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surface somewhat shining, the lower dull, the glandless petioles 

 4-7 mm. long; peduncles mostly 2 together in the axils, 1-2 cm. 

 long; bractlets subulate, 1.5-2 mm. long; flowers about 3 cm. 

 long, red, the tube cylindric, 1-1.5 cm. long; fruit subglobose, 

 about 1 cm. in diameter. 



Between Navas and Camp Buena Vista, Oriente, at 650 m. 

 alt. (Shafer 4466). 



10. Passiflora Berteriana Balb.; DC. Prodr. 3: 325. 1828 



Type locality: Santo Domingo. 



Distribution: Recorded by Grisebach as collected in Cuba 

 by Wright: Santo Domingo. 



11. Passiflora pallida L. Sp. PI. 955. 1753 



Passiflora minima L. Sp. PI. 959. 1753. 

 Passiflora suberosa L. Sp. PI: 958. 1753. 

 Passiflora hirsuta L. Sp. PI. 958. 1753. 

 Passiflora angustifolia Sw. Prodr. 97. 1788. 

 Passiflora hederacea Cav. Diss. 10: 448. 1790. 



Type locality: Santo Domingo. 



Distribution: Banks, thickets and hillsides, all provinces 

 and Isle of Pines: Florida; Bermuda; West Indies and tropical 

 continental America. The many races differ in leaf-form and 

 pubescence. 



12. Passiflora foetida L. Sp. PI. 959. 1753 



Type locality: Dominica. 



Distribution: Thickets and roadsides, Oriente, Havana, 

 Pinar del Rio, Isle of Pines: West Indies; continental tropical 

 America; Old World tropics. 



13. Passiflora gossypifolia Desv. in Hamilt. Prodr. PI. Ind. 



Occ. 48: 1825 



P. foetida gossypifolia Masters in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13 1 : 582. 1872. 



Type locality: Not cited, presumably West Indian. 



Distribution: Dry hillsides, southern Oriente: continental 

 tropical America. 



