Clitandra. | LXXXIV. APOCYNACE (STAPF). 69 
12. C, Mannii, Stapf in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 20. A tall, climbing 
shrub with flagelliform tendrils from the branch-forks ; young branches 
reddish-brown, soon turning grey, with very minute lenticels. Leaves 
ovate, oblong or elliptic, rather abruptly acuminate (acumen up to 7 lin. 
long, narrowly linear, obtuse), acute or subobtuse at the base, 24-4 in, 
long, 14-1} in. broad, thinly coriaceous; margins often slightly wavy ; 
midrib flat or subconvex above, slightly prominent below; secondary 
nerves very fine, often faint, scarcely raised on either side, secondary 
and tertiary ones almost alike, the former about 4—6 to an inch; petiole 
2-3 lin. long. Panicles short, axillary and terminal, few- to 20- 
flowered, lax, glabrous, up to 1 in. long; peduncles and pedicels very 
slender, the former up to 4 lin. long (sometimes hardly any), the latter 
up to 2 lin. long; bracts minute. Calyx 4-2 lin. long, glabrous; sepals 
ovate or ovate-oblong, acute, ciliolate. Corolla yellowish-white, quite 
glabrous, 24-3 lin. long in bud; buds very slender, slightly curved ; 
tube subcampanulate, scarcely } lin. long; lobes linear, obtuse, 224 
lin. long. Filaments very short, inserted at the middle of the tube ; 
anthers lanceolate, acute, reaching to the mouth of the corolla. Ovary 
ovoid, passing into the short style ; stigma clavate, more or less minutely 
2-lobed. Ovules 4-seriate, few in each series.—J umelle, Pl. 4 caoutchoue 
et 4 gutta, 62; Pierre in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1898, 40; Hallier f. 
Kautschuklianen in Jahrb. Hamburg. Wissensch. Anstalt. xvii. (1899), 
3. Beih. 125. Aphanostylis Mannii, Pierre in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 
1898, 89. A. exserens, Pierre, l.c. 90. Carpodinus exserens, K. Schum. 
in Engl, Jahrb. xxiii. 219. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Bagru River, Mann, 848! Cameroons: com- 
mon near Yaunde, 2400 tt., Zenker & Staudt, 123! Bipinde, Zenker, 1237! 1621! 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Como River, 75-80 miles inland, Bates, 464! 
Hallier f. also refers here a fruiting specimen collected by Pogge (694!) in the 
Congo Free State. The fruits are pear-shaped, over 1 in. long, 1 in. thick, drab with 
large circular rough cinnamon coloured patches. The leaves are extremely like those 
of C. Mannii, but the determination appears to me nevertheless still doubtful. The 
Sierra Leone specimens differ from the others in having smaller panicles with smaller 
flowers and slightly thinner leaves. 
13. C. laxiflora, Hallier f. Kautschuklianen in Jahrb. Hamburg. 
Wissensch. Anstalt. xvii. (1899), 3. Beith. 124. A glabrous climbing 
shrub with terminal, very slender, hook-branched tendrils ; young 
branches slender; bark light brown with numerous whitish lenticels. 
Leaves oblong or ovate-oblong, shortly and obtusely acuminate, rounded 
at the base, 24-34 in. long, 14-12 in. broad, papery, light brownish- 
green when dry, opaque; midrib slightly convex on both sides; 
secondary nerves very fine, slightly raised on both sides, much spread- 
ing, unequal, 4-6 to an inch; petiole 2-24 lin. long. Panicles short, 
axillary and terminal, usually few-flowered, lax, pubescent or almost 
glabrous, up to 14 in. long; peduncles and pedicels very slender, the 
former up to 7 lin. long, the latter up to 2 lin. long; bracts minute. 
Calyx ? lin. long, glabrous ; sepals ovate, acute or subobtuse, ciliolate, 
