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Ipo:mcea PES-CAPii^E, Eotli. — Baker, Plor. Maur. Seych., 

 p. 211, Coralline limestone, 5 feet above sea-level, 4th 

 March 1889. Native. 



Ipomcea glaberpjma, Bojer, in Hook. Journ. i. 357. — 

 Common on coralline limestone at the seashore, 5-10 feet 

 above sea-level, l-8th August 1888. Native. 



Stems stout, terete, glabrous, pale green, wide twining 

 right to left round shrubs; juice milky. Leaves 2|— 5 

 inches long, 2^-- 1| inches broad, green above, paler green 

 beneath, membranous ; petiole 1—4 inches long, pale green. 

 Peduncles 1—3 -flowered. Flowers inodorous. Sepals 

 green, with a dark-purple obtuse apex, persistent, finally 

 becoming reflexed, dry, pale brown above, and dark brown 

 beneath. Corolla-tube 2i-3 inches long, pilose on the in- 

 side, pale greenish-yellow ; limb 3-4 inches broad when 

 expanded, white, with 5 radiating bands, which are pale 

 whitish-yellow above, and pale greenish-yellow beneath. 

 Capsule f-1 inch broad, depresso-sub-globose, longitudinally 

 grooved on two opposite sides, glabrous, pale yellowish- 

 brown, crowned with the persistent base of the style, 

 2-celled. Seeds 1—2 in a cell, ^ inch broad, globose-com- 

 pressed, when one seed in a cell, globose-triquetrous when 

 two seeds in a cell, densely clothed with dark blackish- 

 brown tomentum, encircled with a fringe of long pale 

 brown hairs. 



This species was found by me growing common on coral- 

 line limestone at the seashore, He Vakois, 5th September 

 1889 ; and common on coralline limestone at the seashore, 

 on the north side of He Marianne, 19th March 1890. 

 Native on both islands. 



I. glcibcrrima, Bojer, which occurs from Polynesia to 

 Zambesi-land, is not recorded from Mauritius in Baker, 

 Flor. Maur. Seych. It is recorded as cultivated in the 

 Eoyal Botanic Garden, at Pamplemousses, Mauritius, under 

 Calonyction comospcrma, Boj., in Bojer, Hort. Maur. p. 

 228. It is recorded as native in Flat Island by Home in 

 Home, Notes on Flora of Flat Island, pp. 17 and 18, pub- 

 lished in 1886. In Baker, Flor. Maur. Seych., p. 211, it is 

 recorded by Bojer and "Wright as native in the Seychelles, 

 in bushy places near the shore. 



