138 CXII, ARISTOLOCHIACEE (BAKER AND WRIGHT). {Avristolochia. 
Duce m DU. Prodr. xy. 1. 483; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PL Welw; 1. 
911; Solereder in Engl. Jahrb: x. 437. A. ethiopica, Welw. Apont. 
Phyto-Geogr. 548, 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot. Lagos, Dawodu, 206! Northern 
Nigeria: Nupe, Barter, 1531! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Mossamedes; in sandy maritime thickets between 
Mossamedes and Cavalheiros or Giratl, Welwitsch, 512! Golungo Alto; by the 
Ainbaca Road, 1000-2400 ft., Welwitsch, 511! Loanda, Gossweiler, 445! 
6. A. gibbosa, Duch. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 4” sé. ii. 53. A climber, 
glabrous in all its parts. Stem slender, sulcate; internodes about as 
long as the leaves. Leaves cordate, acute, 5-7-nerved from the base, 
4 in. long, 3 in. broad, thinly membranous, exstipulate, basal sinus 
rounded ; petiole 6-9 lin. long, slender. Flowers solitary, axillary ; 
peduncles 2 in. long. Perianth purplish inside with a bright yellow 
throat, sulphur-yellow outside (Johnson) ; utricle gibbous on one side, 
6 lin. long; tube funnel-shaped, slender below, 4 lin. long; limb cor- 
date, acute, 13 in. long, 14 in. wide, basal auricles rounded. Column 
stalked ; anthers 6, nearly 3? the length of the column. Style-arms 6, 
broadly lanceolate, obtuse, incurved, channelled on the outer side. 
Fruit obovoid-fusiform, 2} in. long, 9 lin. wide, 6-ribbed. Seed 
cordate, 2 lin. long, smooth on the inner concave side, muricate on the 
convex outer, thickened at the margin; raphe not prominent.—DC. 
Prodr, xv. i. 459. A. odoratissima, Benth. Pl. Hartweg. 82, not of 
Linn. Howardia Benthamii, Klotzsch in Monatsb, Akad. Berl. 1859, 
620. 
Upper Guinea. Gold Coast: Aburi, Johnson, 241 
Also in Mexico. 
7. A. elegans, Mast. in Gard. Chron. 1885, xxiv. 301, fig. 64. A 
glabrous climber. Branches very slender. Leaves broadly cordate 
with a wide sinus, rounded or obtuse, glaucescent beneath ; nerves 5-7 
radiating from the top of the 23-in.-long slender petiole; stipules 
suborbicular. Flowers solitary on long pedicels. Perianth: utricle 
oblong, 1} in. long, } in. in diam., yellowish; tube suddenly reflexed 
on the utricle, ? in. long, subcylindrical, yellowish ; limb suddenly 
expanded, orbicular-cordate, 3 in. in diam., white with red-purple veins 
outside, purple-brown with white mottling inside; throat greenish- 
yellow. Anthers 6, linear. Ovary very slender ; style-arms 6, oblong, 
obtuse, much overtopping the anthers.—Bot. Mag. t. 6909. 
Upper Guinea. Gold Coast: Aburi Gardens, Johnson, 240! Southern 
Nigeria: abundant at Brass, Billington ! 
Probably introduced from Brazil. 
8. A. foetens, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1824. Stem climbing, 
branched, glabrous. Leaves cordate with a wide sinus, acute, up to 8 In. 
