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IPOMCEA insignis. 

 Blcolor-leaved Ipomoea. 



PENTANDRI A MOXOG YNIA. 



IPOMCEA. Supra fol Q. 



I. insignis, glabra, volubilis ; foliis cordatis integris v. lobatis, acuminata; 



cymis dichotomis ; calyce brevi, obtuso, convexo : corolla hypecrateri- 



formL 



Ipomoea insignis. Andrezess reposit. 636. Alton's Epitome. 3'>0. add. 



Radix perennis, tuberosa. Caulis herbaceus, teres, ramosus, 3-orgyalis 

 vet magis. Folia 3-6 uncialia, 3-4;-uncias lata, modo S-loba, lobis parum pro~ 



Jiindis prceter terminalem, interdum sinnato-lobata lobis pluribus i/ regular ibus t 

 modo indivisa, subtiis scepiiis purpurascentia, varicose 1-nervia, nervis omnibus 

 principibus ab eodem puncto divergentibus : petiolus in summo dor so ubi con- 



Jluit cum folio glandula humente utrinque notatus, ac paniculatae, (vid.fol. 

 62.) Pedunculi solitarii, axillares, erecli, robusti, folio longiores, Jloribus 

 pluribus multisve cymoso-terminati ; pedicelli modo dichotomi,Jlore breviores t 

 bracteola acuta stipati. Cal. lubum brevem corolla? includens, foliolis lato — 

 ellipticis, convexis, conniventibus, glaberrimis. Cor. roseo-pallescens, urceo- 

 lato-hypocrateriformis, 1 k unciam longa ; tubus fouce 3plo angustior ; faux 

 amplius cylind'racea, limbo lorigior ; limbi laciniis brevissimis, rotundatis, 

 emarginatis. Stam. inclusa bast barbata. Stigma capitato-didymum. 



When grown in a border of mould, parted off 

 the tan-bed of the hothouse, our plant makes each year 



fine display, attaining the length of 30 feet, with nu- 

 merous branches, producing abundance of glossy pink 

 bloom in separate large bunches. On plants that are left 

 to grow in small garden-pots, or are yet young, the 

 cymes seldom consist of more than five or six flowers, 

 and these sometimes contracted nearly into the form of an 

 umbel. But in full-grown plants, which have sufficient 



depth of mould, the flowers are from 15 to 20, in a broad 

 dichotomous cyme. The species comes near to paniculata 

 (see fol. 62); but the flowers of imignis are generally paler, 

 smaller, and more numerous. The foliage of the two is 

 very distinct, that of paniculata being always palmate, 

 while in this it varies from entire, to three-lobed, with 

 pointed shallow side-lobes, sometimes to 5-7-lobed, but then 

 sinuately and irregularly so; it is also usually tinged with 

 violet-red, or purple, beneath. In the leaf of paniculata 

 the upper pair of nenxs issue from the mid-rib, at a point 



nearly half an inch above that at which the two lower pair 



