Brazilian species; and he was often led to compare the large 
flaccid blossoms on the bushes, to coloured pocket-handkerchiets 
laid out to dry. The other English specific name (Poison Hog- 
meat) is given on account of its virulent nature, for though, 
says Dr. Lunan, “the plant is so abominably fetid that it is 
detested and shunned by most animals, yet when hogs venture, 
through necessity, to eat of it, it destroys them.” Tussac, who 
gives a splendid figure of this plant, in his Flore des Antilles, 
relates that a whole herd of swine having been driven into 
the woods, where this Aristolochia was common, had entirely 
perished from eating the roots and young stems. 
In our stoves, where it is best planted in the ground, though 
it succeeds tolerably well on a pot-trellis, it flowers during 
most of the summer months and in autumn; but the blossom, 
when once fully expanded, is of short duration. 
Dzscr. Stem and branches shrubby, climbing: young herba- 
ceous portion downy. Jeaves alternate, cordate, acuminate, 
moderately downy, on rather long petioles. Peduncles lateral, 
opposite the leaf, solitary, single-flowered, striated, longer than 
the petioles, bearing a cordate perfoliate bractea near the middle, 
gradually passing into the club-shaped, sulcated, elongated, 
inferior, pedunculiform yermen or ovary. Flower drooping, of 
vast size, and worthy of observation while in bud (see 'Tab.4369) ; 
the younger buds, especially, are bent like a siphon in the tube, 
so as to resemble the body and neck of a bird, while the limb, 
in that state, resembles the head and beak thrown back upon 
the body, as a Pelican when that bird is at rest, whence the name : 
the gradual enlargement of the limb and extension of the tail-like 
point take away from the similarity. The fully-formed blossom 
presents a striking contrast to that of the Aristolochia anguicida, 
figured in our last Number (Tab. 4361). The ¢uée is inflated 
and, as in the bud, bent like a siphon, but contracted in the middle 
so as to resemble a double sack, and is, as well as the whole of 
the outside of the perianth, of a pale, dingy yellow, inclining 
to:green, downy, marked in the lower portion of the tube with 
six, prominent, purplish vids; these branch and increase in the 
upper portion and in the limb, and everywhere anastomose with 
cross-veins, so as to present a reticulated appearance. ‘The en- 
tirely expanded /imé is broadly ovato-cordate, entire but waved 
at the margin, and terminated by a very long slender tail: the 
whole inner surface is radiated and reticulated with veins, deep 
blood-purple in the centre and within the mouth; the rest is 
dirty white, mottled with blood-purple about the veins. The 
orifice of the tude is large, subtrigonal. Column short, bearing 
six, sessile, oblong anthers, and terminated by the six upright 
lobes of the stigma. 
TaB.4368. Flower :—nat.size. Fig.1. Column of stigma and stamens :—nat. size. 
Tas. 4369. Branch, with leaves and flower-buds :—nat. size. 
