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glabro elliptieo, stylis liguliformibus apice stigmatoso olavatis; fructu baccato, f 

 cent. long. 3 cent. lat. glabro; seminibus coniplanatis foveolatis. 



This species is near P. sicyoides and P. bryonoidee, but specifically very different. 

 The specimens have been carefully compared both at Kew and iit Washington, but 

 there is nothing like it in either collection. 



Collected by Dr. E. Palmer in July, 1897 (No. 283), at the city of Colima, where it 

 is said to grow in shady woods, running over low bushes or trailing over the ground. 

 Dr. Palmer states that the dowers are white with blue markings and very showy, 

 and that the fruit is sometimes eaten. 



Passiflora foetida L. Sp. PI. 2 : 959. 1753. 



This is a very common species. Collected by J. N. Pose at Acapoiieta, Tepic, dune 

 25, 1897 (No. 1466) ; between Pedro Paulo and San Blaseito, Tepic, August 4 (No. 

 1998); near Man Juan Capistrano, Zacatccas, August 20 (No. 2443), and at Bolanos, 

 Jalisco, September 11 (No. 2894). 



Passiflora foetida arida Masters & Rose, var. now 



A very remarkable form, and perhaps distinct from I', foetida, but for the present 

 it seems best to treat it as a variety. 



Specimens collected by J. N. Pose at Guaymas, Sonora (No. 1206), may be described 

 as follows: Stems covered with a soft, whitish, short pubescence; petioles very short ; 

 leaves nearly orbicular in outline, deeply 3-lobed, the lobes nearly equal, rounded 

 at apex, very thick in texture, somewhat reticulated beneath, densely and velvety 

 pubescent on both sides, slightly or not at all glandular; involucral bracts lanate, 

 more or less glandular. 



Here I am inclined to refer the following specimens, although they differ some- 

 what in the shape and cutting of the leaves: 



Edward Palmer's No. 91, from Guaymas, Sonora, 1887; F. S. Maltby's No. 206, from 

 Hermosillo, Sonora, June 10, 1897; J. N. Pose's No. 1318, from La Paz, Juno 14, 1897; 

 T. S. Brandegee's plant, from Comondu, Lower California. March 1 1, 1889, and his No. 

 333, from San Jose, Power California, March to June, 18X7. This form is confined to 

 the most arid parts of western Mexico. 



Passiflora foetida hastata (Bertol.) Masters in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13, pt. 1:583. 1872. 

 P. hastata Bertol. Fl. Guatim. 27. 1840. 

 Leaves soft-velvety, the central lobe much elongated. 

 Here I would refer specimens collected by Dr. E. Palmer at Acapulco, Mexico, in 



1894 and 1895 (Nos. 306 and 315). 



Passiflora mexicana A. Juss. Ann. Mus. Par. 6 : 108, t, 38, f. 2. 1805. 



Collected by J. N. Pose in the State of Jalisco on theroad between Bolanos and 



Guadalajara, September 19, 1897 (No. 3017). 



Passiflora serratifolia L. Sp. PI. 2 : 955. 1753. 



Collected by Mr. E. A. Goldman in the State of Puebla, January 31, 1898 (No. 30). 



This is /'. serratifolia as understood by Masters, but the leaves are less serrate than 

 in Linna'us's figure. 1 



Passiflora sicyoides Cham. Linnsea, 5 : 88. 1830. 



Collected by J. N. Rose in the mountains west of Bolanos, September 15 to 17 

 1897 (No. 2965). 



My specimens are referred to /'. sicyoides on the authority of Dr. Masters. They 

 differ from the description of /'. sici/oidex in several important respects. In my speci- 

 mens the leaves are equally 3dobed, the lobes being rounded or occasionally acute, 

 not glandular at base, etc., while P. sicyoides is described as having the lobes trian- 

 gular and acuminate, the central one elongated and biglandtrlar at the sinus; the 

 petiolular glands in my plant are globular, sessile or nearly so, and not club-shaped, 



1 Amoen. Acad. 1 : 1. 10, fig, /. 



