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The Queensland Naturalist May, 1943 
ON TWO INTERESTING SPECIES OF MARSDENIA 
(FAMILY ASCLEPI AD ACE AE ) . 
By C. T. White, Government Botanist, Brisbane. 
Marsdenia araujacea F. Muell. Fragm. Phvtogr. Austr. 
VI. 135 (1868) ; Benth. FI. Austr. IV., 339 (1869) ; Bailey 
Queensl. FI. TIT., 1009 (1900). Vincetoxicum pachylepis 
F. M. Bailev, Bot. Bull. VIII. (Dept. Agric. Brisbane), 
79 (1893) ; Queensl. FI. Ill, 1000 (1900). 
North Kennedy District : Stone River, near Rocking- 
ham Bay, J. Dallachy , Oct. 1866 (Type: herb. Melbourne). 
Cook District: Kamerunga, Barron River (near Cairns), 
E. Cowley, Jan. 1893. 
When working at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 
(England) in the latter part of 1939 I found that the 
type sheet of Vincetoxicum pachylepis F. M. Bail, was 
almost an exact match for a sheet in the Kew Herbarium 
which represented part of the type gathering of Marsdenia 
araujacea F. Muell. It is a striking plant and it seems 
strange it shotild only have been gathered on the two 
occasions cited above. 
Marsdenia glandulif era sp. nov. 
Frutex alte scandens, ramulis glabris cortice sub- 
suberoso longitudinaliter ruguloso obsitis. Folia glabra 
petiolata, elliptica, basi leviter cordata, apice apiculata, 
supra ad basin glandulis 7-10 ornata; nervi praecipui ca. 
9 in utroque latere ; petioli 2.5-4 cm. longi ; laminae 10-12 
cm. longae, 4.5-6 cm. latae. Flores nro genere magni in 
umbellas simplices axillares, pedunculis 0.5-1 cm. longis, 
pedicellis validis 2 mm. longis dispositi ; sepala glabra, late 
ovata, 5 mm. longa ; corolla fere rotata profunde in lobos 
5, 1.2 cm. longos, lanceolatos e basi latiore apicem versus 
sen si m angustatos di visa ; coronae pars adnata segmentis 
subaeqnilonga, segmenta erecta apice in acumen obtusius- 
culum plus vel minus abrupte angustata, antheris longiora ; 
stigma rostratum, corona multo longius. Folliculi 11 cm. 
longi, 5 cm. lati. 
A tall climber; branchlets glabrous, clothed with a 
rather corky and longitudinally wrinkled bark. Leaves 
