82 DER. MAXWELL T. MASTERS ON THE 
dicti Rio Chipalo obvius. Flores candidi iis Ctr? Aurantit sub- 
similes. Hd. André n. 1945. Guataquicito, ad rip. sinist. flum. 
Magdalene Nov. Granat., alt. 360 met.—Arbuscula 4-5 met. alt., 
rami ascendentes in capite frondoso congesti ; flor. candidi, sta- 
minib. luteis, stigmat. viridib. ; fruct. oblong. minor edulis. Ver- 
nacule “ Gulupo." Hd. André 1945.” 
In the subgenus Astrophea, Messrs. Triana and Planchon include 
P. Lindeniana, Planch. MSS., P. ocanensis, Planch. & Lind., P. 
spherocarpa, Triana & Planch., and P. pubera, Planch. & Lind., 
specimens of the two first of which I had referred to P. emar- 
ginata, Humb. & Bonpland, and examples of the two latter to 
P. ovata, Martin. Without fuller examination than I am at 
present able to make, I can offer no opinion as to the validity of 
these species. The type of P. ovata, Martin, is in the British 
Museum; but it is not in a state to permit of examining the 
flower except superficially. In any easeit differs greatly from the 
plant described by Triana and Planchon, J. c. p. 184 adnot., from 
a specimen of Melinon n. 210 in the Paris herbarium, but which 
I have not seen. From the description, however, I take this to 
be the same species as was gathered on the Corembyne river by 
Mr. Im Thurn, and of which I append a description *. 
As to M. André's specimens above referred to, I cannot iden- 
tify them with certainty with either of the forms described by 
MM. Triana and Planchon. M. André, indeed, who has com- 
pared them with authentic specimens in the Paris herbarium, 
refers them to P. spherocarpa; but that is described (l. c.) as 
being *glaberrima," and as having leaves glaucous beneath. 
Moreover, the fruit is described, probably by inadvertence, as 
“capsula.” M. André's plants are, in some respects, like the 
specimens referred to P. pubera; but they have smaller, much 
less pubescent leaves, representing, perbaps, the form spoken 
of (p. 185) as having “feuilles moins pubescentes ou presque 
* P. EuINULA, Mast., sp. n. (8 Granadilla); foliis breve petiolatis, petiolis striatis 
apice biglandulosis, laminis puberulis obovato-oblongis cordatis acutis; floris 
(8-9 cm. diam.) tubo (1 cm.) glabro campanulato; sepalis coriaceis oblongo- 
obtusis; petalis subconformibus minoribus albidis; corona fauciali filamentosa 
pluriseriata, filis extimis petalis subzequilongis, basi a latere complanatis, superne 
2-3-lob., lobis obtusis crassis crispatis, lobo terminali longe producto filiformi 
tuberculis minimis dense obsito ; filis interioribus simplicibus sensim minoribus ; 
corona media membranacea e medio tubi deflexa ; corona inframediana carno- 
sula; gynandrophoro angulato, Supra basin dilatato ; ovario cuboideo, sulcato, 
pubescente.— Ad flumen Corembyne, Im Thurn in herb. Kew. Vide tab. XX. 
