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Wantoicat first sweetish, but afterwards becoming very bitter, 
stimulant, clammy, aromatico-balsamic conformable to its de- 
lightful odour. 
DESCRIPTIO BOTANICA. 
EIT scene 
GYNANDRIA HEXAN: DRIA. 
ARISTOLOCHIA whack 
A. foliis cordatis acuminatis mitibus, caule fruticoso scandente, 
pedunculis 1-3nis unifloris brevibus. Flor. Per. et Chil. edend. 
Planta—fruticosa, scandens. RR 
Radix—fusiformis, perpendicularis, longissima, usque ad sex 
pollices crassitudine, inferné ramoso-fibrosa, cinereo-fusca. Cor- 
tec a linea ad quatuor lineas crassus. Parenchyma transverse 
sectum in stella formam radiatum, albidum, post exsiccationem 
fuscum, funiculiforme, i in _plurimi is_lan peline flexibiles longitudi- 
naliter scissile. -_ pe ge = se cea 
Caules 3-6 ex radice, ad atohan Stmsaitates scandendo-as- 
surgentes, aut procumbentes, valde diffusi, teretes, flexuosi, 3-8 
pollices crassi, fusco-ferruginel ; inferné magis minusve ramosi, 
nudi; superné ramosi, striati. Cortex et Parenchyma, ut in 
radice. 
Rami—longissimi, teretes, striati, pubescentes, mites, tandem 
lanuginosi. 
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