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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 em. 
long; glands 1 to 3, unequal; stipules obliquely lanceolate, mucronate, 
about 2.5 em. long and 12 mm. wide: inflorescence solitary, axillary; 
pedicels exceeding petiole, 2 to 4 cm. long; bud elongated, elliptical, 2 
to 2.5 em. 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 em. wide; carpophore 2.5 em. 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 to795 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, Mugucuda. 
Passiflora nitens, n. sp. (§ GRANADILLA.) Climbing, tendril- 
bearing; tendrils simple: leaf 3-lobed, 3-nerved, 9 to 12 em. 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 em. 
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 em. long: calyx delicate, apparently similar to corolla, both (?) put- 
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; 
