Ipomaa. CONVOLYULACE.E. 209 



extended sense, as in Meissn. iu Mart. Fl. Bras. vii. 215, & Benth. & Hook. Gen. 

 ii. 870. 



I. LEUCANTHA, Jacq., a South American species, is mentioned by Choisy in DC. Prodr. as 

 having been collected by Charpentier in Arkansas ; but we have it not. 



I. Carolina, L. (Catesb. Car. ii. t. 91), belongs to the Bahamas and other West Indies, 

 not Carolina. 



Aniseia airea, Kellogg, in Proc. Calif. Acad. iii. 229, with plate, is a 5-foliolate Ipomcea 

 of Lower California, perhaps undescribed, and the same . as no. 81 in the collection of Xan- 

 tus, in the same district, wliich was referred to /. sinuata, var. foliis iniegris, in Proc. Am. Acad. 

 V. 165. 



§ 1. Calontction, Griseb. Corolla salverform, ample, with very long tube, 

 flat limb, and throat not dilated ; in aestivation contorted : sepals herbaceous, 

 becoming coriaceous, the outer sometimes cornute-tipped : style capitate-didymous : 

 ovules 4, geminate in 2 cells, or commonly solitary in 4 : flowers white, opening 

 at evening and for one night, fragrant. — Caloiiyction, Choisy. 



I. Bona-nox, L. Extensively twining, glabrous : stem lactescent, usually becoming 

 muricate-tuberculose : leaves from ovate-cordate to hastate, entire or3-5-lobed, acuminate : 

 peduncles 1-7-flowered : outer sepals commonly with an infraternlinal cusp or horn : corolla 

 with slender tube 3 or 1 inches long and limb 1 or 5 inches wide, green externally between 

 the plaits : stamens and style short-exserted : capsule ovate-conical, acute : seeds glabrous. 

 — Andr. Bot. Eep. t. 403 ; IBot. Jlag. t. 752. Calonyction speciosum, Choisy, Convolv. 59, & in 

 DC. Prodr. ix. 345. — S. Florida, perhaps indigenous : cult, for ornament, especially south- 

 ward. ( Jlex., W. Ind., S. Amer., and scattered through most tropical regions.) 



§ 2. QuXmoclit, IVEeissn., &c. Corolla salverform or with somewhat funnelform 

 but narrow tube; the limb not contorted in the bud: sepals membranaceous or 

 herbaceous : stamens and style more or less exserted : ovules solitary in the 

 4 cells, i. e. the 2 cells bilocellate by a spurious partition : flowers red, opening by 

 day. (Ours glabrous annuals.) — QuamocUt, Tourn., Choisy. 



I. QuAmoclit, L. (Ctpress-Vixe.) Slender: leaves pinnately parted into linear-filiform 

 divisions, short-petioled or sessile: peduncles few-flowered: corolla over an inch long, 

 scarlet-red; the tube narrowly funnelform above; lobes ovate : sepals merely mucronate 

 or blunt. (Hybridizes with the following.) — Lam. 111. t. 104 ; Bot. Mas. t. 214. Quamo- 

 cUt vulgaris, Choisy, &c. — Cult, and sparingly spontaneous in S.Atlantic States. (Trop. 

 Amer., &c.) 



' I. coccinea, L. Eather tall-climbing : leaves slender-petioled, cordate, or with somewhat 

 sagittate or hastate base, conspicuously acuminate, entire, or angulate, or :5-5-toothed : 

 peduncles few-several-flowered : corolla 9 to 20 lines long, scarlet or verging to orange ; 

 the tube clavate ; limb obscurely lobed, half to two-thirds inch wide : sepals mostly with 

 slender appendage below the tip. — Siras, Bot. Mag. t. 221 ; Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 499. /. luteoln, 

 Jacq. Ic. Rar. t. 35, with orange-colored corolla. Qnamoclit coccinea, Moench, Moth. 453 ; 

 Choisy in DC. — River-banks, &c., Middle and S.Atlantic States (apparently introduced, 

 but well naturalized), and Xew Mexico and Arizona, where it is probably indigenous. 

 (Trop. Amer., &c.) 



Var. hederifolia. Leaves from angulate (or the earlier quite entire) to S-lobed or 



even .3-parted, or sometimes pedately 5-parted : corolla usually rather larger. — /. hederifolia, 

 L. ; Meissn. in Fl. Bras. vii. t. 7(3, fig. 1. 7. sanguinea, Vahl, Synib. iii. 33 ; Bot. Reg. t. 9 ; 

 Bot. Mag. t. 1769. QuamocUt hederifolia, Choisy. — W. Texas to Arizona. (Trop. Amer.) 



§ 3. EuipoMOEA. Corolla funnelform or nearly campanulate : stamens and 

 style not exserted. — Ipomoea, Batatas, Pharhitis, & Aniseia. Choisy. Ipomaa & 

 Pharbitis, ^Meissn. 



* (JIoKNiXG Gloet.) Lobes of the stiima and cells of the ovary 3 (rarely varying to 2) : sepals 

 long and narrow, acuminate or attenuate upward, herbaceous, mostly hispid or hirsute below : 

 corolla funnelform, purple, blue, and white: seeds glabrous. — Pharbitis, Choisy. 



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