Bragantia.'] AristolochiaceCB. 42 1 



extends up to nearly the summit of Hiniduma Hill, z'.e., to nearly 2000 ft. 

 This was the first species of Nepenthes made known to botanists. 

 Grimm, a Swedish physician, who was in Ceylon in 1674, gives a full 

 description in Ephem. Nat. Cur. an. i, dec. 2, 363, with a figure. The 

 interior of the pitcher is glabrous, and the lower portion is a darker 

 green, shining, and very thickly set with minute, punctiform, dark- 

 coloured glands, most numerous at the bottom. The stems are very 

 tough, and are used as ropes. 



CVIII.— ARISTOLOCHIACE/E. 



Perennial herbs or shrubs, sometimes twining, 1. alt., with- 

 out stip., fl. moderate-sized, bisexual, regular or irregular, 

 axillary; perianth 3-lobed or tubular and lipped; stam. 6 or 9, 

 fil. connate in threes, or o, the anth. being sessile round the 

 style ; ov. inferior, 4- or 6-celled, with numerous ovules ; fruit 

 capsular, dehiscent septicidally or loculicidally by 6 or 4 valves; 

 seeds with minute embryo in copious fleshy endosperm. 



Shrub; fl. regular, campanulate-rotate. . i. Bragantia. 

 Perennial herbs ; fl. irregular, tubular . . 2. Aristolochia. 



I. BRAGANTIA,^ Z^2^r. 



A shrub, 1. alt, distichous, no stip. ; fl. moderate-sized, in 

 axillary cymes; perianth regular, deeply 3-lobed, segm. val- 

 vate; stam. usually 9, inserted on base of per., fil. usually 

 connate in threes opp. the segm. ; ov. inferior, 4-celled, with 

 numerous ovules in two rows ; capsule linear, quadrangular, 

 dehiscing septifragally by 4 valves ; seeds trigonous, strongly 

 furrowed, embryo small, in copious fleshy endosperm. — Sp. 5 ; 

 4 in /^/. B. Ind. 



B. Wallichii, Br. in Wall. Cat. n. 7415 (1828). 

 Triineriza piperina, Lindl. Bot. Mag. sub t. 1543. Thw. Enum. 291. 

 C. P. 2257. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 73. Wight, Ic. t. 520 (not good). 



An erect slender shrub, 6-10 ft., bark smooth, yellowish, 

 twigs swollen above nodes, young parts finely pubescent ; 

 1, distichous, 5-7 in., linear-lanceolate, acute at base, attenuate, 

 very acute, entire, glabrous above, minutely pubescent and 

 paler beneath, 3-nerved at base, veins prominent beneath, 



* Commemorates John of Braganza, President of the Lisbon Academy 

 in 1790. 



