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rem. long, oblong or elliptical and rounded at the ends, the 
__ outer sepals suborbicular, about 5 mm. long: corolla funnelform, 
purple, 4.5-5 cm. long. 
Honduras: Yuro road near Puerto Sierra, Percy Wilson 
(no. 534), 1903. Type in the herbarium of the New York Bot- 
anical Garden. 
y Ipomoea splendor-sylvae 
Perennial, slender, high twining, glabrous: leaf blades 
ovate, deeply cordate, acuminate, the basal lobes rounded, sinu- 
ate-dentate on the outer margin with a few prominent teeth, en- 
tire toward the apex, 5-9cm. long; petioles about equaling the 
blades or shorter: peduncles exceeding the subtending petioles 
and blades, slender, 10-18cm. long, 1-3-flowered: pedicels 10-15 
mim. long: sepals unequal, membranaceous, the inner longer, 
oblong or elliptical-oblong, 8-romm. long, obtuse or rounded: 
corolla 5-9 cm. long, scarlet, the tube slender within the calyx, 
expanding above the calyx into a tube 1cem thick, the limb 
subentire, about 4cm. broad. 
Honduras: Highland creek above Bradley’s plantation, Pu- 
erto Sierra, Percy Wilson (no. 286), 1903. ‘Type in the herbar- 
ium of the New York Botanical Garden. 
This species must be a conspicuous and beautiful plant in 
its native forests, possessing as it does bright green leaves of pe- 
culiar outline, and scarlet flowers on elongated peduncles. Few 
other known species possess toothed leaf blades. 
¥ Ipomoea Roseana 
Nearest related to 7. ¢liacea (Willd.) Choisy (Z. fastiviata 
Sweet), from which it is distinguished by its shorter peduncles 
and inflorescence, smaller sepals and corolla of different shape 
and color. 
Perennial, slender, twining, 1- several m.long, glabrous: 
leaf blades ovate, deeply cordate with a narrow sinus, acute or 
acuminate, entire or slightly 3-lobed, 4-10cm. long: petioles as 
long as the blades or shorter: peduncles shorter than the sub- 
