Tab. 5672. 



ARISTOLOCHIA Goldieana. 

 The Rev. H. Goldie's Aristoloehia. 



Nat. Orel. Aristolochie.*;.— Gynandbia Hexandiua. 

 Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tab. 5295.) 



Aristolochia Goldieana; glaberriina, foliia ovato- v. triangulari-cordatis 

 acuminatis, basi prof'unde exsculptis, floribus maximis, periantkii re- 

 f'racti utriculo elongato subclavato, limbo infundibuliformi-campanu- 

 Iato, ore ampliato truncato obtuse 3-lobo, lobis caudato-acumiuatis, 

 staminibus ad 24, colmnuae lobis ad 12 2-cruribus. 



Aristolochia Goldieana. Nob. in Trans. Linn. Soc. v. 25. p. 185. t. xir. 



South America has hitherto been considered the head- 

 quarters of the gigantic flowers Aristolochias, so well known 

 in the stoves of the gardens of the curious for the fine 

 colouring of their perianth and their atrocious odour. Of 

 these, Humboldt, upwards of half a century ago, published 

 an account of one (A. grandiflora, Tab. nostr. 4368-9) whose 

 flowers were worn on the head by the Indian children, and 

 which has often been quoted as (excepting perhaps the Eafflesia 

 Arnoldii) the largest flowered plant hitherto known. How- 

 ever this may be, the American Aristolochias are eclipsed by 

 the discovery of the present plant, of which specimens, pre- 

 served in alcohol, were communicated to me, in 1864, by the 

 Rev. W. C. Thomson, from the mouth of the Old Calabar 

 river, and which I described and figured in the ' Linnean 

 Transactions ' above quoted, and named, in accordance with 

 Mr. Thomson's wish, after his fellow-labourer, the Rev. Hugh 

 Gfoldie, of the United Presbyterian Missionary Society. 



The merit of flowering A. Goldieana is due to Mr. Clarke, 

 the zealous and intelligent Curator of the Glasgow Botanic 

 Gardens, who received living specimens from his active cor- 

 respondent Mr. Thomson, and flowered a plant of it in July 

 of the present year, and the blossom of which he kindly 

 transmitted to the Magazine for figuring. 



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