AristolocTiia.'] cxxm. ARISTOLOCHIACE^;. (J. D. Hooker.) 75 



petiole with a dilated base, and with often the stipule- like leaf of an unde- 

 veloped bud in the axil. Perianth coloured, tube inflated at the base, then 

 contracted, hairy within ; limb dilated, obliquely 1-2-lipped. Anthers 6, 

 rarely 5, or more ; style very short, 3-6-lobed. Capsule septicidally 6-valved 

 or splitting through the placentas. Seeds various, often covered with the 

 remains of the placenta. Species about 180, chiefly tropical. 



Sect. I. Diplolobus, Duchart. Column 6-lobed. Anthers 6. 



1. A. bract eat a, Retz. Obs. v. 29; quite glabrous, stem slender 

 'decumbent, leaves reniform or broadly cordate tip obtuse or subacute 

 margins flat or waved glaucous beneath, flowers solitary, peduncle bracteate. 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 490 ; Wall. PL As. Ear. ii. 3, and Cat. 2706 ; Grah. 

 Cat. Bomb. PL 178 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. FL 224 ; Klotzsch in Monatsb. 

 Berl. Akad. 1859, 598. A. bractiolata, Lamk. Encycl. i. 258 ; Klotzsch I. c. 

 A. mauritiana, Pers. Encheir. ii. 527. A. Kotschyi, Hochst. ex A. Rich 

 Tent. FL Abyss, ii. 237. A. maurorum and A. abyssinica, Klotzsch L c. 

 (not of Linn.). 



DECCAN PENINSULA, northward to BUNDELKUND, Wallich, Edgeworth, &c. 

 SCINDE, Vicary. CEYLON ; north of the island, Gardner. DISTE.IV. Arabia, Trop. 

 Africa. 



Root slender, perennial. Stem or branches 12-18 in., angled and striate. Leaves 

 l|-3 in. long and broad, widely and shaliowly cordate at the base ; petiole 1-1J in. 

 Peduncle short; bract usually orbicular, variable in position, sometimes basal. 

 Perianth 1-1 f in., base globose, tube cylindric erect slender ; lip erect, linear, as 

 long as the tube, dark purple with revolute edges, villous with purple hairs. Fruit 

 pyriform, 1 in. long, many -grooved. Seeds triangular-cordate. 



2. A. indica. Linn. ; Duchart. in DC. Prodr. xvi. 479 ; shrubby, 

 quite glabrous, twining, leaves from linear to obovate-oblong or subpan- 

 duriform base ctineate rounded or shaliowly cordate 5-nerved, flowers 1-3, 

 bract opposite the base of the peduncles. Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 489 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 2704 ; Klotzsch in Monatsb. Berl. Akad. 1859, 595 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. 

 PL 178; Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. FL 224. A. lanceolata, Wight Ic. t. 1858; 

 Klotzsch 1. . A. maysorensis, Fisch. mss. A. pandurata, Wall. mss. Aris- 

 iolochia, Griff. Notul. iv. 348, and Ic. PL Asiat. t. 529. Eheede Sort. 

 Mai. viii. t. 25. 



Throughout the low country of INDIA, from NEPAL, Hamilton, and lower BEN- 

 GAL, Clarke, to CHITTAGONG, J. D. H. fy T. T. ; and the DECCAN PENINSULA, from 

 the Concan southward. CEYLON common up to 3000 ft. 



Stem woody below, branches slender. Leaves membranous, excessively variable, 

 in the narrowest forms 4 by -f in., in the broadest 4-5 by 3 in., broadest part at 

 the base or middle or above the middle, abruptly or gradually obtusely acuminate or 

 apiculate, often oblong and quite obtuse; petiole |-g in., very slender. Periant.'i 

 straight, greenish, base globose, tube shortly funnel-shaped, mouth oblique trumpet- 

 shaped gradually passing into the short oblong obtuse glabrous brownish lip. Cap- 

 sule l|-2 in. long, oblong, grooved. Seeds flat, triangular, winged. Wight's A. lan- 

 ceolata occurs both in the Peninsula and Ceylon. 



3. A. Roxburg-hiana, Klotzsch in Monatsb. Berl. Akad. 1859, 596 ; 

 quite glabrous, shrubby, twining, leaves large cordate upper often narrow 

 subsagittately lanceolate lower or all ovate or broadly ovate-oblong pedately 

 5-7-nerved, upper with the 2 principal nerves produced far beyond the 

 middle, lower with all the nerves spreading, flowers in racemose puberulons 

 cymes, lip of perianth villous. Duchart. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 480. A. acu- 

 minata, Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 489 (not of Lamarck] ; Wall. Cat. 2705 ; Wight 



