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terminal tendrils; branches very slender, hispid, finally glabrescent, 
reddish-brown ; lenticels very minute. Leaves elliptic-oblong or oblong, 
gradually and acutely acuminate, cordate at the base, 3-34 in. long, 
14-2 in. broad, thin, papery, glabrous above, sparingly hispid or almost 
glabrous on the midrib beneath, dull green ; midrib very finely chan- 
nelled above; secondary nerves 6-7 on each side, fine, straight, 
prominent below ; connecting arches 2-24 lin. from the margin, rather 
flat ; veins inconspicuous; petiole 1-2 lin. long, slender. Flowers 
solitary, axillary, subsessile; bracts very minute. Calyx 1 lin. long; 
sepals 5, almost free, ovate, subacute, thin except the midrib, ciliolate. 
Corolla glabrous ; tube very slender, almost 6 lin. long, slightly widened 
below the mouth; lobes linear, obtuse, 4} lin. long. Ovary oblong, 
pubescent like the style-—Hallier f. Kautschuklianen in Jahrb. Ham- 
burg. Wissensch. Anstalt. xvii. (1899), 3. Beih. 109 (name only). 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon, Klaine, 1103! 
10. ©. Klainei, Pierre in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1898, 38 (name 
only). A climbing shrub; tendrils not seen ; branches reddish, very 
minutely papillose-pubescent ; lenticels minute, white. Leaves oblong, 
acuminate, acute at the base, 6-64 in. long, 2—24 in. broad, coriaceous, 
glabrous and dull green above, more or less covered with a scanty 
rufous very minutely papillose pubescence, and dotted with minute 
cork-warts below; midrib narrowly channelled above; secondary nerves 
about 9 on each side, gently curved towards the margins, faintly 
looped, finely channelled above, distinctly raised below; veins fine but 
distinct, scarcely raised; petiole 4-5 lin. long, rufous. Flowers in 
dense, minutely rufo-tomentose subsessile axillary or pseudo-terminal 
clusters; bracts minute, ovate, acute. Calyx minutely rufo-tomen- 
tose, 14 lin. long; sepals distinctly united at the base, ovate, acute. 
Corolla yellowish, minutely tomentose ; tube widened below the mouth, 
4} lin. long; lobes linear-lanceolate, obtuse, 3-3} lin. long, margins 
undulate. Ovary ovoid, densely tomentose ; style 4 lin. long, puberu- 
lous near the base.—Hallier f. Kautschuklianen in Jahrb. Hamburg. 
Wissensch. Anstalt. xvii. (1899),3. Beih. 110 (name only). C. klaineana, 
Pierre, l.c. 36. 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon, Klaine, 728! 
Pierre places this species in his section Commidodia, which he characterises as 
having very large ovoid or turbinate fruits. 
11. ©. rufinervis, Pierre in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1898, 38 
(name only). A climbing shrub; tendrils not seen; branches rather 
stout, reddish, very minutely papillose-pubescent, with numerous 
white lenticels when old. Leaves oblong, acuminate (acumen tapering 
to an acute point from a broad base), acute or subobtuse at the base, 
4—6 in. long, 2-241 in. broad, coriaceous, greenish-brown on both sides, 
glabrous above, very finely and densely pubescent and not dotted 
below; midrib narrowly chanuelled above ; secondary nerves 6-8 on 
each side, gently curved towards the margins, faintly looped, finely 
channelled above, distinctly raised below; veins very inconspicuous ; 
