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Type locality: “ Colitur in R. horto Matritense, ex seminbus missis 
ab Hispanio.” 
Distribution: West Indies and northern South America. 
78. Ipomcea cairica (L.) Sweet, Hort. Brit. 287. 1827. 
Convolvulus foliis laciniatis vel quinquefolius, Bauh. Pin. 295. 
C. quinquefolius, seu foliis laciniatis, flore purpureo ccerulea, Bauh. Prodr. 134. 
Convolvulus cegyptius Vesl. Aegypt. 73. pi. 74 . 
Convolvulus cairicus L. Syst. ed. 10, 922. 1759.— Sp. PI. ed. 2, 222. 1762. 
Ipomcea palmata Forsk. FI. Aegypt.-Arab. 43. 1775.— Choisy in DC. Prodr. 9: 386. 
1845. 
Ipomcea senegalensis Lam. Illus. 1: 464. 1791. 
Ipomcea stipulacea Jacq. Hort. Schoenb. 2: 39. 1797. 
Convolvulus quinquelobus Vahl, Symb. Bot. 3: 32. 1794.— Willd. Sp. PI. 1: 863. 
1798. 
Convolvulus tuberculatus Desr. in Lam. Encyc. 3: 545. 1789. 
Ipomcea vesciculosa Beauv. FI. d’Owar. 2: 73. 1807. 
Ipomcea tuberculata Roem. & Schult. Syst. 4: 208. 1819. 
Ipomcea quinqueloba Roem. & Schult. 1. c.— G. Don, Gen. Syst. 4: 279. 1838. 
Convolvulus digitatus Roxb. FI. Ind. (ed. Carey) 1: 479. 1832. 
Ipomcea digitifolia Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 2, 372. 1830. 
Ipomcea heptaphylla Voigt. Hort. Suburb. Calc. 360. 1845. 
Batatas senegalensis G. Don, Gen. Syst. 4: 261. 1838. 
Stems more or less warty; leaf-segments 2-5 cm. long; sepals equal, 6-7 mm. 
long, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse; corolla 5-6 cm. long, the limb slightly 5-lobed; 
capsules 10-12 mm. high; seeds hairy. 
Type locality : Egypt. 
Distribution: Circumtropical. Introduced into Mexico and Florida. 
Illustrations: Sloan. Jam. 1: pi. 96. f. 2. Jacq. Hort. Schoenb. 
pi. 129. Bot. Reg. pi. 96, 768. Bot. Mag. pi. 699. Trans. Hort. Soc. 
1: pi. 11. Mart. FI. Bras. 7: pi. 105. Beauv. 1. c. pi. 106. Sertum Bot. 
2: v-cl. 1829. 
Specimens examined: Grenada; W. E. Broadway, Dec. 16, 1904 (Y). 
Florida; Waste ground, Pensacola, Curtiss 64-96, 1899 (Y). 
79. Ipomcea pulchella Roth, Nov. PL Sp. 115. 1821.— Choisy, Mem. 
Soc. Phys. Genev. 6: 473. 1833.— In DC. Prodr. 9: 386. 1845. 
Griseb. FI. Br. W. Ind. 470. 1861. Not I. pulchella G. Don, 
1838. 
Convolvulus Aegyptiacus, etc. Moris. Hist. 2: 18. 1680. 
Convolvulus heplaphyllus Rottl. & Willd. in Ges. Naturf. Fr. Neue Schr. 4: 196. 1803. 
— Roxb. Hort. Beng. 14. 1814.— FI. Ind. 2: 66. 1824. 
