68 LXXXIV. APOCYNACEE (STAPF). | Clitandra. 
flowered, glabrous, slightly exceeding the petioles; bracts minute; 
pedicels up to 1} lin. long. Calyx } lin. long, glabrous ; sepals obtuse, 
ciliolate. Corolla white, glabrous without ; tube slender, subcylindric, 
widest at 14 lin. from the base, 5-6 lin. long ; lobes obovate, obtuse, half 
as long as the tube. Stamens inserted 1} lin. above the base of the 
corolla; filaments slightly bent; anthers erect, as long as the filaments, 
lanceolate, acute. Ovary truncate, glabrous; style slender, cylindric, 
—3 lin. long; stigma ovoid to ovoid-oblong, shorter than the style, not 
reaching to the anthers. Ovules 4-seriate-—K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. 
xxiii. 219; Pierre in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1898, 40; Hallier f. 
Kautschuklianen in Jahrb. Hamburg. Wissensch. Anstalt. xvii. (1899), 
3. Beih. 129. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Bipinde, in forest, Zenker, 1628! Yaunde, in 
forest, Zenker, 461! 682! 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: without precise locality, Klaine, 373is! B738ter! 
Loango: Chinchocho, in forests, Soyauxr, 183! Congo: without precise locality, 
Demeuse, 480! 
According to a note by Zenker, the fruit is pear-shaped, not quite 1 in. long 
and edible; Delpy represents it, in a drawing from Klaine’s specimen, 373%, as 
globose, sometimes apiculate, and about 13 in. in diam. 
11. ©. Schweinfurthii, Stupf in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 20. A 
climbing shrub; tendrils unknown; young branches pale greyish- 
brown, lower down dotted with reddish spots, at length equally reddish- 
brown. Leaves elliptic, abruptly acuminate (acumen short, obtuse), 
cuneate at the base, 24-2? in. long, 14-1} in. broad, thinly coriaceous, 
slightly glossy above, opaque and glaucous beneath ; margins almost 
flat; midrib flat above, slightly convex below; secondary nerves 10-11 
to an inch, fine, slightly raised on both sides, with still finer parallel 
tertiary ones between them; petiole 2-3 lin.long. Cymes few-flowered, 
glabrous, axillary, (exclusive of the corollas) as long as or shorter than 
the petioles ; bracts minute ; pedicels less than 1lin.long. Calyx lin. 
long, glabrous; sepals ovate, subacute, ciliolate. Corolla glabrous 
without; tube slender, cylindric, slightly widened above the base, 4 lin. 
long, pale yellow, almost glabrous within ; lobes white, linear, subacute, 
8 lin. long. Stamens inserted near the base; filaments very short; 
anthers lanceolate, acute. Ovary globose-ovoid, passing into the short 
style; stigma ovoid; ovules 3—4-seriate.—Jumelle, Pl. 4 caoutch. et 4 
gutta, 62; Hallier f. Kautschuklianen in Jahrb, Hamburg. Wissensch. 
Anstalt. xvii. (1899), 3. Beih. 126. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Bongo; between the River Pongo and 
River Getti, Schweinfurth, ser. iii. 68 ! 
Hallier (1.c.) also refers to this species a specimen collected by Dewévre on the 
Lower Congo (625), which I enumerated as Clitandra sp. in De Wild. & Durand, 
Contrib. Fl. Congo, fase. i. 34. I there pointed out that the leaves much resemble 
those of C. Schweinfurthii, but could not identify it in the absence of flowers. 
Schweinfurth describes the fruit as globose and about 2 in. in diam. Dewévre’s 
fruit is also globose, 1} in. in diam., reddish-brown and dotted with numerous pale 
lenticels. 
