82 LXXXIV. APOCYNACES (STAPF). | Carpodinus. 
rather flat arches; nerves faintly raised above, more distinctly so below ; 
petiole 2-34 lin. long. Cymes axillary or pseudoterminal, few-flowered, 
subsessile, almost glabrous ; bracts in 4—5 pairs, ovate, obtuse, minute, 
the lowest scantily rufo-furfuraceous, the others glabrous. Calyx 1 lin. 
long, quite glabrous ; sepals 5, ovate, subacute. Corolla quite glabrous ; 
tube very slender, slightly widened below the mouth, about 54 lin. long ; 
lobes narrow, linear, obtuse, 4 lin. long. Ovary fusiform, glabrous at 
the base, otherwise very minutely pubescent, with curved hairs; style 
very fine, 3 lin. long. Fruit globose, about 1 in. in diam.—Hallier f. 
Kautschuklianen in Jahrb. Hamburg. Wissensch. Anstalt. xvii. 
(1900), 3. Beih. 110. 
Lower Guinea. (Gaboon, Klaine, 650! 955! 
16. C. leptantha, Stapf in Kew Bulletin, 1898, 303, not of K. 
Schum. <A climbing shrub, with long, slender, hook-branched pseudo- 
axillary or terminal tendrils ; branches slender, quite glabrous, reddisb- 
brown or dark grey; lenticels very numerous, minute. Leaves oblong 
or elliptic-oblong, abruptly long-acuminate, rounded at the base, 24-3 
in. long, 1-1} in. broad, coriaceous, quite glabrous ; midrib channelled 
above, channel moderately wide, deep; secondary nerves almost hori- 
zontal, more crowded towards both ends of the leaf, in the middle about 
2-5 lin. distant, connected close to the margin by flat, faint arches; 
tertiary nerves scarcely less distinct, all slightly raised on both sides. 
Flowers solitary, axillary, subsessile; bracts minute, ovate or acute, 
very finely rufo-tomentose. Calyx finely puberulous, 1 lin. long; 
Sepals 5, ovate, subacute, ciliolate. Corolla greenish-yellow ; tube very 
slender, slightly widened below the mouth, 4 lin. long; lobes narrow, 
linear, twisted, 3 lin. long. Ovary spindle-shaped, finely crispo- 
puberulous ; style very fine, glabrous above. Fruit globose, 10 lin. in 
diam. ; seeds about 4 lin. long.—Stapf in De Wild. & Durand, Contr. Fl. 
Congo in Ann. Mus. Congo, Bot. sér. 2,i. fase. i. 35; De Wild. & Durand, 
lic. fase. ii. 39; Hallier f. Kautschuklianen in Jahrb. Hamburg. 
Wissensch, Anstalt. xvii. (1899), 3. Beih. 114, t. iii. fig. 1; De Wild. 
«& Durand, Reliq. Dewevr. in Ann. Mus. Congo, Bot. sér. 3, fasc. ii. 1485 
not of K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 132. 
South Central. Congo Free State: Bassombo, in the forest, Laurent ! 
Coquilhatville, Dewévre, 590! 
17. C. trichanthera, Pierre in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1898, 38 
(name only). A climbing shrub; tendrils unknown; young branches 
glabrous, stout, brown; lenticels numerous, rather large. Leaves 
oblong to elliptic-oblong, shortly and obtusely acuminate, obtuse at the 
base, 24-35 in. long, 1-14 in. broad, very coriaceous, quite glabrous, 
dull pale green above; midrib widely channelled; secondary nerves 
9-11 on each side, spreading, slightly curved or almost straight, faint 
and sunk above, distinctly prominent below, connected close to the 
margin by faint rather flat arches; veins inconspicuous; petiole 1-1} 
