ADDISONIA ae 
(Plate 14) 
MINA LOBATA 
Lobate Mina 
Native of southern Mexico 
Family CONVOLVULACEAE MORNING-GLORY Family 
Mina lobata Llave & Lex. Nov. Veg. Descr.1:3. 1824. 
Quamoclit Mina G. Don, Gen. Hist. 4: 259. 1837. 
Ipomoea versicolor Meissn. in Mart. Fl. Bras. '7: 220. 1869. 
A glabrous vine, climbing after the manner of the morning-glory, 
up to twenty feet long. The leaves are on long petioles, the blades 
heart-shaped at the base, acuminate at the apex, or three—five-lobed, 
the lobes broad oe acuminate, entire or somewhat toothed. ‘The 
slender curved racemes, in the axils of the leaves, are two and a 
half to five chee iomtg, simple or sometimes branched at the base. 
The flowers are all on one side of the raceme, from three quarters 
of an inch to an inch long, and on short pedicels. The calyx is about 
three eighths of an inch long, the tube short, the lobes rather unequal, 
very acute. The five-angled corolla is at first bright red, passing 
through orange and yellow to nearly white as it matures, the short 
tube broadening abruptly into the sac-like limb which narrows 
upward into a small mouth surrounded with five short 
haw lobes. The stamens are about twice the length of the 
corolla. 
The illustration was made from a plant which flowered late in 
November, 1915, in the conservatories of the New York Botanical 
Garden. This plant was grown from seed collected at Chihuahua, 
Mexico, by A. de Lautreppe. It is a very decorative plant, much 
cultivated in Mexico for its showy flowers. Until the flowers 
zine it does not look unlike an ordinary morning-glory vine, the 
of growth and the leaves bearing a striking resemblance 
& that plant. When it blooms the resemblance ceases, for the 
blossoms are very unlike those of the morning-glory, as the accom- 
panying illustration makes manifest. It is apparently an annual, 
as are many other members of the morning-glory family. It can 
be grown readily from seed. 
GerorGE V. NAsH. 
