42 LXXXIV, APOCYNACES (STAPF). [ Landolphia- 
branch-forks; young branches densely fulvo-hirsute, scarcely glabrescent 
when old, and then dotted with conspicuous whitish lenticels, Leaves 
elliptic-oblong or oblong, more or less acuminate, rounded at the base or 
sometimes obscurely and minutely cordate, 24-44 in. long, coriaceous, 
subglaucous above when dry, softly fulvo-hirsute on both sides, soon 
glabrescent above except on the midrib, permanently hirsute on the 
nerves below ; midrib finely channelled above, prominent below ; secon- 
dary nerves 5-7 on each side, slender, curved, passing into and connected 
by rather distinct arches which are somewhat remote from the margins, 
slightly sunk above, raised beneath ; reticulation obscure, or sometimes 
slightly raised and more conspicuous above; petiole 2—2} lin. long, hirsute. 
Corymbs small, 6—10-flowered, terminal, subsessile, dense, borne on short 
leafy branches or springing from the branch-forks and then pseudo- 
axillary; all the parts of the inflorescence fulvo-hirsute ; bracts 
numerous, close to the flowers, subpersistent, ovate-oblong, acuminate, 
tips recurved ; pedicels stout, extremely short. Calyx 3 lin. long ; 
sepals ovate to oblong, subobtuse to acuminate, hirsute at east along 
the middle, ciliate, finely pubescent within, margins subscarious, midrib 
slightly raised. Corolla-tube slender, cylindrie slightly swollen at the 
middle, up to 6-8 lin. long, very finely tomentose or pubescent without ; 
lobes linear-lanceolate, acute, up to 9-10 lin. long, slightly pubescent 
without, otherwise glabrous. Stamens inserted at or just above the 
middle ; anthers lanceolate, acute, 1 lin. long. Ovary ovoid, gradually 
passing into the filiform style, densely villous; style pubescent at the 
base, about 44 lin. long, including the subcylindric stigma; stigma 
exuding a waxy substance near the thickened base. Fruit oblong, 
obtuse, truncate at the base, 14-1} in. long, ? in. thick, glabrous ; 
pericarp thin with a concentric sclerenchymatous layer; seeds 8-12, 
ovoid.—Warb. in Tropenpfl. iii. (1899) 312, and Kautschukpfl. 118 ; 
Hallier f. Kautschuklianen in Jahrb. Hamburg. Wissensch. Anstalt- 
xvii. (1899), 3. Beih. 88. Carpodinus calabaricus, Stapf in Kew 
Bulletin, 1894, 19; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii., 
131; Jumelle, Plantes 4 Caoutchouc et 4 Gutta, 62. 
Upper Guinea. (old Coast: Aburi, Brown, 391! and without precise locality. 
Brass! Qld Calabar, Mann, 2242! 
Brown’s specimen has a few more or less mutilated tendrils. The youngest of 
them is densely fulvo-hirsute and about 2 in. long, and the short divaricate, slightly 
recurved branches are supported by bract-like leaflets, whilst one of them bears @ 
small cluster of bracts at its end. 
11. L. Lecomtei, Dewevre, Caoutch. Afr. Monogr. Landolph. 25- 
A scandent shrub (tendrils unknown); young branches finely rufo- 
tomentose, glabrescent, dark greyish-brown, with scattered lenticels- 
Leaves oblong, acuminate, rounded at the base, about 34 in. long, 1} in. 
broad, coriaceous, glabrous, glossy above; midrib finely channelled above, 
raised below ; secondary nerves about 8-12 on each side, very slender, 
curved, passing into the fine rather inconspicuous marginal arches, 
slightly sunk above, prominent below; reticulation very obscure; petiole 
slender, about 3 lin. long. Corymbs terminal,shortly peduncled, 10-12- 
