wide, acute or acuminate, mucronulate, 

entire or slightly undulate, cordulate, rounded, or acutish at base, 

thick-coriaceous to subcoriaceous, glaucous and glabrous or finely 

and softly puberulent beneath, occasionally setulose on nerves; 

peduncles up to 8 cm. long; bracts linear-lanceolate, 5 to 10 mm. 

long, 1 to 2 mm. wide (rarely ovate-lanceolate, and much larger?), 

glandular at margin; flowers red or scarlet; calyx tube cylindric, 

1.5 to 2.5 cm. long, 0.8 to 1 cm. wide, ventricose at base; sepals 

oblong or linear-oblong, 2 to 5 cm. long, 0.6 to 1.3 cm. wide, shortawned 

near apex, erect, or reflexed in age; petals slightly shorter 

than sepals; corona in 2 series, the outer consisting of free, awl-


shaped, white or pale pink filaments about 1 cm. long, the inner 

a cylindric membrane, arising near base of tube, subadnate to tube, 

the upper part free, lacerate-filamentose at apex, the cut portion 

2 to 5 mm. long; operculum borne about 3 mm. above base of tube, 

pink, dependent, the margin recurved, short-filamentose; limen 

membranous, cupuliform, about 1 mm. high, closely surrounding 

base of gynophore, minutely fimbrillate; ovary ellipsoidal, subangular, 

glabrous or usually white-puberulent; fruit ovoid, 5 to 6 cm. 

long, 2.5 to 3 cm. in diameter, the pericarp coriaceous; seeds obovate, 

about 8 mm. long and 4 mm. wide, finely reticulate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Cayenne. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Cav. Diss. 10: pi. 281; Gard. Chron. III. 23: 307. 

f. 114- 1898; Contr. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 4: pi. 14- 

DISTRIBUTION: Guianas to the lower Amazon basin and easternmost 

Brazil. 

FRENCH GUIANA: Rohr (BM, Gen, type of Tacsonia Rohriana); 

Stoupy in 1788 (P, type); Perrottet 31 (Gen, P); Leschenault (BM, 

P); Leprieur 36 (P), Poiteau (Gen); Melinon in 1864 (B, P). Karouany, 

Sagot 287 (BM, Bo, Brux, Gen, P, S, V, Y). Cayenne, Broadway 

384 (N, Y), 764 (N, Y). 

SURINAM: Hohenacker 30 (S) ; 

Landre 620, in part (Leid) ; 

Hulk 358 

(Ut) ; 

Hostmann 1224 (BM). Nickerie River, Tulleken 325 (Leid), 499 

(Leid). Bergendaal,Focfce931 (Ut,typeof Tacsonia Fockeana). Paramaribo, 

Kapplerl665 (Bo, P, S, Ut). Victoria, Kappler 1360 (Bo, P, S, 

Ut). Republiek, Kuyper 76 (B,Ut). SaramaccaRiver,PttMe


River, Jenman 6709 (BG), 6914 (B, F, N, Ph, Y); De la Cruz 2473 

(G, N, Y); Persaud 24 (F). Potaro River, De la Cruz 4474 (N, Y); 

A. W. Bartlett in 1907 (BG). Waini River, De la Cruz 3617 (N, Y). 

Pomeroon River, De la Cruz 1184 (Y); Jenman 7534 (BG, Y). 

Mazaruni Station, Archer 2474 (N). 

BRAZIL: Hoffmannsegg (BW). Amazonas: Jobert 256 (P). Serra 

de Malacacheta/ Kuhlmann 3412 (N). Para: Para, Killip & 

Smith 30294 (N, Y); Da Costa 150 (N). Pinheiro, Killip & Smith 

30314 (N, Y). Ilha do Mosqueiro, Killip & Smith 30500 (N, Y). 

Marco, Baker 9228 (Go). Rio Xingu, Bach 4147 (Go). Rio Araguaya, 

Kissenberth 3566 (Go). Peixe Boa, Huber 8722 (Go). Sao 

Joao, Burchell 9303 (K). Santarem, Spruce (K); Jobert 855 (P); 

Swollen 3288 (N). Ceara: Campo Grande, Lofgren 297 (S). 

Serra da Ibiapaba, Dahlgren 949 (F). Pernambuco: Ramage in 

1887 (BM). Rio de Janeiro: Quinta de Sao Cristovao, cultivated (?), 

Glaziou 10874 (P). 

There appears to be no justification for the numerous species 

which have been segregated from P. glandulosa, nor does it seem 

possible to recognize any well defined varieties. The numerous 

specimens examined differ to a certain extent in leaf shape, and in 

the degree to which the inner corona is cleft. 

The names Tacsonia Stoupyana and P. glandulosa var. Stoupyana 

have arisen from Cavanilles' statement that he saw in the Jussieu 

Herbarium another Stoupy collection belonging to this species, in 

which the bracts were ovate. These bracts are drawn separately 

in Cavanilles' illustration of P. glandulosa, and are 1 to 1.5 cm. 

None of the specimens cited above has 

long and 4 to 5 mm. wide. 

such large bracts, but several of the species of this subgenus have 

variable bracts and this may be the case with P. glandulosa. Or 

perhaps the specimen in question is a mixture of P. glandulosa and 

P. quadriglandulosa. 

Although I have not seen the type specimen of Passiflora im 

Thurnii, there are several sheets at Kew so named by Masters; 

except for having larger flowers these do not appear to differ materially 

from forms of P. glandulosa. 

Passiflora silvicola is without doubt this. Specimens I collected 

at the type locality, Pinheiro, near Para, Brazil, agree excellently 

with typical Guiana material of P. glandulosa. 

LOCAL NAMES: "Markoesa," "kalawiroe," "jawoheme'roeke" 

(Surinam); "maracuja cabeza de gado" (Ceara).


182. Passiflora variolata Poepp. & Endl. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 58. 

pi. 179. 1835. 

Cieca variolata M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 140. 1846. 

A woody vine, glabrous throughout; stem terete; stipules linearfalcate, 

soon deciduous; petioles about 1 cm. long, biglandular near 

base, the glands sessile; leaves ovate or oblong, 5 to 12 cm. long, 

2 to 5 cm. wide, acute or acuminate, aristulate at apex, rounded 

or subacute at base, entire, 1-nerved, coriaceous, lustrous above, 

dull beneath; peduncles solitary, 3 to 8 cm. long, becoming stout; 

bracts borne near apex of peduncle, narrowly lance-linear, about 

8 mm. long and 1 mm. wide, bearing 1 or 2 large glands on either 

margin near base; flowers red; calyx tube broadly campanulate, 

up to 7 mm. long and 10 mm. wide; sepals linear-oblong, 3.5 to 4 cm. 

long, about 7 mm. wide, obtuse, slightly carinate (keel terminating 

in an awn 2 to 2.5 mm. long), glandular on outside near margin, 

the glands oblong, 2 mm. long, sessile; petals subequal to sepals, 

more slender; corona in 2 ranks, the outer tubular, 8 to 10 mm. 

high, including a fringe of linear-subulate filaments about 2 mm. 

long, the inner rank borne at base of the outer, 2 to 3 mm. long, 

membranous in lower half, cleft in upper half into linear-subulate 

filaments; operculum dependent, 4 to 5 mm. long, denticulate; 

limen closely surrounding base of gynophore, lacerate at margin; 

ovary ovoid, subacute at ends. 

TYPE LOCALITY: "Maynas (Yurimaguas, Peru) et Provinciae 

brasiliensis Rio Negro ad oppidum Ega." 

Brazil. 

ILLUSTRATION: Poepp. & Endl. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: pi. 179. 

DISTRIBUTION: Upper Amazon basin of Venezuela, Peru, and 

VENEZUELA: Amazonas: San Antonio, upper Rio Orinoco, Holt & 

Blake 697 (N). San Fernando de Atabapo, Gaillard 169 (P). 

BRAZIL: Amazonas: Ega, Poeppig (V, type). 

Sao Gabriel, Spruce 

2247 (K, P); G. H. H. Tate 135 (Y). Panure", Spruce 2868 (K, P). 

The vegetative parts of this plant are much like those of P. 

glandulosa and P. Ernesti. 

In addition to having a much shorter 

calyx tube, the most obvious character by which it may be distinguished 

from P. glandulosa, the present species lacks the outer 

free corona filaments but has a second series within the tubular membrane. 

Passiflora variolata even more closely resembles P. Ernesti 

in leaf shape, bracts, and other vegetative parts, but the coronal 

structure is entirely different.


The type specimen, at Vienna, is in an excellent state of preservation, 

and the foregoing description has been derived from that and 

the other specimens here cited. The structure of the corona as 

described and figured by Poeppig and Endlicher is not strictly in 

accord with that of the type. 

183. Passiflora callimorpha Harms, Repert. Sp. Nov. 18: 295. 

1922. 

Stem terete, ferruginous-villous-lanate; stipules 1 to 1.5 cm. long, 

0.8 to 1 cm. wide, deeply pinnatisect into setaceous or filiform divisions, 

glabrous; petioles 0.5 to 1.5 cm. long, minutely 2-4-glandular, 

the glands imbedded in the indument; leaves ovate-oblong or ovatelanceolate, 

5 to 13 cm. long, 2.5 to 5 cm. wide, acuminate, rounded or 

cordulate at base, irregularly denticulate-serrate, coriaceous, thick, 

rugose, lustrous, glabrous or slightly villosulous on the nerves above, 

densely ferruginous-lanate beneath; peduncles terete, 5 to 13 cm. 

long, stout, about 2 mm. in diameter, ferruginous-villous-lanate; 

bracts ovate-oblong, 2 to 3 cm. long, 1 to 1.5 cm. wide, distinct to 

base, rounded at apex, laciniate-fimbriate, membranous, rufovillous, 

the margin glabrous, purplish; flowers violet-rose(?) ; calyx 

tube cylindric-campanulate, 2 to 2.5 cm. long, 0.6 to 1.4 cm. wide, 

ferruginous-lanate without; sepals narrowly oblong, 4.5 to 5.5 cm. 

long, about 1 cm. wide, cucullate, slightly carinate on outside, the 

keel terminating in a setaceous awn about 1 cm. long; petals slightly 

shorter than sepals; corona 2-ranked, the upper rank filamentose to 

base (filaments subulate, 1.2 to 1.5 cm. long, purplish in lower half, 

pale in upper), the lower rank borne about 0.8 cm. below the preceding, 

tubular, 6 to 7 mm. long, membranous, filamentose in upper 

third; operculum dependent, about 5 mm. long, pinkish, the margin 

recurved, fimbrillate, whitish; limen none; ovary ovoid, densely 

ferruginous-hirsute. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Mapiri, Bolivia. 

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the vicinity of La Paz, 

Bolivia. 

BOLIVIA: La Paz: Mapiri, Bang 1556 (B, type, BM, Bo, CM, 

G, K, N, Ph, Y). Yungas, 1,200 meters, Rusby 2465 (F, N, Y). 

San Pedro, near Sorata, Mandon 609bis (P). 

The vegetative parts of this plant suggest strongly P. insignis, 

a species of the subgenus Tacsonia, which has the calyx tube well 

developed, though shorter than the sepals, and a single-ranked corona.


Passiflora callimorpha clearly should be referred to Distephana, 

where it comes nearest P. coccinea. In addition to the points mentioned 

in the key, the single not double row of filaments at the 

throat of the tube and the dense, woolly indument distinguish P. 

callimorpha from P. coccinea. 

184. Passiflora Buchtienii Killip, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 14: 115. 

1924. 

Plant glabrous throughout; stem slender, wiry, 4-5-angular; 

stipules narrowly elliptic, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, 2 to 3 mm. wide, incisedserrate, 

the serrations cuspidate; petioles very slender, up to 1.5 cm. 

long, biglandular below middle, the glands 0.5 mm. long; leaves 2 to 3 

cm. long, 2.5 to 4 cm. wide, 3-lobed to just below middle (lobes 

oblong, 6 to 8 mm. wide, cuspidate), rounded or slightly cuneate at 

base, 3-nerved, finely cuspidate-serrate, membranous; peduncles up 

to 2.5 cm. long, stout; bracts oblong, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, 5 to 6 mm. 

wide, obtuse, incised-serrate; flowers scarlet; calyx tube cylindric, 

1.5 cm. long, 8 mm. wide at the slightly enlarged throat; sepals linearlanceolate, 

about 5 cm. long, 6 mm. wide, slightly cucullate at apex, 

aristate dorsally just below apex (awn 6 mm. long); petals linear, 

about 4 cm. long, 5 mm. wide, obtuse; corona 2-ranked, the outer 

rank filamentose (filaments 5 mm. long), the inner cylindric, 6 mm. 

long, membranous, the upper half lacerate-cleft; operculum about 

6 mm. long, dependent, denticulate; ovary narrowly ellipsoidal. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Unduavi, Province of La Paz, Bolivia. 

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from type locality, 

Bolivia, 3,300 meters altitude. 

in north-central 

BOLIVIA: La Paz: Unduavi, Buchtien 2896 (N, Y), 6004 (B, N, 

type), 8991 (N), 8992 (N). 

From its nearest relative, P. vitifolia, this species 

is at once 

distinguished by smaller, glabrous leaves, minute petiolar glands, 

shape of the bracts and stipules, and its double-ranked rather than 

triple-ranked corona. 

185. Passiflora coccinea Aubl. PI. Guian. 2: 828. pi 32^. 1775. 

Passiflora velutina DC. Prodr. 3: 327. 1828. 

Tacsonia pubescens DC. Prodr. 3: 335. 1828. 

Passiflora fulgens Wallis ex Morren, Belg. Hort. 16: 193. pi. 13. 

1866. 

Passiflora coccinea var. minor Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 

605. 1872.


Passiflora coccinea var. velutina Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 

605. 1872. 

Passiflora toxicaria Barb. Rodr. Contr. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 

4: 94. pi. 17A. 1907. 

Stem terete or subangulate (older portions deeply 3-grooved), 

finely rufo-puberulent to densely rufo-tomentose, purplish; stipules 

narrowly linear or linear-setaceous, 4 to 6 mm. long, entire or minutely 

glandular-serrulate; petioles up to 3.5 cm. long, glandless, or 

biglandular at base, the glands sessile; leaves oblong or rarely nearly 

orbicular, 6 to 14 cm. long, 3 to 7 cm. wide, not lobed, acute, acuminate, 

or subobtuse at apex, subcordate at base, duplicate-serrate or 

crenate, above glabrescent or sparsely and finely pubescent, tomentellous 

on nerves, beneath ferruginous- or cano-tomentose, membranous; 

peduncles stout, up to 8 cm. long; bracts ovate, up to 6 cm. 

long and 3.5 cm. wide, concave, free to base, crenate or sharply 

serrate, usually glandular at margin, ferruginous-tomentose without, 

finely puberulent within, red or deep orange; calyx tube short-cylindric-campanulate, 

1.5 to 2 cm. long, 1 to 1.3 cm. wide at throat; 

sepals linear-lanceolate, 3 to 5 cm. long, 8 to 10 mm. wide, scarlet or 

red, cucullate, slightly carinate, the keel terminating in an awn up to 

1.3 cm. long; petals linear, 3.5 to 4 cm. long, 7 to 8 mm. wide, scarlet 

or red; corona in 3 series, the 2 outer consisting of subulate filaments 

about 1 cm. long, deep purple in upper half, pale pink to white in 

lower half, the inner rank of the corona white, membranous at base, 

filamentose above, the filaments 6 to 8 mm. long; operculum white, 

dependent, recurved and filamentose at margin, the filaments about 

2 mm. long; limen cupuliform; ovary ovoid, densely yellowishtomentose; 

fruit ovoid or subglobose, about 5 cm. in diameter, 

finely tomentulous, edible, the exocarp brittle, orange or yellow, 

mottled and 6-striped with green; seeds narrowly obovate, about 

6 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, minutely reticulate, the reticulations linear 

at margin. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Oyac, French Guiana. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Aubl. PI. Guian. pL 324; Cav. Diss. 10: pi. 280; 

Belg. Hort. 16: pi. 13; Contr. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 4: pi. 17A; 

Descourtilz, Fl. Pitt. Me"d. Antill. 5: pi. 350. 

DISTRIBUTION: Guianas, southern Venezuela, and Amazon 

basin of Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil. 

GUADELOUPE: Cultivated, Coudreau (P). 

Cultivated in Guadeloupe.


FRENCH GUIANA: Lamarck Herbarium (P); Perrottet 387 (Gen, P); 

Melinon 79 (P), 277 (BM); Leblond in 1792 (Gen); Poiteau (Gen); 

Gabriel in 1802 (Gen); Sagot 283 (BM, G, Gen, P, S, V); Leschenault 

(N, P); Broadway 541 (N, Y), 780 (G, N, Y); Wachenheim 115 (N). 

SURINAM: B. W. 3-465 (Ut), W4 (Ut), 5125 (Ut); Boon 1259 

(Ut); Hostmann & Kappler 1567 (S); Kappler (Ut); Lanjouw 1203 

(Ut); PttMe 18(5 (Ut); Samuels in 1916 (Y); Fersteeg 557 (Ut); Wullschlagel 

217 (Brux, Ut); Gonggrijp & Stahel 83 (Ut); Voltz (Ut). 

BRITISH GUIANA: Hitchcock 17072 (G, N, Y), 17224 (G, N, Y); 

Jenman 2000 (EG, Y), 2079 (Y), 5408 (BG, BM, Y), 7887 (N); 

Under 153 (G, S) ; Schomburgk 33, in part (P, Ut), 938 (BM, Bo, Gen, 

N, V); Graham 128 (CM); Persaud 263 (F); Lcmg & Persaud in 1922 

(F); TFa% U2 (BG, N); t/Je 8(5(56 (Go); De la Cruz 1060 (G, N, Y), 

15.48 (F, N, Y), 2317 (G, N, Y), 2701 (N, Y), 2879 (N, Y), 2918 

(N, Y), 3753 (N, Y), 3017 (G, N, Y), 4499 (N, Y); Archer 2428 (N). 

VENEZUELA: Amazonas: Esmeralda, G. H. H. Tate 357 (Y). 

PERU: Weberbauer 6761 (N). Pampa del Sacramento, Castelnau 

in 1847 (P). San Martin: Lamas, L. Williams 5069 (F), 6379 (N), 

6450 (F). Loreto: Masisea, Killip & Smith 26851 (N, Y). Yurimaguas, 

Killip & Smith 27574 (F, N, Y), 27995 (N), 29062 (F, N, 

Y); L. Williams 4745 (F), 7821 (N); Poeppig in 1831 (V). Rio 

Maranon, Killip & Smith 29186 (N), 29214 (N, Y). Lower Rio 

Huallaga, L. Williams 3894 (N), 3517 (N), .41-45 (N). Rio Ucayali, 

Huber 1411 (Go), I486 (Go); Tessmann 3187 (Gen). Junin: Puerto 

Yessup, Killip & Smith 26290 (F, N, Y). Puerto Bermudez, 

Killip & Smith 26673 (F, N, Y). Cahuapanas, Killip & Smith 

26820 (N). Ayacucho: Kimpitiriki, Killip & Smith 22909 (F, N, 

Y). Cuzco: Marcapata Valley, Herrera 1155 (N). 

BOLIVIA: Beni: Rurrenabaque, Mulford Biol. Expl. 475 (N, Y), 

-475A (Y). Junction of Beni and Madre de Dios rivers, Rusby 492 

(F, N, Y). La Paz: Huachi, Mulford Biol. Expl 470 (N, Y), 5-45 

(N, Y). Mapiri, Bang 1557 (BM, Bo, F, G, Gen, N, Ph, V, Y). 

Yungas, Bang 312 (BM, Bo, N, V, Y) ; Rusby 493 (N, Y). San Carlos, 

Buchtien 1920 (N). Coroico, Buchtien 6002 (N). Charpi, R. S. 

Williams 790 (N, Y). Charopampa, Buchtien 1677 (Y). Huanachorisa, 

R: S. Williams 1536 (Y). Tolapampa, R. S. Williams 847 

(Y). Santa Cruz: Buenavista, Steinbach 6352 (Gen). 

BRAZIL: Collector? (P, type of P. velutina) ; Hoffmannsegg (BW). 

Amazonas: Cachoeira Manajo, Holt & Blake 436 (N, Ut). Camanaos, 

Holt & Blake 568 (N). Sao Gabriel, Holt & Blake 601 (N).


Rio Negro, G. H. H. Tate 97 (Y) ; 

Ducke 24041 (N). Rio Jurua, Ule 

5555 (Gen, Go). Managuiry, Spruce 1637 (P, V). Ega, Poeppig in 

1832 (V). Para: Una do Mosqueiro, Kittip & Smith SOU 4 (N, Y). 

Para, Killip & Smith 30251 (N, Y); Dahlgren & Sella 758 (F). 

Marco, Baker 67 (BM, Gen, Go, Ut, V). Lower Rio Trompetas, 

Ducke 10956 (Go). Obidos, Ducke 14637 (N). Rio Xingu, Bach 

4143 (Go). Santarem, Jobert in 1877 (P). Santa Maria, Mexia 

6057a (N). Acre: Rio Macauhan, Krukoff 5363 (Gen, N, Ut, Y). 

Matto Grosso: Weddell 3404 (P); Moore 312 (BM, Y). 

In P. coccinea the bracts are much larger than in its near relatives 

and they completely envelop the flower bud. Of the large number of 

specimens of this species examined none have lobed leaves. The 

specimens from Peru and Bolivia agree well with typical Guiana 

material, although often the leaves are proportionately narrower. 

Passiflora velutina is a variant with a very dense, soft indument. 

LOCAL NAMES: "Snekie marcoesa" (Surinam); "marudi-oura," 

"monkey-guzzle" (British Guiana); "pachio-tutumillo" (Bolivia): 

"thom assu" (Brazil). The fruit is edible. 

186. Passiflora quadriglandulosa Rodschied, Med. Chir. Bemerk. 

Esseq. 77. 1796. 

Tacsonia quadriglandulosa DC. Prodr. 3: 335. 1828. 

(t)Tacsonia quadridentata DC. Prodr. 3: 335. 1828. 

(l)Tacsonia pubescens DC. Prodr. 3: 335. 1828. 

(?) Passiflora Lockharti G. Don ex M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 

2: 185. 1846, name only. 

(t)Distephana pubescens M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 199. 1846. 

(l)Distephana quadridentata M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 199. 

1846. 

Distephana quadriglandulosa M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. SJTI. 2: 

199. 1846. 

(f)Passiflora vitifolia var. minor Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, 

pt. 1: 508. 1872. 

Passiflora translinearis Rusby, Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 7: 309. 

1927, as to flowers. 

Passiflora yacumensis Rusby, Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 7: 310. 1927. 

Stem terete, glabrous or the younger parts pilosulous; stipules 

setaceous, 3 to 5 mm. long, deciduous; petioles 1 to 2.5 cm. long, 

obsoletely biglandular at base; leaves polymorphic, entire and 

broadly to narrowly oblong, or oblong-lanceolate, 8 to 15 cm. long,


3 to 8 cm. wide, or asymmetrically 2- or 3-lobed (lobes acuminate, the 

middle lobe ovate or ovate-lanceolate, longer than the lateral lobes, 

up to 6 cm. wide), rounded or subtruncate at base, irregularly repanddentate, 

glabrous or finely puberulent on the nerves above, finely 

puberulent or tomentellous beneath; peduncles up to 5 cm. long; 

bracts narrowly linear to narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 0.8 to 1.5 cm. 

long, 1 to 5 mm. wide, glandular-serrulate; flowers showy, pink, red, 

or scarlet; calyx tube short-cylindric, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, about 1 cm. 

wide, ventricose at base; sepals oblong-lanceolate, 6 to 8 cm. long, 

about 1 cm. wide, carinate, the keel terminating in an awn 2 to 10 

mm. long; petals 6 to 7 cm. long, obtuse; corona 3-ranked, the 2 

outer ranks filamentose to base, the filaments bright red or scarlet, 

narrowly linear at base, subulate toward apex, the outermost about 

1.5 cm. long, the others 0.8 to 1 cm. long, the third coronal rank about 

1.5 cm. long, tubular, filamentose in upper third only, the membranous 

portion deep red, the filaments white; operculum 6 to 7 mm. 

long, dependent, the margin recurved, short-filamentose; ovary 

ovoid, ferruginous-tomentulous; fruit ovoid, 3.5 cm. long, 1.5 cm. 

in diameter (young) ; 

seeds ovate, reticulate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Mouth of Essequibo River, 

British Guiana(?). 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Bot. Mag. 78: pi. 4674; Fl. des Serres 8: pi. 803; 

Lemaire, Jard. Fleuriste 4: pi. 357. 

DISTRIBUTION: Trinidad and British 

Guiana, and the Amazon 

basin of Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil; cultivated elsewhere in Brazil; 

also in the Lesser Antilles, where perhaps introduced. 

MARTINIQUE: Belanger 263 (P); Hahn 1167 (B, Bo, Gen, P); 

Duss435(E). 

GRENADA: Miller 318 (E)-,Eggers 6048b (B), 6073 (B); Broadway 

1482 (B). 

TRINIDAD: Britton, Freeman & Nowell 2613 (N, Y); Kuntze 1123 

(Y); Trinidad Herb. 638 (T), 2598 (T), 3514 (B, T, Y), 10733 (T), 

11508 (T), 11705 (T); Lockhart 369 (K). 

BRITISH GUIANA: Barima River, Hitchcock 17489 (G, N, Y); 

Jenman 7016 (EG, Y), 7121 (EG), 7140 (EG). Essequibo River, 

Jenman 6362 (EG), 7670 (EG, Y); Sandwith 306 (K). Pomeroon 

River, De la Cruz 3133 (N, Y). Waini River, A. W. Bartlett 8596 

(EG, Y). Camana Road, Davies 1024 (K). Mazaruni River, Jenman 

5409 (EG), 5875 (K). 

PERU: Loreto: Fox 89 (K). Rio Itaya, Killip & Smith 29408 

(F, N, Y). Mishuyacu, Killip & Smith 29974 (F, N, Y); King 1069


(F, N, Y), 1226 (F, N, Y). Rio Nanay, L. Williams 562 (N). Caballo-cocha, 

L. Williams 2459 (N). La Victoria, L. Williams 3118 (N). 

Chasuta, Raimondi 581 (B). Peras, Fox 119 (K). Rio Maranon, 

Mexia 6405 (N). Rio Ucayali, Tessmann 3309 (Gen). 

BOLIVIA: Beni: Santa Ana de Yacuma, 225 meters, Cardenas 

(Mulford BioL Expl. 21 special; Y, type of P. yacumensis). 

BRAZIL: Amazonas: Capoeiras, Spruce 1789 (BM, K, P). Manaos, 

Killip & Smith 30002 (N, Y), 30096 (N, Y) ; 

Ule 5112 (Gen, Go) ; 

Labroy 23 (P) ; 

Jobert in 1877 (P) ; Spruce 1616 (P). Rio Branco, Ule 

7852 (Go). Codajaz, Krukoff 4504 (Gen, N, Ut, Y). Paranagua, 

Krukoff 4552 (Gen, Y). Para: Para, Huber 116 (Go). Almerrim, 

Ducke 17335 (B, N, Ut). Rio de Janeiro: Quinta de Sao Christovao, 

cultivated, Glaziou 9851 (Cop, P). 

LOCAL NAMES: "Simitu" (British Guiana); "maracuja" (Brazil). 

Four species of Distephana, i.e., P. vitifolia, P. speciosa, P. coccinea, 

and P. quadriglandulosa, are easily confused, and may best be 

considered here at one place. 

P. vitifolia: Indument dense; bracts oblong-lanceolate, averaging 

about 5 

mm. wide, rarely as much as 8 mm. wide; leaves nearly 

always deeply 3-lobed; outer corona filaments bright red or bright 

yellow. The center of distribution is Panama and northern Colombia, 

the species extending to the headwaters of the Orinoco, reaching to 

the Amazon basin only at its western limits. 

P. speciosa: Indument very dense; bracts more nearly oval, 

slightly broader than in P. vitifolia; leaves usually 3-lobed, but 

unlobed ones often on same individual ; 

outer corona filaments white. 

Eastern Brazil. 

P. coccinea: Indument dense; bracts broadly ovate, 1 cm. or more 

wide; leaves unlobed, irregularly serrate; outer corona filaments deep 

purple above, white or pink below, less tapering than in P. quadriglandulosa. 

Common in the Guianas and probably in northeastern 

Brazil, extending up the Amazon and its tributaries to Bolivia 

and Peru. 

P. quadriglandulosa: Indument much scantier than in the others, 

sometimes almost wholly wanting; bracts varying from narrowly 

linear (scarcely 1 mm. wide) to oblong-lanceolate as in P. vitifolia, 

in a few instances broadly ovate as in P. coccinea and constituting a 

variety; leaves unlobed or 3-lobed with about the same frequency, 

sometimes asymmetrically bilobed; outer corona filaments bright 

red or scarlet and long-attenuate. The range is essentially the same


as that of P. coccinea, the typical form with narrowly linear bracts 

prevailing in the northern part of the range, the following variety 

restricted to the Amazon basin. 

186a. Passiflora quadriglandulosa var. involucrata (Mast.) 

Killip, comb. nov. 

Passiflora vitifolia var. involucrata Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, 

pt. 1:608. 1872. 

Passiflora punicea Mart, ex Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 

608. 1872, as synonym. 

Leaves generally deeply 3-lobed; bracts broadly ovate, 3 to 5 cm. 

long, 1.5 to 3 cm. wide, doubly serrate, at least the lower teeth 

gland-tipped. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Cubata Cataracts. 

Rio Japura, Brazil. 

DISTRIBUTION: Amazon basin of Peru and Brazil. 

PERU: Loreto: Mishuyacu, King 342 (F, N, Y), 417 (F, N, Y). 

Rio Nanay, L. Williams 780 (N), 1104 (N). Iquitos, Ducke 21 230 (N) 

. 

BRAZIL: Amazonas: Rio Japura, Spruce 3022 (K, type of P. 

vitifolia var. involucrata). Sao Paulo de Olivenga, Krukoff 8925 (Y). 

-Para: Rio Tapajoz, Ducke 14644 (K, N, Ut); Krukoff 1042 (Y). 

Upper Rio Cupary, Krukoff 1102 (Y). 

Klug gives as a local name for this variant "granadilla acida." 

187. Passiflora vitifolia HBK. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 138. 1817. 

Figure 1, a. 

Passiflora sanguinea J. E. Sm. in Rees. Cycl. 26: Passiflora No. 45. 

1819. 

Passiflora punicea R. & P. ex DC. Prodr. 3: 329. 1828. 

Tacsonia sanguinea DC. Prodr. 3: 334. 1828. 

Macrophora sanguinea Raf. Fl. Tellur. 4: 103. 1838. 

Passiflora vitifolia var. cassiquiarensis M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. 

Syn. 2: 181. 1846. 

Passiflora serrulata var. pubescens Griseb. Bonplandia 6: 7. 1858. 

Passiflora servitensis Karst. Linnaea 30: 163. 1859. 

Tacsonia Buchanani Lemaire, 111. Hort. 14: pi. 519. 1867. 

Stem, petioles, and peduncles densely ferruginous-tomentose; 

stem terete; stipules setaceous, 3 to 5 mm. long, deciduous; petioles 

2 to 5 cm. long, biglandular at base, occasionally with 2 or 3 additional 

glands near middle, the glands orbicular; leaves 7 to 15 cm. long, 8 to


18 cm. wide, 3-lobed to below middle (lobes acuminate, the central 

lobe narrowed at base, up to 6 cm. wide), truncate to cordate at base, 

3-5-nerved, irregularly repand-dentate or crenate, membranous, 

usually lustrous above, tomentulous on nerves above, densely puberulent 

or tomentulous beneath; peduncles stout, 4 to 9 cm. long; bracts 

oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 1.5 to 2.5 cm. long, 0.4 to 0.8 cm. wide, 

acuminate, glandular-serrate or rarely subentire; flowers scarlet, 

bright red, or vermilion; calyx tube cylindric, 1 to 1.8 cm. long, 

about 1.5 cm. wide, ventricose at base; sepals slightly fleshy, lanceolate, 

6 to 8 cm. long, 1 to 2 cm. wide, obtuse, without minutely 

puberulent, carinate, the keel terminating in an awn about 1 cm. 

long, within magenta, glabrate; petals linear-lanceolate, 4 to 6 cm. 

long, 0.8 to 1.5 cm. wide, obtuse; corona 3-ranked, the 2 outer ranks 

filamentose, the outermost filaments awl-shaped, 1.5 to 2 cm. long, 

erect, bright red or bright yellow, those of the next rank about 1 cm. 

long, pale red, the third rank tubular, erect, closely surrounding the 

gynophore, about 1 cm. long, the upper part cleft into numerous filiform 

divisions, the lower part membranous, slightly fleshy, pale red 

without and within; operculum deflexed, 7 to 10 mm. long, fimbriate; 

ovary ellipsoidal, densely tomentulous; fruit ovoid, about 5 cm. long, 

3 cm. in diameter, puberulent, very fragrant; seeds much compressed, 

obcordate, 5 mm. long, 3.5 mm. wide, reticulate with 50 

to 75 reticulations. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Along the Magdalena River, near El Penon, 

Colombia. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Bot. Mag. 130: pi. 7936; Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, 

pt. 1: pi. 121; Garden 1880: 142; Mutis, Icon. PI. Ined. 26: pi. 10, 35; 

Gard. Chron. III. 8: 213. 1890; III. 43: 187. /. 78. 1908. 

DISTRIBUTION: Nicaragua to eastern and southern Venezuela, 

Colombia, eastern Ecuador, and northern Peru, at low elevations; 

occasionally cultivated in the West Indies. 

NICARAGUA: La Baranta, Oersted 4144 (Cop). Braggmans Bluff, 

Englesing 139 (N). San Juan del Norte, C. L. Smith 47 (G). Chontales, 

Levy 1431 (P); R. Tate 113 (K), 114 (BM). Cabo Gracias a 

Dios, Schramm in 1923 (N). Mosquito Coast, Schramm in 1924 (N). 

COSTA RICA: Pittier 3517 (Bo, Brux, N), 6585 (Brux), 7042 (Brux), 

7406 (Brux), 8655 (Brux), 9595 (Brux). Guanacaste, Brade 2407 

(B). Rio Surubres, Brade 2567 (B), 2582 (B). Tortuga, Oersted 4145 

(Cop). Comarca de Limon, J. D. Smith 4810 (G, N). Santo Domingo 

de Golfo Dulce, Tonduz 7030 (N). Las Vueltas, Tucurrique,


Tonduz 13003 (B, BM, Bo, N, P). Turrialba, Lehmann 1268 (Bo, 

K). Canas Gordas, Pittier 11182 (N). Atirro, J. D. Smith 4811 

(F, G, N). Pejivalle, Standley & Valeria 47172 (N). Talamanca, 

Tonduz 8655 (N), 9324 (Bo, Brux, N). La Colombiana Farm, 

Standley 36958 (N). Guapiles, Standley 37186 (N), 37314 (N). El 

Arenal, Standley & Valerio 45038 (N), 45158 (N). 

Naranjos Agrios, 

Standley & Valerio 46497 (N). Tilaran, Standley & Valerio 45874 

(N). Puerto Jimenez, Cufodontis 193 (V). Finca Montecristo, 

Standley & Valerio 48549 (N). Sixaola, Dunlap 474 (N). El General, 

Skutch 2617 (N). Bananito, Stork 1197 (Mich). 

PANAMA: Cuming in 1832 (BM) ; 

Seemann 502 (BM) ; Duchassaing 

(P, type of P. serrulata var. pubescens). Marraganti, R. S. Williams 

1150 (Y). Bocas del Toro: Carleton 118 (N). Changuinola Valley, 

Dunlap 526 (N). Chiriqui: Hart (K). Veragua, Warscewicz 2 (Bo), 

227 (B). Canal Zone: Hayes in 1860 (G, Y); Fendler 118 (F, G, K, 

N, P, V); Pittier 2517 (N), 2668 (N); Standley 27308 (N), 28702 (N), 

29503 (N), 30225 (N), 509-47 (N), 31280 (N); Kt7% 5585 (Roch); 

Cowell 42 (Y); Crawford 463 (Ph, Y), 528 (Cal, Ph); Piper 5519 

(N, Y), 5855 (N); Greenman & Greenman 220 (Mo); Bailey & Bailey 

108 (N), 221 (N); Barclay 989 (BM). Panama: Tapia River, Maxon 

6678 (N), 6683 (N), 6695 (N), 5755 (Gen, N, P}; Standley 28101 (N), 

50605 (N). Tecumen River, Killip 3313 (N, Roch); Standley 29362 

(N). Orange River, Killip 3335 (N, Roch). Pacora, Paul 292 (N). 

- Colon: Porto Bello, Billberg in 1826 (S). 

CUBA: Santa Clara: Soledad, cultivated, Jack 7648 (N). 

JAMAICA (cultivated): Hope Gardens, Perkins 25 (B), 1449 (B). 

Kingston, Maxon & Killip 1733 (N). 

VENEZUELA: Rio Orinoco, Humboldt & Bonpland (BW, perhaps 

type of P. vitifolia var. cassiquiarensis) ; Rusby & Squires 4 (BM, F, 

G, Minn, N, Y). Amazonas: Tamatama, Rio Orinoco, Holt & 

Gehriger 267 (N). Brazo Cassiquiare, Holt & Blake 650 (N), 675 (N). 

COLOMBIA: Mutis 3462 (Ma, N). Goajira: Santa Clara, Linden 

1652 (Gen, P). Magdalena: El Pen6n, Humboldt & Bonpland 1531 

(B, type). Rio Magdalena, Stilbel 106a (B); Dawe 443 (K, N). 

Santa Marta, H. H. Smith 1530 (B, BM, Brux, CM, F, G, Gen, K, N, 

P, Ph, S, Ut, Y) ; 

Schultze 550 (B). Naranjo, Andre 270 (K). Puerto 

Nacional, Andre 234 (K). Bolivar: Rio Sinu, Pennell 4625 (Y). 

Turbaco, Schott 1 (Y). Santander: Kalbreyer 675 (B, K). Puerto 

Wilches, Kittip & Smith 14739 (A, G, N, Y). Barranca Bermeja, 

Niemeyer 5 (N). Rio Magdalena, Goudot (P). El Centre, Haught


1262 (N). Boyaca: Mt. Chapon, Lawrance 607 (Gen, S, Ut, Y). 

Cundinamarca: Guaduas, Levy in 1851 (P). Villeta, Karsten (B, 

V, type of P. servitensis}. Tena, Triana 2941 (BM, Gen, HNC). 

Meta: Villavicencio, Pennell 1548 (N, Y). Llano de San Martin, 

Triana 2940 (BM, HNC, K, P). Caqueta: Florencia, Perez 74? 

(N). Tolima: Libano, Pennell 3387 (Y). Melgar, Dawe in 1919 

(K). Antioquia: Puerto Berrio, Archer 1436 (N); Tow 1116 (Y). 

Turbo, Schott (F). El Choco: Quibdo, Archer 2167 (N), 2217 (N). 

El Valle: Cisneros, Kittip 11462 (G, N). Buenaventura, Lehmann 

881 (B, Bo, K). Rio Dagua, Lehmann XII (Bo), 1923 (Bo). 

ECUADOR: Napo-Pastaza: Zatzayacu, Mexia 7117 (N). 

PERU: Ruiz & Pawn (BM, type of P. punicea). 

Juanjui, Alto Rio Huallaga, Klug 4190 (N). 

San Martin: 

This is the only species of Distephana in Central America and 

northwestern South America, and its brilliant scarlet flowers are conspicuous 

in the tropical forests. It has symmetrically 3-lobed leaves, 

only the sterile young shoots having unlobed leaves. The flowers, at 

least in a dried state, show little difference from those of P. quadriglandulosa, 

but the latter species has a much scantier indument and 

the leaves show a great degree of dimorphism. The leaves, bracts, 

and indument of the specimens cited above vary but slightly. The 

type of P. servitensis var. bracteosa, however, has large, oval bracts, 

and this may be considered a variety of P. vitifolia. 

Passiflora vitifolia is known from Peru from only two collections, 

one the type of P. punicea R. & P., the other a fine series of specimens 

recently obtained by Mr. Klug in the Huallaga Valley. In this 

material the teeth of the leaves are less prominent and the bracts are 

ovate rather than oblong or oblong-lanceolate; otherwise it seems 

to differ in no way from specimens from farther northward. 

Masters cites several Brazilian specimens as P. vitifolia; those 

which I have seen, however, are better referred to P. speciosa, and the 

others perhaps belong also to that species or to P. quadriglandulosa. 

LOCAL NAMES: "Guate-guate" (Panama); "curuvito," "granadilla" 

(Colombia). 

187a. Passiflora vitifolia var. bracteosa (Karst.) Killip, comb. nov. 

Passiflora servitensis var. bracteosa Karst. Fl. Columb. 1: 103. 

pi. 51. 1858-61. 

Bracts broadly ovate, 2.5 to 3 cm. long, 1.6 to 2 cm. wide, ciliate 

and glandular at margin.

TYPE LOCALITY: "In cordillera Meridensi, reipublicae Venezuela." 


DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 

VENEZUELA: Me>ida: Sardineta, Karsten (V, type of P. servitensis 

var. bracteosa). 

188. Passiflora speciosa Gardn. in Fielding & Gardn. Sert. PI. 

pi. 17. 1844. 

Plant ferruginous- villosulous-tomentose nearly throughout; stem 

terete, striate; stipules setaceous, 4 to 5 mm. long, deciduous; 

petioles 1.5 to 2 cm. long, obsoletely 4-glandular, the glands imbedded 

in the tomentum ; 

leaves 3-lobed one-half to seven-eighths their length 

(lobes linear-oblong to broadly ovate-oblong, more rarely linear, 

4 to 12 cm. long, 0.7 to 5 cm. wide, obtuse, acute, or acuminate, 

singly or doubly crenate-denticulate), rounded, subtruncate, or 

cordulate at base, membranous, grayish- or ferruginous-pilosuloustomentose 

beneath, especially on nerves and veins; peduncles 7 to 

12 cm. long, terete, stout; bracts oblong, 3.5 to 4 cm. long, 0.8 to 

1 cm. wide, acute, conspicuously 2-4-glandular at base, minutely 

glandular-serrulate toward apex, dull red; flowers bright red, scarlet, 

or crimson; calyx tube cylindric-campanulate, 7 to 10 mm. long, 

about 8 mm. wide, tomentulous without; sepals oblong, 4 to 5 cm. 

long, 0.8 to 1.3 cm. wide, obtuse, slightly carinate, the keel terminating 

in an awn 3 to 5 mm. long; petals oblong-lanceolate, subequal to 

the sepals; corona in 2 ranks, the outer filamentose to base, the 

filaments awl-shaped, about 1.5 cm. long, purple-banded, the inner 

rank filamentose to below middle, about 0.8 cm. long; operculum 

dependent, the margin recurved, crenulate or denticulate; ovary 

ovoid, densely sericeo-villosulous; fruit ovoid, about 6 cm. long and 

2.5 cm. in diameter, minutely villosulous; seeds strongly compressed, 

about 5 mm. long and 3 mm. wide, minutely reticulate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Organ Mountains, Brazil. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Fielding & Gardn. Sert. PI. pi. 17; Mart. FI. 

Bras. 13, pt. I: pi. 120. 

DISTRIBUTION: East-central Brazil. 

BRAZIL: Sello 2132 (B, K), 2150 (B). Serra da Piedade, Warming 

1175 (Cop, P). Serra da Mantiqueira, Warming 1171 (Cop), 1185 

(Cop). Matto Grosso: Weddell 3395 (P). Rio Paraguay, Moore 

498 (BM, Y), 824 (BM). Santa Cruz da Barra, Lindman A2825 (S). 

Cuyabd, Malme in 1902 (S), in 1903 (S). Minas Geraes: Gardner


4691 (B, BM, Gen, K, V);Claussen 379 (Gen, P), 380 (P); St. Hilaire 

590 (P). Itambe", Pohl 923 (K). Araponga, 1,000 meters, Bailey & 

Bailey 1156 (N). Vicosa, 650 meters, Chase 10201 (N), 10216 (N); 

Mexia 4138 (Gen, N), 4795 (N); Rolfs in 1928 (N). Santa Izabel, 

Barreto 875 (N). Serra do Caraca, Barreto 887 (N). Fazenda da 

Cachoeira, Barreto 1522 (N). Fazenda Vargem Alegre, Barreto 1604 

(N). Rio de Janeiro: Organ Mountains, Gardner 426 (BM, type, 

Gen); Glaziou 1598 (Brux, Cop, P); Miers (BM). Cantagallo, 

Peckolt 253 (V), 396 (Brux). Itambe, Pohl & Schott 3588 (V). 

Passiflora speciosa is very similar to P. vitifolia, and the two 

species may be distinguished from each other only with considerable 

difficulty. 

LOCAL NAME: "Murucuja incarnada." 

Subgenus XVI. 

CALOPATHANTHUS 

189. Passiflora racemosa Brot. Trans. Linn. Soc. 12: 71. pi. 6. 

1817. 

Passiflora princeps Lodd. Bot. Cab. 1 : 

pi. 84. 1817. 

Plant glabrous throughout; stem subquadrangular, the older 

parts cinereous, corrugate, the younger light green, striate; stipules 

broadly ovate, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, 0.7 to 1 cm. wide, acute and 

mucronulate at apex, rounded at base, oblique, membranous or subcoriaceous, 

deciduous; petioles 2 to 4 cm. long, slender, biglandular, 

the glands sessile; leaves polymorphic, ovate and unlobed, asymmetrically 

lobed on one side, or usually symmetrically 3-lobed to 

below middle (6 to 10 cm. along midnerve, 4 to 8 cm. along lateral 

nerves, 6 to 11 cm. between apices of lateral lobes; lobes oblong, 

2 to 3 cm. wide, acute or subobtuse, often biglandular at the sinuses), 

subpeltate, truncate or cordate at base, entire, 5-nerved, coriaceous; 

inflorescence pseudoracemose, the pedicels about 1 cm. long, articulate, 

solitary or in pairs on elongate (50 to 75 cm. long) stipulebearing, 

reflexed, terete branches, which are leafless or bear much 

reduced leaves; bracts setaceous(?), soon deciduous; calyx tube 

short-cylindric, 0.8 to 1.5 cm. long, 0.7 to 1.2 cm. wide, sulcate at 

base, reddish purple at throat without (when dry) ; sepals oblong, 

3.5 to 4 cm. long, up to 1 cm. wide, cucullate, carinate, corniculate, 

red; petals oblong, slightly shorter than sepals, obtuse, reddish 

(or white?); corona in 3 series, each filamentose to base, the outer 

2 ranks at throat of tube 3 to 5 mm. long, the innermost slightly 

below, 2.5 to 3 mm. long; operculum borne at side of tube just above 

base, the lower part horizontally spreading inward for about 2 mm.,


then abruptly recurved, the main portion erect, tubular, about 1 cm. 

long, denticulate; limen none; ovary narrowly ovoid; fruit narrowly 

ovoid, 5 to 7 cm. long, 1.5 to 3 cm. wide, obtuse at apex, the exocarp 

coriaceous; the seeds are obovate, about 5 mm. long, 3.5 mm. wide, 

reticulate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Type cultivated, probably of 

Brazilian origin. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Lodd. Bot. Cab. 1: pi. 84; Trans. Linn. Soc. 12: 

pi. 6; 27: pi. 64; Bot. Reg. 4: pi 285; Bot. Mag. 45: pi. 2001; Veil. 

Fl. Flumin. 9: pi. 93; Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: pi 125; Nicholson, 

111. Diet. Gard. 3:32./. 36. 

DISTRIBUTION: State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 

European horticulture. 

Introduced into 

BRAZIL: Rio de Janeiro: Rio de Janeiro, Riedel 717 (N); Weddell 

161 (Gen) ; 

Glaziou 3655 (Brux), 3992 (Cop, P) ; Warming 1165 (Cop) ; 

Peltiers 3041 (Gen); Gardner 1147 (BM); Miers 3041 (BM, K); 

Gaudichaud 1032 (Gen, P); Pohl 921 (K, V); St. Hilaire 1811 (P); 

Martins (B); Bowie & Cunningham 97 (BM). 

Corcovado, Patschke 

26 (B); Rose & Russell 20231 (N, Y); Mosen 2503 (S); Widgren 921 

(S). Tijuca, Schwarz (V). Cabo Frio, Chase 10125 (N). Morro 

do Canvallao, Smith & Erode (L. B. Smith 2341; G). Sumidorio, 

Langsdorff (N). 

Harms has created the section (here subgenus) Calopathanthus 

for this species because of the unique shape of the operculum, at 

first spreading inward, then curved back, finally erect, forming a 

cylindric tube. 

In most of the specimens here cited the leaves are all threelobed, 

though in a few instances some are entire; in Chase 10115 

all the leaves are entire. 

one of the most showy of passionflowers, 

Passiflora racemosa is 

and has been frequently introduced into cultivation, where it has 

often been known as P. princeps. Both names were proposed in 

1817 and there is uncertainty as to which was the earlier. As the 

name P. racemosa has generally been used in taxonomic treatments, 

I am retaining it. 

Horticultural hybrids have been developed between P. racemosa 

and other species, to which names have been assigned, as P. atropurpurea 

and P. Loudoni (P. racemosaXP. kermesina?), P. Lawsoniana 

(P. racemosaXP. alata), and P. Paxtoni. Passiflora amabilis 

is said to be a hybrid between P. racemosa and P. alata.


Subgenus XVII. TAGSONIOIDES 

190. Passiflora Luetzelburgii Harms, Repert. Sp. Nov. 19: 32. 

1923. 

Plant more or less villosulous throughout; stem sub terete; stipules 

linear or filiform, deciduous; petioles 3 to 8 mm. long, minutely 

biglandular at or below middle; leaves 4 to 5 cm. long, 2 to 4 cm. 

wide, entire and oblong or ovate, or with a pair of obsolete lateral 

lobes, rounded or obtuse, mucronulate or slightly emarginate at 

apex, rounded and often emarginate at base, conspicuously penninerved 

(nerves impressed above), short-pilose above, densely villosulous 

beneath; peduncles 2 to 2.5 cm. long; bracts lanceolate-oblong 

or oblong, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, 0.5 to 0.7 cm. wide, lacerate-pectinate, 

villosulous; calyx tube broadly cylindric, 1.5 to 2 cm. long, about 

1 cm. wide at throat, slightly dilated at base; sepals oblong-lanceolate, 

2 to 2.5 cm. long, slightly cucullate and pilosulous at apex, 

corniculate; petals lanceolate-oblong (?); corona filamentose, 3- 

ranked, the filaments 4 to 7 mm., 1 to 1.5 

mm., and about 2 mm. 

long, respectively; operculum membranous, erect; ovary narrowly 

ovoid, glabrous. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Piauhy, Brazil (type in Munich Herbarium). 

Brazil. 


in eastern 

BRAZIL: Piauhy: Luetzelburg 1681 (B, fragment and a sketch 

of type). 

Doubtless this species belongs to the subgenus Tacsonioides, as 

Harms suggests, but it differs greatly from the four other known 

species of that group. The stipules are setaceous and the plant is 

densely villosulous. The leaves are wholly unlike those of its near 

relatives, resembling, in a general way, those of P. holosericea. 

191. Passiflora reflexiflora Cav. Icon. PI. 5: 15. pi. 425. 1799. 

Tacsonia reflexiflora Juss. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 6: 393. 1805. 

Passiflora reflexa J. E. Sm. in Rees, Cycl. Passiflora No. 35. 1819. 

Erndelia reflexiflora Raf. Fl. Tellur. 4: 104. 1838. 

Tacsonia laevis Benth. PI. Hartw. 118. 1843. 

Passiflora hastata Ruiz & Pav. ex Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, 

pt. 1: 569. 1872, as synonym. Not P. hastata Bertol. 

Passiflora lorifera Mast. Journ. Linn. Soc. 20: 42. pi. 20, f. 4. 

1883, as to foliage. (For status of Passiflora lorifera see 

discussion under P. macrophylla.')


Plant essentially glabrous throughout; stem slender, terete, the 

younger portions usually subangular; stipules semi-ovate, 1 to 3 cm. 

long, 0.5 to 1.5 cm. wide, obtuse, mucronulate, rounded at base, 

entire or slightly crenulate, glabrous or minutely pubescent above; 

petioles very slender, up to 1.5 cm. long, 4-6-glandular (glands stipitate, 

about 1 mm. long); leaves 3 to 5 cm. long, 4 to 6 cm. wide, 

hastately 3-lobed (lobes obtuse, the middle 1.5 to 3 cm. wide, about 

twice as long as the lateral lobes), cordate at base, entire or remotely 

serrulate; peduncles up to 6.5 cm. long; bracts ovate, 1 to 1.2 cm. 

long, 8 to 10 mm. wide, rounded at apex, acutish at base, sessile; 

flowers crimson or red; calyx tube narrowly cylindric, 2 to 2.5 cm. 

long, uniformly about 5 mm. wide, slightly enlarged at base, glabrous; 

sepals linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, 2.5 to 3 cm. long, 6 to 8 mm. 

wide, cucullate, minutely corniculate, reflexed; petals linear, 2 to 2.5 

cm. long, 4 to 5 mm. wide, reflexed; corona in 3 series, short-filamentose, 

the outer (upper) filaments about 2 mm. long, the succeeding 

shorter; operculum borne about 2 mm. above base of tube, erect, 

membranous, 1.5 to 2 mm. high, minutely crenulate at margin, white; 

limen membranous, 5 mm. high, adnate to gynophore, slightly sulcate, 

the margin free; ovary ovoid, glabrous; fruit ovoid, about 6 cm. long, 

4.5 cm. wide, the exocarp brittle, yellowish (?); seeds subturbinate, 

6 to 7 mm. long, 3 to 4 mm. wide, tridentate at apex (middle tooth 

longest), narrowed at base, coarsely reticulate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Near Bodegas, on road to Guayaquil, Ecuador. 

(The first locality mentioned by Cavanilles is "Panamaide" [Panama], 

another instance of a confusion in NeVs locality data.) 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Cav. Icon. PI. 5: pi. 425; Journ. Linn. Soc. 20: 

pi. 20, f. 4- 

DISTRIBUTION: Probably confined to coastal region of Ecuador. 

ECUADOR: Warscewicz (B);Fraser (BM);Couthouy in 1859 (G). 

Guayas: Guayaquil, Nee (Ma, type); Hartweg 662 (K, type of 

Tacsonia laevis) ; 

Sinclair (K) ; Brenning 233 (B) ; Barclay 2458 (BM) ; 

Stevens 19 (N); Lehmann 105 (B, Bo, K, N, cited by Masters as 

P. aristulata)', Rose 22110 (N); Hitchcock 20149 (G, N); Rowlee & 

Mixter 1097 (N) ; 

Mille 7 (N), 50 (N) ; 

Heilborn 582 (B, S) ; 

Andersson 

124 (S); Andre 4084bis (K); Ruiz & Pavdn (BM, Gen, Ma); Haenke 

2285 (Pr) ;Mexia 6764 (N) ; 

Jameson (V). Rio Guayas, Andre4068 (K). 

This is one of the species that has been placed at various positions 

in taxonomic treatments of Passiflora. Masters referred it to Granadilla, 

ignoring De Candolle's section Tacsonioides, of which it was


the type species. 

The relatively long calyx tube, subequal to the 

sepals, is characteristic of Tacsonia, not of Granadilla, but the erect 

operculum and the 3-ranked corona at once eliminate it from Tacsonia. 

In certain respects the group approaches Pseudomurucuja. 

I believe that this is a species of very local distribution, confined 

to the region about Guayaquil, Ecuador. Masters gives (in Mart. 

Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 569) four extra-Ecuadorean localities as follows: 

(1) Guatemala, Hartweg 662, which is the type of Tacsonia laevis, 

and which according to Bentham came from Guayaquil; (2) Peru, 

Ruiz & Pavdn; the label on the sheet at Geneva reads "Nueva 

Espana"; on that at the British Museum "Peru, prob. Ecuador"; 

and on that in the Ruiz and Pavon Herbarium at Madrid, "Guayaquil"; 

(3) Tarapoto, Peru, Spruce 3923; this is true P. tarapotina; 

(4) Maynas, Peru, Poeppig. This specimen, which I have seen at 

Vienna, is also P. tarapotina. 

LOCAL NAME: "Norvo." 

192. Passiflora tarapotina Harms, Verh. Bot. Verein. Brandenburg 

48: 185. 1906. 

(t)Tacsonia glauca Poepp. ex Mast, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1: 

569. 1872, as synonym. 

Plant glabrous throughout; stem slender, wiry, sub terete; stipules 

semi-ovate, up to 2.5 cm. long, 1 cm. wide, mucronulate, rounded at 

base, remotely glandular-serrulate; petioles 2.5 to 4 cm. long, wiry, 

biglandular near middle, the glands minute, stipitate; leaves 6 to 8 

cm. long, 9 to 10 cm. wide, 3-lobed to below middle (lobes oblong, 

2.5 to 3 cm. wide, obtuse or acutish, mucronulate at apex, the sides 

nearly parallel, the lateral lobes ascending), subpeltate, subtruncate 

or cordulate at base, 5-nerved, entire, membranous, or subcoriaceous, 

glaucous beneath; peduncles 10 to 16 cm. long, slender; bracts 

narrowly oblong to ovate-oblong, 10 to 15 mm. long, 2 to 6 mm. wide, 

acute at apex, narrowed at base, serrulate, membranous; flowers 

"rose-purplish"; calyx tube cylindric, 2 to 2.5 cm. long; sepals linearoblong, 

subequal to tube, cucullate, slightly carinate, the keel terminating 

in a foliaceous awn about 1 cm. long; corona in 3 or 4 closely 

approximate ranks, each filamentose, the filaments barely 1 mm. 

long, those of the upper 2 ranks erect, those of the lowest reflexed; 

operculum borne about 5 mm. above base of tube, about 8 mm. long, 

erect, filamentose half its length; limen membranous, about 7 mm. 

high, closely adnate to gynophore, denticulate, glabrous. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Tarapoto, Peru.

DISTRIBUTION: Northern Peru. 


PERU: San Martin: Tarapoto, Spruce 8928 (K, V); Ule 6462 (B, 

type, Gen, Go, K); L. Williams 5418 (N), 5555 (N), 5709 (F), 5776 

(N). Loreto: Juanjay, Province of Mainas, Poeppig in 1830 (V, 

type of Tacsonia glauca). 

The leaves and stipules are much like those of P. aristulata, P. 

subulata, and P. subpeltata, of Granadilla, series Lobatae. 

The large 

flowers, with a developed, cylindric calyx tube at once distinguish it 

from these. 

193. Passiflora umbilicata (Griseb.) Harms in Engl. & Prantl, 

Pflanzenfam. 3, 6a: 91. 1893. 

Tacsonia umbilicata Griseb. Abh. Ges. Wiss. Gottingen 19: 149. 

1874. 

Passiflora ianthina Mast. Journ. Bot. Brit. & For. 21: 36. 1883. 

Plant glabrous throughout; stem subterete, striate; stipules semiovate, 

1 to 2 cm. long, 0.5 to 1 cm. wide, mucronate, glandularcrenate-serrate; 

petioles up to 3.5 cm. long, slender, wiry, glandless or 

minutely biglandular at middle; leaves 2 to 6 cm. long, 3.5 to 7.5 cm. 

wide, 3-lobed to or to slightly below middle (lobes oblong-ovate, 

1 to 2.5 cm. wide, rounded or acutish at apex, mucronulate), cordulate, 

5-7-nerved, entire or slightly undulate, subcoriaceous, hyaline at 

margin; peduncles up to 9 cm. long, stout, terete; bracts cordateovate, 

1.5 to 3 cm. long, 1.3 to 2 cm. wide, rounded or subacute, 

crenate-serrate, membranous, purple or reddish purple; flowers 

reddish purple, violet, or dark blue; calyx tube cylindric, 1.5 to 3.5 

cm. long, 0.4 to 0.9 cm. wide, subequaling or shorter than sepals, 

sulcate at base; sepals linear-oblong, 2 to 3 cm. long, 0.4 to 0.6 cm. 

wide, cucullate, carinate, the keel terminating in a foliaceous awn 

about 5 mm. long; petals linear-oblong, subequal to sepals, obtuse; 

corona filamentose, the filaments in about 5 series, the outermost 

3 to 4 mm. long, the succeeding 3 series barely 1 mm., the innermost 

2 to 3 mm.; operculum borne about 2 mm. above base of tube, erect, 

about 3 mm. long, subentire; limen none; gynophore very slender, 

swollen at base; fruit ovoid, 6 to 7 cm. long, about 4 cm. in diameter, 

the exocarp coriaceous, yellowish; seeds oblong-obovate, about 5 mm. 

long, 4 mm. wide, shallowly tridentate at truncate apex, coarsely 

reticulate. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Catamarca, Argentina. 

ILLUSTRATION: Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 21: 505. /. 233, 

C,D.


DISTRIBUTION: Central Bolivia to northern Argentina, 2,500 to 


BOLIVIA: Bridges (BM, type of P. ianthina); Cuming 202 (V). 

Micani Region, Cardenas 3397 (N). La Paz: South Yungas, Kuntze 

in 1892 (Y). Ocubi, Kuntze in 1892 (Y). Cochabamba: Capachuncho, 

Steinbach 8635 (Gen, K, Mo, Ut, Y). Tarija: Tucumilla, 

Fiebrig 2-45.4 (B, BM, G, Gen, K, N, P, S, Ut, V, Y). Chuquisaca: 

Province of Tomina, Weddell (P). 

PARAGUAY: La Playa, Jorgensen 1211 (Cal, G, N). 

ARGENTINA: Sierra Velasco, Hieronymus & Niederlein 59 (B). 

Jujuy: La Soledad, Venturi 9011 (N). Tileara, Venturi 9218 (N). 

Salta: Yacone, Hieronymus & Lorentz 294 (B). Catamarca: Lorentz 

105b (B, type); Schickendantz 113 (B). Alto de Toma, Schickendantz 

46 (B). 

Harms places this species in a section Umbilicatae of Tacsonia, 

but certainly its relationship is with P. reflexiflora and P. tarapotina, 

rather than with the tacsonias. The foliage, as well as the general 

flower structure, is very similar to that of P. tarapotina. 

In Weddell's specimen from Bolivia the calyx tube is slightly 

shorter than the sepals, but otherwise the specimen agrees well with 

the other material here cited. 

LOCAL NAME: "Locosti" (Bolivia). 

194. Passiflora Mendoncaei Harms, Repert. Sp. Nov. 18: 297. 

1922. 

Passiflora rhodoptera Duse"n ex Harms, Notizbl. 10: 819. 1929, 

as synonym. 

Plant glabrous throughout; stem slender, terete; stipules oblonglanceolate 

or oblong, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, 0.5 to 0.8 cm. wide, acutish, 

mucronulate, oblique; petioles 1 to 2 cm. long, minutely biglandular 

at middle or with 2 additional glands above middle; leaves 3 to 5 cm. 

long, 3.5 to 7 cm. wide, 3-lobed one-quarter to one-third their length 

(lobes broadly ovate, 1.5 to 2 cm. wide, obtuse or rounded at apex), 

subpeltate, rounded or subtruncate at base, 3-5-nerved, membranous, 

sublustrous above, glaucous or violet beneath; peduncles 5 to 10 cm. 

long, slender; bracts ovate-oblong, 3 to 4 cm. long, 1.5 to 2.5 cm. 

wide, rounded and apiculate at apex, narrowed at base, free, membranous, 

reddish purple; calyx tube cylindric, 1.5 to 2 cm. long, 

1 cm. wide; sepals linear-lanceolate, 3 to 4 cm. long, 6 to 8 mm. wide, 

cucullate, corniculate, the horn terminating in an awn about 2 mm.


long; petals subequal to sepals; corona in 2 series, 

filamentose, the 

outer filaments 4 to 5 mm. long, the inner 2 to 3 mm. long; operculum 

membranous, erect, fimbriate; limen cupuliform, closely surrounding 

base of gynophore; ovary narrowly ovoid, glabrous. 

TYPE LOCALITY: Sao Paulo, Brazil. 

DISTRIBUTION: Southern Brazil. 

BRAZIL: Sao Paulo: Mendonfa 458 (B, type). 

Parana: Carvalho, 

1,050 meters, Dusen 13320 (Gen, S), 13328 (S). Caiguava, 1,300 

meters, Dusen 8963 (BM, K, N, S). 

The leaves and stipules of P. Mendoncaei and P. elegans are very 

similar, but the former species has a cylindric calyx and long peduncles, 

whereas in P. elegans the tube is campanulate and the peduncles 

are barely 1 cm. long. 

Harms originally placed this in Granadilla, remarking that it was 

one of the species intermediate between that group and Tacsonia. 

However, it is better placed in Tacsonioides. 

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