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ARISTOLOCHIA Gigas 



Giant Birthwort. 





OYNANDRIA HEXANDRIA. 



Natl ord. Aristol 

 ARISTOLOCHIA 



fol 



L. 



A. Gigas ; yolubilis, foliis subpubescentibus late cordatis acuminatis, calycis 

 maximi tubo costato piloso limbo maximo cordato oblongo in acumen 

 caudatum etiam longius producto intus subochraceo purpureo-maculato. 

 Lindl. in Rot. Reg. 1842. misc. 53. 



Well 



might 



a 



small 



this flower, although growing on _ 

 plant in a flowerpot, excite the astonishment of the visitors to 

 the Garden of the Horticultural Society in the months of 

 June and July last ; for certainly it is a rare event even in the 

 prolific regions of the tropics to meet with so strange a pro- 

 duction. If we were given to fancies we should speculate 

 upon the possibility of its being a cross between an Elephant 

 and an Arum, for the colour belongs to the latter, and the 



ear of the former, turned inside out, is no bad imitation of its 

 iorm. 



A similar production upon a much smaller scale has been 

 already figured at fol. 1824, of this work, under the name of 

 Aristolochia fcetens. It is not indeed easy to point out the 

 1 ~ that A. gigas is a more 



timfts as lanre. desti- 



differences between the two, except th 

 hairy plant, and has flowers about four 



of the offensive putrid 

 has substituted a 1 



of that species, for which 

 pleasant odour resembling 



that of old Tobacco 



After this had been named it was observed that an Aris 

 tolochia gigantea had been previously published. It is not 





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