598 House: North American Convolvulaceae 



long, the tube about 2 cm. long and bent, the limb campanulate, 

 fully 3 cm. broad with 5 rounded lobes : style persistent in fruit, 



*' Crete de la Sierra Madre " (southern Mexico). Plants of 

 Michoacan &^uerrero, 2250 m. alt., E, Langlasse 8js, Nov. 

 16, 1899. Type, sheet no. j86,2^g in the U. S. National 

 Herbarium. 



4. QuAMOCLiT GLOBOSA (Llav. & Lex.) G. Don, Gen. Syst 4 : 



259. 1838, — -Benth. PL Hartw. 89, 1839 



Mor 



5. 1824. 



Ipomoea globosa Meissn. in Mart Fl. Bras. 7: 220. 1869. 

 (Excl. syn. Lindl., Cav., and Choisy.) 



Ipomoea Harhvegii Meissn. loc, cit. Not Ipomoea Hartzvegi 

 Benth. 1839. 



Perennial, twining, glabrous : leaf-blades ovate, cordate, deeply 

 3-5-Iobed, 10-15 ^"^- l^^gj lobes acute or acuminate, the middle 

 lobe largest, ovate, scarcely or not at all constricted at the base, 

 lateral lobes obliquely triangular, their outer margins usually with 

 l~3 sharp teeth ; petioles usually longer than the blades : pedun- 

 cles exceeding the subtending petioles and usually the blades, 15- 

 25 cm, long, stout ; pedicels filiform, 1-2 cm. long : sepals ovate 

 or oval, 3-4 mm. long, the awns 2-3 mm. long: corolla 2.5-3 

 cm. long, erect, yellowish, the tube one third as long, cylindrical 

 and bent, ventricosely dilated above into a subglobose or deeply 

 campanulate limb, throat and base of the tube tinged with purple, 

 the 5 short ovate obtuse lobes erect or spreading : capsules ovoid, 

 4-5 mm, high. 



Type locality : San Jose del Corral, Mexico. 



Distribution: Southern Mexico to Brazil 



Specimens examined: Mexico: QoX\^2.,Karivinsky 5g8,\Z^\\ 

 CoHma, Palmer it 04, 1891. Guatemala : Aceituna, / D. Smith 

 /^7^ > 1890. Salvador: Carlos Rcnson 82. 



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5. QuAMOCLiT cocciNEA (L.) Moeiich, Meth. 453. 1794 

 Ipomoea cocci nea L. Sp. PI. 160. 1753. 

 Ipomoea annularis Willd. Nov. Act. Cur. 4: 197. 1770. 

 Convolvulus coccineus^-aXx^yi.Vxo^x. 124. 1796. 

 Ipomoea acuminata Ruiz & Pav. Fl. Per. 2 : 11. 1799. 

 Ipomoea angulata Ruiz & Pav. loc. cit. 

 Ipomoea cholulensis H.B.K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. 3 : 1 12. 181 9. 



