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IpoMG:A SPLENDENS. SILKY-LEAVED 
Ipoma@a. 
Class tind Order. 
Pentanpria Monoeyntia. 
Generic Character. - 
Cor. inka apisormis fauce cylindiadea. Rae eapi- | 
ee (nune bilobum). Cape. —3-] : 
Specific Character and Synon nony? 
Ipoma@a splendens ; caule volubili fottise fats integerrimis, 
_ superne glabris subtus argenteo-sericeis: costis paral- 
lelis, pedunculis axillaribus umbelliferis, = 
Lerrsomra splogdens. Hortulanis. a 
Sasi 
& PHS = 2% Sa 
iromaan spleadoey | is neatly related to I. speciosa (supra 
No. 2446), but the flowers are much smaller and paler 
than in speciosa ; the leaves too are not nearly so large, 
and are ovate, very | ittle, or not at all cordate, the silkiness 
underneath more silvery, and ot tomentose ; the peduncles 
are shorter, and the umbels not leafy. 
This climber has een long known in our stoves by the 
name of Lerrsom1a splendens, and has been set some value 
upon, for the beautiful silve “sillkifiess of the leaves, but 
we have never heard of its having flowered i in this a 
before this autumn. Bie x 
For the opportunity of giv a drawing of this beau- 
tiful climber we are indebted to Mrs. -Marrvarr of Wimble- | 
don House, in whose splendid c« sllectic ni it flowered i in the 
back of the stove early i in Novem Hi: 
into’ flower earlier in the see 
_ blossoms would have been d 
_ be the case in its native co 
specimens sent by Dr. ] 
very extensive herbarium « 
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