House: North American Convolvulaceae 599 



Ipomoea dichotoma H.B.K. loc. cit 



Ipomoea phoe7iicea Roxb. Hort. Beng. 14. 18 14. Fl, Ind. I 

 502. 1832, 



Convokmlus acutangtilans Spreng. Syst. i : 599. . 1825. 



//. 5a 1827. 

 4: 259. 1838. 



9- 335- 



Quamoclit cholulensis G. Don, Gen. Syst. 

 Qiiamoclit Rniziaiia G. Don, loc, cit. 258 

 Quamoclit dichotoma G. Don, loc. cit. 251 

 Ipomoea erythraea Moc. & Sesse ; Chois 

 1845. 



Ipomoea parviflura Sesse & Moc, Fl. Mex. 42. 1893. 



Quamoclit indivisa Hallier f Bot. Jahrb. 25 : 5. 1898. 



Annual, twining, glabrous : stems several m. long : leaf-blades 

 ovate, 3-10 cm. long, cordate, acute or acuminate at the apex, 

 usually thin and submembranaceous, pale beneath, entire or some- 

 what hastate or angulately lobed ; petioles as long as the blades 

 or shorter : peduncles about equaling the leaves or longer, few- 

 flowered or sometimes many-flowered : sepals oblong, 4-6 mm. 

 long, the outer ones with subulate, infratermlnal awns 2-5 mm. 

 long: corolla scarlet, white or orange, the tube 3-4 cm. long, 

 slightly enlarged above, the shallowly cup-shaped limb 1.5-2 

 cm. broad, 5-angled : capsules globose, 6-y mm. high. 



Type locality : St. Domingo. 



Distribution : Circumtropical. In America north to Florida, 

 Texas, and Arizona. Extended as an escape from cultivation to 

 Pennsylvania, Ohio, Missouri, and Arkansas. 



Illustration: Jacq. Ic. PI. Rar. i : //. jj. — Bot Repos. 

 //. ^p^. — Bot. Mag. //. 221. — Ruiz & Pav, !oc. cit. pL 120. f. b. 

 Naves, in Blanco, Fh Filipp. Ic. 2 : //. //, — Bailey, Cyclop. 

 Am. Hort./. 1168. — Britton & Brown, Illust Fl. 3:/ -^P/J. 



Quamoclit coccinea hederifolia (L.) House, Ann. N. Y. Acad. 



Sci. 18; 262. 1908 



Ipomoea hederifolia L. Syst. ed. 10, 925. 1759. 



Ipomoea sangtdnea Val 

 Ipomoea hastigera H.B 

 Ipomoea Hiunboldtiana 



P^' 33' 1794- 



III. 18 1 9. 

 : 789. 1819. 



'/c^/wi- Spreng. Syst I: 594. 1825. 



Convolvulus sanguineus Spreng. loc. cit. 



