CVI. ARISTOLOCIIIACE.K. 525 



reticulately veined ; petioles twining, 1-2 in. long. Flowers numerous, 

 in lax puberulous racemes, most of the flowers abortive, usually only 1 

 fertile ; bracts small. Perianth 2-2J in. long, base globose, greenish- 

 yellow; tube curved, mouth oblique ; lip lineai', straiglit, obtuse, villous, 

 as long as the tube. Capsules 1-1 1 in. long, globose-pyriform or 

 oblong-ellipsoid, transversely rugulose, glabrous, the pedicels usually 

 splitting into 6 filaments in fruit. Seeds |-| in. long and as broad as 

 long, broadly ovate-deltoid with a deep membranous wing, flattened, 

 usually tuberculate on one face. Prain, Beng. PL p. 890. AristolocMa 

 Boxburghiana, Klotzsch, in Monatsb. Berl. Akad. (1859) p. 696 ; Hook. f. 

 PI. B. J. v. 5, p. 75 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 277. A. acuminata, 

 Roxb. PI. Ind. v. 3 (1832) p. 489 (iiot of Lam.) ; Wight, Icon. t. 771 ; 

 Grab. Cat. p. 178 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 224. 



Eare. Dahell without locality in Herb. Kew. ! Konkan : S. Konkan, Nimmo ex 

 Graluim ; banks of Ohapora River at Maniri in the Wari Country, Balzell cf- Gibson. 

 Deccan : Parghat leading to Mabableshwar, Balzell cf- Gibson. — Distrib. (India, 

 Bengal, Assam, Silhet, Birma, W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon, Java, Borneo. 



Several species are grown as ornamental plants in gardens, of which 

 the most common are the following : — 



Aristolochia brasiliensis, Mart. & Zucc. Nov. Gen. & Sp. v. 1 (1824) 

 p. 77. A native of Brazil with carious flowers, the upper lip of which 

 with its inflated tube resembles the head and beak of a bird. A. ornitho- 

 cephala, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4120 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 

 (1899) p. 366 & Gard. in Ind. ed. 5, p. 432.— YeriV. Pojxit-vel. 



AristolocMa Jlmhriata, Cham, in Linnaea, v. 7 (1832) p. 210, t. 6. A 

 very pretty plant from Buenos Ayres, bearing in June solitary axillary 

 greenish-white flowers of curious form, the tube being much swollen, 

 the expanded part on the inside dark-brown netted with bright yellow 

 and surrounded by black-tipped yellow hairs pointing inwards in bud. 

 The flowers measure 2 in. in length bv 1 in. in width at the broadest 

 part. Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 366 & Gard. in 

 Ind. ed. 5, p. 432. A. 



AristolocMa elegans. Masters, in Gard. Chron. v. 24 (1885) p. 301. 

 A small free-flowering species, a native of Brazil, with ovate cordate 

 leaves. The flowers have a slightly dilated tube whicli is suddenly 

 bent upwards, the upper part dilated into a cordate cup-shaped limb of 

 a rich purple color ornamented with creaniy-white markings and having 

 a golden-yellow eye surrounded by rich velvety purple. AVoodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 366 & Gard. in Ind. ed. 5, p. 431. 



Order CVII. PIPERACE^. 



Herbs or shrubs often with swollen nodes, usually aromatic. Leaves 

 alternate, opposite or whorled, often gland-dotted ; stipules or 2, 

 connate, or adnate to the petiole. Plowers minute, hermaphrodite or 

 unisexual, in axillary or terminal catkin-like spikes subtended by a 

 peltate bract. Perianth 0. Stamens 2-6 (rarely 7-8), hypogynous ; 



