50 LXXXIV, APOCYNACER (STAPF). | Landolphic. 
930; DC. Prod. viii. 320; Benth. in Hook. Niger FI. 443; Collins, 
Caoutch. Report, 27, 28,t. 4; Dyerin Kew Report, 1850, 38 ; Moloney, 
Forestry West Afr. 84, 382; Radlkofer, Abhandl, Naturw. Ver. 
Bremen, viii. (1883) 396; Ficalho, Pl. Uteis Afr. Portug. 214-220; 
Kew Bulletin, 1888, 253; 1889, 65; 1893, 183; K. Schum. in Engl. 
Jahrb. xv. 409, and in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. WV. 1 bo. 
L. Planchon, Prod. Apocyn. 139, 315-319; Dewevre, Caoutch. Afr. 
Monogr. Landolph. 36; Chimani in Bot. Centralbl. Ixi. (1895) 456, t. 2, 
figs. 13 and 21; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, 1. 189 ; Vogtherr 
in Kohler, Mediz. PA. iii. under Landolphia comorensis partly ; Moller 
in Tropenpfl. i. (1897) 188; Jumelle, Pl. 4 caoutch. et a gutta, 42; 
Sadebeck, Kulturg. Deutsch. Kolo. 272, 276; Morris in Journ. Soc. 
Arts, xlvi. 775; Warb. in Tropenpfi. iii. (1899) 312; Clouth, Gummi, 
Gutt. and Balata, 17, fig. 8; Mikosch in Wiesner, Rohstofte, ed. 2, 
i. 362; Hallier f. Kautschuklianen in Jahrb. Hamburg. Wissensch. 
Anstalt. xvii. (1899), 8. Beih. 42-45, 77; Henriquez, Kautschuk, Tab. 
iii. and iv.; Warb. Kautschukpfl. 118, 119; Schlechter, Westafrik. 
Kautschuk-Exped. 229, fig. on p. 128; Hua in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 
Paris, 1900, 309, 311; De Wild. Apoc. 4 latex rec. par Gentil, 17; De 
Wild. & Durand, Relig. Dewevr. in Ann. Mus. Congo, Bot. iii. fase. 2, 
146. ZL. Heudelotii, Schlechter, Westafr. Kautschuk-Exped. fig. on 
p. 9. DL. Gentilii, De Wild. Apocyn. & latex rec. par Gentil, 20 (?). 
Vahea owariensis, F. v. Muller in Wittstein, Org. Constit. Plants, 258, 
268, and in Select. Extratrop. Pl. ed. 3, 344. V. elastica, Klotzsch ex 
Schweinf. MS. in Herb. Kew. Pacouria owariensis, Hiern in Cat. 
Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 661. Pederia owariensis. Spreng. Syst. i. 669. 
Upper Guinea. French Guinea: Konakri, Bouéry, Lecerf, Poisson! between 
Bambuya and Timbo, Pobéguin, Susu Country, Scott-Elliot, 3878! 4754! Sierra 
Leone: Afzelius ! Don! Ivory Coast ; near Baoulé, Pobéguin. Gold Coast: Krepi Hills, 
Johnson, 524! 525! Lunte Hills, Johnson 811! Aburi Hills, Johnson, 282! and with- 
out precise locality, Brown, 354! Dahomey, Poisson! Lagos: Ajitite, Millen, 168! 
Ilorin, Rowland! Niger Protectorate: Oware, Beauvois ; Onitsa, Barter, 1773! 
1810! Old Calabar, Mann, 2311! Cameroons: Rio del Rey, Johnston, 3! Victoria 
Gardens, Preuss ; Johann Albrechts-Hohe, Staudt, 883. 
Lower Guinea. Corisco Bay, Mann, 2311! Gaboon: Sibange Forest, Bittner, 
497. Portuguese Congo: Malemba, near Landana, Philipps ! Lalemba, Dewevre, 
362! Lower Congo: Kisantu, Gillet, 1764! Limba, Laurent ! Stanley Pool, Dewévre, 
7374! Angola: Quiballa, Monteiro! forests of Mussengue, Quilombo, Queta and 
Bumba and in the mountains of Alto Queta, Welwitsch, 5930! 
South Central. Congo Free State: Mukenge, by the Lulua River, Pogge, 
1044; (Kassai forest, Luja, 267! Moucombe, Demeuse, 454! both barren branches) 
between Lake Léopold IL. and Lake Tumba, Gentil ; Bolobo, Dewévre, 698! Lulonga 
River, Dewévre, 8114! Fall Station, Dewévre, 1158 ! 
De Wildeman & Durand, Relig. Dewevr., also refer here a specimen collected near 
Stanley Pool (Dewévre, 7214), the fruits of which are described by Dewevre as 
pyriform, 
Var. 8 rubiginosa, Stapf. Young branches and inflorescences velvety with soft 
flexuous dark rust-coloured hairs. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, subacuminate, 3-33 in. 
long, 1-1} in, broad, pubescent below, finally more or less glabrescent except on the 
midrib, which is more permanently covered with hairs similar to those of the young 
branches. . 
