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DESCRIPTION. 
CLASS XxX. 
GYNANDRIA HEXANDRIA. 
ARISTOLOCHIA FrraGRANTISSIMA. 
A. leaves cordate pointed smooth, stem shrubby scandent, 
peduncles 1-3 short-1-flowered. Fl. Peruv. et Chil. edend. 
Plant—climbing, shrubby. 
Root—fusiform, perpendicular, wery long, about six inches 
thick, furnished at the base with branching fibres; of a grey i ash 
colour. 
Bark—firm, from one to four lines thick, the centre, when 
transversely cut, radiated, whitish, and, after drying, grey, and of 
the figure of a cord, splitting longitudinally into flexible la- 
~ melle. 
Stems—three to six from each root, climbing up ‘trees, or, ti 
wanting support, spreading along the ground, round, flexuose, 
from three to eight inches thick, grey or ferrugineous, nakec 
more or less fissured below; striated and branched above, with 
the heart and bark as in the root. 
Branches—very long, round, strinjed, po eeis and ze 
at the extremities. — seca 
 Leaves—alternate, EE on ng Res defexed. cor- 
date, acuminate, smooth, thin, veined, naked above, roughish 
and reticulated beneath; soft and pubescent, sometimes ferru- 
_ gineous; from two to three hands long, and one and a half 
broad. 
Petioles—one-third the length of the leaves, thick, Be 
twisted, of a brownish ferrugineous colour. 
