44 Contributions from the Gray Herbarium 
remarks (Proc. Am. Acad. xl. 691 (1905)) on the significance of 
the arrangement of the sepals in his species. These are certainly 
quite distinctly imbricated, but no more to be called spiral than 
those of various other species of the genus. 
Passirtora (§ Granadilla) physocalymma Blake, sp. nov. 
Planta scandens. Ramus tenuis teres luteo-viridescens striatulus 
subnitidus molliter pilosus pilis brevibus subcurvatis lucentibus. 
Cirri e axillis sterilibus et fertilibus orientes tenues pilosuli 3 cm. 
longi (contracti) et ultra. Folia alterna ad medium trilobata (es 
Mori forma similia) lobis acuminatis vel integra, ovata vel late 
ovata dense subirregulariterque serrulata (dentibus acute mucro- — 
nulatis) base latissime leviterque cordata vel subtruncata mem- 
branacea tripli- vel 3-nervia et praecipue supra eleganter reticulato- 
venulosa venulis prominentibus, supra subnitido-viridia venls” 
majoribus pilosulis exceptis glabra subtus vix pallidiora in venls 
majoribus pilosa pilis laxis ceterum glabra 6.5—10 em. longa 4.8-10 
em. lata; petioli patenti-pilosuli medio 2-glandulosi glandulis 
magnis sessilibus nudi 2.7~3.8 cm. longi; stipulae lineari-subulatae 
subcoriaceae prope medium paullum ampliatae uno latere obtuse 
3-dentatae dentibus glanduliformibus sparse ciliatae ad 2 cm. 
longae 1.5 mm. latae. Flores solitarii axillares expansi ad 4.8 cm. a 
lati; pedunculi dense patenti-puberuli 2.8-4 cm. longi. Bracteae 
3 magnae ovatae subabrupte acuminatae (acumine ad | cm. longo) — 
integerri ciliolatae eglandul per 1 cm. longitudinis connatae 
5-nerves et pinnato-veniae 6.6 cm. longae 3 cm. latae ovarle 
approximatae anthesi reflexae. Calycis tubus campanulato- 
subglobosus ad 8 mm. altus; segmenta 5 lanceolata obtusa sub 
apice cirro 7 mm. longo donata crassiuscula extus carinata albido- — . 
viridescentia intus basi excepta dense purpureo-maculata ca. 28 
cm. longa (cirro excluso). Petala 5 tenuiter membranacea obtus® 
lanceolato-oblonga purpureo-maculata 2.5 cm. longa ca. 5 mm 
lata. Corona faucialis ca. 2-seriata, filis supra contortis purpure?” 
maculatis exterioribus ad 1.3 cm. longis, interioribus 2-2.7 ¢™ 
longis apice attenuatis, intra tubum filis brevissimis dentiformibus 
multiserialibus deorsum decrescentibus adjectis. Corona median® 
e medio tubi erecta submembranacea annularis brevis apice mul- ? 
tidenticulata dentibus extrorsum patentibus. Corona basalls 
brevissime annularis. Gynandrophorum petalis multo brevil® — 
virescens processibus 2 subremotis parum lobulatis vel subinteg™ 


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