490 GYNANDRIA HEXANDRIA. Aristolochia. 
inches long and from one to two broad. Racemes axillary, 
__ shorter than the leaves; bracted. Flowers erect. Anthers 
six pair, as in A. bracteata, Capsules oblong, pendulous. 
The roots, like those of bracteata, are nauseously hitters and 
I think rather more so than they are. 
3. A. longifolia, Roxb. 
Twining. Leaves linearly-cordate, sagittate, with the 
barbs, or lobes rounded, three-nerved, entire and smooth. 
Racemes axillary. Stigma cup-shaped, with a three-toothed 
margin. 
A native of the Moluccas. 
4, A. bracteata. Retz. Obs. v. N, 80. Willd. iv. 160. 
Perennial. Siem and branches weak, trailing. Leaves reni- 
form, Peduncles axillary, one-flowered, bracted. 
Teling, Gardi Gavapoo. 
A native of cultivated, generally, garden ground, and the 
banks of rivers, or water-courses, where it can have a rich, 
moist soil, on the coast of Coromandel. It flowers most part 
of the year. 
Root perennial, long, slender, simple, perpendicular, wav- 
_ ed, with many small fibres issuing from every part of it. 
Stems or branches several, weak, resting on the ground, wav- 
ed, striated, from twelve to eighteen inches long. Leaves al- 
_ternate, petioled, kidney-formed, beautifully, though slightly, 
— curled round the margin, a little rugose, glaucous under- 
neath; about two inches each way. Petioles channelled. 
Flowers axillary, single, peduncled. Peduneles drooping; 
near the base there is a kidney-shaped, curled, sessile bracte. 
_Corol, upper part of the tube and tongue erect ; the latter has 
its margins revolute ; the colour a most beautiful dark put- 
ple, and covered on the inside with hairs of the some cpl: 
Anthers six pair. Capsules ovate, 
Every part of this plant is nauseously pitess which re- 
mains long, chiefly about the throat, | 
