AST 
IPOMGiA sagittifolia. 
Cateshy’s Ipomoea. 
a 
i PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 
Nat. ord. Convotvuut. Jussieu gen. 132. Div. IL. Stylus unicus. 
1 CONVOLYULACEX. Brown prod. 1. 481. ct, I. Germen 
unicum. ; 4 Z 
IPOM@A. Supra vol. 1. fol. 9. 
I. sagittifolia, volubilis, glaberrimus; foliis oblongo-sagittatis; sini profun- 
dissimo: auriculis subacuminatis, pedunculis unifloris, laciniis calycis ro- 
tundato-ovalibus, corolla infundibuliformi-campanulata.. Pursh amer. sept. 
1.144; (sub CONVOLVULO sagittifolio). 
Convolvulus sagittifolius. Michaux bor. amer. 1.132. Persoon syn. 1.177. 
Pursh loc. cit. Potret suppl. encyc. de Lamarck 3. 461. Elliot sket. 1. 
254. Nuttall 1. 123. n. 9. 
Convolvulus speciosus. Walt. carol. 93. 
Conyolvulus caroliniensis angusto sagittato folio, flore amplissimo purpureo 
radice crass. Catesb. carol. 1. 35. t. 35. ; 
Perennis radice crassé caule terett, glabro. Folia glabra margine inte- 
gro, mucronata, lobo antico posticis divergentibus longé acuminatis acutissi- 
- ‘mis plurimim latiore: petioli uni-biunciales. Flores ampli, roseo-purpurei 
folia exsuperantes: pedunculis azillaribus, solitariis, unifloris, petiolo te 
bustioribus, erectis, circa medium bibracteolatis. Calycis foliola erecta, im- 
bricato-conniventia, ovato-oblonga, apice rotundata, subequalia, tria Cate 
riora reliquis manifestiis mucronata. Corolla infundibuliformis, limbo 
exanguloso, fauce extis carneo-pallente cylindricé unciali, triplo longiore 
calyce. Filamenta inequalia, bast barbata: anth. lineari-oblonge, albide 
erecte, basi sagittate. Stylus staminibus longior, stigmate bicolli-globoso 
vel didymo-capitato, albo, incluso. Caps. 2-3-valvis, bilocularis. 
We are obliged to Mr. Herbert for the excellent drawing 
of this plant, as well as for a specimen of the same. It was 
raised last year in the hothouse at Spofforth from seed re- 
ceived from Carolina, and flowered during the summer. 
The species does not appear to have been introduced before, 
nor is there a sample of it either in the Herbarium of Sir 
Joseph Banks or that of Mr. Lambert. Mr. Elliot, the au- 
thor of the very useful work entitled ‘“‘ A Sketch of the 
Botany of South Carolina and Georgia,” tells us, that it 
grows wild “ along the sides of salt waters; among rushes 
and saline plants.” Mr. Pursh speaks of it as native of 
Virginia and Carolina, and as growing in wet situations 
among bushes. Catesby, upon the authority of Colonel 
Mure, a Carolinian gentleman, said to have been an eye- 
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