1453 



ARISTOLOCIilV caudcita. 

 Livid-Jlowered Birthwoi't. 



GYNANDRIA IIEXANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Artstolochi/t; Juss. (^Introduction to the natxiral system 

 of Botany, p. 72.) 



ARISTOLOCHIA.—Suprd, vol, 8. fol. 689. 



A. caudata ; caule volubili, foliis inferioril>us reniformibus triangularibus v. 

 Icviter trilobis, superioribus tripartitis: laciniis apice an^ustatis, calycibus 

 cylindraci'is infractis basi ventricosis sexcalcaratis, labio cordato cuspi- 

 date : lamina tubo multo breviore ; cuspide filiformi torto calyce mul- 

 toties longiore. 



A. caudata. Booth. 



Perennis. Stipulai connate, cor datce, ovat(B,amplexicaules,obtuscB. Petioli 



foliis breviores. Flores fusco-lividi. 



** This remarkable species of Aristolochia was raised 

 about three years ago in the Garden of Sir Charles Lemon, 

 Bart., M.P., at Carclew, Cornwall, from Brazilian seeds 

 received from Lieut. Wright, of His Majesty's packet Hope. 



*' The plant is a creeping perennial, with numerous 

 branches, extending for several feet from the root, and 

 sometimes attaching themselves to other plants which grow 

 near them. They are round and wiry, furnished with 

 roundish-cordate, almost reniform, dark, glaucous, green 

 leaves, near the root ; becoming 3-lobed towards the ex- 

 tremity, and much reticulated beneath. The petiole is 

 round, from 2 to 3 inches long ; the stipules are sessile, 

 recurved, and somewhat pointed. Flowers axillary, soli- 

 tary, with the peduncle about 2 inches long, curved, and 

 furrowed. The flower itself is pitcher-shaped, of a yellowish 

 brown colour, deeply marked with prominent veins on the 



* See fol. 1399. 



