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IpomjEa Bona Nox. Prickly Ipom^a* 



C/d/Jr #7/^ Order, 

 Pektandria Monogynia. 



Generic Characler. 



Cor. infundibuliformis. Stigma capitato-globofum. Cap/, 

 3-locularis. [Bacca exfucca aut fucculenta, l-locularis, 4- 

 ijperma aut per aborturn 2-fperma. G,£rtn.~j 



Specific Characler and Synonyms, 



IPOMifLA bona nox ; foliis cordatis acutis integerrimis, caule 

 aculeato, floribus ternis, corollis indivifis. Linn, 

 Spec. PL 228. Reich. 1. 450. Willd. Sp. PL u 

 882. Hort. Kezv. 1. 216. G<ert, Frucl. %. p. 247. 

 t> 134- /« 3- Martyn Mill. Ditt. 



IPOMjEA bona nox. Michaux FL Bor-Americ. 1. p. 140. 



CONVOLVULUS foliis cordatis, caule aculeato. Hort, Cliff. 

 496. 



CONVOLVULUS maximus, caule fpinulis obtufis obfito. 

 Sloane Jam. 1. p. 151. /• 96. /. 1. 



IPOM^A fylveftris, foliis ct floribus ampliflimis : tubis 

 florum fubteretibus. Brown Jam. 155. 



CONVOLVULUS americanus fubrotundis foliis viticulis fpi- 

 nofis. Pink, Aim. 115. /. 276. f. 3. 



SMILAX afpera Indiae occidentalis. Bauh. Pin. 296. 



IpomvEa and Convolvulus, as ufually characlerifed, have 

 no certain limits; Gartner, by applying the difference of 

 the fruit to diftinguifh the two genera, excludes from Ipom^ea 

 all the known fpecies except this and zeylanica. We very 

 much regret that we have had no opportunity of examining 

 the fruit in the living plant, to confirm the obfervation of 

 Gartner, efpecially as the form of the calyx in his figure 

 not correfponding with that of our plant, rather leads to the 

 fuppofition of fome error. 



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