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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 I 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 liirsuta L. Sp. PI. 958. 1753. 

 Passiflora angustifoUa 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^: 582, 1872. 



Type locality: Not cited, presumably West Indian. 



Distribution: Dry hillsides, southern Oriente: — continental 

 tropical America. 



