Tas. 4933. 
HETEROTROPA asarorpeEs. 
Asarum-like Heterotropa. 
Nat. Ord. ArIstoLOocHIEZ.—DopEcaNDRIA MonoGyNIA. 
Gen. Char. Flores hermaphroditi. Perigonium coloratum, urceolatum, tubo 
late ventricoso, basi cum ovario connato, fauce anghstata, annulo introflexo, pli- 
cato, limbi trifidi laciniis cordatis, eestivatione induplicatis. Stamina 12, disco 
perigyno ovarii parti liber adnato inserta sex exteriora (stigmatibus opposita) ; 
Jilamentis triangularibus, antherarum loculis subintrorsis, connectivo submutico 
interposito sejunctis ; sex interiora alterna, fiJamentis nullis, antherarum sessilium 
loculis extrorsis, connectivo dorsali in acumen lanceolatum producto contiguis. 
Ovarium semi-inferum, sexloculare ; ovuda in loculorum angulo centrali plu- 
rima, adscendentia. Sfyli 6, connati, stellatim expansi, singuli obcordati, inferne 
stigmatiferi ; stigmata ovato-attenuata, papillosa. Fructus. . .—Herba Japonica, 
habitu Asari ; foliis binis, profunde cordatis, obtusis, albo-maculatis ; floribus axilla- 
ribus, solitariis v. geminis, breviter pedicellatis, folio abortivo bracteatis, intus sordide 
Suscis, faucis annulo albido. Endl. 
Hererorropa asaroides. Morren et Decaisne, in Nouv. Ann. Soc. Nat. v. 2. p. 
314. 4.10. Graham, in Bot. Mag. t. 3746. 
Asarum Virginicum. Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 190. 
Dr. Siebold introduced this curious plant (too nearly allied to 
Asarum) to our Buropean gardens on his return from Japan. Tn 
1839 it was cultivated in the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, when 
the late Professor Graham sent a description and a figure, which 
were published in our sixty-sixth volume of the Bot. Mag. t. 3746. 
The representation is however so indifferent that we are sure our 
friends will be glad to see a better one. The plant seems to have 
disappeared from our English, gardens for a length of time, and 
now has been received again from the Belgian Gardens under 
the name of Asarum Japonicum. We have hitherto treated it as 
a greenhouse plant, but it is quite likely it would bear our winters 
in the open air. Its flowering season is April and May. 
Descr. Rhizome resembling that of Asarwm Europeun, 
branched and nodose, the Jranches bearing at the end two pe- 
AuGuUsT lst, 1856. 
