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-MArspeENIA FLAvEscens. YELLOWISH-FLOW- 
ERED MARSDENIA. 
Class and Order. 
Pentanpria Dieynta. 
( Nat. Ord.—AsciepiapEz. ) 
Generic Character. 
Corolla urceolata, 5-fida, nune subrotata. Corona sta- 
minea 5-phylla, foliolis compressis, indivisis, intus simpli- 
cibus. Anthere membrana terminate. Masse Pollinis 
erect, basi aflixe. Folliculi leves. Semina comosa.— 
Suffrutices, sepius volubiles. Folia opposita, latiuscula, 
plana. Cymex nunc Thyrsi interpetiolares. Stigma sepius 
muticum, quandoque rosiralum, rostro indiviso vel bifido. 
Br. 
Specific Character and Synonym. 
Marspenta flavescens ; caule volubili, foliis oblongo-lance- 
olatis acuminatis subundulatis supra levibus subtus 
ramulisque incano-tomentosis, pedunculis petiolo du- 
plo longioribus, cymis confertifloris, corollis subrotatis, 
fauce nuda. Allan Cunningham. : ae 
Marspenta flavescens. Allan Cunningham MSS. 
The Genus Marspenia was so named by Mr. Brown, in 
compliment to Witutam Marspen, Esq. an encourager of 
Botany, and the able author of a History of Sumatra, a 
work of great interest and research. For the discovery of 
the species we are indebted to Mr. ALLAN CunNINGHAM, who 
found it in New Holland, on the sea-shore at the Illawana 
district, in lat. 344°, whence living plants were imported to 
His Majesty’s Gardens at Kew, where they flower through- 
out the summer months, and whence our specimens were sent 
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