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5. PASSIFLORA PALLENS Poepp.; Masters in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13!: 
567. pl. 128, f. 4. 1872 
TYPE LOCALITY: Cuba. 
DIsTRIBUTION: Thickets, Havana, Pinar del Rio:—Florida; 
Venezuela. 
Recorded by Grisebach and by Sauvalle as P. stipulata Aubl. 
6. PASSIFLORA CUPREA L. Sp. Pl. 955. 1753 
TYPE LocALITY: New Providence, Bahamas. 
DISTRIBUTION: Near Baracoa, Oriente; cays of northern 
Camaguey :—Bahamas. 
7. Passiflora nipensis sp. nov. 
Glabrous, glandless, slender, 8 dm. long or longer. Leaves 
cuneate, 2-lobed to the middle or beyond, 1.5—3 cm. long, rather 
strongly 3-nerved, the nerves impressed above, prominent be- 
neath, excurrent, the secondary venation sparse and slender, the 
lobes lanceolate, acute, the slender petioles 2.5—-5 mm. long; 
tendrils filiform, 2-4 cm. long; peduncles solitary or geminate in 
the axils, 10-14 mm. long; fruit globose, dark blue, about 1.5 cm. 
in diameter; seeds oblong, transversely ridged, about 3 mm. long. 
Open dry situations in pine lands, Sierra Nipe near Woodfred, 
Oriente, 500-650 m. alt. (Shafer 3554). 
8. PASSIFLORA CUBENSIS Urban, Symb. Ant. 3: 326. 1902 
Passiflora coriacea A. Rich. in Sagra, Hist. Cub. 10: 288. 1845. 
Not Juss. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Cuba. 
DISTRIBUTION: Serpentine barrens, savannas and coastal 
thickets, Oriente, Camaguey, Santa Clara, Havana. Endemic. 
Referred by Grisebach to P. murucuja L. and to P. oblongata 
Sw. The species is variable in leaf-form. 
' 9. Passiflora Shaferi sp. nov. 
A glabrous vine, about 2 m.: long. Leaves thin, elliptic- 
obovate, 4-5 cm. long, bluntly and shallowly 3-lobed at the apex, 
rounded or obtuse at the base, strongly 3-nerved, each nerve 
extending to a lobe and scarcely, if at all, excurrent, with 2 weaker 
short basal nerves, both surfaces reticulate-veined, the upper 
