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Wheleri, and adds, " ab inventore habui." This figure is based on 

 a specimen in Herb. Sloane, xci. 57, which is labelled by Plukenet, 

 "Convolvulus folio sagittariae D. Wheler flore amplo purp. in 

 Itinerario suo." This name will be found among the "plants 

 observ'd by Sir George Wheeler in his voyage to Greece and 

 r ' " (Ray, Coll. Travels, ii. 31), where Ft is recorded from 



' the Island ( 



lity for 1 



plant by Boissier (Fl. Orient, iv. 113), n 

 Nyman's Conspectus, 504, where the European distribution is given 

 as " Valenc. Sicil." 



Ipomoea sinuata Oi-L—< ■onmlnihiH /xilmatls Mill. Diet. ed. viii. 

 No. 8, is usually identified with Ipomoea quinquefolia L., and the 

 name is corrected to palmatus. Miller's specimens, to which his 



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(Decades, vii. 84). Miller raised the plant from seeds sent him by 

 Houston from Vera Cruz : his specimens are labelled " Vera Cruz, 

 Houston, 1730." One of these plants is glabrous throughout, but 

 the other has the hairy stems, petioles, and peduncles so conspicuous 

 in Jacquin's two figures (Obs. ii. t. 28; Hort. Vindob. t. 159) : we 

 have a specimen from Jacquin's garden closely corresponding with 

 the latter figure. Mr. Hemsley (Bot. Biol. Centr. Amer. ii. 394) 

 does not record it from Vera Cruz, and cites as a synonym " Con- 

 ml ml us ■lis.-, -ins Linn.": this name does not, however, appear in 

 Mr. Jackson's Index, and should have been attributed to Jacquin, 

 who described the species from plants raised at Vienna from 

 American seed. Those who invest the earliest specific 



applyng Jacqu 

 Dr. Ha " 1 



name (which dates from 1767) to this plant : 



already, in accordance with this practice, substituted /. 

 the species usually known as I. dissecta Willd. 



Robert Brown, in Salt's Voyage to Abyssinia, Appendix IV 

 p. lxiv., published the names (only) of three Convolvutacea, whic 

 have not hitherto been identified, the types of which are in th 

 British Museum Herbarium. A comparison of these enables me t 

 identify two of them with well-known species : the third proves t 



NEW TROPICAL AFRICAN CONVOLVULACE^. 



By A. B. Rendle, M.A., F.L.S. 

 The following descriptions are based on specimens contained in 



British Museum Herbarium, and not included in Hallier's 

 nt monograph, or in Mr. J. G. Baker's paper in the Bulletin of 



