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single staminodium alternating with each stamen, the amount of adnation 

 between androecium and calyx, all suggest affinities of the plant under 

 consideration with the genus Casearia rather than any other. As it 

 does not seem advisable to base a new genus upon this one character, the 

 spiral calyx, this new plant may stand as a Casearia, for the present 

 at least. 



Passiflora monticola, n. sp. Climbing, glabrous ; tendrils at every 

 node : leaves alternate, broadly ovate ; blade 4 to 6 cm. long and 5 to 

 8 cm. wide, 3-lobed, glabrous, glaucescent on under side, subpeltate ; 

 base retuse ; apex of lobes acute ; margin of lobes entire ; usually 2 

 separate glands between each two lobes ; petiole glabrous, 2.5 to 3 cm. 

 long ; glands 1 to 3, unequal ; stipules obliquely lanceolate, mucronate, 

 about 2.0 cm. long and 12 mm. wide: inflorescence solitary, axillary; 

 pedicels exceeding petiole, 2 to 4 cm, long; bud elongated, elliptical, 2 

 to 2.5 cm. long; bracts 3, lanceolate, acuminate, 4 mm. long, a little 

 below the flower : sepals and petals 5 each ; corona in at least two series, 

 the outer series large and purple, the inner one-third as long and light- 

 colored ; 5 stamens adnate to gynoecium just below the ovary: ovary 

 glabrous; styles 3, separate nearly to the ovary; stigmas peltate; fruit 

 glabrous, ellipsoidal, 4 cm. long, 3 cm. wide ; carpophore 2.5 cm. long ; 

 seeds many, flattened, elliptical in outline, areolate, with an abrupt point 

 at the end opposite to the funiculus. — Climbing over low shrubs at the 

 mountain top, alt. 700 to 795 m., San Juan mt., Johnston, no. 64, July 11, 

 1903. Probably belongs in section Granadilla, although its bracts are 

 rather small. The corona is not membranous, a fact which tends to" ex- 

 clude the plant from the only other possible section, Murucuia. 



Passiflora nitens, n. sp. (§ Granadilla.) Climbing, tendril- 

 bearing; tendrils simple : leaf 3-lobed, 3-nerved, 9 to 12 cm. long and 

 7 to 10 cm. wide ; lobes serrulate, usually with marginal glands between 

 them ; middle lobe with a much narrowed base ; base truncate, shortly 

 decurrent; upper surface shining; veins finely puberulent; under side 

 covered with a white, glistening pubescence; petiole puberulent, 2.5 cm. 

 long ; 2 sessile glands above the base, often 1 or 2 near apex ; stipules 

 setaceous, unequally incised, about 4 mm. long : inflorescence solitary ; 

 pedicels puberulent, 3.5 cm. long ; bracts 3, enclosing the flower, ellip- 

 tical, acute, finely puberulent, 5.5 cm. long, 2.5 cm. wide; flower about 

 3.5 cm. long: calyx delicate, apparently similar to corolla, both (?) pur- 

 ple : corona 3-serial, lowest series short, membranous, middle with edges 

 fimbricate, and upper with long, broad filaments : stamens 5 ; filaments 

 flat, united part way to gynophore: styles 3 to 4, free to the ovary; 



