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Type locality : " Colitur in R. horto Matritense, ex seminbus missis 

 ab Hispanic." 



Distribution: West Indies and northern South America. 



78. Ipomoea cairica (L.) Sweet, Hort. Brit. 287. 1827. 



Convolvulus foliis laciniatis vet quinquef alius, Bauh. Pin. 295. 



C. guinguefolius, seu foliis laciniatis, flore purpurea coerulea, Bauh. Prodr. 134. 



Convolvulus oegyptius Vesl. Aegypt. 73. pi. 7Jf. 



Convolvulus cairicus L. Syst. ed. 10, 922. 1759.— Sp. PI. ed. 2, 222. 1762. 

 Ipomoea palmata Forsk. Fl. Aegypt.-Arab. 43. 1775. — Choisy in DC. Prodr. 9: 386. 



1845. 

 Ipomoea senegalensis Lam. lUus. 1: 464. 1791. 

 Ipomoea stipulacea Jacq. Hort. Schoenb. 2: 39. 1797. 

 Convolvulus quinquelobus Vahl, Symb. Bot. 3: 32. 1794.— Willd. Sp. PI. 1: 863. 



1798. 

 Convolvulus tuberculatus Desr. in Lam. Encyc. 3: 545. 1789. 

 Ipomoea vesciculosa Beauv. Fl. d'Owar. 2: 73. 1807. 

 Ipomoea tuberculata Roem. & Schnlt. Syst. 4: 208. 1819. 

 Ipomoea quinqueloba Roem. & Schult. 1. c. — G. Don, Gen. Syst. 4: 279. 1838. 

 Convolvulus digitatus Roxb. Fl. Ind. (ed. Carey) 1: 479. 1832. 

 Ipomoea digitifolia Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 2, 372. 1830. 

 Ipomoea heptaphyUa Voigt. Hort. Suburb. Calc. 360. 1845. 

 Batatas senegalensis G. Don, Gen. Syst. 4: 261. 1838. 



Stems more or less warty; leaf-segments 2-5 cm. long; sepals equal, 6-7 mm. 

 long, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse; corolla 5-6 cm. long, the limb slightly 5-lobed; 

 capsules 10-12 mm. high; seeds hairy. 



Type locality: Egypt. 



Distribution: Circumtropical. Introduced into Mexico and Florida. 



Illustrations: Sloan. Jam. 1: pi. 96. f. 2. Jacq. Hort. Schoenb. 

 p/. 129. Bot. Reg. pi 96, 768. Bot. Mag. pi. 699. Trans. Hort. Soc. 

 1: pi. 11. Mart. Fl. Bras. 7: pi. 105. Beauv. 1. c. pi. 106. Sertum Bot. 

 2: v-CL. 1829. 



Specimens examined: Grenada; W. E. Broadway, Dec. 16, 1904 (Y). 

 Florida; Waste ground, Pensacola, Curtiss 6496, 1899 (Y). 



79. Ipomoea pulchella Roth, Nov. PI. Sp. 115. 1821.— Choisy, Mem. 



Soc. Phys. Genev. 6 : 473. 1833.— In DC. Prodr. 9 : 386. 1845. 

 Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 470. 1861. Not I. pulchella G. Don, 

 1838. 



Convolvulus Aegyptiacus, etc. Moris. Hist. 2 : 18. 1680. 



Convolvulus hcplaphjllus Rottl. & Willd. in Ges. Naturf. Fr. Neue Schr. 4: 196. 1803. 

 — Roxb. Hort. Beng. 14. 1814.— Fl. Ind. 2: 66. 1824. 



