70 LXXXIY, APOCYNACEE (STAPF). [ Clitandra. 
Corolla almost glabrous without, yellow, up to 6 lin. long in bud; buds 
very slender, slightly curved; tube subcampanulate, scarcely 14 lin. 
long, pubescent within; lobes linear, very narrow, 4—5 lin.long. Filaments 
short; anthers lanceolate-oblong, acute. Ovary sulcate, scantily 
hispidulous, forming together with the thick style a conical body ; 
stigma ovoid. Ovules 4-seriate, 3-5 in each series. _ Fruit globose- 
ellipsoid, less than 1 in. long, on slender pedicels.—Carpodinus cymu- 
losa, Stapf in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. 87 (not of Benth.). Carpodinus 
incerta, K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 2, 132 (incom- 
pletely described). C. laxiflora, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 220. 
Aphanostylis laxiflora, Pierre in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1898, 90. 
Upper Guinea. French Guinea: Futa Jallon; near Bayabaya, Scott-Elliot, 
4547! Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! Togo: Katschenki, Kling, 7! MisalOhe, Baumann, 
514! 
14. C. leptantha, Hallier f. Kautschuklianen in Jahrb. Hamburg. 
Wissensch. Anstalt. xvii. (1899), 3. Beth. 123, t. iv. jig. 6. A climbing 
shrub, 9-10 ft. high, with tendrils from the branch-forks or (appa- 
rently ?) from the axils of fallen leaves; branches rather stout, brown, 
more or less suleate, rough from brownish lenticels. Leaves oblong, 
abruptly acuminate (acumen very narrow, 4—5 lin. long), acute or sub- 
acute at the base, 4-6 in. long, 14-2} in. broad, coriaceous; midrib 
slightly convex above, prominent below ; secondary nerves distant, 7-8 
on each side, rather inconspicuous above, slightly raised below ; petiole 
14-3 lin. long. Cymes few- to 12-flowered, very minutely puberulous, 
slightly exceeding the petioles, sometimes on the old wood from the 
axils of fallen leaves ; bracts minute; pedicels up to 1 lin. long. Calyx 
$ lin. long, scantily pubescent towards the base ; sepals ovate, subacute, 
minutely ciliolate. Corolla glabrous on both sides, 34-44 lin. long in 
bud; tube urceolate-campanulate, scarcely 1 lin. long; lobes linear- 
oblong, obtuse, 24-3 lin. long. Stamens inserted below the middle of 
the tube ; filaments very short ; anthers erect, ovate-lanceolate. Ovary 
very shortly cylindric, minutely hairy, passing into the glabrous, sulcate, 
very short style; stigma conical and 2-lobed. Fruit cylindric-oblong, 
2 in. long, 10 lin. in diam., orange-coloured mottled with brown, seeds 
6-7 lin. long.—Carpodinus leptantha, K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, 
Pflanzenfam. iv. 2, 132, not of Stapf. Aphanostylis leptantha, Pierre in 
Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1898, 89, 90. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Bipinde, in the forest of Mimfia, Zenker, 
1903a! 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Munda; Sibange Farm, Soyauz, 233! 250! and 
without precise locality, Klaine, 1158! 1159! 
15. C. flavidiflora, Hallier f. Kautschuklianen in Jahrb. Ham- 
burg. Wissensch, Anstalt. xvii. (1899), 3. Beih. 124. A tall glabrous 
climbing shrub; tendrils not seen; young branches dark brown, some- 
what rough with numerous small lJenticels. Leaves oblong or elliptic- 
oblong, abruptly and shortly acuminate, acute or subacute at the base, 
34-54 in. long, 14-2} in. broad, thinly coriaceous ; midrib flat or sub- 
convex above, slightly raised beneath; secondary nerves distant, about 
