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MARSDENIA suaveolens. 
Sweet-scented Marsdenia. 
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PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. ASCLEPIADER. Brown in mem. wern. soc. 1. 19. et supra 
vol. 2. fol. 111. Div. T. AScLEPIADEZ VERE. ‘Brown loccs. citts. 
MARSDENIA. Cor, urceolata, 5-fida, nunc ‘subrotata. . Corona sta- 
minea 5-phylla, foliolis compressis indivisis, ints simplicibus. Anthere 
membrana terminate. Masse Pollinis erectz, basi affixe. Folliculi eves. 
Semina comosa. Suffrutices, sepius volubiles. Folia opposita, latiuscula, 
plana. Cyme nunc thyrsi interpetiolares.. Stigma sepits muticum, quandd- 
que rostratum, rostro indiviso v. bifido. Brown in loc. cit. 28. et in prod. 
460. 
Oss. PERGULARIZ forsan nimis affinis, que diversa tantummod0 foliolis 
coronz stamineze intis lacinuld auctis:' Brown l. c. 
Div. I. Stigma muticum. Marsdenie vere. 
M. suaveolens, caule suberecto, foliis ovali-lanceolatis glabris aveniis,' tubo 
ventricoso, fauce barbaté. Brown in mem. wern. soc: 1. 30. 
Marsdenia suaveolens. Brown prod. 1.461. Rudge in trans. linn, soc. 10. 
299; tab. 21. fig. 1. Sweet hort. sub. lond. 51. 
Rami superné -volubiles. Fol. jfirmula, oblongo-ovata, lanceolata, 2 
uncias longa v. ultra latitudine fere duplo minore, villosiuscula, obsoletivs 
nervosa, costa media pallidd a supino prominente: petioli pluriés breviores, 
lamina, teretes, villosi. Cyme in ramis plurime, pluriflore, parve, breviores 
foliis, villose, floribus ochroleucis, parvulis, odoris: pedunculus erectus, 
jiliformis, cymd longior; pedicelli villosi, longitudine feré florum, basi. 
bracteolis villosis pluriés brevioribus stipati.. Cal. villosus, 5-fidus, campa- 
nulatus, pedicellorum concolor, duplo brevior corolla v. magis, segmentis 
ovato-acuminatis. Cor. unicolor, urceolato-rotata, limbo triplo longiore tubo, 
transverse subbilineari, 5-partito, intus barbato, laciniis oblongis acuminatis 
patentibus distantibus. istillum tubo corolle @quale: stigma pallidum 
apiculo acuminato bifido. 
The present is the only figure of this new addition to 
our greenhouses made from the living plant. The fragrance 
and long enduring succession of the blossom will cause 
the species to be highly prized. In general appearance, it 
reminds us of CynancHum pilosum, already given in this 
work; in the flavour of the perfume, of the popular Haxto- 
TROPIUM peruvianum. 
Native of New Holland, where the species was first ob- 
served by Mr. Brown, who in instituting the genus, ob- 
serves, that the group is perhaps scarcely distinct enough 
from that of Perauuania, which differs merely by the addi- 
