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5-7mm. long, oblong-lanceolate, acute: corolla purplish, about 
5cm. long, tube very slender, 2-3 mm. thick above the calyx, 
expanding into a subentire limb nearly 5cm. broad: capsules. 
subglobose, about 6mm. in diameter, 2 celled, 4-seeded: seeds 
smooth and black. 
Mexico: Manzanillo, Palmer (no, 1031), 1890. Type in the 
herbarium of the U. S. National Museum. 
Ipomoea Painteri 
Related to /. costellata Torr., but erect, 10-20cm. high, 
annual, sparingly branched, hirsute above with spreading hairs: 
leaf blades pedately divided into 7-9 linear segments, these 
5-15 mm. long, apiculate; petioles shorter than the middle seg- 
ment: peduncles exceeding the subtending petioles, only rarely 
the blades, 1.5-2 cm. long, 1-flowered, bracts minute; pedicel por- 
tion slightly thickened, about 1cm. long: sepals unequal, lan- 
ceolate or broader, acute, the outer ones shorter, 5 mm. long, the 
inner 6-8 mm. long, glabrous, the outer sepals slightly muricate- 
keeled and hirsute with a few scattered hairs: corolla cream- 
colored, funnelform, 10-14mm. long, the 5-angled limb nearly 
as broad, each plicae ending at the margin in two minute, black 
spines: capsules globose, glabrous, 2-celled, 4-seeded. 
Mexico: near Guadalupe, Federal District, Rose and Pain- 
ter (no. 6825), September 6, 1903. Type, sheet no. 450386 in 
the herbarium of the U. S. National Museum. 
’ Ipomoea Urbinei 
Slender, twining, herbaceous (but probably from a peren- 
nial, tuberous root): stem glabrous, 50-150 cm. long: leaf blades 
natrowly ovate, cordate or cordate-sagittate, entire, acuminate, 
3-4cem. long, 2-2.5cm. broad at the base, minutely pubescent 
above, glaucous and more densely but minutely pubescent be- 
neath: peduncles exceeding the subtending petioles but not the 
blades, slightly confluent with the petiole below, 1-2-flowered: 
pedicels 6-gmm. long, glabrous or nearly so: sepals unequal, 
glabrous, the inner oblong-ovate, acute, 8-10 mm. long, the outer 
