aristolochia Indica, L. Nom.
"The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines"
T. H. Pardo de Tavera
From the simplest and regular types of flowers, as in the buttercup, we pass on to more and more involved and unsymmetrical forms, as the columbine, monk's-hood, larkspur, aristolochia, and thus finally to the most highly specialized or involved forms of all, as seen in the orchid-the multifarious, multiversant orchid; the beautiful orchid; the ugly orchid; the fragrant orchid; the fetid orchid; the graceful, homely, grotesque, uncanny, mimetic, and, until the year 1859, the absolutely non-committal and inexplicable flower; the blossom which had waited through the ages for Darwin, its chosen interpreter, ere she yielded her secret to humanity.
"My Studio Neighbors"
William Hamilton Gibson
49. aristolochia saccata, ii.
"Himalayan Journals V2."
J. D. Hooker