88 LXXXIV. APOCYNACEE (STAPF). | Carpodinus. 
27. C. (?) Iganda, Pierre in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1898, 38 
(name only). 
Lower Guinea, (Gaboon: Fernand Vaz, Foret. 
This is evidently the plant described by Jumelle, Plant. & Caoutchouc et 4 Gutta, 
102, under the native name “ Iganda.” It is one of the rubber plants sent by Foret 
from Fernand Vaz to the Musée colonial de Marseilles. It is described thus: 
Branches brown with short white hairs and scanty lenticels. Leaves elliptic, rounded 
at the base, acuminate, 5 in. long, 2 in. broad; lateral nerves 10-12 on each side, 
slightly raised ; petiole 7 lin. long. Fruit globose, brown, smooth, almost 3 in. in diam. 
Pierre refers it with some doubt to his section Antchinea, 
28. C. Jumellei, Pierre in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1898, 38 (name 
only). A climber; branches covered with short, stiff, reddish hairs ; 
lenticels numerous, yellowish. Leaves ovate, acutely and shortly 
acuminate, rounded at the base, 43 in. long, 2? in. broad ; lateral nerves 
5~6 on each side; petiole 4 lin.long. Flowers in cymes. Calyx hispid 
with reddish hairs, 1 lin. long. Fruit globose, brown when dry, 2} in. 
in diam. Seeds 8.—Jumelle, Pl. 4 Caoutchouc et 4 Gutta, 100. 
Lower Guinea. French Congo, Foret. 
29. C. Gentilii, De Wild. Apocyn. & Latex rec. par Gentil, 28. A 
powerful climber; stem over 1 ft. in diam.; young branches covered 
with stiff spreading brown hairs, at length glabrous, and dotted with 
yellowish-white lenticels. Leaves elliptic or obovate, abruptly acute, 
cuneate or rounded at the base (rarely subcordate), 3-4? in. long, 14-24 
in. broad, hairy (chiefly on the nerves) above, subhirsute below ; midrib 
channelled above; secondary nerves about 11 on each side, oblique, 
finely channelled above, connected by distinct marginal arches; petiole 
5 lin. long, hirsute. Fruit subglobose, 43 in. long, 4 in. in diam. ; 
orange-yellow, tubercled ; pericarp 7-15 lin. thick when fresh. Seeds 
8-30, 8-9 lin. long, embedded in an acid, edible, whitish-yellow pulp. 
South Central. Cvngo Free State : between Lake Leopold and Lake Tumba, 
Gentil. 
Said to be allied to C. fulva. 
5. CARISSA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. 695. 
Calyx small, eglandular, very rarely multiglandular within ; sepals 9, 
very rarely 4, free or nearly so, imbricate, acute or acuminate. Corolla 
salver-shaped ; tube slightly widened below the mouth or near the 
middle; lobes usually overlapping to the right, rarely to the left. 
Stamens enclosed in the widened part of the corolla-tube; filaments 
short, slender; anthers oblong, acute ; cells obtuse at the base, pollini- 
ferous and dehiscing to the base. Disc 0. Ovary entire, 2-celled; 
ovules 1—4 in each cell, from the middle of the septum, rarely more in 
2-3 rows; style filiform; stigma at the level of the anthers, or rarely 
some way below them, oblong. papillose and viscous, with a 2-lobed 
