Jpomoea genus speciebus novis Americae septentrionalis auctum. 283 
26. Ipomoea passifloroides J. D. House, 1. c., p. 230. 
Perennial, densely villous-pubescent; leaf-blades broadly ovate, cor- 
date, 4—7 cm long, subequally 3-lobed, lobes shallow, often rounded, 
velvety appressed-pubescent above and beneath; petioles short; the short 
peduncles 2-to 5-flowered; bracts ovate, obtuse, 6—8 mm long; pedicels 
densely hirsute; calyx glabrous; sepals chartaceous, suborbicular, scarious- 
-margined, 7—9 mm long; corolla glabrous, purple, campanulate-funnel- 
form above the strongly ventricose base, 4—5 cm long, tube 12—14 mm 
thick above, the limb 22—25 mm broad, slightly 5-lobed; -capsules 
black, glabrous, 2-celled, 4-seeded; seeds minutely pubescent, hirsute on 
the angles. 
Cuba: Jiquarito Mountain, Sierra Maestra, 3400 ft. alt. Norman 
Taylor 504, Sept. 18, 1906 (type — Y). A specimen collected by Wright 
without number in Herb. Gray, ,Pinal San Juan de B., Nov. 24.* 
27. Ipomoea rupicola J. D. House, 1. c., p. 230. 
Related to I. jalapa. Trailing or twining from a woody, enlarged 
root; tomentulose, becoming glabrate; leaf-blades triangular-ovate, cor- 
date-hastate, 2—5 cm long and as broad, acuminate, basal auricles acute 
or obtuse often bifid; petioles longer than the blades; peduncles 1— 
1,5 em long, 1-flowered; bracts minute; pedicel 1 cm long, or less; sepals 
equal, oblong to oblong-ovate, obtuse or the outer ones subacute, tomen- 
tose or sericeous, 12—14 mm long; corolla pubescent in bud and on the 
plicae without when expanded, funnelform, 6—7 cm long, the blue or 
purple limb 6 cm broad. 
Mexico: Tamaulipas; Jonmave Valley, 2000 ft. alt. E. W. Nelson 
4448, 1898 (type — 332519 — N, G). 
28. Ipomoea nicoyana J. D. House, l. c., p. 231. 
A high-twining, woody, perennial vine with terete stems; finely 
pubescent; leaf-blades oblong-ovate, shallowly-cordate or cordate-sagittate, 
acuminate, 10—20 cm long, finely pubescent, roughly so above, reti- 
culate-veined beneath; petioles shorter than the blades; peduncles shorter 
than the petioles, 3-several flowered; sepals equal, lanceolate, abruptly 
acute, 12 mm long, pubescent or glabrate, chartaceous in fruit; pedicels 
10—15 mm long; corola campanulate above the strongly ventricose 
base, 5—6 cm long, purple, the white tube 15—18 mm in diameter; 
capsules ovoid, apiculate, thick-walled, 15 mm high, 2-celled; seeds 
densely lanate. 
Costa Rica: Forests near Nicoya, Tonduz 13671, 1900 (type — Y). 
29. Ipomoea patens (A. Gray) J. D. House, l. c., p. 237. | 
Ipomoea muricata Roth. Bot. Wheeler 204. 1878. Not J. muricata 
Cav., 1794. 
Ipomoea capillacea var. patens A. Gray, Syn. Fl., II; Suppl., 434. 1886. 
Distribution: Southern New Mexico, Arizona and adjacent 
Mexico, 
30. Ipomoea filipes Benth.; Meissn. in Mart., Fl. Bras, VII; 274. 1869; 
