FLOBA OF ADEN. 
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Aristolochia Kotschyi Hochst. ex A. Bich. Tent. FI. Abyss. II, 237. 
Aristolochia maurorum Klotzsch in Monatsber. Berl. Akad. (1859) 
598. 
Aristolochia abyssinica Klotzsch ibid. 
Aristolochia crenata Ehrbg. ms. in Herb. Berol. 
Aristolochia sempervirens Forsk. FI. Aegypt.-Arab. p. 156. 
Arabic Name : — Laya, La (Schweinfurth) ; Erigagrab (KewHerb.). 
Description: — A slender perennial; stems 12 — 18 inches long, weak, 
prostrate, branched, striate, glabrous. Leaves cordate-ovate, entire, 
1J — 2 (or even 3) inches long, with abroad basal sinus, glaucous beneath, 
finely reticulately veined, glabrous ; petioles \ — 1J inch long. 
Flowers solitary, axillary ; pedicels 2 lines long, with a large sessile 
orbicular or subreniform bract at the base. Perianth dark brown, 1 — If 
inches long ; base subglobose; tube cylindric with a trumpet-shaped 
mouth; lip linear, dark purple, with revolute margins, finely reticulately 
veined, as long as the tube. Stamens and styles 6. 
Capsule shortly pyriform or subglobose, about 9 lines long and .7 lines 
wide, 12-ribbed, glabrous. Seeds obcordate, flat, 3 lines long, 3 lines 
broad at the apex. 
Every part of the plant is nauseously bitter. 
Flowers and fruits : — March, on the south-coast of Arabia (Sehweinf.) . 
Locality Aden (Birdw.). 
Distribution: — Northern Nigeria, Eastern Chari, Nubia, Abyssinia, 
Kordofan, Eritrea, Jur, Uganda, British East Africa, Sennaar, Abjssinia, 
Arabia, Sind, Bundelkhund, Deccan, Ceylon, Sandwich Islands. 
Uses : —A friction with its root is used by natives against scorpion 
bites. (A. F. Broun in folio Herb. Kew.). 
ALV.-LORANTHACEdE, 
Chlorophyll-containing shrubs or more rarely herbs, parasitic on 
other plants, very rarely trees. Leaves opposite, ternate or alternate, 
simple, entire, exstipulate, sometimes reduced to mere scales or teeth. 
Inflorescence racemose or cymose. Flowers often large and brightly 
coloured (Loranthus) , or small, greenish and inconspicuous ( Viscum ), 
regular or zygomorphic, hermaphrodite or unisexual, 3 — 6-merous. 
Calyx superior, gamo-sepalous, lobed or truncate, sometimes obsolete. 
Corolla superior, polypetalous or gamopetalous, petaloid or sepaloid, 
valvate in bud. Stamens as many as and opposite the petals or corolla- 
lobes, and inserted on them ; anthers usually 2-celled, sometimes divided 
into numerous small cells, which may be arranged irregularly ( Viscum ) 
or in 2 or 4 vertical rows [Lor ant hus) . Disc superior, annular or absent. 
