326 Ign. Urban: 



latis; Corona exteriore cylindrica margine superiore truncata nunc 

 crenulata, non filamentosa, interiore 5 mra. longa iuflexa. 



Passiflora orbicidata Cavan. Dissert. X (1790) p. 456 tab. 286!; 

 Spreng. Syst. III p. 43. 



Murucuia orbicidata Fers. Syn. II (1807) p. 222; DC. Prodr. III 

 p. 333. 



Passiflora murucuia M. Mast, in Trans. Linn. Soc. XXVII (1871) 

 p. 634 et in Mart. Flor. Bras. XIII, I (1872) p. 557 (p.p.), — non Linn. 



Gaules scandentes plus minus compressi sulcato - striati glabrescentes. 

 Cirrhi simplices. Folia petiolis minute pilosulis, nervis snpra tenuiter, 

 subtus magis prominentibus , dense reticulato-auastomosantibus, glandulis 

 impressis basalibus nullis, inter nervum medium et laterales uniseriatis 

 pellucidis 2 — 4-nis, supra parmu nitida, subtus opaca. Peduuculi 

 1 - flori ; bracteae ad v. plerumque perpaullo sub articulatione pedicelli ternae 

 lineares verticiUatae v. subalternae, 2 — 3 mm. longae. Floris tubus 

 5 — 6 mm. longus, 7 mm. crassus, 10-sulcatus, intus cavernas 10 jn'aebens, 

 apice pauUo constrictus. Sepala ad basin et superne paullo angustata, 

 apice obtusa, nervis 3 crassioribus et 8 — 10 tenuioribus percursa, crassius- 

 cule chartacea. Petala tenuia, coronae aequilonga v. paullo breviora, ei qua 

 in sicco adhaerentia, linearia v. oblonge -linearia, nervis 5 — 7 percursa. 

 Corona exterior ex sicco ad aj)icem flava, caeterum rubra, 1,8 — 2 cm. 

 longa, cj^lindrica 6 mm. crassa, nervis creberrimis; interior ex apice tubi 

 floris abiens, fere usque ad ejus basin inflexa, 5 mm. longa, membranacea, 

 multiplicata , antice truncata et irregulariter incisa v. scissa, efilamentosa 

 enervis; basilaris nulla. Gynandrophorum sepalis aequilongum, 3,5 — 4 cm. 

 longum, vix 1 mm. crassum. Staminum tubus gynophoro 2 — 3 mm. 

 brevior; filamenta 6 — 7 mm. longa; antherae oblonge -lineares, 6 mm. longae. 

 Ovarium ovale glabrinn; styli 7 mm. longi, apice clavato-globosi. unüatera- 

 liter stigmatosi. Fructus globulosi v. ovali-globulosi, flavi (ex Pic). 



Hab. in Haiti in sylvis umbrosis montis Le Grand Fond: Jaeger 

 n. 173, in Morne Tranchant 400 — 1800 m. alt., m. Jul., Aug. flor.: 

 Christ n. 1753, 1753^ Picarda n. 772. 



Obs. I. Descriptio et icon ill. Cavanillesii cum nostris plantis bene 

 quadrant praeter bracteas crassiusculas elongatas et corollam deficientem. Sed 

 non dubito, quin cl. autor ulteriorem tenuem lirevem coronae in sicco ad- 

 haerentem pallidam ideoque difficile conspicuam negligentia praeterierit. 

 Bracteas auteni in P. murucuia (tab. 287) revera setaceas et alternas eodem 

 modo auxit et verticillatim dispositas praebuit. 



Obs. II. P. 77wrucuia L. (ex eadem insula) foliis transversim oblongatis 

 divaricato-bilobis, lobo intermedio non evoluto v. lateralibus breviore, 0,5 — 

 1,5 cm. longo petiolatis, pedicellis 1,5 — 2 cm. longis, ad v. sub medio brac- 

 teatis, Corona exteiiore usque ad apicem rubra, interiore brevissima parum 

 prominente, staminum tubo usque ad pvarium producto bene diversa est. 



Passiflora cubeiisis Urb. (n. sp.) ramis hornotinis superne minute 

 et parce pilosulis; stipulis lineari-subulatis 2 — 3 mm. longis persisten- 

 tibus, plus minus reflexis v. horizontaliter sitis; foliis petiolos 10 — 5 mm. 



