Tas. 6909, 
ARISTOLOCHIA Exxcays. 
Native of Brazil. 
Nat. Ord. ARISTOLOCHIACER. 
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Genus Anrstozocuta, Linn. ; (Benth, et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 123.) 
Anistotocuta (Gymnolobus) elegans; suffruticosa, scandens, glaberrima, ramis 
gracillimis, foliis longe petiolatis membranaceis reniformi-cordatis obtusis 
5-7-nerviis, subtus glaucescentibus, stipulis falcato-oblongis -orbiculatisve, 
floribus solitariis longe pedicellatis pendulis, perianthii tubo oblongo inflato 
abrupte in limbum refractum desinente limbo breviter infundibulari dein 
expanso concavo ambitu suborbiculato hine cordato extus albo purpureo 
venoso, intus purpureo albo reticulato circa orem parvum velutino, fauce luteo- 
viridi, styli lobis 6 brevibus erectis obtusis, antheris 6 loculis angustis. 
A. elegans, Masters in Gard. Chron. N.S. xxiv. (1855), p. 301, f. 64. 
This, as Dr. Masters observes, is nearly allied to A. 
Ruiziana, Duchartre (A. Duchartrei, André, Tab. nostr. 
5880), which, however, differs notably in the racemose 
_ inflorescence, and in the much longer tube of the limb of 
_ the corolla. A. elegans is much the most graceful plant 
of the two, and indeed well deserves its name. It is a 
native of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil, whence Herbarium 
specimens have been sent to Kew by the Superintendent 
of Public Parks and Plantations, the indefatigable Senr. 
Glaziou; but our living specimen was received from Dr. 
Capanema, of Rio. Mr. Bull has also introduced it into 
cultivation, and the specimen figured in the ‘‘ Gardener’s 
Chronicle” is from his establishment. Our specimen 
flowered in a tropical house at Kew in August of the 
present year. There are in the Kew Herbarium specimens 
of apparently the same species from the Parana River in 
-26°-27° 8. latitude, communicated by D. Parodi in 1883. 
Possibly the species is only cultivated at Rio. ~ 
_ Descr. A very slender glabrous climber, with pendulous 
filiform flowering branches. Leaves long-petioled, two to 
three inches long and broad, membranous, broadly reni- 
formly cordate with large open sinus and rounded basal 
lobes, sides sometimes contracted, tip rounded or obtuse, 
DEC. lst, 1886. . 
