890 BENGAL PLANTS. [ Aristolochia, 
parallel; dehiscence dorsal. Carpels connate in a 4~6-celled 
ovary ; placentas parietal, free or meeting at the axis ; ovules many, 
anatropous; style columnar; stigma lobed. Fruit a capsule or @ 4 
erry. Seeds many; albumen copious, fleshy ; embryo minute. : 
790. Aristolochia Linn. 
Prostrate or climbing, perennial herbs or shrubs; leaves alter- 
nate, entire or lobed, often with the stipule-like leaf of an unde 
veloped bud in the axil. Perianth corolline; tube inflated below, 
then contracted, hairy sais limb dilated, oblique, 1-2-lipped. 
tamens 6, rarely 5 or more than 6, adnate 1-seriately above the 
ovary, the filaments or ie not distinguishable from We 
e ‘ 
oe connate in a more or less perfectly 6-locular, rarely Pe or 
chee inferior ovary 3 placentas parietal or intruded, or con- 
niving or connate in the axis; ovules many, 2-seriate ; style or 
column sage thick, “dividing above into 3 or 6, rarely more, obtuse 
or linear short lobes. Capsule lantern-like, opening septicidally ot 
through the placentas by 6, rarely 5, valves. Seeds usually many, 
horizontal, often covered by the remains of the placenta ; albumen 
fleshy ; embryo minute. 
Leaves and branches glabrous ; column 6-lobed ; flowers axillary :— ie 
Leaves glaucous beneath, margin undulate, reniform or very wide- ; 
cordate ; flowers solitary ; peduncle with a large orbicular bract; lip _ 
of corolla erect, linear, at ty revolute edges, and villous with purple 
hairs bracteata. 
Leaves Hey beneath, margin flat; bracts small : 
Flowers 1-3 ; bract opposite base of peduncles ; “lip of corolla short, 
iN obtuse, glabrous ; anes oo to obovate-oblong ; base 
cuneate, rounded, or s indica. 
Flowers numerous, in racemose, pel ert cymes ; lip of corolla 
villous, linear, taon. as he as tube ; + OSS large, deeply cord 
r the upper narrow, sagittate-lanceola ga 
Leaves, at least beneath, a mee so er ; column 3-lobed ; 
flowers chiefly in villous cymes on the old wood; mouth of perianth 
square, with purple border sac 
1752, ArtsToLocuta BractEaTA Retz; F. I. iii, 490; F. B. 1. v.75; | : 
D. 
W. Behar, very rare, 
