138 cxii. ARiSTOLOCHiACEiE (baker AND wright). [AHstolochia. 



Duch. in DC. Prodr. xv. i. 483 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 

 91] ; Solereder in Engl. Jahrb. x. 437. A. ctthiopica, Welw. Apont. 

 Phyto-Geogr. 548. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot. Lagos, Dawodtt, 206 ! Northeru 

 Nigeria: Nupe, Barter, 1531 ! 



Iiower Gnlnea. Angola: Mossaiuedes ; in sandy maritime thickets between 

 Mossamedes and Cavalheiios or Giraul, Welivitsch, 512 ! Golungo Alto ; by the 

 Ainbaca Road, 1000-2400 ft., Welwitsch, 511 1 Loanda, Gossiueiler, 445! 



6. A. gibbosa, Diich. in Ann. Sc. Xat, 4'"^ ser. ii. 53. A climber, 

 glabrous in all its parts. Stem slender, sulcate ; internodes about as 

 long as the leaves. Leaves cordate, acute, 5-7-nerved from the base, 

 4 in. long, 3 in. broad, thinly membranous, exstipulate, basal sinus 

 rounded ; petiole G-9 lin. long, slender. Flowers solitary, axillary ; 

 peduncles 2 in. long. Perianth purplish inside with a bright yellow 

 throat, sulphur-}^ellow outside {Johnson) ; utricle gibbous on one side, 

 6 lin. long; tube funnel-shaped, slender below, 4 lin. long; limb cor- 

 date, acute, 1| in. long, 1 J in. wide, basal auricles rounded. Column 

 stalked ; anthers 0, nearly § the length of the column. Style-arms G, 

 broadly lanceolate, obtuse, incurved, channelled on the outer side. 

 Fruit obo void-fusiform, 2J in. long, lin. wide, G-ribbed. Seed 

 cordate, 2 lin. long, smooth on the inner concave side, muricate on the 

 convex outer, thickened at the margin ; raphe not prominent. — DC. 

 Prodr. XV. i. 459. A. odoratissima, Benth. PI. Hartweg. 82, not of 

 Linn, llowardia Benthamii, Klotzsch in Monatsb. Akad. Berl. 1859, 

 620. 



Upper Guinea. Gold Coast : Ahwri, Johnson, 2-^\ 



Also in Mexico. 



7. A. elegans, Mast, in Gard. Chron. 1885, xxiv. 301, fig. 64. A 

 glabrous climber. Branches very slender. Leaves broadly cordate 

 with a wide sinus, rounded or obtuse, glaucescent beneath ; nerves 5-7 

 radiating from the top of the 2J-in.-long slender petiole ; stipules 

 suborbicular. Flowers solitary on long pedicels. Perianth : utricle 

 oblong, 1 J in. long, \ in. in diam., yellowish ; tube suddenly reflexed 

 on the utricle, j in. long, subcylindrical, yellowish ; limb suddenly 

 expanded, orbicular-cordate, 3 in. in diam., white with red-purple veins 

 outside, purple-brown with white mottling inside ; throat greenish- 

 yellow. Anthers 6, linear. Ovary very slender ; style-arms 6, oblong, 

 obtuse, much overtopping the anthers. — Bot. Mag. t. 6909. 



X7pper Guinea. Gold Coast : Aburi Gardens, Johnson, 240 ! Southern 

 Nigeria : abundant at Brass, Billington ! 



Probably introduced from Brazil. 



8. A, foetens, Lindl. in Bot. Beg. t. 1824. Stem climbing, 

 branched, glabrous. Leaves cordate with a wide sinus, acute, up to 8 in. 



