VoL. 5] Plants from Sinaloa, Mexico. 217 
deeply, ciliate, 10 cm. long, 14 cm. wide; petioles 6-14 cm. long; 
peduncles 20-22 cm. long, longer than the leaves; flowers some- 
what umbellate on pedicels I-1.5 cm. long: corolla white, funnel- 
form, 7 cm. long, with spreading limb 6-7 cm, wide; stamens 
included: the three outer sepals pilose, 7 mm. long, broad and 
apiculate, the inner glabrous and broader; capsule exceeding the 
calyx, ovate, acute with a mucro 4-6 mm. long, circumscissile, 
2-celled, 4-seeded; seed 6 mm. long, bearing on the back and 
outer angles white silky hairs longer than the seed itself. 
A handsome plant and very floriferous. Collected in ravines 
near Culiacan. 
Ipomea Palmeri Watson. Cofradia. 
Ipomea bracteata Cav. Culiacan. 
Ipomea alata Rose. The corolla is brick red, Culiacan and 
Cofradia. 
Ipomea Grayi Rose. Common about Culiacan, also collected 
at Mazatlan and cultivated as an ornamental plant at Todos 
[pomea pedatisecta M. & G.? -The flowers: ete white with 
purple throat. Common about Cofradia. 
Ipomoea Sinaloensis. A vine supported by other vegetation, 
hardly climbing, perennial?: stems, petioles and peduncles 
bristly hirsute, the tawny hairs 4 mm. long: leaves palmately 
parted into 5 ovate-acuminate leaflets that are cuneate at base, 
entire-margined, sparingly hirsute upon both faces, varying in 
size from 2-4 cm. long, 1-3 cm. wide: petioles 3-7 cm. long: 
peduncles 6-12 cm. long; the branching cymes 3-6 flowered: the 
3, outer sepals densely yellowish hirsute, oblong, acuminate, 14 
mm. long, the 2 inner, smooth, chartaceous, shorter and broader: 
corolla pure white, 22 mm. long, campanulate, 5-lobed to below 
the middle, the lobes spatulate: stamens reaching slightly above 
the sinus of the lobes: stigma 2-lobed: capsule 4-celled, 4-seeded, 
nearly spherical, 1 cm. in diameter, the 4 valves separating to the 
base, leaving the partitions retaining the seeds, the partitions are 
broadened at the margins, I mm. wide below, increasing to 2 
mm, above and ¥% the distance from the top abruptly widened so 
