. The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of . ch we have given in the above citedarticle, and which has since been published in Curtiss Ma-gazine and in the Horticultural Transactions, by the specifictitle of ediilis. Some botanists however are of a differentopinion, and think the original plant was neither the presentspecies, nor that we speak of, but a different, though closelyallied, one. We have referred to our former article for the synonymy,leaving our readers to apply the various synonyms accordingto their own judgment. We have not discovered, on a comparison of the livin
. The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of . ch we have given in the above citedarticle, and which has since been published in Curtiss Ma-gazine and in the Horticultural Transactions, by the specifictitle of ediilis. Some botanists however are of a differentopinion, and think the original plant was neither the presentspecies, nor that we speak of, but a different, though closelyallied, one. We have referred to our former article for the synonymy,leaving our readers to apply the various synonyms accordingto their own judgment. We have not discovered, on a comparison of the livingplants, any differences, beyond colour, of which we werenot aware when we published the variety /3 in the 152d ar-ticle of this work; except that the lower portion of the calyxin the Brazil plant is contracted into a shallow tube, with apartitioned nectary, while here the same part is nearly flatand the nectary not partitioned. The drawing was taken this summer from a plant whichflowered in the rich and well kept collection of Mr. Vera, atKensington 333 IPOMCEA Plata Ipomoea, PENTANDRIA M0N0GYNL4. Not. ord. CoNVOLVuLi. Jussieu gen, Div. I. CoNVOLVuLACE^. Broivu prod. Sect, I, IPOMCEA, Supra vol. 9. l,platensiSy ramis pedunculis petiolisque tuberculatis; foliis palmatis, lobisseptenis cuneato-oblongis, obtusulis cum brevi acumine, extimis mino-libus, pedunculis pauci-plurifloris superne cymosis parum longioribuspetiolo, calyce foliolisque suborbiculatis. Perennis, sempervirens, radice tuhcrosa. Folia glabra; lohi infra 3uncias longi, medius major infra unciam latus. Pedunculi solitarii, i-o-forivel ultra, erecti, graciliores petiolo, breviores folio ; pedicelli breves, superneci/moso-sparsi, singuli bractea parva acuminata subtensi. Cor. alho-purpuras-cens, substrato albo lineis tenuissimis purpureis dense striata; tubus penndscriptoria duplo crassior, intus suturate purpureus ; Wrnhvi^ diametro 2 nnciarum cum dimidio alterius, explanaius, corrugula
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