54 LXXXIV. APOCYNACEH (STAPF). [ Landolphia. 
branches passing into tendrils ; all parts of the inflorescence (including 
the calyces) finely fulvo-tomentose to almost shaggy; bracts ovate or 
ovate-oblong, subacute or obtuse ; pedicels very short. Calyx 1-14 lin. 
long; sepals oblong or ovate-oblong, subobtuse. Corolla strongly 
scented; tube whitish, slightly tinged with yellow, subcylindric, slightly 
inflated, constricted at both ends, 3-34 lin. long, finely pubescent or 
tomentose without; lobes pure white, oblong-obtuse, 2-3 lin. long, 
pubescent without, mouth finely tomentose. Stamens inserted at the 
middle ; anthers ovate, linear, acute. Ovary truncate, top very finely 
tomentose. Fruit pear-shaped or globose and often suddenly contracted 
into a stout stipe, 1-3 in. in diam., yellow; pericarp coriaceous ; seeds 
4—7 lin. long, embedded in a whitish, sour, watery pulp.—Benth. in 
Hook. Niger F]. 444; K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 407, and in Engl. 
Pfl. Ost-Afr. B. 446-448, 454, 459 partly, and in Engl. & Prantl, 
Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 130 partly; L. Planch. Prod. Apocyn. 140, Sie 
Deweévre, Caoutch. Afr. Monogr. Landolph. 39 partly ; Chimani in Bot. 
Centralbl. Lxi. (1895) 456; Vogtherr in Kohler, Mediz. Pf. iii. sub Lan- 
dolphia comorensis; Moller in Tropenpfi. i. (1897) 187 ; Jumelle, Pl. a 
caoutch. et & gutta, 45, 48, 50, fig. 7 on p. 49; Morris in Journ. Soc. 
Arts, xlvi. 780 ; Sadebeck, Kulturg. Deutsch. Kolon. 272-276, fig. 106 ; 
Warb. in Tropenpfl. iii. (1899) 313, figs. D-F on p. 311, and Kaut- 
schukpfl. 119, 120, 124, fig. D-F on p. 117; Sébire in Rév. Cult. Colon. 
iv. (1899) 194; Hua in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, v. (1899), 179-188 ; 
Mikosch in Wiesner, Rohstoffe, ed. 2, i. 363; Hallier f. Kautschuk- 
lianen in Jahrb. Hamburg. Wissensch. Anstalt. xvii. (1899), 3. Beih. 
41-42, 75; Henriques, Kautschuk, Tab. iii.; Schlechter, Westafrik. 
Kautschuk-Exp. 229 (not fig. on p. 9); Hua in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 
Paris, vi. (1900), 311, and in Journ. de Bot. xv. (1901),65, 68, figs. 1 and 2; 
Chevalier in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, vi. (1900) 307, and Geog. 
Botan, Sénégal et Soudan, 218, and fig. on p. 219; De Wild. Apocyn. 
a latex rec. par Gentil. 10-14. LZ. Heudelotii, var. tomentosa, Hua in 
Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, v. (1899) 182. JZ. Michelini, Benth. in 
Hook. l.c.; Walp. Ann. iii. 29; Radlkof. in Abhandl. Naturwiss. 
Ver. Bremen, viii. (1883) 396; K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 408, 
and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. B. 452; Dewevre, l.c. 42; Warb. in Tropenpfl. 
ili. (1899) 313, and Kautschukpfl. 119, 120; Chevalier in Bull. Mus. 
Hist. Nat. Paris, 1900, 306. ZL. Traunii, Sadeb. ex K. Schum. in 
Engl. Jahrb. xv. 406, 408; Dewévre, Ic. 43; K. Schum. in Engl. 
Pil. Ost-Afr. B. 453; Sadebeck in Jahrb. Hamburg. Wissensch. 
Anstalt, xiv. (1897), 3. Beih. 121, and Kulturg. Deutsch. Kolon. 275, 
276; Warb. Kautschukpfl. 119, 120 ; Chevalier, l.c. 306. LZ. tomentosa, 
Dewévre lic, 44 (excl. Sacleux’s plant from Zanzibar); Moller in 
Tropenpfl. i. (1897) 187; Jumelle, Pl. A caoutch. et a gutta, 44, 52; 
Warb. in Tropenpfl. iii, (1899) 313 and Kautschukpfl. 119; Mikosch, 
lc. 362 ; Henriques, Kautschuk, Tab. iii. ; Schlechter, Westafr. Kaut- 
schuk-Exped. 229; Chevalier in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 1900, 306. 
Vahea Heudelotii, F. Muell. in Wittstein, Org. Constit. Plants (1878) 
258, 268, and in Select. Extratrop. Plants, ed. 3 (1880) 344. V. tomen- 
tosa, Lepr. ex L. Planch. Prod. Apocyn. 139, 306 ; K.Schum. in Engl. Pf. 
Ost-Afr. B. 453. V. Traunii, Sadeb. in Jahrb. Hamburg. Wissensch, 
