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MARSDENIA suaveolens. 
Sweet-scented Marsdenia. 
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PENTANDRIA DIGYNL4. 
Nat. ord. ASCLEPIADEA. Brown in mem. wern. soc. 1. 19. et suprà 
vol. 2. fol. 111. Div. I. AscLEPIADEE VERE. Brown loces. citis, 
MARSDENIA. Cor. urceoleta, 5-fida, nunc subrotata, Corona sta- 
minea 5-phylla, foliolis compressis indivisis, intüs simplicibus. Anthere 
membrana terminate. Masse Pollinis erecte, basi affixe. Folliculi leves. 
Semina comosa. Suffrutices, sepius volubiles. Folia opposita, latiuscula, 
plana. Cyma nunc thyrsi interpetiolares. Stigma sapis muticum, quandò- 
que rostratum, rostro indiviso v. bifido. Brown in loc. cit. 28. et in prod. 
460. 
Obs. PERGULARIX forsan nimis affinis, quee diversa tantummodo foliolis 
corone stamine intüs lacinulá auctis, Brown 2. c. 
Div. I. Stigma muticum. Marsdeniz vere. . . 
M. suaveolens, caule suberecto, foliis ovali-lanceolatis glabris aveniis, tubo 
ventricoso, fauce barbatà. Br in mem. wern. soc. 1. 80. . 
Marsdenia suaveolens. Brown prod. 1. 461. Rudge in trans. linn. soo. 10. 
299; tab. 21. fig. 1. “Sweet hort. sub. lond. 51. 
Rami superné volubiles. Fol. firmula, oblongo-ovata, lanceolata, 2 
uncias longa v. ultrà latitudine ferè duplo minore, villosiuscula, obsoletins 
nervosa, costá mediá pallidá à supino prominente: petioli plariés breviores 
lamind, teretes, villosi. Cymz in ramis plurime, pluriflore, parca, breviores 
foliis, villose, floribus ochroleucis, parvulis, odoris: pedunculus erectus, 
filiformis, cymá longior; pedicelli villosi, longitudine fer? florum, basi 
bracteolis villosis pluriès brevioribus stipati. Cal. villosus, 6-ftdus, campa- 
nulatus, pedicellorum concolor, duplo brevior corolla v. magis, segmentis 
ovato-acuminatis. Cor. unicolor, urceolato-rotata, limbo triplo longiore tubo, 
transversé subbilineari, 5-partito, intüs barbato, laciniis oblongis acuminatis 
patentibus. distantibus, istillum tudo corolle equale: stigma pallidum 
apiculo acuminato bifido. 
TROPIUM peruvianum. 
Native of New Holland, where the species was first ob- 
served by Mr. Brown, who in instituting the genus, ob- 
serves, that the group is perhaps scarcely distinct enough 
from that of PerguLaria, which differs merely by the addi- 
