Nepenthe^.] CV. NEPENTHACEjE. 1281 
8. N. Cholmondeleyi (after Cholmondeley Jardine), Bail. Ql. Ar/ri. Journ. 
vii. 441, FI. lix. Judging from the specimens to hand, the stems of this pretty little 
species are probably numerous from each rhizome, and under 6in high ; the shorter 
ones with a dense almost rosette of leaves at the top, the taller ones with two 
such tufts of leaves — one near the base, the other at the summit of the stems. 
Leaves with scattered hairs, shortly clasping the stem, the broad portion falcate, 
1J to 2|in. long, 2 to 4 lines broad near the middle, longitudinal nerves 4 — 2 on 
each side distant from the midrib — , bearing an erect pitcher sessile at the end, or 
the pitcher removed from 2 or 8 lines to 14in. by the elongation of the midrib, 
this extension of the midrib seems only to occur in the upper leaves ; margins 
bordered with scattered or close, regular hair-like teeth. Pitchers 9 to 13 lines 
long ; diameter above the base 2| to 4 lines, thence slightly contracting to the 
orifice ; anterior ribs with prominently toothed wings, the reticulation well 
marked ; peristome normal ; operculum nearly orbicular, glandular on the inner 
surface; posterior spur recurved, broad at base, point filiform, with 2 prominent 
weak bristles on either side, glandular portion inside pitchers extending half-way 
P- 
Hab.: Cape York Peninsula, 5 miles south of the Jardine River, F. L. Jardine. 
Order CYI. ARISTOLOCHIACEiE. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth herbaceous, adherent to the ovary at the 
base, with a superior variously shaped entire or lobed limb, the lobes valvate in 
the bud. Stamens 5, 6, 8 or more, inserted round the base of the style ; anthers 
2-eelled opening outwards. Ovary inferior, 3- to 6-celled, with several ovules in 
each cell. Styles simple, with an entire or lobed terminal stigma. Fruit a 
capsule, or rarely succulent. Seeds angular or compressed. Embryo minute, in 
the apex of a fleshy albumen. — Herbs or rarely shrubs, often climbing. Leaves 
alternate, without stipules. Flowers usually axillary, solitary or racemose. 
A small Order, common to the New and the Old World, chiefly tropical, with a few species 
dispersed over the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere, and a very few extratropical 
South American ones. The only Australian genus, the principal one of the Urder, has the same 
general geographical range. — Bentli. 
1. ARISTOLOCHIA, Linn. 
(From its supposed medicinal qualities.) 
Perianth constricted over the ovary, then dilated into an utricle enclosing the 
stamens and pistils, and produced above the utricle into a limb usually unilabiate, 
or in a few species not Australian unequally bilabiate or 3-lobed. Stamens 
adnate to the style ; anthers 6 or rarely 5, sessile or on very shortly free filaments. 
Stigma 8-, 5- or 6-lobed. Capsule usually 6-celled and opening in 6 valves from 
the base upwards, the pedicel itself also splitting. — Climbers or rarely erect herbs 
or undershrubs. Flowers axillary, solitary or in clusters or racemes. Perianth 
very large in some species not Australian. 
The genus is widely distributed over the warmer and temperate regions of the globe. Of the 
five Australian species one is a common South Asiatic one, the other four are endemic. — Bentli. 
Woody climbers, with coriaceous reticulate leaves. 
Leaves much acuminate, deeply cordate at the base. Perianth-lip broadly 
triangular 1. A. deltantlia. 
Leaves obtuse or scarcely acuminate, scarcely cordate at the base. Flowers 
unknown 2. A. prcevenosa. 
Small trailing herbs. Leaves membranous. Flowers solitary. Perianth-lip 
linear-lanceolate. 
Leaves 1 to 2in. long, oblong or ovate, cordate 3. A.pubera. 
Leaves 2 to Sin. long, linear or linear-lanceolate 4 .A. Tliozetii. 
Climbing herbs. Leaves membranous. Flowers in axillary racemes or 
clusters 
5. A. indica. 
