Tas. 7689. ee 
MINA tosata. 
Native of Mezico. 
Nat. Ord. ConvoLvuLACE&.—Tribe CoNvOLVULE. 
Genus Mina, La Llav. & Lew. Ipomoee sect. Quamoclit (Benth. & Hook. f. 
Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 871.) 
Mina lobata; suffrutex glaberrimus, caule gracili volubili ramoso tereti, foliis 
longe petiolatis late ovato-cordatis acuminatis integris v. late 3-5-lobis 
integerrimis supra late viridibus subtus pallidis, nervis utrinque cost 
5-6 arcuatis, nervulis laxe anastomosantibus, floribus numerosis in 
racemos adscendentes simplices vy. bifidos longe pedunculatos sub-recurvos 
secundis breviter pedicellatis, pedicellis basi minute bracteatis, calycis 
tubo brevi, segmentis inwquilongis erectis ovatis apiculatis v. subulatis 
basi dilatatis, corolle coccinesee demum aures tubo brevi valde constricto 
limbo elongato ampulleformi subpentagono curvo ore constricto, lobis 
arvis rotundatis, staminibus basi tubi insertis, filamentis gracillimis 
inequilongis corolla duplo longioribus basin versus puberulis, antheris 
oblongis, disco sub 5-lobo, ovario 4-loculari, stylo staminibus sequilongo, 
stigmate capitato. 
M. lobata, Cerv. in La Llav. & Lex. Nov. Veg. Deser. fase. i. p. 3 (1824). Lindl. 
in Bot, Reg. vol. xxviii. (1842) Mise. p. 5, et t. 24. Chois. in DC. Prodr. 
vol. ix. p. 337. Paat. Mag. Bot. vol. xvi. p. 100, cum ic. pict. Gard. 
Chron. 1886, vol. ii. p. 684, figs. 232, 233. Regel, Gartenfl. 1886, p. 644, 
cum ic. ec Gard. Chron.iterat. Perringin Deutsch. Gartenzeit, 1866, p. 544, 
cum ic, ex Gard. Chron. iterat. Morren in Ann. Soc. Agric. Gand., vol. v. 
(1849) p. 211, t. 259. Bull. Soc. Tosc. Hort. 1889, p. 106. Duren in 
Rev. Hort. Belg. 1891, p. 60, eum te. pict. 
MM. cordata, Micheli in Rev. Hortic. 1898, p. 554, et 1899, p. 308, cum ic. pict. 
Qvuamocuit Mina, G. Don, Gen. Syst. vol. iv. p. 259. 
Iromama versicolor, Meissn. in Mart. Fl. Bras. vol. vii. p. 220. Hemsl. Biol. 
Centr. Am. Bot. vol. ii. p. 395, iv. p. 74. 
I have no reason to doubt that the plant here figured is 
Mina lobata, Cerv., and of Lindley in the Botanical 
Register ; but there is such discrepancy between the de- 
scriptions and figures of some later authors who have taken 
it up, that it might be supposed that two or more species 
have been included under the name. Of the authors re- 
ferred to above, Paxton describes the leaves as slightly 
villous beneath, and the corolla-limb as _five-angled. 
Morren also says of the leaves that they are villous beneath, 
and the limb of the corolla he represents as strongly five- 
DecemBER Ist, 1899, 
