Tas. 5349. 
ARISTOLOCHIA Gisertit. 
Giberf’s Aristolochia. 
Nat. Ord. ARIsSTOLOCHTE®.—GYNANDRIA HEXANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 5295.) 
ARISTOLOCHIA Gibertii ; herbacea, volubilis, scandens, glaberrima, caule gracili 
tereti, foliis petiolatis reniformi-rotundatis integerrimis apiculatis sinu pro- 
fundo, stipulis amplis rotundato-cordatis acutis, floribus axillaribus solitariis, 
perianthii viridis tubo basi oblique ampullzformi inflato, dein breviter con- 
stricto, ore campanulato bilabiato, labio superiore fornicato oblongo obtuse 
apiculato purpureo transverse ad margines picto, inferiore decurvo lingue- 
formi intus tomentoso, stylo obconico 6-cornuto, antheris linearibus. 
AristroLocuia Gibertii. 
A fine free-growing, tropical climber, more desirable for its 
handsome foliage than for any beauty in its flowers ; it was raised 
from seeds sent to the Royal Gardens by M. Gibert, who col- 
lected it in woods at Assumption, in Paraguay, in June, 1858; 
and it flowered in September of the present year. 
Dzscr. A lofty, perfectly glabrous climber, with twining, 
terete, green stems and dranches, and solitary, axillary flowers. 
Leaves two to four inches across, on petioles as long, round- 
reniform, minutely apiculate, quite entire, with pedate venation, 
of a fine green above, but not shining, paler and glaucous below. 
Stipules very large, rotundato-cordate, foliaceous. Peduncles 
axillary, solitary, curved, terete, shorter than the petioles, one- 
flowered. Flowers two to two and a half inches long, of a dull 
yellow-green, spotted with purple on the base of the tube ; the 
upper lip purple down the middle, and transversely barred with 
the same on the edges. Perianth suddenly inflated at the base 
into'a gibbous balloon, then suddenly contracted into a short, 
terete tube ; limb two-lipped, gaping; upper lip linear-oblong, 
- truncate with a dorsal horn, hairy inside down the centre, the 
NOVEMBER Ist, 1862. 
