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a ring round the base of the style ; cells parallel, opening by dorsal 

 slits. Ovary 4-6-celled with parietal placentas ; style columnar, 

 stigma lobed, ovules numerous. Fruit capsular or baccate. Seeds 

 numerous, albumen copious, embryo minute. 



Erect shrubs. Leaves 3-5-basal nerved, not cordate. 



Perianth regular ... ... ... ... ... 1. Beag-ANTIA. 



Twiners. Leaves 5-7-basal nerved, cordate. Peri- 

 anth irregular, tubular and inflated at the base ... 2. Aristolochia. 



1. BRAGANTIA, Lour. 



Shrubs or under-shrubs. Leaves 3-5-basal-nerved. Flowers 

 axillary, cymose, bracteate. Perianth shortly campanulate, equally 

 3-lobed. Stamens 6-12, 1-seriate, free or connate ; connective thick. 

 Ovary elongate, 4-celled ; style short, stigmas 3 or more, linear ; 

 ovules 2-seriate. Capsule elongate, 4-angled, 4-valved, valves 

 separating from the column. Seeds oblong, 3-angled, rugose or 

 pitted. 



B. Walliehii, Br. in Wall. Cat. 7415 ; Fl. Br. 1. 5. 73; Wight Icones. 

 t. 520 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 225. Chahrani, M. ; Mirsagni, K. 



Western Peninsula in the ghat forests from the Konkan southwards, 

 common in the evergreen forests near the Gaiisoppah falls. A largo 

 shrub, almost a small tree. The foliage resembles that of Piper triclios- 

 tachyon, hence the Kanarese name. The root is used in native medicine 

 as a preventitive against cholera. 



B. Dalzellii, Hook. F. Fl. Br. 1. 5. 73. Is a fine species probably from 

 the Konkan, fouDd in Dalzell's herbarium. It is described with leaves 

 12 in, long by 3 in. broad. Seeds lemon-coloured, I have not seen it. 



2. ARISTOLOCHIA, Linn. 



Twining shrubs. Leaves entire or lobed, petiole dilated at the 

 base. Perianth coloured, tube dilated at the top, obliquely 1-2- 

 lipped. Anthers 6. Style short, 3-6-lobed. Capsule septicidally 

 6-valved. Seeds often covered V7ith the remains of the placenta. 



Leaves cuneate, rounded or shallow cordate, 5-nerved. 



Flowers 1-3 1, A. indica. 



Leaves large, deeply cordate, pedately 5-7-nerved. 



Flowers in racemose cymes 2. A. RoxdurgJtiana. 



1. A. indica. Linn. Fl. Br. I. 5. 75. ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Ph 178 ; Dalz. 

 & Gibs. Bomb. FJ. 224. ; Rheede Hort. Mai. 8. 25. Sapshi, kadula, K. ; 

 Sampsun, Vern. Throughout tropical India from Nepal, common in the 

 ghdt forests from the Konkan southwards. 



2. A. Eoxburghiana, Klotzsch inMonatsb. Berl. Akad. 1859, 596 ; 

 Fl. Br. L 5, 75. A. acuminata, Roxb. Fl.Ind. 3489. Wight Icones t. 771 ; 

 Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 178; Dalz. & Gibs- Bomb. Fi, 324. 



E. Himalaya, southwards to Penang, ghafts of the Konkan, southwards. 



