but slightly crisped on the margins, of a bright green, above pale and 
marked with prominent veins below. Pepuncies one-flowered, nearly 
as long as the leafstalk, spreading, the ovary incurved and ascending. 
Prricon hanging in the lower part which is inflated, obliquely-ovate, 
about half an inch long, it then suddenly ascends in the form of a 
cylindrical straight entire tube, about half an inch long, at the 
top of which it spreads into flat orbicular limbs eight or nine lines 
broad, fringed round with a number of bright yellow cilie tipped 
with purple; the outside of the perigon is of a pale yellowish green, 
slightly striped with purple, the inside of the swelled part of a pale 
yellow, and somewhat downy, with a purplish ring near the base, 
the tubular part has a few hairs near its base and is smooth and pur- 
plish towards the top, the limb is of a rich purple near the base and 
then beautifully reticulated with a bright greenish yellow on a purple 
ground. ANTHERs almost sessile, oblong, two-celled, the cells pointed 
at the top, bursting outwards longitudinally, adnate by the back to 
the fleshy rays of the style which are lanceolate, pointed, rather longer 
than the anthers, and bears the stigmatic surface along the margins on 
the outside. 
PopuLar AND GEocrapnicat Notice. Among the great variety 
of extraordinary forms which the perigon of the Aristolochie assume 
in the warmer parts of America, this is by no means one of the least curi- 
ous. Though the flowers are not in sufficient abundance, nor project 
enough beyond the leaves to make much show, yet the beautifully 
- variegated limb, with its elegant fringe, amply repays a close inspec- 
tion. It is a native of North Patagonia, a country which has of late 
years, through the laborious exertions of Mr. Tweedie, so much en- 
‘ riched our collections, and which with the neighbourhood of Buenos 
Ayres, and the southern extremity of Brazil, is now through his means 
rivaling North California in ornamenting our flower borders. The 
genus Aristolochia is one of those which may be said to have no spe- 
cial fatherland, as it is found represented by some one of its numerous 
species, in nearly every tropical or temperate region of the globe, ex- 
cepting perhaps the southern extremity of Africa. G. B. 
. Iyrropuction; WHERE crown; Cuuture. Seeds of this species 
were transmitted by Mr. Tweedie of Buenos Ayres, in 1836, to the 
Glasnevin Botanic Garden, Dublin ; where it was raised by Mr. Niven, 
the talented curator, to whose kindness we owe the opportunity of fig- 
uring it. It flowered in the stove, in the autumn of 1837, having been 
grown in a mixture of sandy loam and peat. 
Derivation oF THE Names. 
Aristotocuta from dpreroc best. and) ge d med 
hs ptaroc 
q ; of some species. Citrosa ey sas ne pee rae 5 al ee 
of the perigon, = 
iL105A Lil Many 
