Tas. 8325. 
ARISTOLOCHIA movuptyensis. 
Western China. 
ARISTOLOCHIACEAE. 
AntstToLocara, Linn.; Benth. et Hook, f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p, 128. 
Aristolochia moupinensis, /ranch. in Nouv. Arch. Mus, Par. 2”°* sér. vol. x. 
(1887-8), p. 79; species ex affinitate A. Kaempferi, Willd., a qua foliis 
hauad lobatis pedunculisque bracteatis differt. 
Suffrutec scandens; rami graciles, primum dense sericei, demum puberuli. 
Folia cordata, acuta vel breviter acuminata, 10-12 em. longa, 6-10 em. 
lata, auriculis basalibus rotundatis non vel vix convergentibus, supra 
impresse punctata et pilis brevibus instructa, subtus cinereo-pubescentes ; 
petiolns é em. longus, hirsutus. Pedunculi solitares, axillares, uniflori, 
8 em. longi; bracteae ovatae, 1 cm. longae. Perianthii tubus extra dilute 
viridis, 4 cm. longus, abrupte curvatus, medio inflatus, apice basique 
attenuatus, extra hirsutus, intus flavus; limbus oblique trilobus, 8 em. 
diametro. inter lobos recurvus, intra flavescens rubro-maculatus, margini- 
bus viridibus. Columna 4 mm. longa; antherae 6. Ovarium 1-5 em. 
longum, oblongum; 6-costatum, hirtellum; stigmata 6, brevia, obtusa. 
Cupsulu 7 cm. longa, 3 cm. diametro, anguste 6-alata.—C. H. Wricur. 
The Aristolochia here figured was first discovered by 
Pere David in the Moupine region in Western China. Latel 
it was met with at T'sekou in Yunnan by Pere Monbeig 
and was again collected, at an elevation of 6,500 { 
above sea level in Western China, by Mr. E. H. Wilson 
behalf of Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, in whose nurseries 
Coombe Wood it flowered in June 1908 and again in Ju 
1909. A. moupinensis is very closely allied to A. Kaempferi, 
Willd., a species figured at t. 49 of Kaempfer’s Icones 
Selectae, edited in 1791 by Sir Joseph Banks, under the 
name San Kakso. This figure shows the trilobed leaves 
and the naked peduncle described by Willdenow and 
evidenced by a Japanese specimen collected by the late Mr. 
Maximowicz. But another Japanese specimen at Kew 
collected by Mr. F. V. Dickins and identified by the late Mr. 
Franchet as A. Kaempferi, though it has the naked peduncle 
of that species, has entire leaves as in A. moupinensis, and 
it may be that eventually the two plants will have to be 
Jury, 1910. 
