230 ANNALS NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



Leaf-blades oblong, 4-8 cm. long, softly pubescent above, silvery-pubescent 

 beneath; petioles 1-3 cm. long; sepals unequal, rounded or obtuse; corolla 5-6 cm. 

 long. 



Type locality: Cuba. 



Distribution : Cuba and Isle of Pines. 



Specimens EXAMINED : Cuba; C . Wright 3098 (co-tyipe — C). 



94. Ipomoea liypargyrea Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 204. 1866. 



A twining woody vine, appressed silvery-pubescent; leaf-blades oblong-lanceo- 

 late, subcordate, 4-8 cm. long, glabrate above, silvery beneath; short petioled; 

 peduncles 1-3-flowered; sepals chartaceous, glabrous, subequal, obtuse; corolla 

 6-7 cm. long, campanulate above the ventricose base, rose-ptu-ple; capsules exceed- 

 ing the calyx. 



Type locality: Cuba. 



Distribution: Cuba. 



Specimens examined: C. Wright 449, (Herb. Gray, in part) No. J^49 

 is cited under I. argentifolia A. Rich., and part of the Gray herbarium sheet 

 is that species. 



95. Ipomoea passifloroides sp. nov. 



Perennial, densely villous-pubescent ; leaf -blades broadly ovate, cordate, 4-7 

 cm. long, subequally 3-lobed, lobes shallow, often rounded, velvety appressed- 

 pubescent above and beneath; petioles short; the short peduncles 2- to 5-flowered; 

 bracts ovate, obtuse, 6-8 mm. long; pedicels densely hirsute; calyx glabrous; sepals 

 chartaceous, suborbicular, scarious-margined, 7-9 mm. long; corolla glabrous, pur- 

 ple, campanulate-funnelform above the strongly ventricose base, 4-5 cm. long, 

 tube 12-14 mm. thick above, the limb 22-25 mm. broad, slightly 5-lobed; capsules 

 black, glabrous, 2-celled, 4-seeded; seeds minutely pubescent, hirsute on the angles. 



Cuba: Jiquarito Mountam, Sierra Maestra, 3400 ft. alt. Norman 

 Taylor 504, Sept. 18, 1906 (type — Y). A specimen collected by Wright 

 without number in Herb. Gray, "Pinal San Juan de B., Nov. 24." 



96. Ipomoea rupicola sp. nov. 



Related to /. jalapa. Trailing or twining from a woody, enlarged root; 

 tomentulose, becoming glabrate; leaf-blades triangular-ovate, cordate-hastate, 2-5 

 cm. long and as broad, acuminate, basal auricles acute or obtuse often bifid; 

 petioles longer than the blades; peduncles 1-1.5 cm. long, 1-flowered; bracts minute; 

 pedicel 1 cm. long, or less; sepals equal, oblong to oblong-ovate, obtuse or the outer 

 ones subacute, tomentose or sericeous, 12-14 mm. long; corolla pubescent in bud 

 and on the plicae without when expanded, funnelform, 6-7 cm. long, the blue or 

 purple limb 6 cm. broad. 



