Carpodinus. | LXXXIV. APOCYNACE& (STAPF). 87 
climber than C. dulcis, and only two specimens of it were found. Planchon mentions. 
it as producing a kind of rubber. The “ C. acidus” of Schweinfurth (Heart of 
Africa, i. 185) is evidently Landolphia owariensis. 
24, C. foretiana, Pierre ex Jwmelle, Plant. & Caoutch. et & Gutta,. 
98. A powerful climber; stem over 24 in. in diam.; branches 
glabrous, blackish-brown, dotted with small yellowish lenticels. Leaves. 
ovate-oblong, with rounded or cuspidate tips, up to 11 in. long, 6 in. 
broad, coriaceous, glabrous, glossy above; secondary nerves 7—9 on each 
side, oblique, much raised below ; petiole about 5 lin. long. Flowers of 
the size of those of the ordinary lilac, white, scentless. Fruit ovoid- 
globose, over 3 in. long and 2} in. in diam.; seeds 20-25.—Pierre in 
Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1898, 38. 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Fernand Vaz, Foret. 
Two leaves of C. foretiana communicated by Jumelle to the Berlin herbarium 
so much resemble those of C. maxima, that [ would not hesitate to refer them to this. 
species if it were not for the flowers of C. foretiana being described as small (of the 
size of lilac flowers), whilst they are comparatively large in C. maxima, 
25. C. fulva, Pierre in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1898, 38 (name 
only). A very tall climbing shrub, with long flagelliform tendrils ; 
young branches and tendrils more or less densely hispid with long 
reddish spreading hairs, the former with numerous inconspicuous 
lenticels. Leaves obovate-oblong, abruptly, shortly and acutely acumi- 
nate, slightly cordate at the base, 3-4 in. long, 2-2} in. broad, sub- 
coriaceous, slightly shining above with stiff hairs on both sides, but. 
chiefly on the nerves below, finally glabrescent above; midrib finely 
channelled above; secondary nerves 5-6 on each side, slightly sunk 
above, distinctly raised below, connected by bold arches; veins fine, 
distinct, loosely anastomosing ; petiole 3-4 lin. long. Flowers unknown. 
Fruit lemon-shaped, «piculate, almost 2 in. long, yellow, hairy when 
young.—Hallier f. Kautschuklianen in Jahrb. Hamburg. Wissensch. 
Anstalt. xvii. (1899), 3. Beih. 108 partly. 
Lower Guinea. (aboon: Munda ; Sibange Farm, Dinklage, 575! and without 
precise locality, Klaine, 1400! 
Hallier (l.c.) also refers specimens from Togo (Baumann, 520!) and from Mon- 
buttu (Schweinfurth, 3482 !), all without flowers or fruits, to this species, to which 
they bear a certain general resemblance without however, agreeing exactly, and the 
Togo specimens are more likely to be identical with C. hirsuta. 
26. C. griffoniana, Pierre ex Jumelle, Plant. a Caoutchoue et a 
Gutta, 98. 
Nothing is known about thisspecies except that it is allied to C. foretiana. It is 
probably the plant mentioned by Pierre, in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1898, 93, as. 
Sclerodictyon griffonianum. See Hallier f. Kautschuklianen in Juhrb. Hamburg. 
Wissensch. Anstalt. xvii. (1899), 3. Beih. 156. Pierre says that in the shape of the 
leaves it resembles his Ancylobotrys mammosa, var. mucronata, and that the vrai 
are thin and faintly nerved. 
