ARISTOLOCHIA HIRTA, Linn.
AR ISTOLO CH IA , Tourn.
ARISTOLOCHIA HIRTA, Linn. Spec, (ex synon. Toum.)— Sibth. et Smith, Flora Grceca, tab. $3 7 !
Aristolochia longa subhirsüta, folio oblohgo, flore maximo, Tourn.! Coroll., p. 8; Ejusd., Iter, I , p. i 47> ic<
(pessima).
Radix repens, crassitie pennæ anserinæ v. tenuior,collo eraittens caules plures, iya-i i/a-pedales, erectos v. adscenden-
tes, crassitie pennæ anserinæ v. tenuiorés, subtèretes, striatos, flexuösös, simpîices, herbaceos, foliatos , paucifloros, setulis
retrorsisv.paten tibusbrevibus hirtellos.Foliapatentiav. subreflexa, alterna, disticha; radicalia milia; caulina inferiora squa-
macea, membranacea, remota, parva, glabra, sessilià, ovata, acuminata, striata; cætera i - 5 pollices longa, herbacea cras-
siuscula, petiolata, pedatinervia, venosa, rugosa, viridia, scabro-puberula (setulis brevibus, sparsis, excepta margirie ad-
pressis, in paginâinferioricrebrioribus), e basicôrdata-bilobâv. reniformi in petiolum decurrente i-3 pollices latâ deltoidea
v. ovata, v. ovato-oblonga, apice rotundata, pïerumqüe emarginàta, nervo medio excurrente mucronulata ; petiolus 3-6 lineas
longus, tomentoso-hirtellus, basi in vaginulain amplexatilem dilatatus, suprà canaliculatus. Flores axillares, solitarii, pedun-
culati, magni, magis minusve deflexi. Peduhcülus 1/2-2 pollices longus, hirtellus, v. subtomentosus, supernè sensim incras-
satusj'cum ovariocontinuus.PEaiAHTHiuM magis minusve hirtellum (præfloratione tomentoso-hirsutum), proboscideum, nervosum
, venosum, marcescens, i 1/2-2 1/2 pollicés longum, in sicco fusco-castaneum (ex Sibthorpio « tubus olivaceus, intùs
« atro-purpureus ; limbus atro-purpiireus » ).; tubus süprà ventricosam basin sigmatoideo-incurvus, supernè ampliatus; limbus
1 1/2-2 pollices longus, tubo subtriplo latior, concavus, fauce gibbus, circümscriptione ovatus v. ovalis, basi.subcor-
datus, apice:rotundatus v. acuminulatus. Ovarium obovatum, 6-sulcum, tomentosum. Gynostemium in floribus obviis com-
pressione omnino deformatum scrutare non licuit; ex Sibthorpio : « Columna truncata, sexcrenata, pallidè flava. Antheræ lobi
lineares, divergentes. Stigma sexradiatum, planum, radiis columnæ crenis oppositis. » Fructum non vidimus ; ex Sibthorpio.
« Capsula subrotundo-oblonga, hirsuta, castanea, 2 pollices longa. » {Exam. s. sp.)
Crescit in insula Oa\o (Tournefort!— Olmer et Bruguière! in Herb. Mus. Par.), nee non in Cypro (Sib-
thörp, in Flord Grcecd); forsan étièfn in Asia minori \Jauberl, propè Smyrnam et propè Selenti,
specimina floribus orbata, cseterö enim Aristolochite hirtce simillima).
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