for Linneus has repeated the number “12” on the strip of paper 
which fastens the plant down. Therefore, A. Fontanesii should pro- 
perly be called A. longa, Linn. Now, Sir J. E. Smith has written this 
note under the Linnean specimen alluded to, “Vix H. B. A. longa 
hispanica, H. Jacq.,’ which probably means that a specimen in the 
Banksian Herbarium does not correspond with that of Linneus, and 
the latter half may perhaps mean that the A. longa hispanica of Jac- 
quin’s Herbarium was the plant which he had supposed to be the true 
longa. Jacquin’s specimen in the Banksian Herbarium named by So- 
lander “A. longa, 8. (Jacquin),” is the smail-flowered plant which I 
have figured, and which is commonly but erroneously called A. longa. 
This specimen is now in the Herbarium of the British Museum. It 
is probable, therefore, that Jacquin understood that his plant was the 
variety of £. hispanica, Linn. (Sp. Plant. ed. 1, p. 962), and not the 
true, large-flowered A. longa, Linn. More observations on living spe- 
cimens of these species of Aristolochia are wanting, and I would draw 
the attention of botanists to the differences which the stigmatic lobes 
present. 
EXPLANATION OF Prats LXIV.—Fig. A 1, a flower of the natural 
size. A 2, the stamens and column magnified. A 3, a transverse sec- 
tion of the ovary, magnified. A 4, fruit of the natural size. Fig. B 1, 
front, and B 2, back view of a flower of the natural size. B 3, the tube 
of the perianth longitudinally divided, magnified. B 4, the stamens and 
column magnified. B 5, portion of back of leaf, magnified. B 6, one 
of the hairs. B 7, leaf and immature fruit of the natural size. Fig. C 1, 
flower of the natural size. C 2, stamens and column, magnified. Fig. D, 
rootstock of the natural size. 
