64 LXXXIV. APOCYNACEE (STAPF). | Clitandra, 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon, Klaine, 1033 ! 
Pierre described the fruit as cylindric, truncate at both ends and 1—8-seeded, 
and the seeds as exalbuminous with thick, fleshy cotyledons. It was chiefly this 
peculiarity which induced him to make it the type of a new genus. The crushed 
fruits in the Kew and Berlin herbaria, distributed by Pierre in capsules along with 
flowering branches under the name of Cylindropsis, suggest (as Hallier has already 
remarked) a globose shape, and the seeds must haye been considerably more 
numerous. The structure of the latter, however, is as Pierre describes it; but 
proves that the fruit is that of some species of Salacia, which was mixed up with the 
flowering branches described above. It seems that Klaine had originally seut the 
true fruits of C. parvifolia, as Pierre remarks in a note accompanying the Berlin 
specimen that the fruit sent by Klaine under No. 103 had albuminous seeds. 
3. C. togolana, Stapf. A climbing shrub, with very slender, 
glabrous, spirally contorted tendrils from the branch-forks or pseudo- 
axillary ; young branches very slender, densely and minutely puberulous, 
soon glabrescent and at length quite glabrous, fuscous, scantily dotted 
with minute lenticels. Leaves oblong to elliptic-oblong, shortly and 
obtusely acuminate or obtuse, acute at the base, 24—4 in. long, 1-17 in. 
broad, thinly coriaceous, quite glabrous; midrib flat above, slightly 
convex below; secondary nerves 8-9 on each side, rather spreading, 
straight, very slender, obscure above, slightly raised below ; veins lax, 
quite obscure; petiole 2 lin. long. Flowers sessile in pubescent few- 
flowered sessile axillary clusters from the axils of normal or reduced 
leaves; bracts minute. Calyx ?-+ lin. long; sepals unequal, ovate, 
obtuse, puberulous or glabrous, the outer shorter, firmer, the inver 
almost membranous, ciliolate. Corolla yellow, glabrous without ; tube 
cylindric from the base to beyond } of its length then gradually widened, 
and contracted again at the callous mouth, 14 lin. long, very scantily 
hairy at the insertion of the stamens ; lobes linear-oblong, obtuse, rather 
fleshy, reflexed or spreading, 1 lin. loag. Stamens inserted just above 
the middle on very short slender filaments, not reaching to the mouth of 
the tube, $ lin. long. Ovary ovoid, glabrous, passing into the very short 
style; stigma subsubulate from a thickened annular base, bifid; the 
whole pistil not or very slightly exceeding the calyx. Fruit globose, over 
1} in. in diam. ; rind thick. Seeds (immature) with very thin foliaceous 
cotyledons.—Cylindropsis togolana, Hallier f. Kautschuklianen in Jahrb. 
Hamburg. Wissensch. Anstalt. xvii. (1899), 3. Beih. 133. 
Upper Guinea. Togo: common in bush near Lome, Warnecke, 46! 
4. ©, alba, Stapf. A powerful climbing shrub; tendrils unknown ; 
stem up to 6 in. in diam. ; young branches very slender, flexuous, very 
sparingly puberulous or glabrous, brown, at length somewhat rough 
with lenticels. Leaves elliptic to elliptic-oblong, obtuse or obscurely 
acuminate, acute at the base, 2-4 in. long, 14-2 in. broad, thinly 
coriaceous, quite glabrous; midrib flat or subconvex on both sides ; 
secondary nerves 8-9 on each side, obliquely spreading, very fine, obscure 
above, slightly raised below; veins inconspicuous; petiole 2 lin. long. 
Flowers in axillary and terminal few-flowered, sessile clusters; bracts 
minute, pubescent. Calyx % lin. long, minutely pubescent ; sepals ovate, 
