594 GARDEN PLANTS. PART II. 



native of the junguls of India; possesses no merit sufficient to 

 entitle it to a place in the garden. 



ARISTOLOCHIACE^]. 



BIKTHWOKT PELICAN-FLOWER. 



Aristolochia. 



Several of these plants bear flowers of a most curious and 

 indescribable form. I give the most interesting : 



1. A. labiosa. A common and very extensive large-leaved 

 climber, requiring a stout trellis for its support ; bears, in the 

 Hot season, large flowers, somewhat resembling an inflated bag 

 below with a helmet above, yellowish-white blotched with brown 

 and purple ; emitting a most offensive smell, like that of tainted 

 meat. 



2. A. Brasiliensis. A large climber, with largish heart-shaped 

 leaves ; bears yellowish flowers. 



3. A. acuminata. A native of Bengal ; blossoms in the Hot and 

 Kain seasons with large, drooping, dark greenish-purple flowers. 



4. A. caudata. A small climbing plant, about three feet high, 

 with slender stems and bluntly three-lobed leaves ; bears in the 

 Cold season curious liver-coloured flowers, letting hang down 

 from their summit a tail or thread-like appendage two feet long ; 

 commonly grown in a pot, and well suited for its singularity for 

 a place in the verandah. 



The following plants, not noticed in the foregoing pages, are 

 among those which, while this work has been going through 

 the press, have been announced for distribution by the Agri- 

 Horticultural Society from their new garden at Alipore. The 

 general character of most of these may in a great measure be 

 ascertained by reference to the descriptions of the natural 

 orders and genera to which they belong, given in the body of 

 the book. Some are unquestionably of great beauty, and val- 

 uable acquisitions to the garden ; but some, it is possible, may 

 be considered of little merit ; and others be found unsuited to 

 the climate. 



POL YPODIACEJG. FERNS. 



Adiantum. caudatum ; fulvum ; and Farleyense, described as a 



