742 LXXXVII. CONVOLVULACES. | Jpomea 
I. nuda Peter in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. iv. 3a, p. 31 
(1891), a Guatemala species, has been reduced by Hallier to Operculina 
tuberosa Meissn. 
The following No. is apparently an undescribed species of 
Ipomea, related to J. convolvuloides Schinz in Verh. Bot. Brandenb, 
xxx, p. 273 (1888), non Hallier f. (1893) :— 
Hu1iia.—Root tuberous, hard, nearly turnip-shaped, of the size of 
a very large fist ; stem arising from the centre of the tuber, erect, 
virgate, a foot high (in the only specimen seen), leafy, more or less 
reddish ; leaves narrowly lanceolate-linear, shortly petiolate, obtusely 
keeled beneath with the thick semi-cylindrical midrib, rather flesky, 
about 13 in. long (inclusive) ; flowers axillary, erect, solitary, shortly 
pedunculate, about 3 in. long, borne on a fleshy thick peduncle, with 
two opposite lanceolate erect bracteoles at the base, white-purplish ; 
calyx-segments 5, broadly lanceolate, abruptly subulate at the apex, 
adpressed to the corolla and including it beyond the middle, about 4 in. 
long ; corolla-limb erect, strongly plicate ; stamens 5, included ; ‘fila- 
ments at the base curved- ascending ; anthers oblong- linear, sagittate 
at the base, white as is also the pollen : stigma whitish, obtusely 
capitate, simple. In bushy hilly places and in fields, near Lopollo ; 
the tuber collected in April 1860, planted in the Lumiar garden near 
Lisbon and fl. May 1862. Only the flowers and leaves (in the study 
set). No. 6124. 
12. CALONYCTION Choisy in Mém. Soc. Phys. Genéve, vi. 
p. 441 (1834); Hall. f. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xvi. p. 583 (1893). 
Ipomea Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 870, partly. 
1. C. speciosum Choisy, /.c. 
Ipomea bona nox L. Sp. Pl., edit. 2, p. 228 (1762). C. bona now 
Boj. Hort. Maurit. p. 227 (1837); Hall. f.in Bull. Herb, Boiss. v. 
p. 1028 (1897). 
GoLunco ALTO.—By thickets and at the outskirts of the forest near 
N-delle, rather rare ; fl. and fr. end of July 1855. No. 6147. Culti- 
vated in Lisbon from seeds sent in 1858 from Golungo Alto. No. 6147). 
At Undelle ; ripe fr. June 1856 and July 1857. Cou. Carp. 779. 
2. C. muricatum G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. p. 264 (1838); Welw. 
Apontam. p. 584, n. 11; Hall. f. Zc, p. 1044 & in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 
xvill. p. 154. 
C. speciosum, var. b., Choisy, l.c. Convolvulus muricatus L. 
Mant. Pl. i. p. 44 (1767). 
Punco ANDONGO.—A perennial herb, climbing high and far, a 
striking ornament to all the thickets of the presidium in the rainy 
season of March and April; flowers either quite white or pale violet- 
coloured outside and deep violet-purple inside, very sweetly fragrant. 
By thickets; fil. April 1857; and at Welwitsch’s house in Pungo 
Andongo, fl. May 1857. No. 6146. 
13. QUAMOCLIT Tournef. ex Moench, Meth. Pl. p. 453 & index 
(1794); Hallier f. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xvi. p. 584 (1893). 
Ipomea Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 870, partly. 
1. Q. coccinea Moench, /.c.; Hall. f., d.c., xviii. p. 154 (1893). 
Ipomeea coccinea L. Sp. Pl., edit. 1, p. 160 (1753). 
