Ipomoea. | CONVOLVULACEAE. 313 
2. IPOMOEA, L. 
Sepals 5. Corolla campanulate, or tubular with a spreading limb, entire 
or angular or shortly, seldom deeply, lobed. Ovary 2-(or 3-)celled with 
2 ovules in each cell, or 4-celled by the addition of a spurious partition 
between the ovules. Style filiform. Stigma capitate, entire or with 2 short 
round lobes. Fruit a dry capsule with valves seceding from the dissepi- 
ments. — Twining, prostrate, creeping, or rarely low and erect herbs, 
occasionally woody at the base, or very rarely shrubby. Leaves entire 
or lobed, Flowers often large and showy, solitary, or more frequently in 
small cymes, generally in the axils of leaves, rarely paniculate. 
Av large all warm ee with a few species extending 
ry genus, dispersed 0 
into N. America and extratropical Afric ea and A 
In cultivation: I. purpurea, I. Nil, I.  Quameet Ic coccinea, I. wumbellata and others. 
1. I. pes-caprae. 
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Leaves ovate- or asa’, wee 2. I. acetosaefolia. 
hare crt at ire 
entire; flow 
hite 3. I. reptans. 
ie sinuate, se hg or dissected . 
4. I. Batatas. 
ieavie entire, cordate: 
Corolla long tubular, with a ‘spresding limb, white . . 5. 
Corolla tubular-campanula 
Glabrous; uppermost akon hastate; corolla small, pinkish; 
ema 2- lobed 
I. bona-noz. 
9. I. Forsteri. 
ll a date; lia larg blue} 
stigma almost entire ened 
Leaves palmately cut: 
Palmatifid, the lobes linear-oblong, not narrowed at the apn 8. I. dissecta. 
Palmatisect, the lobes seguapsinnid ag iad sae 
itate : 
10. I. insularis. 
Hispid ; flow et COTE eats wallet : : —— 
Glabrous ; se cee to pink . Sra g : . 7. I. tubereulata. 
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_1. IL. pes-caprae, Sw. — DC. Prod. IX, 349. — A glabrous perennial 
aves ovate, obovate or suborbicular, 
dly 
marginate or obtusely 2-lobed at the top, rather thick, with nearly 
vacallel oblique veins, the lowest converging at the base of the leaf, which 
sometimes bears one or two glands. Peduncles 1—2‘ long, 1- or few- 
flowered, the pedicels 1/.—-1‘. Sepals obtuse, broadly ovate, 3—4", the 
inner ones rather longer. .Corolla dusky-pink, 11/2—2’, obscurely lobed, 
campanulate, gradually tapering to the base. 
first. Stigma 2-lobed. Capsule 2-celled, ovoid, 1/2‘. Seeds pubescent. 
— Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 238. — Griseb. Fl. W. Ind. 
vulus pes-caprae, L. — I. maritima, R. Br. — Mrs. Sinclair, pl. 16. 
On all sandy hogs ‘Nat. name: «Pohuehue». — A common sea-coast plant in nearly 
all tropical countri 
