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13. I. pes-caprae, Roth; Choisy in DC. Rrod. ix. 349. A glabrous 
perennial, with woody stems trailing sometimes to a length of 80 or 
100 feet on the sands of the seashore. Leaves firm, roundish, broadly 
deltoid at the base, 1-3 in. long, with two long or short obtuse 
lobes, with a deltoid sinus between them ; petiole ascending, 
1- 3 in. long. Flowers 1-6, from the axils of the leaves on a long 
common peduncle. Sepals f — \ in. long, much imbricated. Corolla 2-2-| 
in. long and broad, reddish. Ovary 4-cell ed with a single ovule in a 
cell. Capsules much longer than the calyx, 2-celled, 4-valved. Seeds 
2- 4, large, covered with brown tomentum. Convolvulus pes-caprae, 
Linn. Ipomcea maritima, R. Dr.; Dot. Reg. t. 319. Batatas maritima, 
Bojer, Sort. Maur. 225. 
Mauritius and Rodriguez, common on the shores. Round Island, Sir H. Barhly ! 
Round the world in the tropics. Connects Batatas and Ipomcea proper in the structure 
of its ovary, in which two of the four septa vanish wholly or partially as it matures. 
Batate a Durand or Ratatrant. Bat ate ronde. 
14. I. glaberrima, Bojer, in HooJc. Journ. i. 357. A large woody 
climber, glabrous in all its parts. Leaves round, membranous, cuspi- 
date, 4-5 in. long and broad, entire, deeply cordate ; petiole 2-5 in. 
long. Peduncles 1-flowered, shorter than the petioles, thickened for 
an inch below the flower. Sepals f, finally an inch long, obtuse, much 
imbricated. Corolla white, with a cylindrical tube 3 in. long, and a 
suddenly spreading limb 3 in. broad. Capsule globose, an inch thick. 
Seeds densely pilose. Calonyction comesperma, Bojer , Hort. Maur. 228. ; 
Choisy in DC. Rrod. ix. 346. 
Seychelles, in bushy places near the shore, Bojer ! Wright ! Polynesia to 
Zambesi-land. 
* I. muricata, Jacq. Hort. Schoenb. 340, t. 323, (Convolvulus, Linn.), 
a variety of I. hona-nox, Linn, (Calonyction speciosum, Choisy in DC. 
Rrod. ix. 345,) universally cultivated or wild in the tropics, is plentiful 
in Bodriguez, Dr. Balfour ! It is a shrubby climber, glabrous in all its 
parts, with copious weak deltoid prickles, long-petioled cordate-ovate 
membranous large entire or 3-lobed leaves, flowers 3-4 in lax axillary 
cymes, long pedicels becoming clavate as the fruit ripens, large ovate 
or lanceolate cuspidate sepals, a spreading purple corolla-limb 2-3 in. 
broad, and a globose capsule an inch thick. 
15. I. coccinea, Linn. Sp. Plant. 163. An annual glabrous climber, 
with slender stems. Leaves deltoid, deeply cordate, acute, entire or 
furnished with a few large teeth or obscurely 3-lobed, bright green, 
membranous, 3-4 in. long and broad ; petiole 1J-2 in. long. Peduncles 
| foot long, with 6-12 corymbose or racemose flowers on short 
ascending pedicels. Sepals i in. long, obtuse, with a very long cusp. 
Corolla bright red, 1| in. long, with an almost rotate limb under an 
inch broad, with broad shallow lobes. Stamens distinctly exserted 
from the corolla tube. Capsule the size of a large pea, 4-seeded, 
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