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IPOM@A sanguinea. 
Blood- owered Ipomoca. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
IPOM@ A. Cal. 5-partitus, nudus. Cor. campanulata vy, infundi- 
buliformis, 5-plicata. Germ. 2-3-loculare, loculis dispermis. Stylus. 
Indivisus, Stigma capitatum, 2-3-lobum. Caps. 2-3-locularis. 
~Herbe volubiles, quandoque erecte. Folia indivisa v. lobata, nune, 
pinnatifida. Semina in quibusdam comosa. Brown. prod. 1. 484. 
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I. sanguinea, pedunculis superné cymoso-trichotomis, folia cordato- 
triloba y. hastata superantibus ; limbo oblato-ventricoso ; stamiuibus, 
ascendentibus, longé exsertis. = 
Pomeca sanguinea. Vahl symb. 3. 33. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 885. 
‘rutex volubilis, ramosus, totus nudus; cortex badius, rimosus. infra, 
nie lineato-verruculatus. Folia subtriuncialia, petiolata, cordato-v. aurito- 
gba (vir unquam integra), 5-nervia, subtis pallidiora lobi acuminat, 
mieaius longior oblongo-lanceolatus, laterales conniventes v. sepe divaricati, 
a ae 5 in EEL sinuato-dentatum repandumve ad basin producti, 
pam 4 ae subrotundo § profindo distincti: petiolus Jiliformis, sulco sux 
ae “4 e uncut axillares, solitarit, virides, Jiliformes, Solio longiores, Stl. 
eae Ost, pedicellis 2 Jateralibus trifloro-trifidis, medio untfioro ¢ brac- 
lial, cu é ad basin cujusque. Cal. herbaceus corolla aliquoties brevior, é 
eee setacets infra dilatatis § connexis. Cor. erecta, levitér arcuata, 
St sanguinea, unciam longa, angusta, clavato-tubulata, compressa, sub- 
ventricosior ; limbus oblato-globosus, ventricosus, ore contracto 5-dentatisy, 
tubo fauci Juncto pluriés brevior. Stam. accumbentia, subinequalia. Stylus 
capillaceus. Stigma papilloso-granulatum, capitatum. 
a SE ES ae WR 
The present is the only representation of this rare and sin- 
Sular plant yet published. The species was first recorded 
and described by Professor Vahl in his “Symbole bota- 
nice,” from specimens sent to him from the danish West- 
Indian island of Sainte Croix. In the living state it seems 
© have been unknown in Europe, until it appeared in the 
collection of the Comtesse de Vandes, into which it had 
fen introduced by Mr. R. A. Salisbury, who had received 
© seed from the West Indies. It has not found a place in . 
the late edition of. the Hortus Kewensis; and has been ge- 
Rerally mistaken for Ipomaa repanda, a very distinct species, 
Willdenow has marked it as an annual, of course at a ven- 
ture, seeing that he has no authority for so doing in Vabl, 
He sole source of his information concerning the plant. It 
18 in fact a high-growing, twining} leafy, evergreen shrub, 
With a stem about the thickness of a man’s thumb near the 
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