316 CONVOLVULACEAE. [ Ipomoea. 
8 var. lineariloba, — Leaves small, 1-—11/2‘ in diam., wis 7—9 linear 
lobes, those of the one or two outer pairs deeply bifid. 
oast of Mol i! 
. I dissecta, Willd. @ R. Br. — DC. Prod. IX, 363. — Leaves on 
petioles of only 1/2 in ent subcoriaceous, shortly and softly pubescent 
on a 
3—4” broad and bluntly acuminate, not contracted below 
ones being provided with an acute tooth near the base. Peduncle stiff, 
1—1"/s', bearing 3 flowers on pedicels of 7 —9", the outer ones minutely 
bracteolate at the base and middle. Sepals 6—7 “, linear-oblong, bluntish, 
nearly equal, perhaps the two inner ones a little longer.. Corolla (in bud) 
apparently purple, 
Maui! above Maalaea bay, communicated by Mr. Lydgate. It is with some hesi- 
tation that I “apd — ont distinct plant to the above named species. From the small 
fragment which came without accompanying: notes it is raat to judge whether the 
plant is a twin creeper; nor bave I learnt whether it grew by the sea or on the 
hills. I Biniats, ‘Willd, (Z. diversifolia, R. Br.) is a native of E. India and Australia. 
toward the apex, membranous, brownish when dry, on petioles of 2—"/2 
the lowest ovate-cordate, 3—3 3'/2‘ X 1!/2—2/, pointedly acuminate, with 
broad sinus and rounded auricles, the upper ones ovate-oblong to lan- 
ceolate- eaancnee! ne off to 1 in length and 4” in width, with narrow 
sinus a te auricles, often mucronate at the apex 
and Smee at the everted tips of the auricles also, Peduncle 1'/2—3', 
bearing a cymose umbel of 3—7 flowers on pedicels of 1/2‘. Sepals 
3—4", nearly equal, chartaceous, scarious when with fruit, ovate, mucro- 
nate to aristate. Corolla 1—1!/«', dusky- -red, tubular-funnel-shaped, the 
limb little spreading and slightly lobed. Style i the length of the corolla 
or little more, with a biglobose stigma. Stamens shorter, of equal height, 
the flat filaments as well as the oblong sagittate anthers coarsely pu 
bescent. Seeds black and glabrous. — I. carnea, Forst. (non Jacq.) — 
pa en Guillem. in Zephyr. Taitens. — I. a ars Seem. in Bonpl. 1861, 
p. —T ss tone Wawra, in hee 1874, p. 363. 
Rte Hilo (U. 8. E. E. Lydg.). 
8 var. pauciflora. — Peduncle very short, 2—3”, bearing generally 1, 
sometimes 2 or 3 flowers, on pedicels of 6—9”, the bractlets minute, 
linear 
The slender plant twines aor the stems of ialis and low shrubs and does not seem 
to be creeping in the proper sense; otherwise it is much like I. littoralis, Bl. from Java o 
Ceylon. also in the Society, Viti and robably not dlstinet S08 
I. denticulata, bits the and other Polynesi ae nds and 
same 
like our plant «pedunculis raro multifioris et auriculis Saori, Our var. § answers well 
that ies in the Prodrom 
