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an undulate fold ; stigmatic lobes conical, beaked, connivent at tip. 
Capsule globose-pyriform or oblong, chartaceous, 3—4 cm. long, trans- 
versely linear-rugose between the ribs, 6-celled, the pedicels splitting 
into 6 segments in fruit. Seeds very many, horizontal, flattened, 
variable in shape but usually obtusely triangular and about 1 cm. in 
diam., with fragile wings and membranous testa, keeled on one side 
and tubercular on the other ; albumen horny, flat, cordate in shape ; 
embryo very minute, the cotyledons rather shorter than the radicle. 
Klotzsch in Monatsb. Berl. Akad. 597 ; Duchart. in DC. Prodr. XV. i. 
480 ; Prain Beng. Plants 591 ; Cooke Bomb. FI. 11.524. A. Roxburghi- 
ana, Klotzsch l.c. 596; Duchart. l.c.; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 75. 
A. acuminata, Roxb. FI. Ind. III. 489 (not of Lamk.); Wall. Cat. 2705 ; 
Wight Ic. t. 771; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. i. 1066; Dalz. and Gibs. 
Bomb. Fl. 224. : 
Prenane : Wallich 2705!; Curtis 2464!; Deschamps!. PERAK : 
Wray 1439!, 2295!, 3247; King’s Collector 2745!, 5000!, 8359 !, 
10552 !, 10577!. Sm~ancor: Ridley 7613!. Panane: Ridley 2255!. 
Matacca : Maingay K. D. 1321 !.—Distris. India, Ceylon, Burma, 
Siam, Java, Sumatra (Forbes 2921 !), Philippines. 
2. ARISTOLOCHIA MINUTIFLORA, Ridley ex Gamble in Kew Bull. 
79 (1910). A slender climbing shrub ; branches dark brown, corky- 
barked, sulcate, much twisted; branchlets very wiry, angular. Leaves 
membranous, glabrous, entire ; ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate 
at apex, deeply cordate at base, the auricles rounded somewhat con- 
verging inwards, the sinus 1-5 cm. deep and about as much broad ; 5—15 
em. long, 3—7 cm. broad, the broadest near the base ; pedately 5—7- 
ribbed at base, the midrib prominent, the inner pair of ribs also prom- 
inent and reaching nearly (quite, with loops!) to the apex, the outer 
pairs very slender, horizontal or deflexed ; main nerves 2—3 from the 
midrib, reticulations faint ; petiole slender, twisted, 3—5 cm. long. 
Flowers in lax axillary few-flowered slender puberulous racemes 
about 1 cm. long; bracts ovate acuminate, sheathing, 3 mm. long, 
puberulous. Perianth in all 1-5 cm. long, red and light grey (Kunstler), 
the base globose, 3 mm. in diam., followed by a curved tube 3 mm. 
long, then expanded in a 2-lipped funnel, the upper lip very short, 
rounded or 2-cleft, the lower produced in a linear twisted lobe 9 mm. 
long, the whole puberulous. Stamens 6,minute, connivent in a ring, 
the cells obtuse. Ovary puberulous, 6-furrowed; style slender, sur- 
mounted by a very short column ending in a peltate 6-lobed disk, the 
lobes conical-apiculate. Capsule obovate, 2°5 cm. long, 6-ribbed, 
