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ARISTOLOCHIA TOMENTOSA. Downy- 
LEAVED BIRTH-WoRT. 
WEEE TE EE SE RR Ro aR 
Clafs and Order. 
GynaNnpria HEXANDRIA, 
Generic CharaGer. 
Cal, 0. Cor. 1-petala, ligulata, bafi ventricofa. Cap/.'6- 
locularis, poly{fperma, infera. a] 
Specific CharaGer. 
ARISTOLOCHIA tomentofa ; caule volubili frutefcente, 
foliis petiolatis cordatis fubtus tomen- 
tofis, pedunculis folitariis ebra€teatis, 
corollz tubo retorto: limbo fubzqualiter 
trifido: ore hiante. 
We do not know that this very handfome fpecies of Arts- 
TOoLocuia has ever been noticed by any botanical author, 
Perhaps it may have been confounded with A. Sipbo (Bot. Mag. 
No. 534) which it entirely refembles in habit ; this fufpicion is 
ftrengthened by the circumftance of Mic aux’s having omitted 
in his charaéter of A. Sipbo the very remarkable oval braétes. 
For although thefe, being deciduous, may be fometimes want- 
ing, yet the mark from whence they have fallen is always vifible 
On the peduncle. In our plant there is no trace of thefe 
bragtes ; the limb of the corolla is more deeply divided than 
in Sipbo; the form too is different as well as the colour; and 
the mouth quite open, inftead of being contraéted as in that. 
Native of North-America. A hardy climbing fhrub. Has 
flourifhed for feveral years on the front of Meffts. Lex and 
Kennepy’s fhop, at the Hammerfmith Nurfery, where our 
drawing was taken. 
Flowers in June. 
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