76 LXXXIV, APOCYNACEH (STAPF). | Carpodinus. 
mouth, 5-6 lin. long; lobes linear, subacute, about as long as the tube. 
Ovary finely pubescent; style slender, puberulous. 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Kinchassa, on Stanley Pool, Schlechter, 
12804! 
4. ©. congolensis, Stapf in Kew Bulletin, 1898, 303. Climbing 
shrub with slender, flagelliform tendrils, quite glabrous; young 
branches reddish-brown; lenticels minute. Leaves oblong to elliptic, 
abruptly acuminate (acumen linear, 2—4 lin. long), subacute, rarely 
rounded at the base, 4-5 in. long, 14—2 in. broad, green, thin, papery ; 
midrib channelled above, channel rather wide in the upper part; 
secondary nerves 5-6 on each side, rather fine, connected by bold 
arches distant from the margin; petiole slender, 2—4 lin. long. Flowers 
sessile, axillary, solitary (always?); bracts few, very small. Calyx 
glabrous, 1 lin. long or rather more; sepals broadly ovate, obtuse, 
ciliolate. Corolla-tube very slender, widened near the mouth, 9-11 
lin. long, glabrous without, hairy below the stamens within; lobes 
linear, as long as the tube or rather longer. Anthers 1 lin. long or more. 
Ovary and style pubescent.—Stapf in De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. Fl. 
Congo in Ann. Mus. Congo, Bot. sér. 2, i. 34; De Wild. & Durand, 
Reliq. Dewevr. in Ann. Mus. Congo, Bot. sér. 3, ii. 146. 
Lower Guinea. J[ower Congo: Bingila, Dupuis! Portuguese Congo ? 
Chimbete, Dewevre, 311! 
Hallier f. (Kautschuklianen in Jahrb, Hamburg. Wissensch. Anstalt. xvii. (1899), 
3. Beih. 109) reduced C. congolensis to C.turbinata, from which it is, however, quite 
distinct. 
5. G. dulcis, Sabine in Trans. Hort. Soc. v. 455, A climbing 
shrub with long terminal or pseudo-axillary flagelliform, scantily 
branch-hooked tendrils; young branchlets finely fulvo-hirsute, soon 
more or less glabrescent and pale brown or grey; lenticels few, 1D- 
conspicuous. Leaves oblong, indistinctly acuminate or obtuse, rarely 
acute, rounded at the base, 3-1} in. long, 14-2 in. broad, coriaceous, 
when young fulvo-hirsute, soon glabrescent; midrib narrowly chan- 
nelled above, much raised below; lateral nerves usually 7 on each 
side, slightly channelled above, prominent below, connected by bold 
arches rather distant from the margin; petiole 2-24 lin. long. Cymes 
axillary, subsessile, contracted, finely fulvo-hirsute, few to 1-flowered ; 
flowers sessile; bracts generally 4 to each flower, oblong, the inner 
smal], adpressed to the calyx, and like it fulvo-hirsute. Calyx 14 lin. 
long; sepals ovate, subacute, ciliolate. Corolla-tube 8-4 lin. long, 
widened below the mouth, almost glabrous ; lobes lanceolate, as long aS 
the tube. Ovary fulvo-hirsute above the middle. Style very slender, 
minutely puberulous, almost up to 34 lin. long including the stigma. 
Fruits solitary, rarely in pairs, globose, apiculate, yellow, of the size of 
a small lemon. Seeds about 12, 3 lin. long.—DO. Prod. viii. 329; 
Hook. Niger Fl. 446; L. Planchon, Prod. Apocyn. 141, 292, 321 ; Stapf 
in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 2568; Pierre in Bull, Soc, Linn. Paris, 1898, 36, 
37; Jumelle, Pl. 4 caoutchouc et A gutta, 62; Hallier f. Kautschuk- 
jianen in Jahrb. Hamburg. Wissensch. Anstalt. xvii. (1899), 3. Beih, 
