Tab. 4305 . 
IPOM^A PULCHELLA. 
Handsome Ipomcea. 
Nat. Ord. Convolvxjlacej;.—Pentandkia Monogtnia. 
Gen. Char. {Videsupra. Tab. 4206.) 
IpoM.®A pulchella ; herbacea glabra, foliis quinatis lobis anterioribus nunc 
integris nunc bifidis omnibus elliptico-ovatis petiolulatis acuminatis glabris, 
pedunculis tortuosis petioles subsequantibus 1—3-floris, pedicellis clavatis, 
sepalis latis glabris ext. vix brevioribus acutiusculis int. obtusissimis, corollse 
tubo mflato limbi lobis rotundatis emarginatis plicatis. 
IPOM^A pulchella. mh, Nov. Sp. PI. p. 115. WigM, le. PI. Ind. Or. t. 156. 
Chois, in Be Cand. Prodr. v. 9. jo. 387- {non Bon.) 
Convolvulus heptaphyllus. ^^Rottl.et WUld. Act. Nat. Cur. r.4. p. 196.” 
Roxb. FI. Ind. V. 1. p. 480. ed. Wall. v. 2. p. 66. 
Convolvulus bellus. Spr. Sgst. Veget. v. l.p. 590. 
A very handsome Bind-weed, which would much better de¬ 
serve the name of 'pulchra ’ than pulchella \ It was sent, in 
December, 1845, from the stove of Mrs. Sherboume, near Pres¬ 
cott, Lancashire, the seeds having been received by that lady 
from Ceylon. There cannot, I think, be a doubt of its being 
the pulchella of Roth and Choisy. The latter refers to Dr. 
Wight’s figure, which is sufficiently characteristic, allowance 
being made for our plant being a highly cultivated one. Nor do 
I see any reason to question its being the Convolvulus heptaphyllus 
of Roxburgh, who accurately describes the twisted character of the 
peduncles ; but a copy of the drawing of Roxburgh’s plant, shows 
the leaves and flowers to be even smaller than those figured by 
Wight. Choisy describes the main petiole as tuberculate and 
stipulate: neither of which characters appears in my specimens, 
nor in Roxburgh’s figure; Dr. Wight represents a pair of small 
pentaphyllous leaves (except in size, exactly resembling those of 
the stem) at the base of the petiole. 
Descr. a climbing plant, with herbaceous angular stem, here 
and there rough with small dots. Leaves alternate, petiolate, 
digitato-quinate; petiole shorter than the leaf and twisted or 
JUNE IsT, 1847, 
