ON THE CH‘ING MUH HSIANG. 7d 
of Ningpo for 1868, states that, in the nalighibwdsod of that port, 
whence the drug is very largely exported, the plant yielding it is a 
common garden creeper ; and he was so obliging as to procure, at my 
hitherto undescribed eter of which I sctiahs a testa 
ARISTOLOCHIA ae oLOBUS § SESSILES) SACU SIELAEEA | ee 
lab 
rhi zocarpica, £ 
ramulos eisecondentin groenee emittente, caule sinistrorsum volubil 
latiusculo truncato auriculas ro as divergent Pp 
saturate viridibus infra glaucescentibus crebre tenuiter reticulatis 
pedatim 7-nerviis nervi is e oribus 
divergentibus omnibus infra promin ina 14— nga e 
medio sinu in petiolum 3—1 pollicarem cuneatim attenuata, floribus 
axillaribus solitariis cernuis inodori: culo tubum perigonialem 
subeequanti fultis, perigonii ptyxi valvati extus glaberrimi nervis 
6 tenuibus longitrorsus percursi luteo-viridis intus pilis pluriseptatis 
obsiti ore livide purpureo maculisque luteolis picto utriculo 3 lin. 
e 
ubo semicire rsum parum 9 lin. longo 
limbi subbilabiati labio “infer rotundato subemarginato 
superiore triangulato-lig sais 4 e vo 6—7 lin. longo, 
columns depress lobis brevibus semiovoideis obtusi medio 
rso 
sulcatis, capsula obovoideo-spheerica apice depressa ce tenuibus 
prominulis, seminibus tenuib 
oblongis utraque sictheinibate: emarginatis 2 lin. longis 3 lin. latis 
m e atro-cinereo pignie we nucleum paulo pallidiorem triangulari 
12. 
ande 
soon as the perigone is fully open, becomes abruptl fracted, 
usually, but not always, with a cert 1 . torsion, to rig 
or left seg ara eh the apex or side se te er Pak of the 
an erect position. The hairs on the lip and in the iret ind upper 
part of the tube are purple ; those towards the annie part of the tube, 
which they completely close, a costa ta All are in structure 
accomplished physician and student of a foreign materia medica, is likely to 
lead to : nad ority, even in rn action where he - committed 
Sluatien cove errors, and in some cases apparently given mere cru esses, more 
or less wide of the truth. A determination which is not periestly precise is 
worse than valuel 
* Trans, Linn. Soc. xxv., t. 14. 
