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ARISTOLOCHIA* cymbifera. 

 Boat-flowered Birthwort. 



GYNANDRIA HEXANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Aristolochi^ Juss. {Introduction to the natural system 

 of Botany, p. 72.) 



ARISTOLOCHIA.—Supn), vol. S.fol. 689. 



A. cymbifera; volubilis, glabra; foliis cordato-reniformibus, floribus solitariis: 

 tubo obovato, limbo cylindrico deflexo bilabiato, labio superiore lanceolato 

 acuto canaliculato, inferiore plus quam duplo longiore e basi inflato- 

 cymbiformi in laminam ovatam emarginatam undulatam extenso. — 

 Martins n. g. et sp. pi. 1. 76. t. 49. 



Caulis volubilis, cortice suberoso fisso tectus ; intus teld ligned et cellu- 

 lari omninb distinctis, ut in A. labiosd et similibus ; zonis concentricis nullis. 

 Folia maxima, sinu baseos valde aperto, costarum lateralium basibus margi- 

 nato. Stipulse membranacece. Flores lutei, purpureo venosi, et maculati : 



tubo intils hirsuto. Capsula subcylindrica, apice rotundata, basi attenuata, 



6-angularis, 6-locularis, polysperma, dehiscentid septicidd. Semina com- 

 pressa, cuneata, testd suberosd fragili, nucleo obcordato, hinc tuberculis 

 minimis sparsis punctato, illitic Icevi raphe elevatd. 



The only figures that have yet appeared of this remark- 

 able plant are in the splendid work of Von Martius above 

 referred to, and in the Lisbon Transactions for 1812, where 

 it is published, according to that learned Botanist, under 

 the name of A. grandiflora. 



It is a native of shady thickets in the Province of 

 St. Paul, and near Rio Janeiro. Its introduction to this 

 country was owing to the transmission of a seed-vessel from 

 South America by Mr. Parish to Mrs. Hawkins, of Bignor 

 Park, about five years ago. By that lady it was presented 

 to the Rev. John Austen, from whose Garden at Pulborough 

 Rectory, in Sussex, the specimen was transmitted from 

 which our drawing was prepared. Mr. Austen informs us, 



* See fol. 1399. 

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