76 CXXIII. ARISTOLOCHIACEA. (J. D. Hooker.) [Aristolochia. 
Ic. t.771; Mig. FI. Ind. Bat. i. 1086; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl.178; Dalz. & 
Gibs. Bomb. F1. 994. A. acuminata, Duchart. l. c. 
Eastern HIMALAYA; from Sikkim, alt. 2-5000 ft., J. D. H., to Mishmi, Griffith. 
AssAM, SILHET, CHITTAGONG, &c., south to PENANG, Wallich, &e. DECCAN PENIN- 
SULA; on the Ghats from the Concan southward. CEYLON, Garduer.— DISTRIB. 
Java, Borneo. . 
A stout lofty climber. Leaves 4-8 in.; upper 2-3 in. broad, lower 3-5; broadest 
at the cordate base, sinus deep or shallow, basal lobes sometimes incurved. Cymes 
1-3 in., lax-fld.; peduncle and pedicels slender; bracts small, oblong. Perianth 
2-24 in. long, pale green; base globose, tube curved, mouth oblique with recurved 
margins; lip linear, straight, obtuse, villous, as long as the tube. Capsule very 
variable, globosely pyriform or oblong, with the long stipes 1-23 in. long, mem- 
branous. Seeds most variable, obtusely triangular in the smaller capsules, 4-3 in. 
broad, with narrow wings and one face studded with tubercles; in larger capsules the 
seeds are larger and more broadly winged and lip tubercled ; in the largest capsules 
the seeds are 4 in. diam., with very broad wings, and a thin disk quite smooth or 
sparsely. tubercled on one face.— The variations in the leaves of this plant are remark- 
able, but not so much so as are those of the capsule and seeds. I long thought that 
these indicated at least two species. 
4, A. atropurpurea, Parish mss.; slender, herbaceous, stem 
straggling and petiole and cymes pubescent, leaves ovate-lanceolate acumi- 
nate base cordate, cymes few-fld. subsessile, lip of perianth glabrous, capsule 
3 in. . 
TENASSERIM ; on limestone rocks at Moulmein, Parish. 
Rootstock woody; stem 1-2 ft., pendulous, zigzag, angular and grooved. 
Leaves purple, 5-7 by 24-5 in., membranous; 5 basal nerves diverging, slender ; 
petiole 2-3 in. Cymes very short. Perianth 1-1} in., very like in form P. Rox-- 
burghii, base globose, tube funnel-shaped, mouth oblique passing into the straight 
obtuse glabrous lip with recurved edges. Capsules globose, shortly stipitate. 
Sect. II. Siphisia, Duchart.. Column 3-lobed. Anthers 6.—(Lofty 
climbers; stem in all woody below; branches twining. Leaves large. 
Flowers axillary or chiefly in villous cymes on the old wood. Perianth 
sharply bent back upon itself, lower half on obovoid sac, upper trumpet- or 
cup-shaped, as long.) 
5. A. platanifolia, Duchart. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 497 ; branches 
glabrous or pubescent, leaves very broad deeply digitately 3-lobed gla- 
brous or tomentose beneath lobes pinnatifidly lobulate, flowers axillary and 
solitary also in villous cymes on the old wood, perianth tomentose or vil- 
lous, mouth obtusely 6-angled lips recurved villous with purple papillose 
airs. 
Eastern Himaraya; Mishmi Mts, Grifith; Sikkim and E. Nepal, alt. 
3-6000 ft., J. D. H., &c. Kuasta Mrs., alt. 4000 ft., J. D. H. & T. T. . 
A stout lofty climber ; old wood with corky rugged fissured bark. Leaves a foot 
long and as broad or broader, cleft to near the base with a rounded sinus, glabrous 
and shining above, glaucous glabrous pubescent tomentose or woolly beneath, base 
rounded-cuneate or cordate, lobes very variable, lobules few acute or acuminate ; 
petiole 2-3 in. often stout and twining. Cymes shortly peduucled; pedicels. 1-1} in. 
Perianth yellowish with purple veins externally, sac 1} in. long, tube as long golden 
yellow within, mouth 1 in. diam. Capsule 4-6 by 1-14 in. diam., linear-oblong 
with 6 ribs divided by deep furrows. 
6. A. saccata, Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 2, t. 103, and Cat. 2707; 
branches tomentose or glabrate, leaves ovate- or linear-oblong or linear- 
lanceolate acuminate base deeply cordate glabrous or puberulous above 
