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Type locality: America (L.); Jamaica (Plum.). 
Distribution : Forests of Jamaica, Hayti and St. Domingo. 
Illustrations: Plum. Am. pi. 90. f. 1. 
Specimens examined: Jamaica; Gordontown road, Harris , Jan. 7, 
1902 (J). Barrack Hill, W. Cradwick, July 1890 (J). Port Antonio, Britton 
890, 1906. (Y). 
11. Setosse. Twining or climbing perennial vines; leaf-blades ovate, 
cordate, acute, entire or 3-lobed; flowers solitary or cymose; peduncles 
thickened and fleshy; sepals ovate-lanceolate or ovate, setaceous or ten¬ 
tacular; pedicels more or less tentacular or setaceous. 
Gomphius Raf. FI. Tellur. 4: 75. 1838. 
Petioles and often the leaves, calyces and pedicels bristly 
with long, spreading setae; leaf-blades 3-lobed. 73. 
Petioles not setaceous. 
Peduncles longer than the subtending petioles; sepals 
8-9 mm. long, densely tentacular. 74. 
Peduncles shorter than the petioles; sepals 11-12 mm. 
long, acute, sparingly tentacular. 75. 
73. Ipomoea setosa Ker. Bot. Reg. pi. 335. 1818. 
Convolvulus setosus Spreng. Syst. 1: 594. 1825. 
Gomphius setosa Raf. FI. Tellur. 4: 75. 1838. 
Batatas setosa Lindl. Bot. Reg. Index xv. 1839. 
Calonyction setosum Hallier f. Bull. Herb. Boiss. 5: 1048. 1897. 
The orbicular-ovate, deeply 3-lobed leaf-blades 10-20 cm. long; peduncles as 
long as the petioles, 3- to 9-flowered; pedicels 25-30 mm. long, thickened and fleshy, 
lactescent in fruit; sepals oblong, obtuse, 10-14 mm. long, accrescent in fruit, 
densely^setaceous; corolla purplish-red, 5-6 cm. long, tube cylindrical; capsules 
15-20 mm. thick, 4-celled, 4-seeded. 
Type locality: Brazil. 
Distribution: Tropical America. Introduced with coffee seed into 
the West Indies, Mexico and Gulf States. 
Illustrations: Bot. Reg. 1. c. Bull. Herb. Boiss. 5: pi. 17, 18. 
Specimens examined: Florida; Manatee, Simpson 111 , 1890 (Y). 
Louisiana; Franklin, O’Niell, 1900 (Y). 
Ipomoea setosa campanulata (Hallier f.). comb. nov. 
Ipomoea macrantha Peter, in Engl. & Prantl. Nat. Pflanzenfam. IV. 3a: 31. 
1891. Not I. macrantha Roem. & Schult. 1819. 
Calonyction campanula,turn Hallier f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 5: 1050. 1897. 
Sepals becoming 20-22 mm. long, the setae weak; corolla lilac, about 8 cm. long, 
campanulate-funnelform, the tube constricted at the base. 
I. setosa. 
I. tentaculifera. 
I. lozani. 
