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IPOMGEA ATROSANGUINEA. PwucE-coLoURED 
Ipoma@a. 
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Class and Order. 
PenranpriA Monoeynia. 
Generic Character. 
Cor. infundibuliformis. Stigma capitato-globosum. Caps. 
3-locularis. 
Specific Character and Synonym. 
Ipoma:a atrosanguinea; caule fruticoso erecto, foliis ellip- 
ticis subtus sericeis, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis 
unifloris, fauce cylindrica limbo longiore. 
Convotvu.us cuneiformis. Buchanan’s Drawings of Mysore 
Plants, in the collection of Mr. Fixercuer, of Lime 
Grove, Putney. 
Descr. Stem shrubby, erect. Leaves elliptical, some- 
times obovate with a small mucro, and now and then emargi- 
nate, silky on the under, and dark green with a few scat- 
tered hairs, on the upper side, alternate, supported on short 
footstalks. Peduncles axillary; solitary, one-flowered, with 
two minute bractes about the middle. Calyx small, of five 
oval, imbricated, closely adpressed leaflets. Corolla of a 
dark blood colour, funnel-shaped ; twbe contracted, longer 
than the calyx, a little above which it is suddenly dilated into 
a cylindrical faux, twice the length of the limb, which is 
spreading, obsoletely 5-lobed, somewhat recurved at the 
margin. Stamens unequal, shorter than the tube: anthers 
oval, cells bursting laterally, a little divaricate at the base: 
pollen globular, white : style about the length of the stamens: 
stigma 2-lobed : lobes roundish, tuberculated : germen one- 
celled, with four ovula completely filling the cavity. 
Conmunicated 
