142 cxii. ARiSTOLOcuiACE.E (baker AND wuigut). [A7'istoloch{a. 



3-4 in very short clusters, produced at the same time as the leaves. 

 Perianth "outside whitish with purplish blotches, inside yellow with 

 purple m^vkiDgs" (Johnson); utricle obliquely obovoid, IJ in. long; 

 tube 2 J in. long, about 8 lin. in diam. when pressed, subcylindrical, 

 slightly curved, with long scattered downward-pointing hairs inside; 

 limb widely cordate-ovate or cordate-suborbicular, about Ij in. in 

 diam. ; lobes 3, all from one side of the limb, 3 lin. wide at the trian- 

 gular base, then attenuated into tails up to 18 in. long, filiform in ^e 

 lower part, but dilated to 2 lin. in the upper 2-4 in. Gynostemium 

 fc;hortly stalked ; anthers 1^ lin. long. Stigmatic lobes 9, about as long 

 as the anthers, triangular-lanceolate, cuspidate, undulate. 



Upper Guinea. Gold Coast: Aburi Hills, Johnson, 487! Aburi Gardens, 

 Johnson, 1060 ! 



17. A. promissa. Mast, in Gard. Chron. 1879, xi. 404. Stems 

 20-25 ft. high, climbing, branched from the base, where they are lin. 

 in diam., glabrous. Leaves oblong, entire, cuspidate, 4-5 in. long, 2 in. 

 broad, membranous, glabrous; petiole 1 in. long. Flowers produced 

 freely from the old stems three months before the leaves unfold. 

 Perianth 4-5 in. long, exclusive of the tails ; utricle globose, 1 in. 

 in diam. ; tube short, broadly funnel-shaped ; limb 2-3 in. in diam., 

 "inside light yellow, brown-spotted and with white hair, outside dirty 

 yellow " {Kalhreijer) ; lobes small, deltoid, with filiform pendulous tails, 

 li-2 ft. long. Anthers 0-12, linear-oblong, sc^ircely reaching to the 

 base of the column. Style-branches 0-12, oblong, obtuse, abruptly 

 acuminate. 



Upper Guinea. Canieroons : Viftoria, Kalhreijer ! 



18. A. Preussii, Kmjl. JoJirh. xxiv. 402. A climber. Leaves un- 

 known. Cymes articulated, very shortly pilose ; bracts linear-lanceo- 

 late, shortly pilose, as long as the internodes ; flowers sessile. Perianth 

 greenish-yellow, minutely spotted with carmine and edged with dark 

 purple ; utricle ovoid, lin. long, 7 lin. in diam. ; tube cyathifoim, 

 17 lin. long; lobes 3, triangular, () lin. long and wide, produced into 

 tails 14 lin. long and about J lin. wide. Gynostemium turbinate ; 

 anther-cells linear, about 1 lin. long. Ovary clavate ; stigmatic lobes 

 broadly linear, IJ lin. long. 



Upper Guinea. Caineroons : betwoeu liiuombi and Kumba, 1046 ft., Preuss, 

 108. 



1 0. A. goldieana, llook. f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxv. 185, ^. 14. A 

 climber, glabrous in all its parts. Stem 20 ft. long ; branchlets slender, 

 terete. Leaves ovate- or triangular-cordate, shortly and abruptly 

 acuminate, with a wide rounded basal sinus, 6-8 in. long, 5-6 in. wide, 

 entire, membranous, paler below; primary nerves 5-11, arising from 

 the base of the leaf, arcuate ; petiole 6 in. long. Flowers solitary, 

 greenish with red-purple ribs outside, brownish and yellow mottled 

 inside, very large ; utricle 8 in. long, 2J-3 in. wide, subcylindrical, 



