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5. Passiflora pallens Poepp.; Masters in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13 1 : 



567. pi. 128, f. 4. 1872 



Type locality: Cuba. 



Distribution: Thickets, Havana, Pinar del Rio: Florida; 

 Venezuela. 



Recorded by Grisebach and by Sauvalle as P. stipulata Aubl. 



6. Passiflora cuprea L. Sp. PI. 955. 1753 



Type locality: New Providence, Bahamas. 

 Distribution: Near Baracoa, Oriente; cays of northern 

 Camaguey : Bahamas. 



7. Passiflora nipensis sp. nov. 



Glabrous, glandless, slender, 8 dm. long or longer. Leaves 

 cuneate, 2-lobed to the middle or beyond, 1.5-3 cm long, rather 

 strongly 3-nerved, the nerves impressed above, prominent be- 

 neath, excurrent, the secondary venation sparse and slender, the 

 lobes lanceolate, acute, the slender petioles 2.5-5 mm - long; 

 tendrils filiform, 2-4 cm. long; peduncles solitary or geminate in 

 the axils, 10-14 mm. long; fruit globose, dark blue, about 1.5 cm. 

 in diameter; seeds oblong, transversely ridged, about 3 mm. long. 



Open dry situations in pine lands, Sierra Nipe near Woodfred, 



Oriente, 500-650 m. alt. (Shafer 3554). 



8. Passiflora cubensis Urban, Symb. Ant. 3: 326. 1902 



Passiflora coriacea A. Rich, in Sagra, Hist. Cub. 10: 288. 1845. 



Not Juss. 



Type locality : Cuba. 



Distribution: Serpentine barrens, savannas and coastal 

 thickets, Oriente, Camaguey, Santa Clara, Havana. Endemic. 



Referred by Grisebach to P. murucuja L. and to P. oblongata 

 Sw. The species is variable in leaf- form. 



9. Passiflora Shaferi sp. nov. 



A glabrous vine, about 2 m. long. Leaves thin, elliptic- 

 obovate, 4-5 cm. long, bluntly and shallowly 3-lobed at the apex, 

 rounded or obtuse at the base, strongly 3-nerved, each nerve 

 extending to a lobe and scarcely, if at all, excurrent, with 2 weaker 

 short basal nerves, both surfaces reticulate-veined, the upper 



