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IPOMCEA mutabilis. 



Blue shrubby Ipomoca. 



PENTANDRIA MOXOGYXIA, 



IPOMCEA. Supra fol. 9. 



Div. Caulis volubilh. 

 I. mutability fruticosa, pubescens ; foliis cordatis integris trilobisve, 



acuminatis, supra appress& villosis, scabriusculis, infra tomentosis ; 



noiibuj in summo pedunculo plurimis cymoso-aggregatis (cpmulis 



sctpius segregates) ; calyce arcto, villoso, subsequali, supra laxo. 



Frutex sempervirens, a!tissi??ie scandens, radice Sf superius in caide sar* 

 inenta promens innumera purpurea asperius villosa ; caulis crassitudiue digiti, 

 lignosus, Jlexilis, tenax, cinereo-corticatus ; rami teretes, volubiles alterne 

 remotequejbliosiy novelli subtomentosi. Folia petiolata sinu baseos obtusissimo 

 v. subtruncato, ad summum quadriuncialia, vix longiora quam lata, supri 

 viridia, subtiis tomentoso-albicantia venisque varicosis adscendentibus cum aliis 

 transversis cancellata : petiolus parum brevior filiformis, supra obsolete cana* 

 liculatus. Pedunculi strictly teretes, asperius villosi, ramiformesy pctiolo 

 plurimiim longiores, axillares, solitarii, viultiflori, supra composito-cymosi ; 

 cymae 1-3, congesto-trichotomcey breves, terminates 8f laterales 9 proximce 9 

 breviter stipitatce vel sessiles, folio diminuto ad basin posito segregate, villosa; 

 pedicelli calyce breviores, laterales singularum trichotomiarum plures, basi 

 bibracteati, medius nudus ; bracteae subulatce. Cal. uncialis ; foliola an- 

 gusta, lineari-lanceolata acumine longo subulato laxo f conformia, intima 2 

 parum minora. Cor. magna, triplo maglsve longior ; tubus albus in faucem 

 cylindricam pro altero tanto ampliatus ; limbus rotato-campanulatus, mane 

 vividissime cyaneus, inde e plicis rubere incipiens, totus vespere roseo-emar- 

 cescens, lacinice rotundatce, medio jissce, dentibus 5 interstinctce. Stam. erecta 9 

 tubofaucis inclusa, albida } basi barbata, 2 breviora satis. Stigma granulato- 

 globosuniy album. 



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^Ve have to add another species to this encumbered 



I 



ded 



P 



any 



»m4 



con^esta 



that we can trace. It approaches near to 



vn (prodr. 48o), which we 



f Mr. B 



— o 



be ('ox volvulus multm 



Holland; but there the leaves are all 



tth ; 



rium from New 



entire, smaller, and covered on the upper surf; 

 short dense pile like that of velvet; not as here, somewhat 



ibescence ; nor is that a 

 hich indeed came within the ob- 



roughened by a thin appressed p 



shrubby species, 



f Mr. B 



ted 



in the parts of New Holland 



A plant of rapid and extensive growth, having in the 



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