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IPOM(EA sagittifolia. 
Catesby's Ipomeea. 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Coxvorvuri. Jussieu gen. 132. Div. I. Stylus unicus. 
CowvoLvuLACEx. Brown. prod. 1. 481. ct. I. Germen 
unicum." 
IPOMCEA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 9. 
I. sagittifolia, volubilis, glaberrimus; foliis oblongo-sagittatis; sin profun- 
dissimo: auriculis subacuminatis, pedunculis unifloris, laciniis calycis ro- 
tundato-ovalibus, corolla infundibuliformi-campanulatä. Pursh amer. sept, 
1. 144; (sub CONVOLVULO sagittifolio). 
Convolvulus sagitüfolius. Michaux bor. amer. 1.132. Persoon syn. 1. 177. 
Pursh loc. cit. Poiret suppl. encyc. de Lamarck 3. 461. Elliot sket. 1. 
254. Nuttall 1. 123. n. 9. 
Convolvulus speciosus. Walt. carol. 93. . 
Convolvulus caroliniensis angusto sagittato folio, flore amplissimo purpureo, 
radice crassà. Catesb. carol. 1. 35. t. 35. 
Perennis radice crassá caule tereti, glabro. Folia glabra margine inte- 
gro, mucronata, lobo antico posticis divergentibus longà acuminatis acutissi- 
mis plurimim latiore: petioli uni-biunciales, Flores ampli, roseo-purpurei, 
folia exsuperantes: pedunculis axillaribus, solitariis, unifloris, petiolo ro- 
bustioribus, erectis, circa medium bibracteolatis. Calycis foliola erecta, im- 
bricato-conniventia, ovato-oblonga, apice rotundata, subequalia, tria exte- 
riora reliquis manifestius mucronata. Corolla infundibuliformis, limbo 
exanguloso, fauce extüs carneo-pallente cylindricá unciali, triplo longiore 
calyce. Filamenta inequalia, basi barbata: anth. lineari-oblonge, albide 
erecta, basi sagittate. Stylus staminibus longior, stigmate bicolli-globoso 
vel didymo-capitato, albo, incluso. Caps. 2-3-valvis, bilocularis. 
We are obliged to Mr. Herbert for the excellent drawing 
of this plant, as well as for a specimen of the same. . It was 
raised last year in the hothouse at Spofforth from seed re- 
ceived from Carolina, and flowered during the summer. 
The species does not appear to have been introduced before, 
nor is there a sample of it either in the Herbarium of Sir 
Joseph Banks or that of Mr. Lambert. Mr. Elliot, the au- 
thor of the very useful work entitled * A Sketch of the 
Botany of South Carolina and Georgia," tells us, that it 
grows wild * along the sides of salt waters; among rushes 
and saline plants." Mr. Pursh speaks of it as native of 
Virginia and Carolina, and as growing in wet situations 
among bushes. Catesby, upon the authority of Colonel 
Mure, a Carolinian gentleman, said to have been an eye- 
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