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Aristolochia.} cxxi. aristoLocutacez. (J. D. Hooker.) 75 
petiole with a dilated base, and with often the, stipule-like leaf of an unde- 
veloped bud in the axil. Perianth coloured, tube inflated at the base, then 
contracted, hairy within; limb dilated, obliquely 1-2-lipped. Anthers 6, 
rarely 5, or more; style very short, 3-6-lobed. Capsule septicidally 6-valved 
or splitting through the placentas. Seeds various, often covered with the 
remains of the placenta.— Species about 180, chiefly tropical. 
Sect. I. Diplolobus, Duchart. Column 6-lobed. Anthers 6. 
l. A. bracteata, Retz. Obs. v. 29; quite glabrous, stem slender 
decumbent, leaves reniform or broadly cordate tip obtuse or subacute 
margins flat or waved glaucous beneath, flowers solitary, peduncle bracteate. 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 490; Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 3, and Cat. 2706; Gra. 
Cat. Bomb. Pl.178; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 224; Klotzsch in Monatsb. 
Berl. Akad. 1859, 598. A. bractiolata, Lamk. Encycl. i, 258 ; Klotzsch. c. 
A. mauritiana, Pers. Encheir. ii. 597. A. Kotschyi, Hochst. exw A. Rich 
Tent, Fl. Abyss. ii. 297. A. maurorum and A. abyssinica, Klotzsch l. c. 
(not of Linn.): . 
Deccan PrwiNsULA, northward to BUNDELKUND, Wallich, Edgeworth, &c. 
scene, Vicary. CEYLON; north of the island, Gardner.—DIsTRIB. Arabia, Trop. 
Tica, 
Root slender, perennial. Stem or branches 12-18 in., angled and striate. Leaves 
1-3 in. long and broad, widely and shallowly cordate at the base; petiole 1-1} in. 
Peduncle short; bract usually orbicular, variable in position, sometimes basal. | 
Perianth 114 in., base globose, tube cylindric erect slender; lip erect, linear, as 
long as the tube, dark purple with revolute edges, villous with purple hairs. Fruit 
Pyriform, 1 in. long, many-grooved. Seeds triangular-cordate. 
uriform base cuneate rounded or shallowly cordate 5-nerved, flowers 13, 
bract opposite the base of the peduncles. orb. FU. Ind. iii. 489; Wa d 
Cat. 2704; Klotzsch in Monatsh. Berl. Akad. 1859, 595; Grah., Cat. Bomb. 
Fl 178; Dalz. § Gibs. Bomb. Fl, 224, A. lanceolata, Wight Te. t. 1858; 
Klotzsch L e. A. maysorensis, Fisch. mss. A. pandurata, Wall. mss. Aris- 
tolochia, Gr if. Notul. iv. 348, and Ic. Pl. Asiat. t. 529.— Rheede Hort. 
Mal. viii. t. 95, 
Throughout the low NDIA from NEPAL, Hamilton, and lower BEN- 
the ( Clarke, to CarrzaGoxo, J. D. "s T. T. ; and the DECCAN PENINSULA, from 
the Concan southward. CEYLON common up to 3000 ft. . bl 
in them woody below, branches slender. Leaves membranous, excessively variable, 
the ie arrowest forms 4 by 4-3 in. in the broadest 4-5 by 3 in., broadest part at 
ipic tse or middle or above the middle, abruptly or gradually obtusely acuminate or 
stra iate, often oblong and quite obtuse; petiole j-3 in., very slender. Perian i 
shara greenish, base globose, tube shortly funnel-shaped, mouth oblique trumpe - 
aaa gradually passing into the short oblong obtuse glabrous brownish lip. a ap- 
tud 1-2 in. long, oblong, grooved. Seeds flat, triangular, winged.— Wight's A. /an- 
fotata occurs both in the Peninsula and Ceylon. 
9. A. Roxburghiana, Klotzsch in Monatsh. Berl. Akad. 1859, 596 ; 
Fk glabrous, shrubby. twining, leaves large cordate .upper often narrow 
rubsagittately lanceolate lower or all ovate or broadly ovate-oblong pedately 
7-nerved, upper with the 2 principal nerves produced far beyond the 
middle, lower with all the nerves spreading, flowers in racemose uberulous 
Cymes, lip of perianth villous. Duchart. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 480. A. aod. 
minata, Roch. E]. Ind. iii, 489 (not of Lamarck); Wall. Cat. 2705; Wig 
