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' It^OMCEA iNirpethum. 



Square-stemmed East Indian Ipomcea. 



MOA 



Div 



Nai.ord. (Jonvolvuli. jussieu gen. 1S2. 



^. CoxvoLvuLACEiE. Browrt vrod. 4:81. Sect 



IPO MCE A. Suprh vol. 1 . fol. 9. 



I. Turpethum, folii,s cordatis angulatis, caule membranacjeo-quadranffulari 

 peduncuiis multifloris. Linm sp. pi. h 221 ; fsub CoNVoiTvtrLo)* ' 



Convolvulus Turpethum. Mill. diet. ed. 8. ». 31. Hort. Km. 1. 211. «/. 

 2.1. 332. Blachv. L 379. JVilld. sp. pi. 1 . 859. 



Convolvulus ihdicus alatus maximus, folils Ibisco nonnihil similibtw an* 

 gulosis. Herm. lu^db. 177. tahk 178» 179i 



Turpetum repens, foIiis althaeae vel indicuoii Bauh, pin, 149. 

 W) Planta Novae Hollandise caule angustius alato. 



Ipomoea Turpethum, pubescens, foliis cordatis acutis integris: inf^rionbtt* 

 nunc angulatis, peduncuiis inferioribus naultifloris ; superioribus l-2-flori8; 



Brawn prod. 



bracteis ftienabranaceis ovatis caducis, calycibus sericeis 

 mis tenuiiisimis inclusie, seniiaibus £rlabrls« caule ansuIatG 



1 . 485. 



Obs. Planta (indica) Herbarii Hermann!, quae hujus speciei tinicii 



kufctoj^ites, k nostra (Nova-Hollandica) pauld diverta ctiule latids alat<K 

 Br. 1. c. 



Perennisn Herba 



riora scepius oblongO'Cordaia^ anguhta^ utroque latire infern^ pliis mifiSU 

 sinuato-repanda^ inferiora ovato v- lato-cordata, suikorizontati-nervosa, ^S-pto 

 iongiora petiolo. Pedunculi pluriftori^ hirsutius viliosip breviores Jidio. 

 Cat. amplusy membranosus^ sericeo-lanuginosuSf pallidus r. suhaibicans^ punctU 

 canspeTsusy foliolis ellipiicist acutis^ extimU duobus f^aJcrihUf | uncM vel 

 circtter nltis. Bractese magn<Sy colore et snbstantidjbliolorum calycis^ caduc^e^ 



bjlore posiia* Cor*Mlba, subinfundibuliformU^ laciniU 



rotundatis* Stigma tapitatum 



^ Though the species is known to have been cultivated in 

 this country, at the Chelsea Garden, by Miller, as far back 

 as 1752, yet it proves still to be a very rare plant in 

 our collections, where, as we are told, it had never blos- 

 somed. Mr. Herbert, to whom this publication owes many 

 rare and curious plants, and who has paid peculiar attention 

 to the study and collection of the spec|es of the present 

 genus, raised the plant in his hothouse at SpoiForth, and 

 succeeded in bringing it to flower. The specimen from 

 which the drawing has been made, was sent by his directions 

 in February last ; biit the large bi*actes which belong to it, 

 Qnd are naturally destined to fall as soon as the flower is 



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