326 Ign. Urban: 



latis; Corona exteriore cylindrica margino superiore truncata nunc 

 crenulata, non filamentosa, interiore 5 mm. longa inflexa. 



Passiflora orbiculata Cavan. Dissert. X (1790) p. 456 iah. 286!; 

 Spreng. Syst. III p. 43. 



Murumia orbimlaia Fers. Sijn. II (1807) p. 222; DC. Bodr. III 

 p. 333. 



Passiflora 7nurucuia M. Mast, in Trans. Linn. Soc. XXVII (1871) 



p. 634 et in Marl. Flor. Bras. XIII, I (1872) p. 557 (p.p.), non Linn. 



Gaules scandentes plus minus compressi sulcato-striati glabrescentes. 

 Cirrhi simplices. Folia petiolis minute pilosulis, nervis supra tenuiter, 

 subtus magis prominentibus, dense reticulato-anastomosantibus, giandulis 

 impressis basalibus nullis, inter nervum medium et laterales uniseriatis 

 pellucidis 2 4-nis, supra parum nitida, subtus opaca. Pedunculi 

 l-flori; bracteae ad v. plerumque perpaullo sub articulatione pedicelli ternae 

 lineares verticillatae v. subalternae, 2 3 mm. longae. Floris tubus 

 5 6 mm. longus, 7 mm. crassus, 10-sulcatus, intus cavernas 10 praebens, 

 apice paullo constrictus. Sepala ad basin et superne paullo angustata, 

 apice obtusa, nervis 3 crassioribus et 8 10 tenuioribus percursa, crassius- 

 cule chartacea. Petala tenuia, coronae aequilonga v. paullo breviora, eique 

 in sicco adhaerentia, linearia v. oblonge -linearia, nervis 5 7 percursa. 

 Corona exterior ex sicco ad apicem flava, caeterum rubra, 1,8 2 cm. 

 longa, cylindrica 6 mm. crassa, nervis creberrimis; interior ex apice tubi 

 floris abiens, fere usque ad ejus basin inflexa, 5 mm. longa, membranacea, 

 multiplicata , antice truncata et irregulariter incisa v. scissa, efilamentosa 

 enervis; basilaris nulla. Gynandropliorum sepalis aequilongum, 3,5 4 cm. 

 longum, vix 1 mm. crassum. Staminum tubus gynophoro 2 3 mm. 

 brevior; filamenta 6 7 ram. longa; antherae oblonge -lineares, 6 mm. longae. 

 Ovarium ovale glabrnra; styli 7 mm. longi, apice clavato-globosi, unilatera- 

 liter stigmatosi. Fructus globulosi v. ovali-globulosi, flavi (ex Pic). 



Hab. in Haiti in sylvis umbrosis montis Le Grand Fond: Jaeger 

 n. 178, in Morue Tranchant 400 1800 m. alt., m. Jul., Aug. flor.: 

 Christ n. 1753, 1753\ Picarda n. 772. 



Obs. I. Descriptio et icon ill. Cavanillesii cum nostris plantis bene 

 quadrant praeter liracteas crassiusculas elongatas et corollam deficientem. Sed 

 non dubito, quin cl. autor ulteriorem tenuem brevem coronae in sicco ad- 

 haerentem pallidam ideoque difficile conspicuam negligentia praeterierit. 

 Bracteas autem in P. murucuia (tab. 287) revera setaceas et alternas eodem 

 modo auxit et verticillatim dispositas praebuit. 



Obs. IL P. murucuia L. (ex eadem insula) foliis transversim oblongatis 

 divaricato-bilobis, lobo intermedio non evoluto v. lateralibus breviore, 0,5 

 1,5 cm. longe petiolatis, pedicellis 1,5 2 cm. longis, ad v. sub medio brac- 

 teatis, Corona exteriore usque ad apicem rubra, interiore brevissima parum 

 prominente, staminum tubo usque ad ovarium producto bene diversa est. 



Passiflora ciil)eiisis Urb. (n. sp.) ramis hornotinis superne minute 

 et parce pilosulis; stipulis lineari-subulatis 2 3 mm. longis persisten- 

 tibus, plus minus reflexis v. horizontaliter sitis; foliis petiolos 10 5 mm. 



