Carpodinus. | LXXXIV. APOCYNACEZ (STAPF). 83 
lin. long. Flowers in sessile axillary clusters; bracts minute, ovate, 
minutely rufo-puberulous. Calyx very scantily and minutely puberulous, 
$ lin. long; sepals 5, ovate, obtuse. Corolla small, scantily and very 
tinely puberulous ; tube cylindric in the lower 2, then suddenly widened, 
2} lin. long; lobes linear, obtuse, 2} lin. long. Anthers Innceolate- 
oblong, over } lin. long, tips scantily hairy. Ovary densely villous; 
style very fine, almost 1} lin. long.—Hallier f. Kautschuklianen in 
Jahrb, Hamburg. Wissensch. Anstalt. xvii. (1899), 3. Beih. 110 (name 
only). 
Lower Guinea. (iaboon, Alaine, 3368 ! 
18. C, turbinata, Stapf in Kew Bulletin, 1898, 304. A. climbing 
shrub, with long terminal, branched tendrils ; branches quite glabrous, 
pale with minute lenticels. Leaves oblong, shortly and’ obtusely 
acuminate, rounded at the base, 24-34 in. long, 12-16 lin. broad, 
coriaceous, quite glabrous, pale when dry, especially below; secondary 
nerves 7-9 on each side, fine, raised below like the reticulating veins ; 
petiole slender, 2}-3} lin. long. Flowers axillary or sometimes appa- 
rently extra-axillary, rarely terminal, solitary, subsessile ; bracts minute, 
ovate, very finely puberulous. Calyx }-#? lin. long; sepals 4, ovate, 
obtuse, very minutely ciliolate, otherwise glabrous, glaucous. Corolla 
glabrous, white; tube slender, widened below the mouth, 10-12 lin. 
long; lobes very narrow, linear, acute, 9-12 lin. long, $ lin. wide. 
Ovary spindle-shaped, glabrous at the base, otherwise pubescent hke the 
style. Fruit conic from a broad truncate -base, almost 3 in. long, and 
over 2 in. wide, yellow; seeds numerous, about 4—54 lin. long.— Stapf 
in De Wild. & Durand, Illustr. Fl.Congo in Ann. Mus. Congo, Bot. sér. 1, 
1. fase. iii. 57, t. xxix., and in De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo 
in Ann. Mus. Congo, Bot. sér. 2, i. fase. i. 35; Hallier f. Kautschuk- 
lianen in Jahrb. Hamburg. Wissensch. Anstalt. xvii. (1899), 3. Beih. 109, 
t. il. fig. 2-4 partly; De Wild. Apocyn. 4 latex rec. par Gentil, 31. 
South Central. Congo Free State: Equateur (Equatorville), Dewivre, 311! 
540; Ikenge (Ruki), Gentil. 
Hallier also refers to this species a specimen collected by Zenker (2073!) near 
Bipinde, in the Cameroons. This consists of a branch with leaves and pedicels from 
which the fruits have fallen. The leaves are much larger and have a somewhat 
different nervation than in C. turbinata, are more acute at the base, and certainly 
belong to some other species. 
19. ©. ligustrifolia, Stapf in Kew Bulletin, 1898, 304. A 
glabrous or almost glabrous climbing shrub, with long, very slender, 
flagelliform, branched, terminal tendrils; branches dark with numerous 
minute lenticels. Leaves usually ovate or oblong-lanceolate, gradually 
tapering intoa rather long obtuse acumen, rounded at the base, 2-54 in. 
long, 9-14 lin. broad, coriaceous, quite glabrous; midrib widely 
channelled above ; secondary nerves 7-8 on each side, fine, sunk above, 
slightly prominent below, connected near the margin by somewhat flat 
