Tab. 5869. 

 ARISTOLOCHIA barbata. 



Bearded Birthwort. 



Nat. Ord. Aristolochie;e. — Gynanpria Hexandria. 

 Gen. Char. ( Vide supra, Tab. 5420.) 



Aristolochia (Gymnolobus) barbata ; fruticosa, caule volubili angulato, 

 ramulis foliisque subtus pubescentibus, foliis longiuscule petiolatis 

 deltoideo- v. sagittate -cordatis obtusis acutisve supra glabris, auriculis 

 basi rnagnis rotundatis, sinti semiclauso v. aperto, floribus longiuscule 

 pedicellatis axillarihus solitariis, perianthio pallido, tubo basi obovoideo- 

 globoso inflate, fauce late inlundibuliformi, ore lato hiante oblique 

 truncato buccasformi venoso, labio parvo stipitato suborbiculari intus 

 supra medium processubus elongatis purpureis dense barbato. 



Aristolochia barbata, Jacq. Collect. Bot. vol. iii. p. 221. Stirp. Bar. vol. iii. 

 p. 17, t. 608. Willd. Sp. PL vol. iv. part 1, p. 156. Duckartre in 

 DC. Prod. vol. xv. part 1, p. 447. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 

 p. 299. 



Aristolochia dictyanrha, Duchartre in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, vol. ii. p. 40, 

 b. 6, f. 1-2, et in DC. Prod. 1. c. p. 446. 



Howardia barbata, Klotzsch, in Monatsb. Acad. Berol. 1859, p. 613. 



An elegant species of Aristolochia, a native of Venezuela 

 and the neighbouring island of Trinidad. It was raised from 

 seed sent by Mr. Ernst, of Caraccas, a gentleman well known 

 for his scientific collections, and the impulse he has given to 

 the progress of science in the distant settlement which he has 

 made his home, by the publication of many papers of interest 

 in the " Vargasia," a journal devoted to various branches of 

 natural knowledge, and known as the Boletin de Sociedad de 

 Ciencias Fisicas y Naturales de Caraccas. A. barbata forms a 

 slender stove climber, flowering in September. 



Descr. Stems many from the root, slender, angular, twining, 

 woody below, three to eight feet high ; branches pendent. 



NOVEMBER 1ST, 1870. 



