IPOMCEA insignis, : 
 Bicolor-leaved Ipomeeas © 0) 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ds 
IPOMGA. . Supra fol..9. 
1. insignis, glabra, volubilis ; foliis, cordatis integris v. lobatis, acuminatis; 
cymis dichotomis ; calyce brevi, obtuso, couvexo: corolla hypocrateri- 
Meforinis : . 
Tpomicea insignis.’ Andrews’s reposit. 636. » Aiton’s Epitome. 369. add. 
Radix perennis, tuberosa. Caulis herbaceus, teres, ramosus, 3-orgyalis 
vel magis. Folia 3-6 uncialia, 3-4-uncias lata, modd 3-loba, lobis parum pro- 
Sundis preter'terminalem; interdim sinuato-lobata lobis pluribus irregularibus, 
modo indivisa; subtis scepits purpurascentia, varicose:'7-nervia, nervis omnibus 
principibus ab eodem puncto divergentibus + petiolus in summo dorso ubi con- 
Jluit cum folio glandulé humente utrinque notatus, ac paniculate, (vid, fol. 
62.) Pedunculi solitari, axillares, erecti, robust, folio longiores, floribus 
pluribys multisve cymoso-terminati ; pedicelli mod6 dichotomi, flore breviores, 
bracteolA acutd stipati. Cal. tubum brevem corolla includens, foliolis lato— - 
ellipticis, convexis, conniventibus, glaberrimis. Cor. roseo-pallescens, urceo-' 
Tato-hypocrateriformis, 14 ungiam longa ; tubus fauce 3plo angustior ; faux 
amplius cylindracea, limbo longior ; limbi laciniis brevissimis, rotundatis, 
emarginatis.. Stam. inclusa basi barbgta.. Stigma capitato-didymum.  ~ 
When grown in a border of mould, parted off within 
the tan-bed of the hothouse, our plant makes each year 
a fine display, attaining the length of 30 feet, with nus 
merous branches, producing abundance of glossy pink 
bloom in separate large bunches. On plants that are left — 
to grow in small garden-pots, or are yet young, the 
cymes seldom consist of more than five or six flowers, 
and these sometimes contracted nearly into the form of an 
umbel. But in full-grown plants, which have sufficient 
depth of mould, the flowers are from 15 to 20, in a broad 
dichotomous cyme. ‘The species comes near to paniculata 
(see fol. 62); but the flowers of insignis are generally paler, 
“smaller, and more.numerous. The foliage of the two is 
very distinct, that of paniculata being always palmate, 
while in this it varies from entire, to three-lobed, with 
pointed shallow side-lobes, sometimes to 5-7-lobed, but then 
sinuately and irregularly so; it is also usually tinged with 
violet-red, or purple, beneath. In the leaf of paniculata 
the upper pair of nerves issue from the mid-rib, at a point. 
nearly half an inch above that at which the two lower pair 
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