Landolphia. | LXXXIV. APOCYNACEA (STAPF). 47 
bracts at the base of the branches subulate-acuminate from an ovate 
base, up to 2 lin. long, upper ones passing into the calyx-segments. 
Calyx 1-14 lin. long, rusty-tomentose ; sepals lanceolate-ovate, subacute 
or subacuminate. Corolla white, fragrant ; tube widest 1} lin. above 
the base, slender, cylindric above, 64-7 lin. long, finely tomentose 
without; lobes as long as the tube, oblong, subobtuse, long ciliate along 
the outer edge. Stamens inserted near the base ; anthers linear-oblong, 
acute. Ovary depressed-globose, densely tomentose except at the very 
base; style glabrous. Young fruits pyriform-globose, fulvo-pubescent, 
or glabrescent, often asymmetrically apiculate by the persistent style 
base which is thrust aside by the unequal growth of the fruit.— 
L. scandens, var. ferruginea, Hallier f. Kautschuklianen in Jahrb. 
Hamburg. Wissensch. Anstalt. xiv. (1899), 3. Beih. 80, partly. 
Upper Guinea. (old Coast: Aquapim Hills, Johnson, 782! Western 
Lagos : interior, Rowland ! 
18. L. petersiana, Dyer in Kew Report, 1880, 42. A scandent 
shrub with sensitive inflorescences acting as tendrils; young branches 
minutely rusty-pubescent to tomentose, soon glabrescent, reddish or 
finally greyish-brown with numerous small lenticels. Leaves elliptic 
or elliptic-oblong, subacute or more commonly obtuse at both ends, 
34-44 in. long, 14-2 in. broad, coriaceous, loosely pubescent on both 
sides when quite young, soon glabrous, usually blackish and somewhat 
glossy above when dry, pale beneath; midrib channelled above, raised 
below ; secondary nerves oblique, distinctly curved, 6-8 (rarely 10) on 
each side, finely channelled above, distinctly raised below ; tertiary 
nerves more or less irregular and like the fine network of veins usually 
distinct, brown, scarcely raised ; marginal arches obscure ; petiole about 
3 lin. long. Panicle short or elongate, peduncled, bearing clusters of 
inany sessile flowers at the ends of short spreading or recurved branches ; 
branches or rhachis often acting as tendrils, finely rusty-pubescent or 
glabrescent all over; peduncle 1~4 in. long, slender ; rhachis 1-14 in, 
long, lowest branches from a few lines to 1 in. long; bracts ovate- 
lanceolate or ovate-oblong, acute or subacute, rusty-pubescent or 
tomentose. Calyx about 1 lin. long; sepals ovate-oblong, obtuse, more 
or less laterally compressed in the upper half, rusty-pubescent or 
tomentose. Corolla white, sweet-scented, rather variable in size, 
8-13 lin. long (rarely longer) in bud; tube slender, cylindric, about 3-4} 
lin. long, slightly wider and staminiferous 1-1} lin. above the base, 
minutely and equally pubescent above the widening; lobes obliquely 
oblong or linear-oblong, acute or obtuse, 6-8 lin. long, curled-ciliate. 
Anthers ovate-oblong, acute, not quite 1 lin. long. Ovary globose, 
very minutely rufo-tomentose. Style and stigma 1 lin. long, the latter 
cylindric from a thicker base, bifid. Fruit globose, up to 24 in. in diam., 
finely velvety ; pericarp leathery, up to 2 lin. thick, without a sclerenchy- 
matous layer; seeds 4—9 lin. long.—Ficalho, Pl. Uteis Afr. Portug. 219- 
K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xv. (1892) 406; L. Planchon, Prod. Apocyn. 
319; Dewévre, Caoutch. Afr. Monogr. Landolph. 27 partly; J umelle, 
Pl. 4 Caoutch. et 4 Gutta, 57 partly; Morris in Journ. Soc. Arts, xlvi. 
