. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 96 ARISTOLOCHIA ARIZONA shaped (whence the name, from cymba, a boat) usually 2-lobed projeetion: fl. creamy white, marked and blotched with maroon. Brazil. 2545. 6:53 as A. hyperbdrea, Paxt. Brasili^nsis, Mart. & Zuea.(A. ornithociphala, Hook.). Glabrous: Ivs. cordate-renif orm, obtuse, with deep
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 96 ARISTOLOCHIA ARIZONA shaped (whence the name, from cymba, a boat) usually 2-lobed projeetion: fl. creamy white, marked and blotched with maroon. Brazil. 2545. 6:53 as A. hyperbdrea, Paxt. Brasili^nsis, Mart. & Zuea.(A. ornithociphala, Hook.). Glabrous: Ivs. cordate-renif orm, obtuse, with deep sinus at base ; peduncle 8-10 in. long, 1-fld.: S. very large, dingy yellow, with marks and reticulations of purple, the limb strongly 2-Iipped ; upper lip 5 in. long, lan- ceolate-acuminate, projecting from the inflated head- like tube like the long beak of a bird, hairy within ; lower lip on a stalk 2 in. long, then expanding into a flattened, wavy, beautifuUv marked limb 4-6 in. across. Brazil. 4120. Gn. 45, p. 289.—A most odd and interesting species, not infrequent in fine establishments. grandlfldra, Swartz {, Lind\,). Pel- ican - FLOWER. Goose- flower. Downy climbing shrub : Ivs. cordate-acuminate ; pe- duncles opposite a leaf, ate, exceeding the petiole,1-fld.; the is " bent like a siphon in the tube, so as to resemble the body and neck of a bird, while the limb, in that state, resembles the head and beak thrown back upon the body, as a pelican when that bird is at rest, whence the name" (Hook, in vol. 74): the great ex- panded cordate-ovate limb sev- eral inches across, wavy-mar- gined, purple - blotched and veined, terminating in a long and slender ciliated tail: strong- scented. W. Ind., Cent, and S. Amer. B.]\r, 4a68-9. 28:60. F. S. 4:351-2. G. F. 3:597-9. 10:157. III. 19: 73. Gng. 3:23. Gn. 50:378. Var. Stiirtevantii, W. Wat- son, is the form chiefly known in cult., being very large-fld., and with a tail
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