October £9, 1891. ] 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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in diameter. The flowers are about 16 inches across, 20 inches long, 
terminating in a narrow tail-like appendage about 18 inches in length. 
The general shape is elliptical, and open or flat, not hooded like some 
the plant presents with a dozen or more of these gigantic flowers 
drooping from the stems. 
The engraving (fig. 73) was prepared from a flower shown at a recent 
Fig. 73.—ARISTOLOCHIA GIGAS. 
species, creamy white, flaked and mottled with bright rosy crimson, 
with an oval dark maroon centre 6 inches in diameter, giving a peculiar 
effect to the flower. It can be imagined what a singular appearance 
meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, and is reduced about one- 
fourth. At the meeting last Tuesday Hiss Marie Low exhibited a 
painting representing the flower of its full size. 
