78 LXXXIV, APOCYNACE (STAPF). | Carpodinus. 
nerves channelled above, prominent beneath, 4—5 on each side, distant, 
connected by bold arches distant from the margin; petioles 2—2} lin. 
long. Flowers sessile in axillary sessile contracted few- to 10-flowered 
rusty pubescent clusters; bracts at the base of the flowers mostly 
solitary or suppressed, small, ovate. Calyx 1—1} lin. long; sepals ovate, 
obtuse, ciliolate and pubescent on the back, distinctly connate at the 
base. Corolla entirely violet, or white at the throat (or entirely white ¢) ; 
tube slender, widened below the mouth, 4—84 lin. long, rusty pubescent 
without, almost glabrous within ; lobes lanceolate, as long as the tube, 
or nearly so. Ovary hirsute except at the very base; style slender, 
with a few scattered minute hairs. Young fruit pear-shaped, soon 
»glabrescent.—Jumelle, Pl. a caoutchouc et & gutta, 62; Pierre in Bull. 
Soc. Linn. Paris, 1898, 37; Hallier f. Kautschuklianen in Jahrb. Ham- 
burg. Wissensch. Anstalt. xvii. (1899), 3. Beih. 107. C. paueiflora, 
K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv.ii. 131; Hallier f. le. 108. 
Upper Guinea. Togo: Jego River, Kling, 51! Misahdhe, Baumann, 304 ! 
Lagos, Barter, 20138! Moloney, xi.! Roland! Millen, 23! 47! 155! 169! 
Punch, 43! New Calabar ; Degema, Holland, 148! Old Calabar River, Mann, 
2261! Camervons: Batanga, Dinklage, 1366! Bates, 202! 
Moloney states that the plant yields a kind of rubber. 
The flowers are violet according to Millen and Dinklage, or pale violet with a 
white throat according to C. Baumann. Bates describes them, however, as white. 
The leaves of Bates’ plant are also mostly distinctly and acutely acuminate and more 
densely spotted with black dots than in the other specimens of C. Barteri. 
8. C. parviflora, Stapf in Kew Bulletin, 1894,19. A scandent 
shrub, up to 30 ft. high, with flagelliform scantily hook-branched 
pseudo-axillary tendrils ; young branches more or less hirsute, finally 
often glabrescent, pale-brown ; lenticels few. Leaves oblong or obovate- 
oblong, narrowly and acutely acuminate, slightly cordate at the base, 
34-5 in. long, 14-2 in. broad, coriaceous, sparingly hairy on the midrib 
below or quite glabrous, pale green above when dry; secondary nerves 
5-7 on each side, like the midrib finely channelled above and very 
prominent below, connected by bold arches rather distant from the 
margin. Flowers sessile, axillary, solitary or in few-flowered clusters ; 
bracts very small, hirsute. Calyx 1} lin. long; sepals almost free, sub- 
acuminate, with short spreading hairs. Corolla-tube slender, slightly 
widened below the mouth, glabrous without, almost glabrous within, 
3% lin. long; lobes lanceolate, as long as the tube or slightly longer. 
Ovary elongate, finely villous; style pubescent. Fruit ovoid, produced 
into a short beak, 1? in. long, 10 lin. broad. Seeds about 6, pale brown, 
6 lin. long.—Jumelle, Pl. 4 caoutch. et & gutta, 62; Pierre in Bull. Soe. 
Linn, Paris, 1898, 37; Hallier f. Kautschuklianen in Jahrb. Hamburg. 
Wissensch, Anstalt. xvii. (1899), 3. Beih. 108. C. flava, Pierre, 1.c. 
(name only); Hallier f.1.c. 109. Djeratonia sp., Pierre, l.c. 
ower Guinea. Gaboon: Munda; Sibange Farm, Soyaux, 184! 219! 
Libreville, Klaine, 291! and without precise locality, Klaine, 1155! 
9. C. tenuifolia, Pierre in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1898, 37 (name 
only), A climbing shrub, with very slender flagelliform axillary or 
