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Type locality: Cuba. 

 Distribution: Cuba. 



Specimens examined: C. Wright 3092 (co-type — C, G). A specimen 

 in the Nat. Herb, without number, and labelled I. alterniflora is identical. 



101. Ipomcea camea Jacq. Enum. 13. 1760. — Select. Stirp. Am. Hort. 

 26. 1763.— Choisy in DC. Prodr. 9 : 374. 1845. 



Convolvulus carneus Spreng. Syst. 1: 602. 1825. 



Convolvulus pareiroefolius Bert.; Spreng. 1. c. 613. 



Ipomcea ■pareircefolia G. Don, Gen. Syst. 4: 273. 1838. 



Batatas pareiroefolia Choisy, Conv. Rar. 123. 1837.— In DC. Prodr. 9: 337. 1845. 



Type LOCALITY : Near Cartagena (Colombia). 



Distribution: Thickets near the coast, West Indies and Central Amer- 

 ica to Brazil. 



Illustrations: Jacq. Stirp. Am. Hort. pi. IS. 



Specimens examined: Jamaica: Harris, Jan. 1894 (J). Nicaragua; 

 C. Wright (U. S. North Pacific Expl. Exped.) (C). Panama, Cowell 171, 

 1905 (Y). 



! 102. Ipomcea microstictaHallierf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 7: 411. 1899. 



Stems slender, woody, glabrous, terete; leaf-blades ovate, entire, cordate, 4-9 

 cm. long, submembranaceous, acuminate, densely and minutely black-puncticulate 

 beneath with microscopic glands; lateral veins about 8 pairs; petioles with a pair of 

 punctiform nectaries at the summit; peduncles stout, 4-14 cm. long, many-flowered; 

 pedicels .slender, angled, subclavate, 10-13 mm. long; sepals elliptical, convex, 

 coriaceous, unequal, inner ones 6 mm. long; corolla purple, strongly ventricose at 

 the base, 4-5 cm. long. 



Type locality: Near Santa Lucia Cozumalhuapa, Guatemala. 



Distribution; Forests of Central America. 



Specimens examined: Scler 24-37, 1896 (dupl. t^-pe — G). 



15. Pedatisectae. Slender, herbaceous-stemmed, twining or erect, an- 

 nual or perennials with or without tuber-like roots: leaf-blades pedately or 

 rarely palmately parted, rarely cuneate and subentire in I. madrensis and /. 

 egregia: corolla usually small, rarely elongated (I. leptosiphoji and /. tenii- 

 iloba), funnel-form, never, ventricose at the base. 



Leptocallis G. Don, Gen. Syst. 4: 260. 1838. 

 Annuals or perennials without tuber-like roots. 



Stems erect, slender and weak; corolla 15 mm. long or 

 less. 



Leaf -blades temate. 103. /. ternifolia. 



