NO. I COLLECTIONS OF LOBB IN COLOMBIA KILLIP 9 



Passiflora parvifolia (DC.) Harms (Tacsoiiio parvifoUa DC.) 



Page 540. " Habitat in Columbia : Lobb ! ; in Peruvia : Ruiz et 

 Pavon ! ; in Ecuador : Pearce." 



This plant has been found in Peru by recent collectors, but never 

 in Colombia or Ecuador. There are two sheets in Kew herbarium, 

 one labeled " Lobb, Peruvia," the other " Lobb, Columbia." There is 

 every indication that these specimens were collected at the same time 

 and even from the same plant, the degree of development of the 

 flowers and the discoloration of the specimens being very similar. 

 The Pearce plant from Ecuador (no. 35) was wrongly identified as 

 P. parvifoUa by Masters; it proves to be P. ciimbalensis (Karst.) 

 Harms. 



Passiflora mollissima (H. B. K.) Bailey {Tacsonia mollissima 

 H. B. K.) 



Page 541. Under Tacsoiiia mollissima var. glahrcscens Masters 

 cites two collections, " In Ecuador ad Cuenca : Seemann 823 ! ; in 

 Columbia : Lobb ! " 



Passiflora mollissima is widely distributed in the Andes from Vene- 

 zuela to Peru, the form with glabrescent upper leaf surfaces being 

 found throughout the range. No conclusions regarding the origin of 

 the Lobb specimen are therefore possible. 



Passiflora lobbii Mast. 



Page 533. " Habitat in Columbia: Lobb! " 



This plant has been collected in recent years in central Peru by 

 Weberbauer, Killip and Smith, and Macbride, but never in Colombia. 

 A Weberbauer specimen has been made the type of P. obtusiloba 

 var. glandulifera Harms." Although P. lobbii and P. obtusiloba have 

 a similar general appearance, the two are separated on several char- 

 acters other than the presence or absence of petiolar glands. I am 

 convinced that both species are restricted to central Peru. 



Passiflora sanguinolenta Mast. 



Page 559. "Habitat in Columbia: Wallis ! ; in Peruvia ( ?) : 

 Lobb 151 ! " 



All other collections of the species are from southern Ecuador, 

 where these two perhaps also were collected. On the Lobb sheet is 

 inscribed " Peru," and this is the only instance I have yet discovered 

 of a Lobb specimen apparently being mislabeled " Peru." 



Repert. Sp. Nov. Fedde 19:25. 1923. 



