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IPOMCEA tuberosa. 



Thiberotts-rooted Ipomcea, 



PENTANDRIA MOyOOTlflA. 



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ONTOLVUU. Jkmen jr«K< isi. Die. I. Stylus udicih. 

 DNVOLTULACES. Brcwm prod. 1. 48t. Sect. L Genus 

 unicum. 

 Suprd vol. 1. foL 9. 



I. tiibero$a, foliis palmatis lobis aepbema Ixoceciatis acntis integerriinis, pe- 



duBculis trifloris. Jaog, obt. 1. 39. 

 Ipomcea tuberosa. MiU. diiA. ed. S. a. &. WiOd. sp. pi. 1. 881. Bori. 



Kew. ed. 2. 1. 339. Tmiu. hortic, tociet. i:i84. 1. 11. 

 Ipomcea heptadactyla majoT scandens flore majori campsuiiilato, ca]yc« 



membranaceo, seminibas villosis. Srownejam. ISfi. 

 Convolvulus major heptapbyllus, flore sulphnreo odorato. Sloane jawt, X, 



1 52. /. 96 



oaaior 



Cultivated by Mr. Philip Miller, as ^r back as 1731, 

 in the Physic Garden, Chelsea ; but, we believe, has very 

 rarely blossomed in this countiy. In the Kew Catalogue^ 

 the season of its flowering is left in blank ; to mark that 

 the period when it did so had not been then ascertained. 



A figure of the flower has been thought entitled to an 

 engraving and text in the Transactions of the Horticultural 

 Society. 



We are obliged to Mr. Colvill, of the Chekea Nursery, 

 lor the sample for our drawing, which was done in the 

 coarse of last summer. 



The species is native of the West Indies. 



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