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to this description, but is more elongated and ellipsoidal in form. 

 The fruits of P. mixta, according to Messrs. Triana and Planchon, 

 are smaller, glabrous, always of a green colour, with a brittle 

 pericarp, and with less fragrant and agreeable pulp. Mr. 

 Lehmann's observation has been already cited, and it serves to 

 show — of which, indeed, there is other evidence — that the ver- 

 nacular names, Curuba, &c., are applied to different forms. 



Under No. 2624 Lehmann collected a remarkable specimen, the 

 flowers of which were in a monstrous condition. As the specimen 

 seems to combine in some degree the characters of the foliage of 

 T. mollissima with the floral structure of T. pimiatistipula, especially 

 the faucial corona, which consists of numerous long threads, I am 

 disposed to think the specimen in question to be of hybrid origin. 

 The stamens originated from a fleshy longitudinally ribbed cup 

 emerging from above the centre of the gynophore, and were pro- 

 longed into long stalks terminating in flat petaloid dilatations of a 

 spear-head shape and representing the anthers. The conformation 

 of the ovary was normal. Mr. Lehmann says of this specimen : — 



" Curubita, in col. Bogotens Flowers lilac-red. Grows in 



open woods on the Savana de Bogota, Jan. 1883. State of Cundi- 

 namarca, Colombia." 



Passiflora Linn. 



P. suBERosA Linn. ; Mast. /. c. 578 ; et in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 

 p. 34 ; Triana et Planchon /. c. 157. — Isthmus of Panama, Lehmann 

 1849. 



P. SEXFLORA Juss. ; Mast. /,. c. 548. — " Grows in open places in 

 damp luxuriant woods in the Baja-Verapaz Mountains, near 

 Purula, 1500 metres, April, 1882. Guatemala." — Lehmann 1419. 

 Not previously recorded from Guatemala. 



P. lancearia (§ Decaloba) Mast., sp.u. 



Glabra, ramis teretibus striatis ; foliis 8 cm. long. 4 cm. lat. 

 membranaceis ovato-oblongis basi apiceque angustatis margine 

 supra medium utrinque obscure lobulatis, trinerviis, basi inter 

 nervos glanduloso-ocellatis ; petiolis 10-15 mm. egiandulosis ; 

 stipulis parvis lineari-subulatis deciduis ; pedunculis geminis 

 1-floris petiolos suba3quantibus ; bracteis minutissimis dissitis ; 

 floribus diametro 3 cm. tubo late expanso vix umbilicato ; sepalis 

 oblongis obtusis aurantiacis ; petalis paulo brevioribus albidis ; 

 corona fauciali e filis petaloideis 1-scrialibus falcato-spatulatis 

 petalis parum brevioribus constante ; corona media membranacea 

 breve-tubiilata plicata inflexa margine dontata ; corona basilari 

 annulari basin gynandrophori gracilis cingente ; ovario ellipsoideo 

 glabro supra stamiuum insertionem longiuscule stipitato. 



Li montem iguivomem Tranzu Costa Kica ad alt. 1500-1600 

 met. legit Lehmann 1255 ! 



A distinct-looking species, growing, according to Lehmann, in 

 light but very damp woods near La Palma and San Isedro, on the 

 slopes of the volcano of Tranzu, at an elevation of 1500-1600 metres. 

 " The stem is much branched, reaching a length of 8 metres. Leaves 



