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513. Marsdenia cinerascens B. Br. 



Stems twining for several yards; flowers white. 



514. M. velutina R. Br. 



Roebuck Bay (J. W. 0. Tepper) ; Lennard, Isdell and Hann 



Rivers (W.Y.r.). 

 Follicles glabrous or nearly so, from a broad base, acuminate, 



2Jin. long. In sandy soil. 



515. M. viridiflora R. Br. 

 Grant Range (W.V.F.). 



Stems twining many yards. Among sandstone boulders. 



516. 21. Brockmaniana (W.V.F.), n. sp. 



A glabrous twiner, with slender stems and branches; leaves 

 narrow-lanceolate to linear, obtuse or hardly acute, tapering 

 into moderate petioles, sometimes scantily hirsute, veins 

 very oblique, few but evident; flowers large, 2-3 together, 

 pediculate on interpetiolar peduncles; calyx-segments nar- 

 ' row-ovate, obtuse; corolla rotate, lobed to about the middle, 



the lobes broad, obtuse, with ciliate margins, the lower 

 jjortion of the tube with a densely tomentose, annular ridge 

 within; corona-segments somewhat fleshy, with adnate sac- 

 cate bases, the free erect portions linear with incurved tips 

 and much exceeding the anthers; pollen-masses moderately 

 large, oblong, erect ; stigma compressed rather broad, shorter 

 than the anthers; follicles obtuse, dagger-shaped when dry, 

 rather large and glabrous when fresh; seeds obovate, scan- 

 tily hirsute or glabrous, much compressed with narrow 

 margins, conspicuously toothed at the apices. 



WingTah Pass, Napier Range; Upper Liverynga Station, Fitz- 

 roy River (W.V.F.). 



Twining for many yards. Leaves 2-3in. long; petioles \va.. 

 Flowers the largest of the genus. Peduncles l-2in. Pedi- 

 cels mostly about lin. long. Calyx-segments IJ line long. 

 Corolla above fin. diameter; white, saturated with purple. 

 Follicles lj-2in. long, gTcen, saturated with purple. Seeds 

 above 1 line long, black. 



In sandy soil. Readily distinguished by the comparatively small 

 calj'x and large corolla. The species is named in memory 

 of the late Mr. F. S. Broekman, Surveyor General, Western 

 Australia. 



617. Gymnanthera nitida R. Br. 



Beagle Bay (Alex. Forrest) ; iMeda, May, Fitzroy, Lennard, 



Barker, Riehenda, Isdell, Charnley, Calder, Sprigg, Ord, 



Denham and King Rivers; Bell and MacNamara Creeks; 



Walcott Inlet, Goose Hill (W.V.F.). 

 Twining to a great height. In moist sandy loam along the banks 



of water courses. 



