490 GYNANDRiA HEXANDRiA. Aristolochia. 



inches long- and (Vom one to two broad. Racemes axillary, 

 shorter than the leaves; bracted. F/oit-ers erect. Anthers 

 six pair, as in A. hracteata. Capsules oblong, pendulous. 



The roots, like those of hracteata, are nauseously bitter, and 

 1 think ratiier more so than they are. 



3. A. longifolia. Roxh. 



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. hracteata. Reiz. Obs. v. N. 80. Willd. iv. 160. 

 Perennial. Ste?n. 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. 



/2oo/ perennial, long, slender, simple, perpendicular, wav- 

 ed, with many small fibres issuing from every part of it. 

 Stems or irawc/<es 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. 

 Floivers axillary, shigle, peduncled. Peduncles 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 pur- 

 ple, and covered on the inside with hairs of the some colour. 

 Anthers six pair. Capsules ovate. 



Every part of this plant is nauseously bitter, which re- 

 mains long, chiefly about the throat. 



