wedge-shaped, radiating from the centre. Leaves glabrous, broadly 
cordate-ovate, subemarginate, basal lobes widely separated ; petiole about 
an inch long. (Rootstock wanting in my specimens, but described by 
the discoverer (Rev. W. Hawker) and by M. Ardoino as being fusiform. 
This fusiform or nearly conical shape is that assumed by the rootstock . 
when young, it afterwards becomes cylindrical.) 
Aristolochia longa, auctorum, non Linn., ex Herb. A. longa, 6B, Linn. 
Sp. Plant. ed. 1, p. 962. A. longa, Gren. et Godr. (non Linn.) Fl. de 
Fr. iii. 73; Woods, Tour. Fl. p. 324; Duchartre in DC. Prodr. xvi. 
part 11. p. 487. 
Hasirats.—(A) Gathered by me at Mentone, April 2, 1867; (B) 
collected by the Rev. W. Hawker on Mont Mulacé, April 22, 1867 ; 
(C) gathered by me on the eastern slopes of Mont Coudoh, near Hyeres, 
May 7, 1868; (D) root and rootstock of a specimen labelled “ Aristo- 
lochia longa, Linn., Matriti (Madrid) in umbrosis Real cam campo, 
April, 1841, Reuter,” in Gay’s Herbarium. 
Remarxs.—Aristolochia rotunda, Linn., abounds along the coast from 
Genoa to Marseilles. A. Pistolochia,; Linn., has been found at Levens, 
and Gilletta, near Nice, and in the Esterelles mountains (Ardoino), and 
on the mountains near Hyéres. A. pallida, Willd. (not figured), grows 
on the mountains near Genoa (Dnirs.), and was formerly gathered near 
Nice and at Torretta-Revest (Ardoino), and has lately been discovered 
for the first time in France (excepting the neighbourhood of Nice) on the 
Sainte-Baume, north of Toulon, by Dr. Shuttleworth ; this species has a 
globose root, but differs from A. rotunda, Linn., in its leaves, the petioles 
of which are half an inch long, and also in the flowers,* which have an 
extremely short lip, only one-fourth of the length of the tube, and are 
said to be pale yellow-green, with purplish veins, and a dark purple 
blotch at throat. A. longa, auct., grows in the olive-yards at Porto 
Mauritzio (Dntrs., who says that the lip in his specimens from this 
locality is not acute, but obtuse or retuse with a mucro), and on the 
Mulacé and Grammont mountains, near Mentone, where the Rev. W. 
Hawker detected it. Hitherto no doubt seems to have been enter- 
tained about the identity of the plant found about Montpelier, in the 
Pyrenees, etc., with the Aristolochia longa of Linnzeus. But, on con- 
sulting Linneus’s Herbarium, I found that the plant below which Lin- 
neus had written “12. longa,” is a wholly different though closely 
allied species, having flowers (by measurement) 3 inches in length. 
This plant, which Linnzeus named and numbered in accordance with 
A. longa, the twelfth species in the first edition of the ‘Species Planta- 
rum,’ is certainly not the ‘longa’ of modern authors, but the fine, allied 
Algerian species described by Boissier and Reutery as A. Fontanesil. 
There seems no possibility of any change or mistake in the specimen, 
* Sibth. et Sm. in the ‘ Flora Greca,’ x. tab. 936, represent the stigmatic lobes as 
purple, and united so as to form a central cone; p. 28, “ Columna alba, sexdentata, 
medio stigmate purpureo umbonata.” + Pugill. Pl. Nov. p. 108. 
