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infundibulifornii, superne extus sparsissime pilosula, violaceo-rosea, 

 fasciis 5 meso-petalis 5-nerviis, tubo basi angusto; staminibus 5 

 inolusis, inaequalibus, filamentis tubo supra basin affixis, inferne 

 pilosis, antheris oblongis ; stylo filiformi stamina excedente, stig- 

 mate capitato subdidymo ; disco annulari subcarnoso crenato. 



Hab. In collinis sylvestribus prope Puri-Cacarambola, Ambaca, 

 ast non frequens. Flor. Octob. Welwitsch, 6194. 



A prostrate plant, emitting laxly-leaved shoots 2-5 ft. long from 

 a nodose woody rootstock. The shoots, leaf- and flower-stalks, 

 bracts and sepals, are somewhat roughly hairy with short pale 

 yellowish hairs. The petioles are 4-6 lines long; the leaves, 

 which are generally more or less narrowly triangular-ovate, are 

 almost glabrous, except on the veins and veinlets, where the hairs 

 characteristic of the rest of the plant are found ; they are l£-2 in. 

 long, i-f in. at their broadest. The single specimen was just 

 beginning to flower, only one blossom having opened ; the flowers 

 are crowded, two, three, or four together, on very short pedicels at 

 the top of axillary peduncles, 1-2$ in. long. The narrow bracts 

 are 4-5 lines long, and reach above the base of the calyx; the 

 sepals are f in., and about equal in length, but the outer ones much 

 broader than the inner. The large corolla is If in. long, the tube 

 being 14 lines, and the spreading limb 8 lines. The stamens are 

 included in the tube, and unequal in length, two being longer and 

 two shorter than the fifth ; the filaments are inserted on the tube 

 3£ lines above its base, and are 5-6 lines long, the lower half 

 bearing long thick multicellular hairs ; the oblong anthers are 

 about 1 line long. The filiform style bears a sub-bilobed capitate 

 stigma. 



A new species near /. blepharophylla Hallier, but distinguished 

 by its larger broader leaves, the several-flowered peduncles, and the 

 larger bracts, which also more resemble the sepals than in Hallier's 

 plant. The latter, moreover, inhabits dry plains and the margins 

 of fields, while I. porrecta was found on wooded hills. 



Ipomoea adumbrata Eendle et Britten, sp. n. Suffrutex 

 eauhbus effusis prostratis ( ?) ut petioli pedunculique pilia albis 

 hirtulis; foliis parvis breviter petiolatis, oblongis, basi saspissime 

 truncata vel subhastata, apice rotundato, margine ciliolata venis 

 dorso prominulis et albo-scabridule-pilosis ; pedunculis axiUaribus, 

 1-2-floris, folia haud aequantibus ; bracteis binis parvia, lineari- 

 lanceolatis, ut sepala ciliolatis, calycem haud vel vix attingentibus ; 

 sepahs exterioribus multo latioribus, ovatis, acuminatis, dorso pilosis, 

 margine albo-ciliatis, interioribus longissime acuminatis; corolla 

 mediocri, calyce subtriplo longiori, extus (nondum evoluta) sparse 

 et breviter pilosa, rosea (?); staminibus 5, 2 longioribus, a basi 

 triangulari pilosa, corolhe tubo affixis ; stigmate capitato didymo ; 

 disco annulari. 



Hab. In apricis breve dumetosis Mumpulla, Huilla. October, 

 1859. Welwitsch, 6128. 



A small spreading suberect or prostrate shrub, with a woody 

 rootstock. The shoots, leaf- and flower-stalk are covered with 

 short whitish hairs, which also occur on the lower part of the 



