- 142 CXII. ARISTOLOCHIACEE (BAKER AND WRIGHT).  [Aristolochia. 
3-4 in very short clusters, produced at the same time as the leaves. 
Perianth ‘outside whitish with purplish blotches, inside yellow with 
purple markings” (Johnson); utricle obliquely obovoid, 14 in. long; 
tube 2? in. long, about 8 lin. in diam. when pressed, subcylindrical, 
slightly curved, with long scattered downward-pointing hairs inside; 
limb widely cordate-ovate or cordate-suborbicular, about 1? in. in 
diam. ; lobes 3, all from one side of the limb, 3 lin. wide at the trian- 
gular base, then attenuated into tails up to 18 in. long, filiform in the / 
lower part, but dilated to 2 lin. in the upper 2-4 in. Gynostemium 
shortly stalked; anthers 1} lin. long. Stigmatic lobes 9, about as long 
as the anthers, triangular-lanceolate, cuspidate, undulate. 
Upper Guinea. Gold Coast: Aburi Hills, Johnson, 487! Aburi Gardens, 
Johnson, 1060! 
17. A. promissa, Mast. in Gard. Chron. 1879, xi. 494. Stems 
20-25 ft. high, climbing, branched from the base, where they are 9 lin. 
in diam., glabrous. Leaves oblong, entire, cuspidate, 4—5 in. long, 2 in. 
broad, membranous, glabrous; petiole 1 in. long. Flowers produced 
freely from the old stems three months before the leaves unfold. 
Perianth 4-5 in. long, exclusive of the tails; utricle globose, 1 in. 
in diam.; tube short, broadly funnel-shaped; limb 2-3 in. in diam., 
‘‘inside light yellow, brown-spotted and with white hair, outside dirty 
yellow ” (Kalbreyer); lobes small, deltoid, with filiform pendulous tails, 
13-2 ft. long. Anthers 9-12, linear-oblong, scarcely reaching to the 
base of the column. Style-branches 9-12, oblong, obtuse, abruptly 
acuminate. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Victoria, Kalbreyer ! 
18. A. Preussii, Hngl. Jahrb. xxiv. 492. Aclimber. Leaves un- 
known. Cymes articulated, very shortly pilose; bracts linear-lanceo- 
late, shortly pilose, as long as the internodes; flowerssessile. Perianth 
greenish-yellow, minutely spotted with carmine and edged with dark 
purple ; utricle ovoid, 9 lin. long, 7 lin. in diam.; tube cyathiform, 
17 lin. long; lobes 8, triangular, 6 lin. long and wide, produced into 
tails 14 lin. long and about 4} lin. wide. Gynostemium turbinate; 
anther-cells linear, about 1 lin. long. Ovary clavate ; stigmatic lobes 
broadly linear, 14 lin. long. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: between Barombi and Kumba, 1046 ft., Preuss, 
108. 
19. A. goldieana, Hook. f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxv. 185, t.14. A 
climber, glabrous in allits parts. Stem 20ft.long; branchlets slender, 
terete. Leaves ovate- or triangular-cordate, shortly and abruptly 
acuminate, with a wide rounded basal sinus, 6-8 in. long, 5-6 in. wide, 
entire, membranous, paler below; primary nerves 5-11, arising from 
the base of the leaf, arcuate; petiole 6 in. long. Flowers solitary, 
greenish with red-purple ribs outside, brownish and yellow mottled 
inside, very large; utricle 8 in. long, 24-3 in. wide, subcylindrical, 
