Marsdenia.] Lxxvi. asclepiade.^. 339 



short broad tube, almost rotate, tlie broad lobes spreading* to 4 or 5 lines 

 diameter, quite glabrous, with a prominent annular membrane half closing 

 the throat. Gynostegium very short and broad. Corona-segments fleshy 

 but not very prominent, almost united in a ring, the erect portion exceedingly 

 sI]ort. Pdlen-masscs oblong-clavate, on a long slender stipes. Stigma very 

 obtuse. Follicles rather thick, acuminate, 3 to 4 in. long. 



N. Australia. Adams Eay, JSulis. 



6. M. araujacea, F, JMuelL Fragm, vi. 135. A large twiner, the 

 branches and foliage sprinkled with appressed hairs. Leaves on rather long 

 petioles, cordate-ovate, shortly acnrainate, membranous, 4 to 5 in. long. 

 flowers large, in dense simple umbels, on lateral peduncles shorter than the 

 petioles, the pedicels, bracts, and calyx shortly pubescent. Calyx-segments 

 iiearly orbicular, very obtuse, 3 lines long. Corolla about \ in. long, the 

 tube veiy- broad, slightly contracted at the throat, the lobes rather longer, 

 bearded inside with lon^ hairs up the centre and round the base. Corona- 



segment 



the margins 



free, the upper end exceeding the anthers and abruptly contracted into a 

 snort point. Polleu-inasses linear-oblong. Stigma with a narrow conical 

 beak not exceeding the corona. 



Queensland. Rockingham Bay, DaUachy. 



7. M. rostrata, R. Br. Prod. 461. A rather stout twiner, either gla- 

 orons or the voung shoots and inflorescence or the whole plant tomentose- 

 pTibescent. Leaves on rather long petioles, ovate to almost orbicular, shortly 

 and obtusely but usually abruptlv^acuminate, not cordate or very slightly so 

 «'hen very broad. Flowers sweet-scented, of a greenish-yellow or nearly 

 ^liite, numerous, in simple dense globular umbels, on interpetiolar peduncles 

 sliorter thau the petioles. Pedicels 2 to 3 lines long. Calyx-segments 

 woad, obtuse, about 1 line long. Corolla glabrous outside, the broad tube 

 lot contracted at the throat, nearly as long as the calyx, glabrous mside ; 

 Jobes rather longer, spreading, obtuse, very shortly bearded below the middle, 

 ^orona-segments with an adnate, scarcely prominent base, the free part erect, 

 incurved, nearly as lono- as or rarely longer than the anthers. Stigma pro- 

 «"ced into a flexuose beak, already as long as the corolla before it opens, 

 f^ollen-masses oblong. Follicles broad, acuminate, not above 2 in. long.— 

 ^cne.inDC.Prod.viii.616. 



Queensland. Keppel Bay, R. Brown ; BrisLane river, Fraser ? (too young to deter- 

 ™'ne accurately) 



^S't ^*^^^- Hunter's River, R. Brown ; Hastings and Clarence rivers. BecUer 

 ^d others; Tweed river, C. Moore; Newcastle, Durval, ^i,., Leichhardt ; Bl^^ Moun- 

 Snul t,^*'^*'"^ '• Lord Howe's Island (with larger flowers), Mdne ; woods and shady 

 ««s lllawarra, A. Cunningham ; Twofold Bay, F. Mueller. 

 'ctona. Snowy and Broadribb rivers, F. Mueller. 



, \ M. Fraseri, BentJi. A rather slender twiner, our speciuiens quite 

 »ous. Leaves shortly petiolate, lanceolate, acute, rounded at the base, Z 

 2; ji- long. Umbels simple and solitary, rather dense, on interpetiolar pe- 

 Jjiic es of i to 1 in. Pedicels 2 to 3 'lines long. Calyx-segments very 

 broadly ovate, verv obtuse, about 1 line long. Corolla-tube broad as long 



