* 



1543 



ARISTOLOCHIA* cymbifera 



Boat-flowered Birthwort. 





GYNANDRIA HEXANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Aristo lochia Juss. {Introduction to the natural system 

 of Botany, p. 72.) 



ARISTOLOCHIA.— Supra, vol. S.fol. 689. 



A. cymbifera; volubilis, glabra; foliis cordato-reniformibus, floribus solitariis: 

 tubo obovato, Umbo cylindrico deflexo bilabiato, labio superiore lanceolato 

 acuto canaliculate, inferiore plus quam dupl6 longiore & basi inflato- 

 cymbiformi in laminam ovatam emarginatam undulatam extenso. — 



Martius n. g. et sp. pi. 1. 76. t. 49. 



Caulis volubilis, cortice suberoso fsso tectus ; intils teld ligned et cellu- 

 lari omninb distinctis, tit in A. labiosd et similibus ; zonis concentricis nullis. 

 Folia maxima, sinu baseos valdk aperto, costarum later alium basibus margi- 

 nato. Stipulae membranaceoe. Flores lutei, purpureo venosi, et maculati : 



tubo intils hirsuto. Capsula subcylindrica, apice rotundata, basi attenuata, 



6-angularis, 6-locularis, polysperma, dehiscentid septicidd. Semina com- 

 pressa, cuneata, testd suberosd fragili, nucleo obcordato 9 hinc tuberculis 

 minimis sparsis punctato, Mine Icevi raphe elevatd. * 





The only figures that have yet appeared of this remark- 

 able plant are in the splendid work of Von Martius above 

 referred to. and in the Lisbon Transactions for 1812, where 



published 



rding to that learned Botanist, under 



the name of A. grandiflora 



It is a native of shady thickets in the Provi 

 St. Paul, and near Rio Jane 



f 



Its 



od 



th 



country was owing to the transmission of a seed-vessel from 

 South America by Mr. Parish to Mrs. Hawkins, of Bignor 



Park, about five yea 



By that lady it was presented 



the Rev. John Austen, from whose Garden at Pulboroudi 



Rectory, in S 



the specimen was 



tted from 



which our drawing was prepared. Mr. Austen info 



vol. XVI II. 



See fol . 1 399. 



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