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ARISTOLOCHÍA* caudáta. 
Livid-flowered Birthwort. 
GYNANDRIA HEXANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ArısroLocuız Juss. (Introduction to the natural system 
of Botany, p. 72.) 
ARISTOLOCHIA.—Supra, vol. 8. fol. 689. 
A. caudata ; caule volubili, foliis inferioribus reniformibus triangularibus v. 
leviter trilobis, superioribus tripartitis: laciniis apice angustatis, calycibus 
cylindraceis infractis basi ventricosis sexcalcaratis, labio cordato cuspi- 
dato: laminá tubo multd breviore; cuspide filiformi torto calyce mul- 
_toties longiore. 
A.caudata. Booth. in 
Perennis. Stipule connate, cordate, ovate,amplexicaules, obtuse. Petioli 
folis breviores. Flores fusco-lividi. 
* This remarkable species of Aristolochia was raised 
about three years ago in the Garden of Sir Charles Lemon, 
Bart., M.P., at Carclew, Cornwall, from Brazilian seeds 
received from Lieut. Wright, of His Majesty's packet Hope. 
* The plant is a creeping perennial, with numerous 
branches, extending for several feet from the root, and 
sometimes attaching themselves to other plants which grow 
near them. They are round and wiry, furnished with 
roundish-cordate, almost reniform, dark, glaucous, green 
leaves, near the root; becoming 3-lobed towards the ex- 
tremity, and much reticulated beneath. The petiole is 
round, from 2 to 3 inches long; the stipules are sessile, 
recurved, and somewhat pointed. Flowers axillary, soli- 
tary, with the peduncle about 2 inches long, curved, and 
furrowed. The flower itself is pitcher-shaped, of a yellowish 
brown colour, deeply marked with prominent veins on the 
* See fol. 1399. 
