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ARISTOLOCHÍA* trilobáta. 
Three-lobed Birthwort. 
GYNANDRIA HEXANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ArıstoLocnız Juss. (Introduction to the natural system 
of Botany, p. 72.) 
ARISTOLOCHIA.—Supra, vol. 8. fol. 689. 
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. trilobata ; foliis trilobis, caule volubili, corollis cylindraceis infractis basi 
saccatis labio cordato cuspidato, cuspide filiformi corollà tripld longiore 
torto. Willd. sp. pl. 4. 151. 
. folio hederaceo trifido, maximo flore, radice repente. Plum. spec. 5. 
. scandens, foliis sublobatis obtusis, floribus amplissimis. Brown jam. 
328. Barrère hist. de la France equinoct. 16. 
. trilobata. Zinn. sp. pl. 1361. Swartz obs. 341. Jacq. eclog. t. 26. 
. trifida. Lam. encycl. 2. 249. 
Caulis fruticosus, volubilis, teres. Folia longe petiolata, cordata, tri- 
loba, lobis oblongis, obtusis, subequalibus ; stipule in unam magnam, cor- 
datam, subrotundam, foliaceam connate. Flores solitarii, pedunculo cum 
ovario petiolo brevioribus, magni, ochroleuci. Calycis tubus inflatus, cylin- 
draceus, angulatus, basi calcaribus sex, brevibus, obtusis, inequalibus, medio 
infractus, bilabiatus, labio altero maximo, cordato, fusco-purpureo, bullato, 
cuspide longissimo, torto, lineari. 
pp pp 
A native of the West Indies, where it inhabits damp 
forests, and is accounted an antidote to the bite of serpents. 
In this country it is a hothouse climber, growing with great 
rapidity, and producing an abundance of its singular flowers 
at various periods of the year. We presume it will strike 
readily either from layers or cuttings. 
Our drawing was made from specimens communicated 
last August by Mr. Greenshields, from the Garden of Richard 
Benyon de Beauvoir, Esq. 
* From éesowe;, excellent, and Acysies, relating to parturition ; so named 
in consequence of its reputed virtues in childbirth, expressed also in the 
English name Birthwort. 
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