Aristolochia. | CXII. ARISTOLOCHIACER. 209 
^. Var.? angusti issima. Leaves very narrow and not dilated at the base, pedicels more 
ithe and bracts longer. Flowers only seen di young. 
. Australia. Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 547, a single specimen, A. Baueri, 
Duch. in DC. Prod. xv. i. 484, is SERIE the. same species. 
5. A. indica, Linn.; Duch. in DC. Prod. xv. i. 479, var.? magna, 
F. Muell. Fragm. vi. 180. A tall “biit apparently hert vere glabrous 
twiner. Leaves in the typical form — y ovate-ob or almost ob- 
ovate, obtuse, truncate or cordate at the base, an to in. pep in 
the Australian vhriet broader, vedi mener more deeply cordate, 
8 to 6 in. long, membranous, 5- or 7-nerve wers in short axillary 
racemes, sometimes almost contracted into liit the pedicels usually 
longer than the common rhachi is, and each with a small bract at the 
ee ee 
-auriculate at the base. Capsule ovoid, 1 to 1} in. long. _ Seeds b 
8moo 
ulin. hase our river, Banks and Solander (Herb. R. Brown); Rock 
ingham bs , Dallachy.—The latter specimens are in leaf only with two detached 
capsules, the identification is coe doubtful. "The species is widely distributed 
over East Tadia and the Archipelag 
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Orper CXIII. eee 
in the upper por Ovules 1 or 2 in e a cell, erect or pendulous. 
Fruit consisting of r more nu ; re or less 
Ero ed in, the usually enlarged persistent i aali ucre. Seeds usually 
in each nut, without albu ious, the ra 
usually superior. —Trees o r shru ves alternate, penaiveined 
.. The Order is almost limited to the northern hemisphere in the New as HC 
Old World, with the exception of the single Austra (m genus, which belongs to rx 
temperate and colder regions of both the northern and the southern hemispheres. 
1. FAGUS, Linn. 
Male see in globular pendulous catkins within small scales 
poa off very anf or rarely solitary. © Perianths "— stalked 
