Tab. 4301 . 
IPOMiEA MURICATA. 
Fine-leaved Ipomcea. 
Nat, Ord. Convolvulace^.—Pentandria Monogynia. 
Gen. Char. Tab. 4206.) 
IpoM.a:A muricata ; radice tuberosa, caule annuo (non volubili) filifonni ramoso, 
folds glabris sessilibus multipartitis laciniis setaceo-filifonnibus acutis, 
pedunculis fidformibus unifloris soUtariis axillaribus folio brevioribus finicti- 
feris reflexis, sepalis ovatis mucronatis dorso muricato-tuberculatis, corolla 
subhypocrateriformi, tubo supeme ddatato, 
IPOM.iEA muricata. Cav. Ic. v. 5. p. 52. t. 478. f. 2. Choisy^ in De Cand. Prodr. 
V. 9.^. 353. 
Ipom.®a armata. Poem, et Sch. v. 4. p. 214. 
CoNVOLVULGS capiUaccus, H.B.K. Nov. Gen. v. 3. 97- Spreng. Syst. Veg. v. 1. 
i?. 613. 
Canta tuberosa. Roe^n. et Sch. l.c. p. 793 {Jid. Choiey, who also adds as syno¬ 
nyms —Ipomopsis tuberosa, Willd. and verticiUata, Schlecht.; Ip. capUlacea 
awrf Leptocallis qmnata, 
A beautiful little species of Ipmncsa, not very aptly named 
muricata by its first describer (for the base of the sepals alone 
are tubercled), and very inaccurately described by most authors 
in regard to its foliage. The leaves are not simple and whorled 
or fascicled, as they might appear at first sight, but multifid 
almost to the base; and the segments are often again divided. 
It would appear, from the numerous collectors through whom I 
have received it, to be common in many parts of Mexico and Co¬ 
lumbia, and hence the numerous s 3 monyms. Yet distinct as it is 
specifically, it seems little understood. Our living plants were 
raised from tubers, sent by our collector, Mr. Purdie, from open 
grassy mountains of the Nivada de Santa Martha, New Grenada. 
They flowered both at Syon and the Royal Gardens in October, 
1845. 
Oescr. Foot an oblong fusiform tuber, with a few scattered 
fibres. Stems one or more from the crown of the tuber, varying 
much in length and ramification; sometimes erect and simple, 
may 1st, 1847. 
