Tas. 7073. 
ARISTOLOCHLIA urns. 
Native of Venezuela. 
Nat. Ord. ARISTOLOcHIACEZ.—Tribe ARISTOLOCHIER. 
Genus AnristoLocula, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vel. iii. p. 123.) 
AristoLocHia (Bilabiate) hians; glaberrima, caule gracili volubili, foliis 
reniformibus subtus glaucescentibus, sinu lato profundo, auriculis rotun- 
datis, pseudostipulis sessilibus reniformibus, floribus longe pedunculatis 
magnis, périanthii' utriculo obovoideo-obconico inflato (ventriculiformi) 
sordide rubro-purpureo basi viridi, nervis viridibus costato, intus infra 
faucem discis 2 auriculeformibus pubescentibus instructo, tubo brevi 
intus villoso, labio superiore longissimo inferiore longiore ensiformi 
recto v. subrecurvo acuminato pallide brunneo costis flavis, superiore 
longe unguiculato in laminam amplam orbiculatam 2-fidam brunneo 
irroratam repente ampliato, staminibus 6, 
A.hians, Willd. in Mem. Soc. d. Nat. Mosc. vol. ii. (1809), p. 100, t. 5; 
Duchartre in DC. Prodr. vol. xv. pt. i. p. 472; N.E. Brown in Gard. 
Chron. 1887, vol. i. p. 40. 
Howardia hians, Klotzsch in Monatsh. Berl. Acad. 1859, p. 617. 
A near ally of A. brasiliensis, Mart. and Zuce. (A. orni- 
thocephala, Hook. Tab. nostr. 4120), -differing chiefly in 
the much longer upper lip of the perianth; the flowers 
also are less brightly coloured. It isa native of Venezuela, 
whence there are specimens in the Kew Herbarium col- 
lected near Tovar by Fendler in 1854-5, and by E. Otto 
in 1859. There is also a specimen from South Brazil 
collected in St. Catharina by Fritz Mueller, which has by 
accident been in Martius’s Flora Brasiliensis referred to 
A, brasiliensis. It may not be indigenous in 8. Brazil. 
It has been long cultivated in Kew, and flowers in the 
months of August and September. The flowers emit a 
strong stench, as is the case with its allies. 
- Descr. A lofty glabrous twining climber; stems terete. 
Leaves petioled, three to five inches in diameter, rounded- 
reniform, with a broad deep sinus and rounded auricles, 
bright green above, pale or subglaucous beneath, and 
closely reticulated ; petiole two to four inches long; sti- 
pules one-half to one inch broad, sessile, reniform. Flowers 
Serremper Ist, 1889. : 
