Carpodinus. | LXXXIV, APOCYNACE# (STAPF). 85 
long, more or less spreading; bracts minute, hispidulous. Calyx 
minutely and scantily pubescent, scarcely 1} lin. long; sepals ovate, 
subobtuse, ciliolate. Corolla white, glabrous; tube slender, slightly 
widened near the mouth, 7-9 lin. long; lobes linear, acute, 8 lin. long. 
Ovary glabrous, grooved, gradually passing into the fine style over 6 
lin. long ; stigma cylindric, slender, bifid. Fruit on slightly thickened 
pedicels, globose, about 1} in. in diam. Seeds globose, 3 lin. in diam., 
numerous.—Stapf in De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo in Ann. 
Mus. Congo, Bot. sér. 2, i. fase. i. 35; De Wild. & Durand in Bull. 
Herb. Boiss. sér, 2, i. 34; De Wild. & Durand, Relig. Dewevr. in Ann. 
Mus. Congo, Bot. sér. 3, fase. ii. 147, excl. Dewévre’s note. C. camp- 
toloba, K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 132 (incom- 
pletely deseribed). Clitandra gracilis, Hallier f. Kautschuklianen in 
Jahrb. Hamburg. Wissensch. Anstalt. xvii. (1899), 3. Beih. 117. 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Kimuenz), Dewévre, 516)! (excluding the 
fruits)! very common between Leopoldville and Kimuenza, Laurent ! near Leopold- 
ville, Zuja! Kisantu, Gillet, 71! Angola: Malange, in the forests of Cabangnla’s 
country, Marques, 240! 
South Central. Congo Free State: Muene Putu Kasongo, near the Kuango 
River, Buettner, 480! 
21. C.macrantha, X. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 220. A climb- 
ing, glabrous shrub, with long hook-branched tendrils from the branch- 
forks; young branches brown, slightly rough with elongate or puncti- 
form lenticels. Leaves oblong, obtusely acuminate (acumen up to 
3 lin. long), subacute at the base, 24-4 in. long, 1}-1} in. broad, coria- 
ceous ; midrib flat or slightly convex on both sides; lateral nerves 
very slender, 9-11 on each side, subhorizontal, inconspicuous above, 
slightly raised below ; petiole up to 3 lin. long. Flowers solitary or in 
pairs from the leaf-axils or in small terminal 3—4-flowered cymes ; 
peduncle 14-8 lin. long, slender; pedicels up to 9 lin. long; bracts 
small, ovate, ciliolate. Calyx 1 lin. long, very scantily pubescent or 
glabrous ; sepals ovate, ciliolate. Corolla over 1} in. long in bud, quite 
glabrous ; tube widened at the upper third, then narrowed towards the 
mouth, 9 lin. long, fleshy, especially towards the mouth ; lobes linear- 
oblong, 6—7 lin. long, 14 lin. broad. Anthers inserted at the upper third 
of the corolla-tube, scarcely 1} lin. long. Ovary glabrous, ovoid, 
gradually passing into the style; stigma cylindric, bifid, with a 
thickened base, the whole pistil 6-7 lin. long. Fruit short, conical, 14 in. 
long, 14 in. broad at the base, glabrous, smooth, edible; pedicels or 
peduncles stout, flexuous, 1-2 in. long.—Pierre in Bull. Soc. Linn. 
Paris, 1898, 38. Clitandra macrantha, Hallier f. Kautschuklianen in 
Jahrb. Hamburg. Wissensch. Anstalt. xvii. (1899), 3. Beih. 117. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Talla district, near Ninia, in woods, Scott- 
Elliot, 4924! and without precise locality, Afzelius / 
_ 22. ©. lanceolata, K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 
Moos, A perfectly glabrous perennial erect herb; annual shoots 
