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Type locality: America meridionali. 
Distribution: West .Indies, tropical South America and Africa. 
Illustrations: Mart. FI. Bras. 7: pi. 101. f. 2. 
Specimens examined: Jamaica, Millspaugh 946, 1899. Porto Rico, 
Sintenis 963, 1885; Heller 376, 1899; 6364, 1903; Millspaugh 146, 1899; 
Britton & Cowell 1392, 1906. Guadeloupe: Duss 2474 , 1892. Martinique; 
Duss 430. All in herb. N. Y. Bot. Garden. 
Urban describes the form with pale yellow flowers as Ipomcea ruber var. 
albo-flavida (Sym. Ant. 3: 345. 1902). 
Ipomcea ruber var. palustris Urban, 1. c. is described as having 1-flowered 
peduncles; bracts 6 mm. long, ovate; sepals prominently wing-keeled, 
crenulate; corolla 2.5-3 cm. long and leaf-blades elongated. Both are 
natives of Porto Rico, but the last variety is perhaps nearer the next. 
25. Ipomcea fimbriosepala Choisy, in DC. Prodr. 9: 359. 1845.— 
Hallier f. Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 37 : 97. 1898. 
Aniseia hastata Meissn.; Mart. FI. Bras. 7: 319. 1869. 
Ipomcea smithii Baker, Kew Bull. 73. 1894. 
Type locality : Madagascar. 
Distribution : Tropical Africa, Pacific Islands and America. Reported 
from Guatemala, Brazil and Paraguay by Hallier; but no specimens from 
North America have been seen' by the writer. 
5. Heterophyllse. Trailing or twining from thickened, tuberous, 
woody roots; more or less pubescent; leaf-blades deeply 3- to 5-lobed or 
subentire; flowers usually solitary on short peduncles; bracts small; sepals 
very unequal, the outer ones usually with broad, ovate bases, the inner 
narrower, the outer ones frequently truncate or subcordate, sometimes 
enlarged in fruit; corolla purple, funnelform: ovary 3-celled. ( Phar - 
bitis Choisy, in part.) 
Sepals merely acute, not attenuate. 
Leaf-blades deeply 3- to 5-lobed; sepals ovate, 20 mm. 
X 12 mm.; corolla 8-9 cm. long. 
Leaf-blades hastate and subentire; sepals 10 mm. long; 
corolla less than 5 cm. long. 
Sepals with attenuate tips. 
Outer sepals linear-lanceolate without conspicuously 
broadened bases; corolla 6-8 cm. long. 
Outer sepals with conspicuously broadened bases. 
Appressed sericeous-pubescent; corolla 6-9 cm. long. 
Loosely pubescent with hispid, whitish pili, only the 
leaves loosely sericeous-pubescent; corolla 3-4 cm. 
long. 
26. I. laeta. 
27. I. oreophila. 
28. 7. lindheimeri. 
29. 7. heterophylla. 
30. 7. pvbescens. 
