100 New SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
tint, the edges of the lobes green, and the corolla green extern- 
ally. Rare in clearings near Mameteca, below 1,500 feet, May 
and June. Collected June 3." (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, 
No. 2094.) 
Species unique in the distinct pollinia, but certainly a Mars- 
denia. 
~ Marsdenia inelegans. 
| Youn leaf-surfaces minutely puberulent underneath. 
Branches twisted, terete, striate. Leaves 5 to 7 cm. long, in- 
cluding the petiolz-like base, 3 to 5 cm. broad, broadly oval or 
rotund, abruptly contracted into a narrowly cuneate base about 
one-fourth of the total length and with a very abruptly short- 
pointed acute summit, the principal veins slightly prominent 
above, the secondaries 5 or 6 on each side, widely spreading, 
little curved but crooked and bifurcating toward the end. 
depressed. _Pollinia pear-shaped, the filaments erect, then 
"cea dilated near the corpuscles and less so near the pol- 
inia. 
"Twiaing to 20 feet, the corolla greenish-brown. Rare in 
dry forests and thickets below 1000 feet. May to June. Col- 
lected 3 miles S. E, of Bonda, 500 feet, May 30." (Herbert H. 
Smith, No. 2296.) 
2 Marsdenia asclepioidea. 
Glabrous, stems slender, terete. Petioles 2 to 3 cm. long, 
deeply channelled above. Blades 10 to 20 cm. long, 5 to 10 
cm. broad, ovate, with rounded base and abruptly short-pointed 
coarse, not prominent, the secondaries 8 or IO on a side, stout, 
spreading, then strongly falcate and connecting near the margin, 
en them o i the remaining 
leaves, mostly much shorter, slender, the flowers umbellate, the 
o 
broadly ovate, obtuse, papillose externally with broad smoo 
margins, not glandular within. Corolla campanulate, latef 
