House: North American Convolvulaceae 597" 



white, 25-35 mm. long, the tube clavate, the limb nearly flat, the 

 short ovate lobes acute : capsules ovoid, 4-celled, 8-10 mm, high. 

 Type locality : India. 



Distribution : Circumtropical and extended by cultivation 

 and as an escape throughout the southern United States, north, 

 to Virginia and Kansas. 



Illustrations: Rumph. Amb. pi. 755. / 2. — Tourn. Inst. 

 //. jp. ^Rheede, Mai. 11: //. 60. — Bot. Mag. //. 188, pi. 

 244. — Britton & Brown, loc, cit. f. 2^44. — Bailey, Cyclop. Am._ 

 Hort.yC 1 1 6(5. 



2. Quamoclit Lindleyi nom. nov. 



Calboa globosa Lindl. Jour. Hort. Soc. 5; Z2. 1850. Not. 

 Morenoa globosa Llav. & Lex. 1824, or Quamoclit globosa G. 

 Don, 1838. 



Perennial, twining, glabrous : leaf-blades ovate, usually 3-5- 

 lobed, lobes lanceolate, entire, acute or some of the blades merely 

 angulate or dentate, and cordate-hastate at the base; petioles 

 longer than the blades : peduncles exceeding the subtending 

 leaves, 25-35 cm. long, 3-9-flovvered; pedicels filiform, 3-10 cm. 

 long: sepals ovate, blunt, the infraterminal awns 6-8 mm, long:- 

 corolla deep red, 5-6 cm. long, the cylindrical tube about as long 

 as the deep cup-shaped limb, the lobes of the limb broad and 

 rounded with wavy crenulate margins: capsules about 10 mm., 

 high. 



Type locality : Guatemala. 



Distribution: Southern Mexico and Central America. 



Illustrations: Lfndl. loc. cit, (text fig.). 



Specimens examined: Guanajuato: A. Dugcs^ 1880 (Gray 

 Herb.). Oaxaca : Cuyamecalco, Z. C. Smith 60^^ 1895 (Gray- 

 Herb,). 



3. Quamoclit Langlassei sp. nov. 



Perennial, twining, glabrous: leaf-blades oblong-ovate, 8-10- 

 cm. long, cordate-hastate and fiddle-shaped, the basal auricles 

 spreading, rounded or obtuse, often with lateral acuminations,. 

 about 4 cm. broad at the base, constricted above, the apex ab- 

 ruptly acute ; petioles 3-4 cm. long : peduncles elongated, 20 cm. 

 long or longer, few-flowered ; pedicels slender, about 2 cm. long:: 

 sepals oblong, somewhat unequal, obtuse or rounded, the infra- 

 terminal awns 8-10 mm. long: corolla bright yellow, 3.5-4 cm._ 



