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PENTANDRTA MONOGYNTA. 



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87 



Nil 



C foliis cordatis trilobis, corollis semi- 



quiiiquefidis, pedunculis pctiolo brevio™ 



ribus. JVilld. Sp. PI. 1. ji. 851. HorL 



Kcw, 1. p. 330. 



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B(d. Mag. t. 188. 







y 



Ipomoca hcderucea. Br, Prod. 342.* 

 Monkey Vine. Hughes. 1G8. 

 BluOj or Azure Bind- Weed. Miller. 

 purpurem. C. foliis cordatis indivisis, fructibus ccr- 



nuis, pedicellis incrassatis. JFilld. Sp, 

 FL 1. j>. 852. Ilort, Ketv. 1. p. 330. 



Bot. .Mag. t. 113. 







Ipomoca purpurea. HorL Br. 288. 

 Purple Bind-Wecd. MUler. 



Batatas. C. foliis cordatis hastatis (trihhis qiwi' 



qitelohisque) quinqueucrviis, caule rcpcnte 

 hispido tubcrifcro. JVUld.Sp.PL 1.^.853. 

 Hort. Kcw.. I. p. 331. Auhl 140. % 



C. cdulis?1- ' Willd. Sp. Fl l.p. 875. 





''' Mr. Brown considers the Convolvulus, Nil. L. and the Ipomaia 

 hedcracea. L. as identical, and refers lo them both as synonyms 

 of his Ipomoea hcdoracea- 



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t Many varieties of the sweet Potatoe are cultivated in Bar- 

 bados, propag;atod by tlic slip or by tiic tuberose root, tarn not 

 certain that the C. Batatas, and C. edulis, arc specifically distinct. 

 Thumbcrg, describing- the 0. ednlis, says " Hadices ma^^nitudine 

 Sicpc pugni, tuberculatiTO; carnossCj, uti Batatas, esculentjc, mollis- 

 simai et sapidissimac/' ** Diilert a C. Batatas foliis cordatis intc- 

 gris trilobis et quinquclobis, nee angustatis in medio nt sagittaia 

 evadant.''— 7Vti/7n6. /r//>. 'S^. The leaveis of the Potatoe arc very 



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