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shorter and narrower. There is a number of plants at 
Dress Circle (Araucaria Lookout) associated with such 
shrubs as Leptospcrmum citratum , Denkamia pittospo - 
oides Prostanthera ovalifolia , Acrotriche divaricata , etc. 
Family APOCYNACEAE. 
Parsonsia induplicata F. Muell, Fragm. vi. 129 (1868). 
Mt. Merino, in beech ( Nothofagus ) forest, 3,650 feet, 
October 4th, 1942, Blake 14656 (slender twiner with rather 
scanty turbid thin juice ; leaves rich green above, paler or 
purplish beneath; young shoots and calyx more or less 
purple ; corolla creamy white, the lobes more or less in- 
curved — flowers) ; between Mt. Roberts and Mt. Merino 
in rain-forest, 3,000 feet, October 7th, 1944, Blake 15422 
(slender wiry twiner with scanty watery juice; leaves 
green, paler beneath; flowers white, not scented — flowers) ;. 
Mt. Roberts and Mt. Merino in beech (Nothofagus) forest, 
3,100-3,800 feet, April 17th-18th, 1943, Blake 14925 
(slender, wiry twiner, not very tall, with very scanty 
nearly colourless, but slightly turbid watery juice; leaves 
green or dull green above, pale green or purplish beneath 
— fruits) ; Mt, Hobwee, 4,000 feet, September 1st, 1929,. 
C. T. White 61 82 A (flowers) ; *Springbrook, 3,000 feet, 
October 24th, 1931, C. T. White 8232 (small vine; leaves 
green above, often purplish beneath, flowers cream — 
flowers) ; *Springbrook, climbing over shrubs and trees in 
rain-forest, brown loam, ca. 3,000 feet, September 28th,. 
1930, C. E. Hubbard 4237 (leaves da rk green above, 
purplish or pale green below ; flowers white or purplish 
white — flowers) . 
Not uncommon, but when not in flower it closely 
resembles P. ventricosa F. Muell. and an undescribed 
species from the same locality. It was previously known 
only from north-eastern New South Wales. Hubbard’s 
specimens were distributed from herb. Kew as 
4 ‘ M arscl enia sp. ’ ’ 
Family ASCLEPIADACEAE. 
Marsdenia flavescens A. Cun n. in Bot. Mag. t. 3289 
(1833). 
*Tamborine Mountain, November, 1916, J. H. 
Simmonds ; Mt. Roberts, in rain-forest on hillside, 2,470 
feet, April 19th, 1943, Blake 14933 (tall, slender liana up 
to about 14 cm. thick; bark greenish with pale-coloured 
