NOTES. 



Ipomcea bona nox. $. purpurascenS'. Supra JoL 290, 



^Vlien we published this plant as a variety of IpohOSA bona nox^ we had 

 been informed, by the gentleman from whom we received the sample, that 

 it was native of the West Indies; and being able to detect no distinction be- 

 tween the two plants, in the state they were known to us, we did not judge 

 it safe to separate them specifically on the Score of diiFerence of colour* We 

 now learn that our plant is native of the East Indies, and has been long re- 

 corded by the specific title of niuricata. It was however deemed by Linnsus 

 so nearly connected with bona nox (a Weiiit-Indian plant)^ that he thought it 

 necessary to say expressly that it was not that species, though he gives os no 

 mark to distinguish the two. Whether specifically distinct or not, the fol- 

 lowing synonymy belongs to our plant, and had we been aware of it, we 

 should have given the article as follows ; 



IPOMCEA muricata. 

 Hough* stalked Ipomcea, 



I. muricata^ foliis cordatis, pedunculis incrassatis calycibusque Isevibus, caule 



muricato. Linn, mant* 44; (sub Convolvulo), 

 Ipomoea muricata. Jacg^ kort, schcenb, 3. 40. t, 323. 

 Convolvulus muricatus. Lin, loc- cit, Hort, Kew, ed. 2. 1. 332. WiUd* 



sp. pL 1- 858- Idem enum* 1. 204- 



Mr. Herbert has observed, on a comparison of bona nox and muricata^ 

 both cultivated in his hothouse at Spofforth, that in the first the foliage 

 is entirely smooth, in the second roughishly pubescent at the upper side; 

 that in the first the stem becomes rather woody towards the bottom, but not 

 so in the second, which rarely survives 5 or 6 months; that in the first the 

 points of the leaflets of the calyx are much longer and more spreading than 

 m the latter ; and that in the first the limb of tlie corolla is Hatter and 

 rounder than in the second, where it Is rather concave and angular. 



MonE^ Species, Vzd, suprd Jbl, 312. 



I- Stigmata velbipartita laciniis convoltitO'JiliJbrmibus^ vel diminuto-pelali-^ 



Jbrmiajere ut in Croco. 



virgata. Jacq, ic* rar, 2. /. 228- 



elegans. Jacq^ hort* schcenb. 1. 1. 2. 



flexuosa. Nab, in Curlis*s mag* f. 695* 



spicata. Nob. in loc. cit. t, 1283. 



p,oIyanthos. Vahl enum, 2. 157* Exemplar adest in Herb. Banks. 



collina. Nob. in Curt. mag.iabb.lOSS, llOS, 1612, )xxncea. Lin, sp.pl. 59. 

 pavonla. Nob, in loc.cit.t. 1247- 



II. Stigmata j}etalifoTmiay ampla* 



tripetala. Nob. in loc, at, t, 702. 



lurida. Nob> svpr^ t. 312- 



tricuspis- Nob, in Curtis's mag. tabb, 696, 772- Iris pavonia, Curtis in loc. 



cit.t, les, 



villosa. Nob. in loc. cit. tab. 571 ; (sub Iride at male). 



tenuis. Nob. loc, cit. t, 1047. 



un^uiculata. Nob, in loc. cit. t, 593. 



angusta. Nob. in loc, cit. t, ] 276. 



edulis. Nob. in loc. cit, tabb, 613, 1238. vegeta. Jacq. ic. tar. % 224 ; nan 



Linhai, Iris longifolia. Vahl enum,2, H9~ 

 sctacea. Nob.in ann.nfbotA 219. Ihis. Thunb.de Iride,tA,fgA, 



