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Leaf-blades oblong, 4-8 cm. long, softly pubescent above, silvery-pubescent 
beneath; petioles 1-3 cm. long; sepals unequal, rounded or obtuse; corolla 5-6 cm. 
long. 
Type locality: Cuba. 
Distribution : Cuba and Isle of Pines. 
Specimens examined : Cuba; C. Wright 3098 (co-type — C). 
94. Xpomosa hypargyrea Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 204. 1866. 
A twining woody vine, appressed silvery-pubescent; leaf-blades oblong-lanceo¬ 
late, subcordate, 4-8 cm. long, glabrate above, silvery beneath; short petioled; 
peduncles 1-3-flowered; sepals chartaceous, glabrous, subequal, obtuse; corolla 
6-7 cm. long, campanulate above the ventricose base, rose-purple; capsules exceed¬ 
ing the calyx. 
Type locality: Cuba. 
Distribution : Cuba. 
Specimens examined: C. Wright 449, (Herb. Gray, in part) No. 449 
is cited under I. argentifolia A. Rich., and part of the Gray herbarium sheet 
is that species. 
95. Ipomcea passifloroides sp. nov. 
Perennial, densely villous-pubescent; leaf-blades broadly ovate, cordate, 4-7 
cm. long, subequally 3-lobed, lobes shallow, often rounded, velvety appressed- 
pubescent above and beneath; petioles short; the short peduncles 2- to 5-flowered; 
bracts ovate, obtuse, 6-8 mm. long; pedicels densely hirsute; calyx glabrous; sepals 
chartaceous, suborbicular, scarious-margined, 7-9 mm. long; corolla glabrous, pur¬ 
ple, campanulate-funnelform above the strongly ventricose base, 4-5 cm. long, 
tube 12-14 mm. thick above, the limb 22-25 mm. broad, slightly 5-lobed; capsules 
black, glabrous, 2-celled, 4-seeded; seeds minutely pubescent, hirsute on the angles. 
Cuba: Jiquarito Mountain, Sierra Maestra, 3400 ft. alt. Norman 
Taylor 504, Sept. 18, 1906 (type— l Y). A specimen collected by Wright 
without number in Herb. Gray, “Pinal San Juan de«B., Nov. 24.” 
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96. Ipomcea rupicola sp. nov. 
Related to I. jalapa. Trailing or twining from a woody, enlarged root; 
tomentulose, becoming glabrate; leaf-blades triangular-ovate, cordate-hastate, 2-5 
cm. long and as broad, acuminate, basal auricles acute or obtuse often bifid; 
petioles longer than the blades; peduncles 1-1.5 cm. long, 1-flowered; bracts minute; 
pedicel 1 cm. long, or less; sepals equal, oblong to oblong-ovate, obtuse or the outer 
ones subacute, tomentose or sericeous, 12-14 mm. long; corolla pubescent in bud 
and on the plicae without when expanded, funnelform, 6-7 cm. long, the blue or 
purple limb 6 cm. broad. 
