Landolphia. | LXXXIV. APOCYNACEE (STAPF). 43. 
flowered, rusty-tomentose or villous all over; bracts ovate, subacute, 
caducous: pedicels very short. Calyx 24-3 lin. long, finely pubescent 
on both sides; sepals ovate, broad, acute, subacute, or acuminate ; tips 
recurved ; midrib raised. Corolla densely and very finely fulvo- 
tomentose without ; tube widest at 3 from the base or nearly so, slender, 
cylindric below, 6-7 lin. long; lobes oblong-lanceolate, acute, about 7 
lin. long, up to 2 lin. broad. Stamens inserted % up the tube; 
anthers ovate, oblong, scarcely 1 lin. long. Ovary ovoid, gradually 
narrowed into the filiform style, densely fulvo-villous like the base of 
the style ; stigma cylindric, thicker and exuding a waxy substance at. 
the base. Fruit unknown.—Warb. in Tropenpfl. iii. (1899) 312, and, 
Kautschukpfl. 118; Hallier f. Kautschuklianen in Jahrb. Hamburg. 
Wissensch. Anstalt. xvii. (1899), 3. Beih. 88. 
Lower Guinea. French Congo: Kitabi, on the Kuilu River, Lecomte, B, 100 ! 
12. L. robusta, Stapf. A scandent shrub, about 20 ft. high, with 
Sensitive inflorescences acting as tendrils ; young branches dark brown 
when dry, covered with an extremely delicate reddish tomentum, 
rather stout. Leaves ovate to ovate-oblong, or oblong, gradually and 
acutely acuminate, rounded at the base, 3 to over 6 in. long, 14-2? in.. 
broad, coriaceous, very delicately reddish tomentose when quite young, 
very soon glabrous on both sides, very glossy and dark above, brown. 
beneath when dry; midrib deeply and tinely channelled above, much 
raised beneath ; secondary nerves 8-11 on each side, oblique, curved, 
passing into and connected by more or less distinct arches somewhat 
remote from the margin, finely channelled above, raised beneath; reti- 
culation loose, rather obscure above, very slightly raised on both sides ; 
petiole 5-6 lin. long, moderately stout. Panicle long, bearing dense 
many-flowered clusters of sessile flowers at the ends of its divaricate or 
recurved or twisted remote branches, very delicately fulvous or reddish 
tomentose all over; peduncle and rhachis each 5-7 in. long, stout ; 
lower branches up to 14 in. long, stout; bracts very small, ovate to. 
oblong, subacute or obtuse. Calyx slightly over 1 lin. long; sepals. 
ovate to ovate-oblong, obtuse, finely rufous-tomentose. Corolla deli- 
cately rufous-tomentose without; tube slender, widened above the base,. 
cylindric from 2-23 lin. upwards, 7 lin. long; lobes oblong, obtuse, 
3 lin. long, ciliate. Stamens inserted 14 lin. above the base; anthers. 
ovate-lanceolate, acute, over } lin. long. Ovary ovoid, passing into the 
filiform style, minutely and adpressedly tomentose; style and stigma 
about 1 lin. long, the latter cylindric from a thickened base, bifid. 
Fruit unknown.— ZL. scandens (?), Hallier f. Kautschuklianen in Jahrb. 
Hamburg. Wissensch. Anstalt. xvii. (1899), 3. Beih. 79. Ancylo- 
bothrys robusta, Pierre in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1898, 92 (name only). 
L. Mannii, De Wild. & Durand, Reliq. Dewevr. in Ann. Mus. Congo,. 
Bot. sér. 2, fase. 2, 146 (2). 
Gower Guinea. Spanish Gaboon: Muni (Danger) River, Mann, 1764! 
Pierre, l.c., quotes “Mann, 1714” (Céte du Gabon) as the type of his Ancylobothrys 
robusta ; but there is no doubt that it should be Mann, 1764, the former being a 
