Tas. 7512. 
ARISTOLOCHIA crypgata. 
Native of New Grenada. 
Nat. Ord. ARISTOLOCHIACER. 
Genus AristoLocuta, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f..Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 123.) 
AnrisToLocHia (Gymnolobus) c/ypeata ; caule crasso, cortice profunde 6-suleato, 
foliis longe petiolatis orbiculari-ovatis cuspidatis basi truncatis v. leviter 
cordatis palmatim 5-nerviis, floribus racemis brevissimis caulinis dispo- 
sitis uno solam sapissime evoluto, perianthii utriculo clavato gibboso 
multicostato intus glaberrimo, ore annulo processuum intus spectantium 
instructo, collo refracto intus laxe piloso in laminam amplam orbicularem 
concavam antice bifidam maculis substellee-formibus rubro-purpureis dense 
aspersam ampliato, lamin ore postice fascia lata villorum instructo, 
columna oblonga sessili cylindracea, antheris 6 lineari-oblongis approxi- 
matis, styli lobis 6 inequilongis lineari-elongatis erectis antheras 
. superantibus, marginibus stigmatosis crassis basi confluentibus. 
A. clypeata, André in Illustr. Hortic. vol, xvii. (1870) p. 223, t. 40. Gard. 
Chron. (1892) vol. i. p. 448. Gartenfl. (1893) p. 566, fig. 117. Watson in 
Gard. & Forest, vol. viii. (1895) p. 444. 
A. clypeaia is another of the ever-increasing host of 
tropical American Aristolochias. Its nearest ally is A. 
Duchartrei, André (tab. 5889) a native of the Upper 
Amazons, a much smaller-flowered species, with terete 
branches, many-flowered racemes, and _ broad, short, 
triangular stigmatic lobes. In the size of the flower it 
approaches -A. gigantea, Mart. (Tab. 4221) and A. Gigas, 
Lindl., species with long-tailed perianths. _ 
It was discovered in the botanically rich, but notoriously 
unhealthy Cauca Province of New Grenada, by the in-- 
defatigable botanical collector, Mr. E. G. Wallis, and 
introduced by him into Mr. Linden’s establishment in 
_ 1868, where it flowered in 1869. In 1892 plants of it 
were obtained from Messrs. F. Sander & Co., of St. 
Alban’s, for the Royal Gardens, Kew, which flowered in 
a stove in October, 1895. The flower-buds are developed 
very numerously from the old stems, but fall off in fog 
weather, one only usually developing. It has been 
distributed in England as A. gigantea. 
Descr.—A tall climber, with a woody stem, covered with — 
January Ist, 1897. 
