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14. Passiflora pseudociliata sp. nov. 



? Passiflora ciliata polyadena Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 285. 1866. 



Herbaceous, glabrous, 2 m. long or less. Leaves membranous, 

 but not flaccid, variously 3-lobed, or sometimes 5-lobed, 2-8 cm. 

 broad, bearing few or many slender-stalked glands, or glandless, 

 the lobes oblong, acute or obtuse, few-toothed or entire, the 

 slender petioles 1-5 cm. long; peduncles solitary in the axils, 

 longer than the petioles, sometimes nearly as long as the leaves; 

 bracts pectinate-pinnatifid; flowers blue, 4-6 cm. broad; petals 

 narrowly oblong, blunt; crown-processes filiform, much shorter 

 than the petals; fruit inflated, bladdery, ellipsoid or subglobose, 

 red, 3-6 cm. long, short-stipitate, longer than the bracts. 



Barren hillsides and coastal thickets, Camaguey, Santa Clara, 

 Matanzas, Havana, Pinar del Rio. 



Type from rocky soil in savanna near Camaguey (Britton & 

 Cowell 13155)- 



Referred by Grisebach to P. ciliata Ait., and by Combs to 

 P. foetida L. 



Specimens from the Sierra Nipe, Oriente, with large leaves and 

 fruit (Shafer J081, 3618) are doubtfully referred to P. ciliata Ait., 

 but they do not show the bracts, which, in P. ciliata of Jamaica, 

 are as long as the fruit or longer. 



15. Passiflora penduliflora Bert.; DC. Prodr. 3: 326. 1828 



Type locality: Jamaica. 



Distribution: Coastal woods and thickets, Oriente, Cam- 

 aguey : — Jamaica. 



16. Passiflora rubra L. Sp. PI. 956. 1753 



Type locality: Martinique. 



Distribution : Banks and thickets at lower and middle eleva- 

 tions, Oriente, Camaguey, Santa Clara, Matanzas, Havana: — • 

 West Indies; continental tropical America. 



The Passiflora puhescens HBK., recorded as Cuban by A. 

 Richard, is, presumably, this species. 



17. Passiflora sexflora Juss. Ann. Mus. Paris 6: no. pi. 37, 



f. I. 1805 

 Type locality: Santo Domingo. 

 Distribution: Thickets and hillsides, Oriente, Santa Clara: — ■ 



